Some Good News to Share!

Hello everyone!  We have a few days to catch up on and some good news to share!

October 20
Colby has officially been moved to a big boy bed!  He is able to hold his own body temperature well enough now that he is in the little plastic tubs that they bring a full-term baby to your room in!!!!  Whoo Hoo!!!  The nurses have been working with him at feeding time and trying to get him used to drinking from a bottle!  He is doing one feeding per day (trying to get him used to it) and he drank 7 CCs today!!!  PRAISES!!!  He is getting to be such a big boy!  He weighed 4 pounds 7 ounces!!

October 21
Mommy got to feed  Colby today and he drank about 5 CCs from his bottle.  (I would blame most of this on Mommy since this is a little different than with Ainsley.  I am still learning how to help him figure this out!)  He was opening his eyes a bit more today.  Dr. Parma stopped by and checked on his eyes---the right eye is getting better and the left eye is still the same.  Yeah for the right eye!!!  The dr said it could take up 3-4 weeks to see results in the left eye so please keep the prayers going!!!  He was up to 4 pounds 8 ounces tonight!

October 22
Had a quiet visit today---he was sleeping so we just sat and talked with him.  When I checked on him that night I talked with Brandi.  She had given him his first real bubble bath in the little pink tubs!!!  She unhooked him from everything for a little bit!!!  Whoo Hoo!  He wasn't very happy about the bath and cried for most of it.  But she had him off the cannula for a little while and he did pretty good without it!  BIG BABY STEPS!!!  He was up to 4 pounds 9 ounces and Brandi was going to try and feed him with the bottle again at midnight.

October 23
Lots of visitors today!  Don and Lewies came to visit for a few minutes.  Lewies sang to Colby in his native language (Lewies is from South Africa) when he started to get fussy and Colby seemed to like it!  Which doesn't bode well for Colby since I can't speak the language or even sing for that matter!  Talked with Billie, his nurse, and found out that Colby drank 23 CCs with his midnight bottle and this morning he drank all 35 CCs with his therapist!!!  WOW!!!!  What a big boy!  Now they are giving him two bottles each day I think???  Will have to check on that one.  Grams went up after work and Colby had another bottle at 6pm and drank almost all of it!!  So excited by this progress!

I AM GOING TO ADD SOME MORE PICTURES AS WELL SO MAKE SURE TO CHECK THOSE AND SEE HOW OUR BABY BOY IS GROWING!!!!

This last week and a half has been very hectic/stressful for me and I just want to thank all of you out there for the prayers and encouraging words.  Seeing the comments on Facebook and on this blog are so inspiring for us.  They are the best thing for me to go back and read when I am having a rough day.  Please keep the messages coming---it fuels my heart and my faith! 

God Bless,
Brie