Saturday Ryder had a great day - he was able to temporarily disconnect from his TPN/lipids/feeds and even his milrinone (long half-life) and oxygen to take a field trip to the Community Room for his baptism. Much of his family was there (except Uncle Cody, because plane trips half-way across the country are just a little $$) as well as a couple of his favorite nurses and some of his First Lutheran family. He had a great time walking the halls, bright-eyed as always and was all smiles to see that he had an audience. He is pleased with an audience of one, but an audience of 25-ish is so much better!! He was not that happy that his adventure included what he perceived to be a cold head-washing but he quickly forgot about that when he saw that he still had everyone's attention. He apologizes to Pastor Keith for turning a little blue when he was crying but wanted him to make sure he got to experience baptismal hypoxia!
Ryder then had fun traveling back to the PICU conference room where he enjoyed meeting some new faces and eating some icing off Daddy's finger, which is even better than Sweetease as it turns out!! Yum. Addy, Blake & Kelsey liked the cake but the chocolate fountain was even more fun. Yes, Ryder has already learned that his mommy overdoes things sometimes. Anyway, he played all afternoon and evening with Grandma and Grandpa and then slept ALL NIGHT after such a big day!!
A very special thank you to Jake & Kirsten & thank you to everyone who was here in person and in spirit!
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