Semi-Big News

No its not the BIG news, of when Ethan will come home, but there has been some big developments in the last 24 hours. In the middle of the night, they decided to take Ethan out of the incubator. They actually took the incubator out of his room at lunch today. He is doing very well at maintaining his body temperature, so they are optimistic that he won't have to go back in.

The other big news stems from this morning, they took out the feeding tube. This means Ethan is chowing down on the bottle and is getting enough that they do not need to dump milk straight into his stomach. He is currently getting 40-45cc's every three hours (about an ounce and a third) and he has to take 30, but is allowed to take as much as he wants. From what the nurses say, he is an over-indulger, just like his daddy. He goes for milk, I go for sweets. Ethan is currently weighing at exactly his birth weight, 1740 grams.

So, that's the semi-big news. As far as home life goes, we finally got a car seat yesterday, so now we are ready for him to come home. Furniture should arrive next week, the painter showed up today to erase all remnants of "the hole," and the new laptop arrived today. It's starting to get busy. From what everyone says, that "busy" will last the next 25 or so years.