Happy Thanksgiving!

And a gobble-gobble-go

And a gobble-gobble-gee

This is the First

Thanksgiving for me!

This is what I understand so far about this day. I woke up earlier and I had some food via a bottle with the Nuk nipple that I like so much. I had my pants changed. I went back to sleep and slept through to noon when Mummy and Daddy magically appeared in the room. In fact Mummy was holding me when I woke up - NICE! We all had a great visit while I was awake which was for quite a long time. I tried out by Baby Papasan and I LOVED IT! Mummy told my nurse I will be having 'turkey' tomorrow. Not sure what that is...or how I will get it...but good for me!

I weigh 7 pounds today! I'll let you absorb that. I am getting stronger every day and all I need to do is to get control of eating from my bottle and of breathing without forgetting... yeah I still do that sometimes. I am getting a little better with the bottle and my nurses and doctor say that one day it will be like *snap* (trying to snap small chubby fingers.... failing... rats...) and I will eat like crazy from that bottle of mine. The bigger I get the better I should be at remembering to breathe all the time, so that should correct itself in short order too.

I'll have Mummy & Daddy post new pics soon!

6 POUNDS, 12 OUNCES AND COUNTING

It's getting harder and harder to recall when I weighed in at only 2 lbs, 10.5 ozs! I'm so big now that I wear a proper size 1 diaper... no more preemie diapers for me. Know what I did this past week? I outgrew an outfit - my first one. Mummy says she is keeping it so she can show me when I get older...not so sure I'll care about that really... but it makes her happy. Know what else I did this week?? C'mon guess! OK, I'll tell you. Just the other day - Sunday the 20th - I drank a whole bottle! The entire 58 cc's (nearly 2 ounces), I drank the whole thing from my bottle. Everybody was really excited and calling each other, and a one of my nurses helped me pen a little note to Mummy & Daddy about my big acomplishment! Then I slept nearly the entire day.... what can you expect from me?

In other news, I no longer need any oxygen to help me breathe. I am doing that all on my own now and I occasionally still have some problems with remembering but overall I am doing really well. The only tube on my face now is my feeding tube and that will stay until I can eat all of my feedings by myself. :-)

I stay awake longer and longer now, sometimes for over an hour at a time. I like to play and have fun with my Moosey, my mobile and my nurses - and I have begun to realize that a little squaking and growling may net me a cuddle! NICE.... I love to cuddle. I still love my baths, and one of my favorite times of the day is when Mummy & Daddy visit me. I hear their voices and I start growling a little bit, then I like to do a good stretch and a yawn... I know it is only a matter of a little time before I get scooped up!

I hear that my room is nearly finished at home, and I'm excited to see it. I guess there are only a few things left to do and that's that. It sounds cool with safari pictures on the walls and a big fluffy rocking chair in the corner... mmmmm... rocking with Mummy or Daddy. YIPPEE!

When Indian-Irish Eyes Are Smiling

I like to smile. I like to look around. I like to follow things with my eyes now. I LOVE my Moosey!

I've been having a lot of fun growing and learning things in the last couple of weeks. I weigh in at 5 lbs, 10 ozs, and that's down a little bit from a few days ago. Everybody has been so good to me, and my doctor is trying hard to get me off my oxygen supply so they have been giving me a little something to get the excess water out of my little body. Makes it easier to breath that way, ya know. There is no need to worry about the weight loss though, OK?

I am so much more tolerant these days of voices, and noises. And my eye doctor came for another visit the other day and I dealt with him pretty well this time out. I was awake that night and looking all around for my Mummy & Daddy. They were R-E-A-L-L-Y impressed with that. I was nursing and playing and having a good time despite my eyes having been peeled open and clamped that way for that exam. The peepers are doing well too! No change at all in the status of them, and the 'eye guy' still thinks that I will outgrow the current situation with no problems. I'm a pretty lucky little boy all in all. I get to have a bottle 4 times a day now and I'm really trying my best to get used to drinking from that. You know...eat, swallow, breath... very hard for a little one like me. But now the most I will take is 19cc's and my feedings are a whopping 52cc's. Nearly the same amount as a full term new born baby. Gooooo Ethan! (I was cheering for myself... sorry)

Halloween has come and gone. I don't know much about that holiday except that one of my nurses was wearing earrings that were one a spider and one a web... scary!! And Mummy & Daddy put these really bright bibs on me and took my pictures. My first Halloween costumes! One says Baby's First Boo and the other Baby’s First Halloween.

My doctor isn’t so sure that I will go home on my due date, December 1. She seems to think that I am doing things at my very own pace, as is my way, and am likely to go home closer to the middle of December. I think that Mummy & Daddy are a little sad about that and so am I, but I need to grow, grow, grow.

Well, more later.