New for Atticus this week.

This has been a good week for Atticus.  By far the biggest event this week is that Joe was able to hold Atticus for the first time on Wednesday night.  The week Atticus was born Joe had a little cold that kept getting worse and prevented Joe from visiting the hospital for awhile.  By the time Joe was better and able to hold Atticus then Atticus was sick and not stable enough to be held.  But on Wednesday night their wait was over. Joe was able to hold Atticus for over a half hour.  
He continued to do really well on his ventilator this week and after having another blood transfusion and starting a new medicine to stimulate his adrenal system he is a very happy and active little guy.  He was taken off his ventilator yesterday and put on to what that call an assisted C-Pap.   It is a mask that fits over his nose and forces air in the same way the ventilator did, but it is less invasive.   If he continues to do well on this C-Pap he will be moved onto a normal C-Pap which will only give him air if he "forgets" to breath.  At the rate he is going he will most likely be moved on to the normal C-Pap sometime early next week.
Atticus is quite the favorite with the nurses.  It is normal for a baby to have one or two nurses sign up to be what's called a primary care nurse.   A primary care nurse gets priority for being assigned to that particular baby.   Atticus has four nurses signed up to be his primary care nurses.   They all call him "little man" because he is so independent and sometimes seems so serious.  He is also a little mischievous and feisty.  He likes to pull out his feeding tube and did it so many times this week that his nurses have taken to taping it to his breathing apparatus to keep him from pulling it out.  He is also like all baby boys very fond of waiting until you have his diaper off to pee.  On Monday his little plan literally back fired on him and he got a face full of pee.