Thursday, May 29, 2008

Not much going on



So Gunnar's future cousin was having a birthday party, so we had to go and check out the action. Can you tell how big he is getting?





Here is Auntie Amy proudly displaying her nephew. :)

And here is the birthday boy himself. :)

Sunday, May 18, 2008

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

OK, well, I promised more pictures, and I have some more updates.
(THE BAD)
The Pulmonologists' office called. Seems that Gunnar did not pass the sleep study the night we did it. I had a feeling that he wasn't going to, but I was hoping. He was very restless that night, so his O2 levels kept dropping. If he had slept through the night, I think that he would have been ok. So we have another appointment on June 2, so we will decide on when another sleep study will be done then.
(THE GOOD)
We had another eye appointment with that Dr this week as well. Every thing is perfect in that regards and she doesn't need to see him back until after he turns 1. Wow, that's a long ways away to think of that right now. :)
(THE BEAUTIFUL)
Daddy watching the race with Gunnar.
Grandma Babysitting for the first time.
Daddy laying on the floor with Gunnar. Can you see the love?
The three "boys" of the house. :)
Meeting Claudia from Sylvan (I had to pry him away from her when I needed to leave)
Meeting Kristin and Heather from work.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Updates

He is now 7lb 12 Oz. and is 20.5 inches long. Looking at the growth scales if we look at his chronological age - he is at 0.4% (really small and skinny.. lol) But if we take into consideration his corrected age (which would be - BORN TODAY!!! :) he is in the 80%. Doing great is what the Dr. said.


He is actually too long now for preemie clothes. However, the Newborn clothes are a little bit big on him.


Hopefully on Friday - we have our last Eye Dr. Exam for a while. It's very hard to watch them do the exam on him, because he screams because he is scared.


Sometime this week we will do a sleep study. Basically that means we will monitor his actual Oxygen levels for the night when he is the least stimulated. If he can hold them up to appropriate levels - which I believe is either 85% or 90%, then we get rid of the O2 bottles - we are keeping our fingers crossed for that one. If that is successful, we will be able to get rid of the monitor a couple weeks after that. They want to keep him on it for a couple of weeks, to make sure he doesn't have any problems without the O2. To tell you the truth, I've come to rely on that a little as a crutch - so I will need to ween myself from relying on it as well.


He has met a lot of new people... :) Here are a couple of his soon to be new cousins...