5 Days of Nathan ....Coming Home...

 After getting home - we stopped by Noah's school to surprise him.  Because I had been "Show and Tell" a few weeks before, talking about how there was a baby in my belly, and Noah was going to be a big brother (because Noah would talk NON-STOP about it) .... So we went in there, and the kids were instructed that they couldn't touch.... but they could look at the baby... There is big brother (in the blue striped shirt) beaming!

 After Noah got home from school, he got to hold Nathan...

 Calahan, equally proud, holding Nathan the day he came home....

 Nathan so tiny in his swing...

 Sleeping in his bassinet ....

 Big Brother Noah watching over him....

The first couple of days home was hard.  It was constant pumping breast milk, cleaning out the pump stuff, preparing Nathan's tube feeding, feeding him, putting him to sleep and trying to catch a couple minutes of sleep myself... none-stop-every-two-hours..... I was exhausted and something had to give.  So after a week or so, I decided to give up the pumping.  Once we ran out of fresh milk, we had a HUGE freezer full of frozen milk.  Sadly, once we got to the frozen milk, he would spit up a lot with every feeding, so we tried formula.... and he seemed fine with that, so the huge stash of breast milk I had worked so hard for, got thrown away.

Tiny Nathan in his BIG crib....

1 Month Old

Making a heart with his hand....

Daddy cuddling with Nathan, still so tiny...

On a car trip, right after he was struggling with an NG tube feeding, he got frustrated and pulled it out.  Then he was like "huh?" and the sunlight ... and the breeze .... it was nice to have him out of the house but .... man, a trip like that with the way things were then, probably not the best choice.. LOL

Loved this preemie shorty outfit...

"Um... Hey, Elmo.... can you get me some milk?  At least my Paci?"

FINALLY hit 5 lbs and in a REAL carseat!!!  Still not really TALL enough for it though, but he's growing to tall for the Carseat Bed...

 These were his 6 week/7 week photos ....

 Diggin the crib!

 In his bouncer on the bed with Mommy while she folded clothes...

 Take the hat off take the hat off I don't like the hat...

 Much better...

 We went to Nathan's Godparent's son's birthday party, but it was chilly and rainy ...

 Daddy ended up tucking him into his jacket... lol...

 2 Months Old - I worked REALLY hard getting Nathan to nipple feed from a bottle, worked and worked and worked with him, and as long as the NG tube was in, he was lazy about it.  So I pulled the tube one weekend and told him he would have to work to eat.  And he did .... so the tube never went back in.  His weight gain didn't change, he was still only gaining about an ounce a week.  An ounce... that's it... 

 Dude.........

 Nathan's Baptism....

 Stretch!

 Playtime with Mommy...

 Mommy got a new camera and we went to the Drive In Theater so I was taking all sorts of pictures...