Funnies from our precious one...

I just have to tell this, it was so hilarious. If it hadn't been the middle of the night I am sure I would have gotten a picture. As you all know from the pictures Tennyson is on oxygen which daily following his bath we have to tape to his cheeks to ensure it remains in his nose. We usually double reinforce it during the night however haven't had any problems with it thus far. Saturday night however he was making some noise in his cradle so I walked over to it and he had not only gotten the tape loose and pulled the cannula away from the piece at the back that holds it snuggly into place but he had wiggled the cannula down his body and had his arms hanging through it. It was the funniest thing I had ever seen and since we weren't having any episodes makes me wonder how much he's needing the oxygen, but that's another story for another day.

This has been a great weekend, everyone but my sisters and Trudy (who's traveling the world) were able to come down and see Tennyson, it was great. We had such great food, and so much fun together. No one can believe how big he's getting, don't get me wrong, we're still too small for most of our newborn clothing but compared to where we started, we're huge. Double our size actually. He's really filled out as well as I'm sure you can see by the pictures which makes a huge difference.

Last night was another long one as he woke up every hour, almost exactly on the hour and just wanted to play, we're definately going to start doing baths before bed because once those are done and he's ate, he's usually out a good three hours. I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow. We'd had two good nights in a row so I guess I was like, we're over this hump, little did I know.

Then this morning the home health nurse came by a bit after eight and I had to wake him up, it was the first time since midnight he hadn't woken up on the hour, of course, of course.

He weighed in at 6lbs. 12.5 ounces so he's growing like a weed. She turned his oxygen off so we could monitor how much he's relying on it. In the NICU he needed it primarily during feedings however this morning since I had woken him up he was throwing a fit needing to eat about 8:20 so I fed him without his Os and the lowest we dropped was 95%. She turned him down to 75ccs from 100 and stated if he continues this well then next week, they will turn him down to 50ccs with holidays. Holidays are a few hour stretches where he doesn't have to wear it, she said we would probably start with 3-4 hours and see how he handles that.

So all the news from that front is good, we then tried to take a nap however everytime I would get laid down Tenny would cry until I would reposition him. He would then fall back to sleep until I tried to lay down, it was a vicious game so I decided to do laundry instead. When he woke up I bathed him, changed his leads, fed him and he's sleeping soundly now. He is wearing a very precious outfit so I am hoping to get some good pictures of him later today along with the finished Christmas tree and will post them when I have them.

Hope you all had a great weekend, and the Lord refreshed you in ways you couldn't imagine, He sure did me. Worship at CCO was so great, and the message was on "Whatever Happened to Gratitude??" Chad Ragsdale did a great job. The Lord really is blessing us beyond what we could have ever imagined.

When discussing Tennyson's age we were told to go by his adjusted age, so currently we're -3 weeks, isn't that hilarious, but in all actuality he's been with us 9 weeks today.

Know we love you all more than we can say and once I get the perfect picture I will get his birth announcements out.

Made for these Moments-
Travis, Lindsay & Tennyson Myers