So its been a while since we've posted anything. We've been a bit busy again. Thankfully this weekend we have some time to recooperate.
Ezra has been growing a lot. He's about 9lbs 12oz now.
Kelly's wedding is this next weekend, so that will be a good excuse to get away from everything for a while. We'll just see how long the drive takes us. Who knows, he could sleep the whole way...... right..... :P
Enough talking, onto the pictures:
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So we haven't really posted anything for a week, but we've been a little bit busy, though I can't imagine why :P
Its been a decent amount of work with Ezra, but he's a good kid, and relatively calm (except when he's hungry, then he gets really excitable).
Susan's parents were able to come out for the weekend of the 4th, and that was nice to have 4 more hands around the house to help with everything. Of course, Ezra got a little spoiled, since there was always someone holding him the whole weekend. He's slowly getting used to not having someone hold him all the time. The first day after they left, he would fall asleep with Susan holding him, but then just wake right back up when she tried to put him down so that she couldn't do anything. That's pretty normal though.
He's been gaining weight fairly quickly. He's gained almost a full pound this last week and is an inch taller than he was last week. Not bad huh? He's awake a lot more now too, and starting to notice things around him a lot more.
Liz, Brian, Gwen, Aubrie, and Valerie came to see us today. It was nice to see them, and we'll probably see more of Liz & Brian and their kids since we're all out in AZ.
Ezra got to come home on Tuesday. We've been a bit busy with him, so posting anything has kind of taken a back seat to everything else. Everything is fine with him now, there's just one more test that they were waiting on results from, and nobody seemed overly concerned about it, so we'll see when they come back.
He's done a good job of keeping us up at night. He seems to be especially alert between the hours of 2AM and noon. Hopefully we can get that to shift a bit so that it starts at more like 6 or 7, but we'll see. Regardless, its been nice to finally have him home. Constant trips to the hospital kind of wear on a person. He's gaining more and more coordination everyday, which is interesting to watch.
Just a bit of an update. Everything is going well with Ezra. We expect him to come home early this next week. Everything seems to have resolved itself with him. He hasn't had an IV or anything in for the last few days, they've just been monitoring him. They switched him completely to breast milk today, which I think is welcome for him. He sleeps a lot, actually he seems to almost always be asleep, except when he wakes up and is hungry. When he's hungry he sticks everything he can in his mouth: his blanket, his hand, your hand, a pacifier, etc.
So, his hair has a definite red tinge to it, we'll see if it ends up being like Susan's or if it is more of a strawberry blond. His eyes also seem to have developed a greenish tinge, so we'll see about that too.
Well enough about that, here's some more pictures:
Hello, Shawn here again...
Now we've both been able to hold and feed Ezra! YAY! He wasn't quite so adamant about eating today as he was yesterday, but he still ate some and seemed to really calm down. He seemed really curious about everything around him, and spent some time looking around all over. It felt so good to be able to hold him, and feel him in my arms. It especially felt good because last night he had been fairly fussy when I had been in.
Actually, he's been being pretty fussy recently in the evenings. I think that he's seen what its like to be held, and doesn't like just laying in his bed anymore. Either that or the formula they've been giving him hasn't been agreeing with his stomach, or something like that. We'll see. At any rate, he's been active throughout the day. He's managed to pull some of the electrodes off of his chest, and also took the visor off of his eyes (he's still under the UV lights, so they cover his eyes with a visor to keep him from hurting them).
I also was able to finish coloring and arranging a picture that I had drawn a little while back that we're going to take to him tomorrow. It looks like this: 
Well, it mostly looks like that. My printer and monitor don't quite agree on the shades, so in print it is a bit darker, but I thought that it actually looked better that way, but that's okay. I hope he likes it (not that he'll probably notice it for a couple of years, but hope that he likes it then)
Ezra wanted to say hi to everyone:
