1 month

Ian you are 1 month or 4wks and 3 days old today (however you want to look at it).

You are 21in long, and I'm going to guess about 9lbs based your 2wks appt weight of 7lbs 3oz.

You have made the month of January fly by which is pretty hard to do when you live in the midwest and the weather sucks this time of year. You spent the first 4 days of your life in the NICU due to a multi-tasking issue of breathing, eating and swallowing all at the same time. You have since mastered that skill and added peeing and pooping into the mix. Good job multi-tasking is a great life skill. You can also eat staying fully dressed, in the beginning we would have to strip you down to your diaper in order to get you stay awake and keep eating.

This is a good thing I was getting worried that I would be sending you to school w/a note about some strange condition which requires you to strip down to your boxers (yes I'm going to assume you're going to wear boxers) in order to eat. Good job on overcoming that issue.

Now as much as we disliked not being able to bring you home 48hrs after birth the NICU did get you on a routine/schedule whatever you wanna call it of eating every 3hrs which now has become every 4hrs. You are also up to 4oz or sometimes more at a feeding. Which means you have come a long way from your NICU days where a good feeding for you was about 17-25ml (in english that isn't even an oz. an oz is 30ml). So good job on picking up the interest in eating.

You are also out of preemie clothes which who would have thought having a daddy that is 6'6" and was 10lbs at birth and a momma that is 5'7" and was 7lbs at birth that you would need preemie clothes?!?! Well your parents weren't ready for that one so some shopping had to take place for preemie and newborn clothes. You still don't quite fit into all newborn clothes either. Needless to say you have the quite the wardrode and you also have quite the shoe collection to sport as well. No pressure with the 3 pairs of basketball shoes or anything but your momma and daddy don't want to work forever:)


Here you are with your 0-3mos wardrobe there are more items hanging on the dresser behind me.


In the last week or so you started spending more time awake and taking in your surroundings. You recognize my voice and daddy's voice your not quite following us with your eyes just yet, but you will with time hey you were 3wks early. You only have about 12in of visibilty right now. During your awake time we do tummy time to work on those neck muscles.


For the most part you tolerate bathtime, in the beginning we weren't filling your tube up with enough water but now I think I have it figured out now so bathtime should become enjoyable for you.


You went on your first of many road trips and did great. You very rarely cry and seem to have adjusted to being in the world quite well dispite your early arrival. You still have a head full of hair, at birth you had blonde tips and the nurses in the NICU were very jealous of this, your hair is now more of a strawberry blonde color. You have big dark blue eyes and we're anxious to see what color they turn.

Ian, your momma and daddy love you very much your are truly a gift from God.

We will have to work on getting more pics of the 3 of us, this is the only one we have, yikes.