Tummy Time! Alex can turn his head from one side to the other! He also weighed in at 6lbs 6 oz last week!

Miguel is trying to get Alex to play with his keys.
Run Miguel Run!!!!!


Happy Easter


Sorry I haven't been keeping up with my posting. I've been working really hard on our Hardship letter for Mexico. I got it turned in to the lawyer Monday. Hopefully it is good enough!

This morning Mommy had surgery to remove her gall bladder. That went well but......the doctor found that she has some stones in her bile duct.....so she has to have another procedure at MCO (or whatever it is now) in Toledo. So she still isn't feeling so great!

Green eyed monster!

Miguel can't miss out on anything that Alex does so when I laid Alex down on the bed to get Miguel dressed after his shower.....Miguel jumped right in with him! Miguel usually does pretty good with Alex but he can get a little rough. Especially when Alex is getting something that Miguel wants....like sitting in the bouncey seat!

Alex is home!

Alex got out of hospital on Monday afternoon. Sorry we weren't able to update the website....the computer at home was down and we had to wait on Grandma to get over her fever to come and fix it!
Here is Grandpa Beans with Alex the day before he was let out of the hospital!
Big Brother Miguel is playing peak a boo with Daddy in the Ronald McDonald House!
Miguel finally got to meet his little brother. We are going through a few difficulties.....but Miguel is adjusting. As long as his diaper gets changed when the baby does, he gets to sleep in the baby bed, and Mommy holds Miguel when she holds the baby.....you know.....the normal.
Great Grandma Thomas came to visit the baby too!

Papi and Miguel have been busy as home today. They got out the basinet and cleaned it and they also cleaned the carpets in the living room! Miguel thought it was great fun to have all of the furniture out of the living room. It made a great place to ride his bike! He could also get out all of his cars and play with them on the floor. He didn't care that the floor was wet and that his pants got all wet!

Ok....I'm so excited!!! Alex just successfully breastfed for the first time at his 6pm feeding!!!!! He fed for 9min on each side (and I think he would have went longer but I didn't want to wear him out!) and then he took 25 ml from the bottle!!!!! yeah!!!!! Maybe we will be able to go home sometime this week!

They are going to do his car seat test tonight.....which means they put him in his car seat for 4 hours and make sure he doesn't have any alarms on his monitors. They also had me put out his outfit for his photo so maybe that can be done in the morning.

So we are making some progress....finally! Last night he only had 1 1/2 feedings by tube! that is much better! Maybe today we can do all of them by bottle!

Weight update....Alex is now 5lbs 1 1/2 oz! We are gaining!

Grandma came to visit Alex last night. She even helped change a poopy diaper! The are changing up his feeding plan a little bit today. Same idea but a little different approach. He is allowed to eat anytime he wants every 2-4 hours and he can eat as much as he wants.....but he has to eat at least 120 ml in a 12 hour period. If he doesn't wake up on his own in 4 hours then I have to wake him up.....but of course if he is just too tired and won't wake up to eat....he is still tube fed. I don't think the 120 ml is enough to get him home....the nurse said that would just sustain him....not let him gain weight....but anything that he eats over that is bonus! We just started it so I will let you all know how it goes. He has nippled by bottle for all 3 feeding since 9 am and has already eaten 115 ml so far so good. We will see if he can keep it up. Still 2 more feeding there abouts to go before the end of the first 12 hours.

Not much change today for Alex. Still eating about 1/2 of his feedings from a bottle. The other half are fed to him through a tube. Very frustrating for mommy but the nurses keep telling me we don't want to push him too hard or he might stop eating all together. They also say that at this age I could come in one morning and he be a totally different kid. Sucking down bottles real fast and be ready to go home in two days. The not knowing is killing me.

Alex had a very busy day today. He got his hepetitis B shot, passed his hearing test, got his first bath, tried to breast feed 3 times (not going so good yet, he latches on but doesn't know how to suck once he does), and....was circumcised!!!! He was beat! He didn't even wake up when I changed his diaper for his 9pm feeding....so we gave him a break and just fed him through his tube!

Mommy's camera batteries are dead. She tried to put some new pics on last night but the camera wouldn't work. She will have to stop at the gift shop today and see if they have any.

Well.....we have yellow poop!!!!! We are making progress. The only tube Alex has now is his feeding tube. We are pretty much just down to getting Alex to eat. Sometimes he just gets too tired and has to be fed through his tube. Sunday he was fed through his tube for the noon and 3pm feedings but then at the 6pm and 9pm feedings Alex sucked down those bottles!!!! Progress!!!!

The nurse is saying that it will probably be another week that he is here. Come on Alex and eat!

Mommy's surprise!

Mommy had a great surprise when she came to see me this morning! I am no longer hooked up to any nose tubes and my feeding tube was out. The nurse came in and said that the feeding tube will be going back in (oh suck) She took the IV out! So the only tube I have to get rid of is my feeding tube!

I started eating less overnight last night. (finally hit the full line???) The nurse says the goal is to eat 35 ml every three hours. As a minimum. So eat Alex eat!!!!

Alex's Biliruben count went down again this morning because he has starting pooping!!!! So they are no longer going to be checking that. Just his blood sugar every 12 hours.