Her bath video... like I said, everything is to die for cute these days...
http://youtu.be/gyGT4_tc07I

So it's official... I've become one of those parents that think every little thing my baby does (or even doesn't do) it's to die for cute.  I'm tempted to post all the videos I've taken on youtube for the world to see, but then I realize the videos aren't all that exciting and I'm just obsessed with my daughter.  I also call her princess... never thought I'd do that either.  Interested to see what else I'll do that was obnoxious just three months ago.  Although I will vow to never ever put a giant flower or bow on her head.  Maybe a medium one, definitely small ones, but never ever a giant one...
Kinley is (surprise!!) still doing fabulously.  We had a little bit of a tough week dealing with the placement of her repoggle (the tube that sucks out her saliva so that she doesn't choke on it).  When she gets fussy she cries (shocker), and the tension in her throat when crying causes that thing to shoot out.  Problem is, that when she cries also produces and excess amount of saliva.  So combine absent repoggle with excess saliva and you get a baby that is even more unhappy because now she has saliva hanging out in her throat, and no one likes that.  So you can imagine I'm sure the difficulty of that.  We have been able to figure it out though, and having the tube down the side of her mouth is the best solution.  It's working so far, and I pray  that it continues to work, because we have at least 4 more weeks before her next surgery.
She turned one month on Saturday too... so unbelievable how much time has already gone by.  Monday will be the half way mark to the hoped for time of her next surgery.  Dr. Kashen did her third stretching yesterday and said that she is still doing well.  When she was born the distance between the two ends was about 4 vertebral bodies away, it's now only 3 away and Dr. Kashen wants it to be at the most 2 away before doing the surgery.  Ideally he would like for the two ends to be overlapping so there won't be any tension at the connection site, but he said that's really unlikely.  My first thought when he said that was, "I'm going to ask people to pray for that... so far the prayers have worked, and that would be a really awesome thing to pray for!", so pray for that please :)  He'll wait the full 8 weeks even if she gets to 2 vertebral bodies next week, just so that he can get the two ends as close together as possible before surgery.  Makes sense to me.
She had her first water bath today (Saturday) and I was nervous since she can't stand diaper changes or the usual wipe downs that she's been getting.  But Gail, our great nurse, put her in the warmest water and Kinley was almost drugged by it.  "Luke warm water is horse-shit" Gail says.  I love Gail.  I wouldn't want to take a bath in luke warm water either... and neither would Kinley apparently.  So our first water bath was a very pleasant one :) 
Only 3 short weeks before I return work... put that on your prayer list too.  That is going to be so tough!  But if I were going to leave her anywhere in the world it would be here.  Cottage NICU is amazing, and the nurses have become a sort of family for me here.  They bring me food, help me clean stuff, give me mothering advice (life advice sometimes too) and have really bonded with Kinley.  They treat her like she's one of their own... it really is amazing.
Oh!  And she's gained 1.5 lbs!  She's a whopping 5.9 now :)