As big as a sack of potatoes...

Eating My IV...crazy little bugger!!

...as heavy at least.

After the exhausting day of pictures, Tennyson was weighed, measured and definately not found wanting (reference to A Knights Tale in case you're wondering). He weighed in at 5 lbs. 0.04 ounces so we broke the five pound mark and then today weighed 5 lbs. 1.1 ounces. It's incredible how quickly he's growing. Many of his preemie outfits are still large enough around however are not going to be long enough much longer. We measured him and he was 18 inches long, so he's grown roughly 7/8 of an inch in the last week which is amazing.

He's got such a great personality and he's so funny. He's started this week communicating with us in a brand new way. He's grunting...and not the I have to or am using the restroom at this moment grunting but just different grunts now and again. He's so precious, but hilarious as well.

As you can tell from the pictures he was really wide eyed last night and exhausted at the same time. We did our non-nutrative but after that he was so tired he even slept through a large portion of his kangaroo time with daddy.

Jeanne the nurse practitioner visited with us this morning and stated after his blood transfusion, his hematicrit was registering at 39.6 and they want it to be 40 but she thought he'd be able to make that up on his own. Also some of the tests for infection came back negative so they believe the viral infection to be rather mild and hopefully contained mostly to his eyes, though his right eye has again started oozing, so we'll see. Please continue praying for the infection to stay at bay and his body to continue fighting...

He's also looking so good she believes they'll begin bottle feeding him next week on Monday or Tuesday (since that's officially when we become 34 weeks gestationally) and then once he can take a bottle for one feeding a shift he will move into his BIG boy bed, meaning an open bassinette so we're praying for that transition as well.

Tonight he kangarooed with Travis for a bit though he was moving back and forth quite a bit with his saturation so we put him back early. He seems to be really exhausted and we and the nurses are not sure if that's because he's had so much happening lately or if he's having to work rather hard because he's still off the oxygen so they're monitoring that really closely. Please be praying for his little lungs to continue developing and working hard.

To leave you with...a funny story from last night. Our favorite night nurses, Dana and Jenny were finally working the same night and since Jenny worked Thursday night, she had him last night and boy at the end of the night was she wishing she'd have let Dana have him...

When I got there this morning I was handed a gallon ziploc bag containing three of Tennyson's outfits with the following note attached from Jenny stating, "Lindsay and Travis - Sorry that Tennyson went through 3 outfits tonight, but I have officially (reluctantly) been initiated into Tennyson's poop hall of fame (SMILE)...I got pictures. Jenny P.S. Dana just watched and laughed hysterically."

Needless to say, he's now gotten just about everyone and earning himself quite a reputation. They said this morning the night nurses were talking about how it just kept coming (that's what they get for taking him off of the iron and giving him a transfusion).

Thank you for taking the time again to pray for our little man (we can't say this enough), you all mean the world to us. Thank you for taking an active part in the care and life our Tennyson.

We love you all-

Joining you in Jehovah-

Travis, Lindsay & Tennyson Myers