Fun with Numbers

When Amelia was born, were hoping to have her home by the time her real due date came to pass. Soon after her birth, we knew that wasn't possible, so we were hoping before Xina's and my anniversary. That got blown away, and we started hoping for pre-Labor Day. Now that's looking much too soon. Best guesses are at least 8 wks more at the NICU with the likelihood it could turn to longer if she can't cope on the low settings of the CPAP well. Some babies stay stuck there for months. So, now that we just passed the 16wks mark and will need to prepare and hunker down for a little while yet, I thought I'd have some fun.

Things that happen/ed quicker than Amelia’s NICU stay
1) Houston fall and winter - combined
2) Luke Skywalker became a Jedi Knight
3) The life cycle of a butterfly
4) A full season of Monk
5) A biblical flood
6) Frodo and Sam walked from Rivendell to Mt Doom
7) The Texas Revolution
8) CBS stay of the Emmy award winning talk show The Wayne Brady Show
9) The famous feat of Phileas Fogg
10) Xina’s pregnancy with Amelia

Things you can do in a shorter time frame than Amelia’s NICU stay
1) Walk from coast to coast along I-10
2) Build a house, drive from California and move in
3) Get 18hrs of college credit
4) Lose 1/3 the value of your 401K
5) Film a major motion picture
6) Collect 100 vintage hot wheels
7) Cast, rehearse and complete a run of a musical at a community theatre (and many Broadway ones, as well)
8) Gain 20 lbs
9) Fly to Mars
10) Watch a full NFL season –including the playoffs and Super Bowl

Things bigger/heavier than Amelia when she was born
1) A bread box
2) A large box of Honeycomb – it’s big, yeah, yeah, yeah
3) A man’s foot
4) A forty
5) 2 stacked bobbleheads
6) A large bag of Snickers minis
7) Stuart Little’s car – (not Stuart Little himself, though)
8) A dictionary
9) Amelia’s first doll
10) A teacup Chihuahua