Great Gram's Birthday!

can’t believe it’s been almost two weeks since the last post! Time flies…and Andrew is growing so fast! He will be 12 weeks on Friday! We made the trip to visit my grandma (see picture) for her 80th birthday and Andrew did really well on the car ride. He slept the entire 2 ½ hour ride. We are working our way up to the 3-3 ½ ride to New Buffalo. That drive might require a stop to eat! We had a really nice visit with my grandma and my aunt who was here from Seattle. Andrew is the first boy on my mom’s side of the family…my mom has two sisters and they all had girls (five granddaughters for my grandma), so my grandma was excited to meet her new great grandson! He is the fourth boy to have Martin as a middle name on my dad’s side of the family! Andrew, my dad, grandpa and great grandpa all have Martin as their middle name. Last weekend we had grandma and grandpa Hull here to visit. They haven’t been here since the weekend before his discharge, so they were surprised to see how he has grown. Andrew is 9 ½ pounds! He has more than doubled his birth weight! I went out to dinner with the DG’s and Brian and his parents stayed home with Andrew…who was a little fussy. We have taken every opportunity to go for walks when it is warm out and Wrigley loves having long walks with the family! He wasn’t so sure about the stroller following him at first, but he quickly forgot about it. It has been so warm that we finally met our neighbor friend, who was born in October (6 weeks early). It was nice to visit and share experiences from the NICU. We went to the eye doctor yesterday. His eyes are still developing. The doctor said that she usually likes to see babies for 8-10 weeks, so we will be going back in another 2 weeks. She said that he will start looking around and focusing on objects more, which he already has been. He has a new mobile in his crib and he seems to really enjoy that (when he lets us put him down). While we were at the doctor, we saw his old “pod mates.” During the last week of his stay, Andrew shared a corner with triplets (2/3 babies). So it was good to see all of the babies! Things have been getting better in the eating and sleeping department. Hopefully he is starting to grow out of the reflux, but we still have our moments. It’s getting better. We are back to swaddling to help him sleep a little better. We gave it up because he would get out of it every time. So we have to swaddle him when he is really sleepy, otherwise he gets out of it and startles himself awake. Tomorrow we are going to the doctor for his last RSV shot. Thank goodness RSV season is coming to an end and hopefully all of the flu bugs will disappear! We are so grateful that Andrew has stayed healthy since he has been home from the NICU.

Happy Birthday Great Gram!
This is the life!

So sleepy!

Happy dreams!