Little Successes

James had a check-up with the Neonatal doctors yesterday. They check on preemies around 3, 6, and 9 months of their first year to make sure they are growing well. Anyway, James is doing great. Yesterday we got to leave his heart monitor behind! He hasn't had any alarms in over 6 weeks, so he is now wireless! He is up to 13 pounds and he is now getting 8 ounce bottles 4 times a day...oink! oink! The doctors said this is the right amount for his weight and age though.

Tomorrow is James' 4 month birthday! One of Dave's college buddies is coming to visit us this weekend. Kevin has picked up a photography habit so he's going to bring his fancy camera and take lots of pictures for us. I'm hoping to get a family picture worthy of a Christmas card. I want to get them in the mail by the end of next week since Christmas is only 2 weeks away.

So Mic-Key button #3 broke Monday night so I had to once again change James' button. This time I called a surgical nurse at the hospital and she gave me a contact at Kimberly Clark, the manufacturer of the buttons. Apparently they had been having some trouble with buttons a few months back, but thought they had fixed all the problems. The lady with Kimberly Clark was super nice and helpful. She filed a complaint for me and then personally brought me over a year's supply of Mic-Key buttons (6). She also smoothed things over with the medical supplier that gave me a hard time last week. Hopefully the button he's wearing now will last until surgery and he won't need any of the buttons she brought, but we have them just in case.

James is working on taking afternoon naps in his pack 'n play this week. It was rough on Monday and then better on Tuesday. Then yesterday he had a doctor's appointment during nap time so we started over again today. It has been rough again today, but we're working on it. Our goal is to get the afternoon nap down pat by Christmas.

Now you are all caught up and I'm off to fold the laundry.