Monday, September 17, 2007

Milestones

This has been a weekend full of milestones. Nothing major, but a bunch of little things that combined make this a great weekend. First of all, as you can see below, last weekend he was on the vent. Since then he has gone to the CPAP, and then the high flow cannula. Since being put on the cannula, they have turned the flow down twice. They would have turned it down more, but that brings us to the next milestone. Jordan got his round of 2 month vaccinations this weekend. Before anyone asks, I don’t know what his schedule for vaccines will be, and I don’t know the schedule for normal kids either so I can’t compare. It is one of those things I intended to read about during the 3rd trimester. Anyway, they tired him out a little bit, but not the exhaustion from last weekend. He was just a little less active after the shots than he was before the shots. In fact, he spent most of Sunday working on the next milestone.
Jordan sucks! In fact, my kids sucks better than your kid! He had been working on his thumb all week, but now he has advanced. Of course, he works with his mini pacifier and will work on that for a few minutes, but he does something else even cuter. As mentioned before, he loves to put himself in his own positions. On of the positions he likes is to fold one of his arms under his head and use it as both a pillow and a pacifier. As can be seen below, he has worn his first clothes this weekend too! My mom made him a hat, and he should be able to grow with it for a good month or so. She made an earlier hat, but by the time he was off of the CPAP, it no longer fit him. She made a cover for the isolette that we won’t use. Unless it has his name on it, they can’t promise that we will get it back in the end. We’ll use it as a blanket when we get home.
Any of you who know me personally, will be proud of the next milestone. This weekend, I spent 3 hours walking around the store working on the baby registry! That’s right, I spent 3 hours shopping! I think it is the biggest sacrifice I have ever made for Jordan. On top of that, we are also going to register at another store within a couple of weeks. That will mean shopping twice in a month. I haven’t done that since my parents were paying for my back to school clothes.
Of course, the registry intentionally doesn’t have any clothes on it. There are 3 reasons for that. First of all, half the clothes in the store are seasonal type things, it is a national chain, and I have heard rumors that outside Florida that summer ends before Halloween. Here in Florida, I walk my dogs on Halloween in shorts and a tank top. Second, any of the Ross’ reading this know how certain uncles have soured us on the idea of receiving clothes as a gift. On the Ross side of the family, we see receiving socks as an unintended punishment – may he rest in peace. Finally, he’s just growing too darn fast! He is now 1399 grams – 3 pounds 1 ounce! 3 POUNDS! He gained a pound in 3 weeks. The books say that he starts growing faster after 3 pounds. He is only 100 grams from being allowed to wear clothes!

9 comments:

abby said...

Hi Guys! I was happy to see that Jordan is doing great. 3 lbs. Wow.

One idea about what to do with those first little outfits: put them on a teddy bear after Jordan has outgrown them (like next week!). We were given this piece of advice by a NICU nurse and so the very first gund teddy bear (that plays a lullaby) that I bought Hallie now wears (and will forever more) the very first dress Hallie owned. That dress was HUGE on her---she was lost in it. Now I can't believe she ever wore it. It's amazing how you forget these things as they grow.

Good luck weaning Jordan from the O2 and try to stay patient in the next month or so---you guys are in the home stretch and it's hard not to want him home already, but he'll do things in his own time.

Traci said...

When he gets tired, do they give him more oxygen so he doesn't have to work as hard, or are there potential side effects that the vaccinations might have on his breathing? Also, what does that mean about graduating from the g-tube to a bottle or (fingers-crossed) "cow duty"? :)

Traci said...

Sorry- the second question is in regards to his sucking...

Anonymous said...

I knew bullying my friends into 24 hour prayer cycles would pay off! They keep complaining about the lack of sleep, but I'm sure they'll be fine. :) (Go Jordan, go!!)

Big Ali said...

I do want clothes and socks please, I am not a Ross but a new mommy who needs all of thoes things.
Sincerly
Mama Ali

Traci said...

First off: Mama Ali, you're an honorary Ross whether you like it or not. Sucks sometimes, but there it is :)

But 2nd point: where're the goods? You can't tease us by talking about registry shopping (btw, I'm very proud of you Big Ali, even though I think you had more fun than you let on) but neglect to tell us where. I want to go baby shopping!!

RAR said...

The relative to whom you allude would have bought socks for Jordan because, as a male, we all got socks from him. His largesse would have helped build Jordan's high school wardrobe. No one else would have been thinking that far ahead. BTW, do you realize that this is the first time you have mentioned our last name?

Big Ali said...

I am very well aware that I have never mentioned the name before. As far as the registry goes, we don't want everyone to buy everything from the 1st store before we even register at the 2nd. After we register at both, we will give everyone the details so that we get some stuff from the 2nd store. I am resting up now and will shop again this weekend.

Anonymous said...

In all seriousness, I think such amazing milestones may warrant yet another milestone . . . a blog entry from Mama Ali. Not that Big Ali hasn't been great, but I'd really like to hear things from Mama Bear's perspective. :)