A Wonderful Reward for watching the Boys in Denver............

Whitney "paid" me for watching the boys down here
 in Denver this morning.  She said I wouldn't be able to come in with her now so why didn't I feed Aedan.  Woohoo!  Yippee!  They get to hold him so infrequently it was nice of her to give one of her times up.  Anyway here is the proud Gma feeding and singing to her newest Gson.  If it didn't take 12 hours to give the antibiotic they would let him come home now.  BUT he is fine just where he is with his buddies Avery and Bromley. 

Is there a burp in there boy???  Oh, yes a huge one.

This is the Mommy's little chief outfit.  Such a cute outfit!!!

Aedan doing good and How to button a pair of pants

Important matters first:  Aedan is doing well and they hope to get him totally off the O2 today.  He is eating about good with a bottle.  The doc asked Whit if she was ok with bottle feeding.  Whit will pump and store.  This way they are sure of how much he is actually getting.  He learned to suck all the time yesterday.  He surely is on the correct floor.  He will finish the antibiotic on the 28/29th.  He MAY get out the 29th (if before 2 p.m.) spending one night then traveling to Gtown the 30/31st.  He will be on restricted "no large crowds, limited holding by others" orders until April 1.   No problemo.


Lori is on the road with the boys.  They'll be here about 4+ish.  We got the room ready this morning so all is well.  Selenee and family are on their way so we'll have all of our stuff by tonight.  We came up for Whitney to pump and there was a little girl looking at her brother through the window.  Oh!  Maybe we can do that and do it when Auntie Lori is here.  I'll put a pic here later. :)


So Monday I found my GGW (Grannie Gone Wild) pants and the button fell off in my hand.  Rats!  OK get the needle and thread you have time.  So without taking them off I sewed on the button and was ready in a jiffy.  I couldn't get them buttoned.  What's going on?  They aren't too little.  Oh well I'll figure it out later; put my belt on; cinched it up tight and off we went.  I tried and tried all day to button the darn things.  It was driving me nuts - short drive - At one point I went into the little waiting room, laid down on the couch and STILL couldn't do it.  This is tiresome.  At the end of the day when we finally made it back to the RMH; had dinner and got in my jammies.  Let's look at these rotten pants. ........Ahhha!! You already know....I had sewed the darned thing onto the outside of the pants.  Yes - folks I'm back with a weird working brain.  Ahhhh! Life is sliding along. 

Grams and The High Tech World

Aedan got dressed yesterday; Mom held him; Mom nursed him (but he doesn't know how to latch yet); and he graduated to the Graduate NICU whose sole purpose is Feeding and Growth.  It is SO quiet up there.  After the noisy NOCU this is a breath of fresh air.  The "incubator cocoons" with their wonderful indivual blanket over the top of them allow the REAL preemie to grow and grow.  We were sad to leave Nicole Marie a beautiful little girl that was born Thursday weighing in at a whopping 600 grams.  Her brother was not a roommate as he is 50% smaller than her and needs even MORE attention.    His roommates are Bromley and Avery who were his roomies downstairs.  They were born 12/13 and very tiny but stable.  Mom went into labor with them at 25 weeks when she was visiting on a move from Hawaii to Maryland. 

The Ronald McDonald House is an awesome experience and I will be even MORE of an advocate to save ANY type of pull tab to sell and give the money to ANY RMH.  I am going to write about it when I have a better brain. 

We have found that going to the cafeteria and spreading out is good for us.  Travis went home yesterday and we call for rides from Security.  Lori and Kevin will bring the boys down in our pickup Friday night.  I have searched out where/how/why for having them stay here with us.  RMH; zoo and walking are on our agenda.  Weather permitting we will walk at least one way twice a day.  I am NOT doing my daily 3 mile walk and I find I am missing that; bUT I am moving and and climbing stairs whenever I can. 

By the time I leave here I will KNOW how to run both my camera AND my cell phone.  :)  Oh Dad do I get what you used to tell me.  It is easier to have Whit do it; but she is rebeling somewhat and making me learn it.  I DID finally get sound to the movies. 

The food here in the cafeteria is incredible and especially with our 20% NICU discount we can eat it.  We had a wrap for dinner last night.  VERY big so we each had at least 1/2 to save for Whit's 1 a.m. snack when she pumps.   So I trot over to the saran wrap dispenser, watch a lady and think: Nooooo problemooo!
You all know this was my first mistake.  I plop my plates down, lift and lid eventually find the SW and begin to pull up then lay it down on the empty plate.  Now push down the SW lid and waalaa! SW the right size.  I held it down and tried to get the SW.  It just kept coming as I pull up FAST - now I have about 24" of SW.  I try again after I wrapped the empty plate 4 times - pull, snap, done.  Another 24".  SPIT!!  Then a very nice older man using the other station said for me to just let GO of the lid as that somehow finishes the task.  oh!   I eventually got the two halves wrapped and consider myself a certified SW user. sigh.

Now I will let Whit have the computer and I will start two more rows on my new OCD - Swedish Weaving.  I really love SW.  Ken will be SO proud I have found another obsession!  Ok now it's 29 rows down; over one do 1 in dark bl...........................