The trapeze, fast-talking mcdoctor & DIY

The brilliant title says enough. In the spirit of a 'diary', I suppose I should expand on all 3. But at the end of this, I'm sure your interpretation of the title was a lot more interesting than reality. :)

Yesterday, we walked into Steph's room to find her laying in her bed, under a trapeze - those contraptions where people's broken legs in full casts are hanging. You've seen them in movies. This one just had a triangle hanging from the center to help Stephanie pull herself up from the bed. First of all, the triangle is hanging inches from her head. Second of all, if I was laying under that whole thing, I'd feel like I was in a cage. Third of all, isn't it the nurses job to help her get out of bed when she needs it, thus eliminating any need for this thing called a trapeze????? YES, it is. Needless to say, the trapeze was taken out of the room today.

McLovin is to Superbad what this fast-talking mcNeoNatalSpecialist is to our day today. Fun, funny and fun. McFUN. He talked a mile a minute, ended everything with OK, and was wearing those canvas boat loafers. So 1987. And Stephanie said 'suckle' to him. The biggest takeaway, other than the notable 3 above, was that he said babies delivered in the 28/29th week have above a 90% survival rate. The two biggest things to be concerned about are lung development and this intestinal infection that is fairly common in premies. The only known cure is breast milk. But premie babies can't eat much at the beginning so the treatment is tricky. Trick, trick, trickay....say what?! (to all you McLovin fans!)

Steph's mom and I have this thing. This DIY thing. We did Gracie's nursery in NYC together. Then, we did our garden together. And now, we're doing the boy's nursery together. In the midst of all of this potential premature labor stuff, we've managed to finalize the plans of the boy's nursery. Today, we bought the paint for the walls. First Anniversary is the color. How do they come up with color names? I mean, colors for crayons is one thing, but colors for paints? There are so many different hues and shades and subtle differences. And they all have a name. This is a brown with a bit of yellow in it. We're going with a natural base. We'll add some red and green accents. Maybe a little dark brown too. I'm sure they'll all have fancy names. The room theme is this camping theme and I'll do us all a favor and not try to describe it. It's not campfires and tents, I will say that. But it could be. If the boys ever wanted it to be. Anyway, the DIY is ON.

We know we're in a good place when my topics for writing are trapezes and fast-talking mcdoctors and DIY.