Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Six Pounds!

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Big stretches!

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“Jeez Mommy, get this teddy bear off of me!”

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“Can I take this stuff off yet?”

He got really upset when the nurse changed his leads. And he weighs 6 lbs 3 oz now!

LEGOS

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We found some LEGOS on ebay that were just too good of a deal to pass up.

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She loves her blocks. She especially likes to break the things Mommy & Daddy build.

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Goofy girl walked across them instead of just going around.

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Daddy made a LEGO robot.

Ryker’s Room

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Bath Time!

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Kynzie still loves bath time and has even gotten over having water poured over her face. I can’t get her out of the bath until all the water is gone. She waves and says “bye bye water.” Tonight she was intentionally looking away every time I took a picture.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Get Me Outta Here!

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Ryker was being extra squirmy, pulling his cannula out as usual.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Five Pounds!

Our big boy made it to five pounds!

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Getting a bath from nurse Kathe.

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Snuggling with Mommy to warm up.

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He was exhausted from the bath and wouldn’t latch on for very long tonight. But he took 18ml (about half an ounce) last night. He’s a strong little chugger! The doctors are saying 2-3 weeks until he can come home..

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Eating All By Herself

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Kynzie insists on eating all by herself these days…always asking for a “gork.”

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Can you believe she almost ate this entire cup of fruit?

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Snuggles

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Ryker’s favorite place to be is on Mommy’s chest on his tummy..

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Kynzie Pumping

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She did this all by herself. She even turned the pump on (although she didn’t have the tubes connected so it didn’t work). I thought it was too funny…

Peaceful Baby

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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Words!

I wasn’t able to get her to say many…she can say a ton of words now…but here’s a few…

Monday, March 1, 2010

Big Boy

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He’s always trying to pull his cannula out.

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I wake him up every time I change his diaper or get him out.

They’ve moved him to the “big boy” side of the NICU and decreased his cannula settings a bit. He weighs 4 lbs 2 oz and we are starting our first attempts at nursing.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Kynzie’s New Room

After finally growing tired of a living room floor covered in toys, we decided to re-do Kynzie’s room. She has always loved her room, but the way we had it set up wasn’t exactly play friendly. A few trips to Ikea and a paint coat later, this is the result.

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She got a table and chairs and a new easel!

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The toy organization is also a new addition.

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Kynzie really enjoys having a space that’s all hers.

Kynzie loves this little vanity set. I don’t know where she learned what the “lipstick” is for. She is such a little girl.

Our Big Boy

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Ryker is getting so big and stable. He weighs around 3 lbs 11 oz now. Since he’s been put on high-flow nasal cannula (which happened  around 11 a.m. yesterday), I was able to get him out of bed and put him back by myself. He’s having an easier time regulating his body temperature so they’ve been leaving his isolette top up. 

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I decided to share with Ryan.

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I was so excited that since he’s no longer on CPAP that I could change his hat. So handsome in his matching robot hat and pajamas.

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Ryker is bigger than the teddy bear now!

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He’s doing really well holding the pacifier in his mouth. Hopefully we can start attempting to breastfeed soon.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Sliding At The Park

I think she did this at least 10 times.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Salsa

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We went out for Mexican food and Kynzie couldn’t get enough salsa. She wasn’t even eating the chips, just using them as something to lick salsa off.

Clothes!

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I was surprised when I saw that Ryker was dressed today. And out of all the clothes in his drawer (a family donated a large amount of new preemie clothes to the NICU and about 4 outfits went to Ryker), she coincidentally picked the only outfit I had left in there. I put it in there 4 or 5 days ago and didn’t tell the nurses because I felt kind of silly about it. I was just hoping that if they dressed him soon maybe he could wear it because it is a super cute outfit. Look at how big this preemie outfit is on him! He weighed 2 lbs 15 oz yesterday so we’re hoping to break the 3 lb mark today.