6 Weeks

I know it has been a while since our last post.  At the NICU you leave the babies and then come home and have plenty of time to do the post.  Well its not like that at home, home meaning our house in Ocean Springs.  Jill and I have really been busy.  The boys have been at our home for 6 weeks now!  And they are growing like a weeds!  We do not get weights everyday like we did in the NICU so  I started weighing myself without a baby then adding a baby and taking the difference and thats their weight.  Probably not the most accurate way but it gives us an estimate.  Last Sunday Emerson weighed 10lbs 8ozs, Brayson weighed 11lbs 8ozs, and Cooper weighed 10lbs 2ozs.  Yes they are all over 10lbs.  Quite an accomplishment from just weighing 3lbs at birth. 

When we left the NICU the boys were eating at least every three hours on the hours of 2, 5, 8, and 11.  Now they are eating every four hours.  They go to sleep around 9pm every night and then they sleep for six hours.  Yes six hours!  Then when they wake up we feed them around 2ish and put them back down for another 4 to 5 hours.  So they usually wake up around 8ish and we feed them every four hours throughout the day.  As far as how much they are eating.  When we left the NICU they were eating around 2ozs per feeding.  I remember how excited I got when Brayson started eating 3 ozs in the NICU.  The nurse called him a hog instead of a pig.  Well all three of them are now eating almost six ounces at every feeding!

Jill, Gran, and I have not been getting much sleep since coming home.  Mostly because of the monitors the boys came home with not the babies.  Yes these monitors that tell us when the boys are having a heart rate drop go off quite frequently.  Not because the boys are having a heart rate drop but mostly because a lead is loose!  Saturday night we were up a lot because of Cooper's monitor was going crazy!  Jill would get up, I would get up, we both would get up!  These things are LOUDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!  However first thing Sunday morning we called and got Cooper a new monitor!   The monitor was the problem!

The boys are so excited!  They are going on their first road trip this weekend.  They are getting to go to Oxford to see their first Ole Miss football game!  Not only that they are getting to stay with Gran and Da Da for a little more than a week!  Gran is excited to see them because she had to go home last week and go back to work. The boys are not to excited that dad has to come back and go to work for a few days though.  We are leaving to go to Oxford first thing Thursday morning for our first road trip!  Hotty Toddy!

Our family, friends and church family have been awesome through these first six weeks as well.  Our church has set up a website for our members to go to to bring us a meal twice a week!  I think I have put on a lot of LBS with all this fantastic cooking!  Not only have they been bringing us good food but they also have brought us diapers and books for the boys. It has been great and we really appreciate it!  The Rotary Club of Ocean Springs gave us almost one thousand diapers and twenty one hundred wipes!   Thank you all for your support and prayers during this wonderful time in our lives.

Check out these pictures of our growing boys!

Emerson, Cooper and Brayson

Emerson sporting his Ole Miss outfit

Dad and boys waiting on mom to warm up baby bottles

Brayson

Brayson and the Coopster