Pimped Out Incubators

Because Max is too little to wear the mountains of clothes my mother has already made for him and because he can't really even wear clothes yet because he is finishing his gestation in the NICU, my mother has taken it upon herself to make his incubator the most pimped out incubator in all of Southern California- who am I kidding in all the universe. She is making tons of receiving blankets.* (Truth be told, I don't even understand what a receiving blanket is. What makes it so fundamentally different than a regular blanket?) She's already embroidered some kind of Winnie the Pooh quilt that they can put on top to keep out the light. I told her she needed to make sure that she put his initials on everything so those other babies didn't try blanket jack him. I'm sure once they open their eyes and see the kinda bling he's got around his incubator even the tubes and IVs won't stop them from trying.

Max got his breathing tubes taken out today and is notably less agitated. He had to have a bit of a sunbath because he had some jaundice, but he was calm and looking good when I saw him today. I told him to keep an eye out if any of the other babies started to covet his quilts and blankets and that he should try to dirty as much of them as he could so my mom could continue to make more because it keeps her busy. He held my finger for a good moment until his mom instructed me to move outta the way so she could do it.

*My mom says receiving blankets don't take that long to make at all, so I suggested that she set up her sewing machine on the other side of the scrubbing station and as people walked in they could say who they were visiting and the sex of the baby and then she could whip them up a receiving blanket. They would know if they scrubbed up long enough if the blanket was done when they walked through the other door. That's when my mom got tired of me and suggested I go down to the cafeteria, but I think that secretly she was trying to figure out if that was a viable option.

Randi is barking at shadows on the floor? This is new.