Two hours is never enough ...

Our day started like any typical Monday but Tuesday hybrid. No one wanted to wake and get back into the routine. Luckily I had the stay in bed pretend to be sick card I got for passing Go and landing on Chance. Dam, that was a dream after playing Monopoly Junior with the girls.

Which in fact is a great game for most kids and not as intimidating as the adult Monopoly which usually takes 3 hours, 2 fights, and/or a board flip to finish. We can easily play a game in 15 minutes and the have fun acquiring rides (instead of property) and money (1-5 dollars only). I will have to invent the 2010 Monopoly version as you avoid foreclosures, bad loans, unpaid bills, bail outs, cheating bankers, fraudulent loan officers, poor credit, bloated houses ... you get the point. Sounds like a fun game.

Actually Amanda and Liana where at top form that evening, fighting, playing, screaming, fighting, dressing up. Liana had on her Princess Aurora costume with a chain around her black-tongued elephant, parading her around the house like a dog. I didn't get a picture of that scene but I did get these later. Alexandra will have her work cut out for her getting up to speed with these two clowns. Jeanette and I were able to visit the hospital as Abuelo came to watch the girls sleep while we snuck out for 2 hours.

Our Visit to see Alexandra was a typical two hour session. This time my aunt Carol and my cousin's wife Thai stopped in for a visit. We found the NICU more than busy as ever child had at least a parent or two visiting. The room on the 3rd floor is much smaller, almost like a closet, holding 8 or 10 babies. One baby that was born a day or so after Alexandra graduated to the same floor and is behind her. He weighs just over 5 pounds and started at 2 pounds just like Ali. She now weighs 4 pounds 4 ounces. The next question is "When will she come out?" I have no exact answer on that one. I think we have to meet 2 or more of the following:

• When she drinks all her milk from all 8 feedings from a bottle with no issues


• When she can sit in a car seat for an hour


• When she craps on one of the doctors


• When she cries for more attention and the nurses go crazy


• When the moon turns blue and a cow jumps nearby


• When the insurance finally gets their act together and starts paying the bills without stupid questions holding up claims