Too Long!

Yikes...Where to begin?
Sorry it has been SO long since an update! We have been busy with 2 kids and company and life in general.

Calvin is now 6 weeks old, and is growing by leaps and rolls! I don't know if it is my milk or in his genes, but he is turning out the be quite the chub-a-lub! He has 2 (sometimes 3) chins and you should see his thunder thighs. I think he may be storing food for winter in his cheeks too! Very opposite from his Sister who has always looked like a spaghetti noodle. He has already taken in a movie at the theater, been out to eat twice, and to the Zoo! All of which he was very well behaved for. He does good out in public. He actually is always good until it is time to eat. He is now eating 4 oz. every hour and 45min to 2 hours. And believe me...he WILL let us know as soon as it is time to eat!!!! He LOVES his milkey! I had to move his car seat buckles to the highest setting this week, as well as put away all the little clothing. I bet by the end of the week, I'll have to put away more items! He has slept for about 4 hours during his first stretch of night sleep for the past 5 days!! Yeah. It is so refreshing to get 3 full hours of sleep. I can tell a huge difference in my energy level. The only thing though is that he skips a full feeding so he makes up for it by eating every hour and 1/2 the rest of the night...

I had my 6 week check up this morning. All is good. I only have 2 more pounds left until my pre-pregnancy weight. I was visiting with the woman next to me in the waiting room, and found out that her daughter (age 2, who was with her) was born at 28 weeks and stayed in the NICU like Calvin. She had the same Doctors as him. So we were talking about that and life with a preemie in general. I was telling her how huge Calvin looked next to all the other babies (who were 28-35 weeks and about 4 inches long, and 2 lbs ect....) She told me of this lady whose baby was in there at the same time as her daughter. She was 29 weeks and on a business trip here and had to emergency deliver the baby here. Her insurance would NOT pay to have the baby life flighted to her home town in Southern Georgia!!!!!!!!!!! SO the baby had to stay here in the NICU for 4 months and she was only able to come and visit her twice, the grandma came twice also and the Dad came once. They apparently had 4 other children at home as well. Can you imagine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought 8 days was bad. Even 4 months living in the same town would be bad, but 10 hours away. WOW.

Hannah is attending VBS here in our apartment complex this week. She had a blast tonight! They sang a song about fruit falling on your head, and then they got to bonk their heads with their hands!! Apparently that is a lot of fun:) The best I could tell from her is that they are going over the fruit of the Spirit this week.

That is all for now...I know! It is a lot of info. There are pictures coming. I just have to check with Dan to see if he needs any taken for his side jobs before I down load them off the camera. He sells books for a guy here in town. We make a decent profit. All I do is take the pictures, and Dan loads them up to e-bay and we get a certain percentage of the sale!

Hope you are well.