Sorry for the Delay; but we're finally in Seattle!

Ok, sorry for it taking so long to post an update for you all. We finally made it to Seattle, after a pretty hectic week! We were initially supposed to come here on Wednesday, the 22nd. We got a call on Monday afternoon letting us know that the PICU (pediatric intensive care unit) at Seattle Children's was full, so we would be delayed until Friday (They wanted to put Oakley in PICU because he has an insulin drip, and isn't necessarily stable on his drip-so he would have closer monitoring there). Trevor hadn't left yet (he was going to leave Tuesday evening, after his mom got off work, so it was ok-we even got to spend our anniversary together. Trevor, Mona, and Bill wanted to be there when Oakley and I arrived, so they convoyed up on Thursday, and Trevor dropped me off at the hospital with my overnight bag that afternoon. Oakley and I were supposed to head up on Friday morning at 9:30 to the airstrip and fly on a fixed wing Cesna to Seattle, courtesy of Air Saint Luke's. Friday morning at about 4:30, we got a call saying that they didn't have room for Oakley, and that they didn't know when he could get into a bed there. The Neonatologist and nurses at Saint Luke's were pissed-they had called the day before at 3, and there had been a bed, so the Doc asked the bearer of bad news why they didn't just have us fly up then. After several phone calls and angry conversations, Dr. Crichton got ahold of one of Oakley's Docs in Seattle and they decided they would just place him on the Hematology/Oncology floor, and he told her that he would lay in Oakley's crib if he had to, in order to ensure there would be a room for us on Saturday morning.
So we finally got to leave Saturday morning. It was the first time Oakley had ever been off the 2nd floor of Saint Luke's in his 4 months of life. He was looking all around and especially interested in the different light fixtures in the elevator on the way down to the ambulance. His first breath of outside air was super smoky-it tasted like campfire because of the crappy air quality being caused by the fires surrounding the area. He slept the whole way to the tarmack, and when we moved him from the ambulance to the little airplane, he got sun in his eyes for the first time...he didn't like it. We covered his face with a quilt that was given to us by the NICU, and loaded him into the plane. He was just on a little board, so the EMT transport staff had more room in the cabin of the plane than they were used to. I got to sit up front, next to the pilot and view us rising out of the smoke, and got to see Mt. Adams, Mt. Rainier, and Mt. Hood as we got closer to Seattle. It was awesome. Oakley slept the entire flight, and then on the ambulance ride from the airport to Seattle Children's. Once we got to the hospital, he woke up, and was again intrigued by the lights. We wheeled him down to the 3rd floor, and were ambushed by doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and mauled with loves from Trevor, Mona, and Bill. He was quite overwhelmed and cried for most of that. He hid his face in my chest and I fed him, and he calmed down a little bit.
Once things were calmer, we looked around his room, and the accomodations are amazing. We really wanted him to have a window, as he was in an interior room in Boise because of his immunosuppression induced isolation. Here, he has a window (which is above our bed/bench for Trevor and I), he has a balcony room that is all windows except the ceiling and beam, and he has a view out of both! He has a tree and can see an outdoor play area, so Trevor and I were pretty excited for him. Oakley is still a little vampire though. When we walked him into the sunshine in the balcony area, he may as well have hissed and burst into flames.
We have a lot more backstory to fill in, as well as a mushy post about how much we miss Saint Luke's and all of our family and friends, and how cool everyone at the NICU was/is as well as a giant thank you to everyone! So stay tuned, we'll get to it eventually...

My little papoose, as he was getting strapped to his board

Oakley and I, right after he got to leave his room!

Owyhee Mountains, just above the smokeline