September 4, 2013:

I was unable to finish my post on Sabbath afternoon for some reason. I've already forgotten. Robert was off the rest of the weekend, so we seemed to keep ourselves busy with having family time. Robert actually got to see RJ in his better morning moods. By the time he comes home in the afternoon/evening RJ is more tired and fussy. His golden fussy time is between 5-8pm before bedtime.

I was in the middle of telling my story from Sabbath when my blog page ran out of space to write. Anyways, Robert got soaked having to repark the truck and bring in the diaper bag. RJ and I remained relatively dry under the big umbrella I'd found at Meyers. I forgot to mention to bring in the milk bag, so once the rain stopped he went out for that. It's easier to pre-mix RJ's bottles since it has to be to a specific calorie count. I have to mix 8 ounces at a time in a big bottle. Currently he only drinks about 3 oz at a time. Anyways, RJ was super alert during Sabbath school taking everything in. By the end he was hungry. I had brought the bottle warmer this time since we were going to be at church longer. He ate great and then ended up falling asleep during church. As the sanctuary was clearing out RJ started getting hungry again. So I went to the back of the sanctuary and plugged in the bottle warmer. I'm sure it was quite the site, me holding the bottle warmer heating up the milk in church. Oh well, what we do for our picky children. :) I'm hoping our next child won't need the bottles and extra warm milk if we do use them. That NICU spoiled our child... Later in the afternoon we were able to take a family nap in our bed. It was fantastic!!!

Last evening right before Robert came home RJ and I were sitting on the couch. He was nawing on my fingers and would stop and stare at me intently. Then he would go back to nawing. He kept doing this back and forth. It was quite funny and I was laughing. Robert came home and walked over to say hi during the staring part. When Robert said hello to RJ, the lil guy let out a super loud scream. It was the craziest thing. He calmed down and eventually went to daddy. Wish I knew what that lil guy was thinking. :)

RJ has started this naptime routine where he will fall asleep in my arms after feeding and rocking. I'll get ready to place him into his bed. As soon as I start walking away he will open his eyes and just stare at me and smile. I'll pick him up and he will act like he's falling back to sleep again. He's a mess. He's currently making all sorts of grunts and wiggling around after only a 30 min nap. Yep, that's his new routine. He will at some point look at the monitor and bat his eyes. What a mess. So much for being productive.

I don't remember if I mentioned that I finally finished going through all of RJ's pictures from the time I went into the hopsital till he came home and through some of his major vacations this summer. I put them into a shutterfly book and it is now finished being edited. Whew... I briefly went through the book I made from the time we got pregnant through Christmas. Little did I know that I wouldn't be able to make a second pregnancy/delivery book. Crazy what life throws our way.

I feel very blessed to have such a special lil boy. He's changing every day and growing into such a cutie. We don't know what the future holds, but I'm enjoying every happy moment we have now. I feel very blessed to have the opportunity to stay home with him at this point. I wouldn't want any other person constantly taking care of our lil boy.

Well Robert is on his most difficult month of residency, cardio-thoracic anesthesia. He has early mornings and late evenings. The good thing is he's off most weekends this month, so it makes it more bearable. He's a good man and works hard. Love him to pieces. :)

Once again thank you so much for all the support, love, and prayers. They are all paying off. Our lil man is growing up so big. He'll be as tall as me before we know it. Ok, he's to the whinning stage now. Enough of self entertainment. I must go. :)