Good Morning!

It's just about 40 hours since Kirsten gave birth to James Mathis, and 28 hours since James made his way through his first surgery.

Kirsten is sore and tired, but is awesome and did an amazing job during labor, delivery, and now recovery, and I'm sure she'll be happy to update you all with more details as soon as she can get her hands on a computer :)

James has had some major ups and downs in the PICU in the last 28 hours, but has been a major trooper, and is recovering from his first surgery very well, especially considering he wasn't even supposed to have this for a few days. We'll get into some more tech details later, but for now it's just enough to say he's stable, and every minute that goes by is a minute closer to coming off another i.v. drip and a minute closer to being held and fed by mom and dad :)

Thank you all for all of your happy thoughts and prayers and more happy thoughts and calls and texts. It's been a comfort to Kirsten and me to have you all here, even if you're there, and I know James can tell we're all thinking about him.