One Month (plus a week or two)

We missed Carson's one month milestone two weeks ago. We were kind of preoccupied with other things. So his one month picture isn't very accurate, but will have to do.

At Carson's 6 week check up yesterday he weighed a whopping 9.5 pounds. I was shocked when the doctor told me, and made her reweigh him to be sure. When we were admitted to ICU on January 18th they weighed Carson and said he was only 6.8 pounds. Then he was only being fed 10ml an hour through the NG/NJ tubes for a week.... I think they had to have made a mistake. There's no way he lost so much weight so fast, and then gained so much weight so fast! Anyways, Carson has been making up for lost time... all that kid wants to do is eat, eat, eat! Good thing I have a freezer full of breast milk to supplement him with as I can't keep up with this porker!

Carson has also started to smile! He gave his very first smile to my mom the day after he was extubated and we were still in ICU. He gives the best smiles, they're super funny. His whole entire face lights up. I have been trying to catch a picture of one, but he never gives you any warning and they don't last very long. I'll keep trying.

Katie and Logan are happy to have life back to normal. Katie loooooooooves her baby brother and is always begging "Let ME see Carson!" I can't turn my back on her for a second, or she'll be giving Carson kisses, bringing him toys (which always end up smothering his face) or shoving his soother into his mouth (whether he wants it or not!)

Logan still isn't very impressed with Carson. But again, I know that will change the instant he can hold a hockey stick!