Critter’s Krib

Yesterday while running a few errands, I turned around to look at Phoenix and he his fingers in his ears (like when you don’t want to hear something). At first I thought something was wrong, but he just sat there with a smile on his face. Then he would take one finger out of his ear and sit there for a second… almost as if he was listening to the difference it made. I scrambled to grab my phone to snap a picture, but by the time I had grabbed it, he was down to one ear. The picture is still cute, though.

This one just made me laugh (even more so after I saw the picture). His “shorts” look like full length trousers on him. This picture looks like he’s taking a leak.

It is quite possible I have what Phoenix had, although I haven’t broken down and cried. If this is what my little guy had *whew*… he handled it pretty well.. because it’s kicking my ass.

ugh. Phoenix is sick. He’s not miserable laying down all quiet sick. He’s more the … running around like mad with small break downs in between while his nose flows like a river sick.

I am pretty certain we will all have our share of it soon enough.

(I just realized I need to change is category from ‘Baby Phoenix’ to ‘Phoenix’… not really a baby anymore, eh?)

Phoenix likes to ‘hide’ his food when he has had enough to eat.

We’ve been chasing air for the last hour or so. Jenene noticed a few air bubbles in Phoenix’s PIC line. Apparently small bubbles are quite common and nothing to really worry about. Of course, in our case we raced to kink off his PIC line just before a large bubble of air went in at the point where his line enters his hand.

The machine is supposed to sound an alarm when it encounters air in the line. As it has done several times already today, but for some reason or another it has been letting them through. They’ve just switched out his machine. Jenene and I are eyeballing his lines now that we are a bit paranoid. *sigh*

The lines around and connected to Phoenix are such a P.I.T.A. The most annoying one is his outflow line. This is the line that sucks his stomach contents out constantly. The amount that is removed from his stomach is measured so that they know how much fluid to replace. It is so easy to dump the container over when trying to move Phoenix. It dumps into a main container under the counter, so it’s not like it is really lost. Like I said more of a P.I.T.A than anything…

They’ve actually just come back in and will be replacing his lines as well. It seems the line filters aren’t working as well as they should be either.

We just noticed today that his face looks chubbier than it has previously. Looks like he is retaining a bit of water.