Merry Christmas Eve

Well, there haven't been any HUGE changes here. Oakley has continued to pee, so he hasn't needed any more dialysis. They removed his peritoneal dialysis catheter this morning. They've started to lower the pressure support on his ventilator as well.
He's still going to be intubated for. Few weeks more, but he's on the upward slope of healing.
His arterial stick line went bad, so they're poking him again. We made them switch back to his heels after coming in to his thumbs and fingers covered in blood...they poked his fingers from the knuckle up, I guess they don't know how to ask endocrinology where it's ok to poke?
His weight has been pretty steady, he was 8.4 kg's this morning after his procedure, and was the same yesterday.
We have been so fortunate this holiday, we've been adoopted by a group of people in Boise and by the NICU folks at Saint Luke's. We have been so overwhelmed with the love and support we continue to experience from home!
My parents and their international students have been in town the last few days, and Trevor and I have had good breaks from the hospital. We went to a huge outlet mall, tried to get into Canada (visa problems stopped us from going all the way in), and we're going to cook up a big Christmas Eve dinner tonight! It's been hard to balance spending tiime with Oakley in the PICU (we're limited to 3 people in his room at a time, including Trevor and I) and spending time with my family while they're here. We're going to spend all day with Oakley tomorrow, we hope to get a picture of him with Santa Claus!
We'll post pictures of Oakley with all his gifts soon, for now he's just trying to sleep, heal, and grow. We love you all and we covet your prayers.
Love,
Samanatha, Trevor, and Oakley
PS, we wish we were home with you all, and can't wait to make up for it double next Christmas!