Not much has been going on here. Just the same old thing: John eats, he sleeps (but not in the middle of the night), he cries, he plays. We weighed him before his bath on Thursday night and he weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces, which means he has gained almost 2 pounds in the 4 weeks we've had him home from the NICU. (He weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces then). He's still wide awake during those three hours in the night, but last night he fell asleep on his own in his snuggle nest, without needing any rocking or cuddling, and this afternoon he fell asleep in his downstairs crib (the Pack-N-Play). So that is an improvement. We've also seen more purposeful smiles (not just gas) and also he has started making more baby noises. John's vocal cooings used to be just gutteral sounds, with a lot of grunting, but he has started making more 'typical' sounds, aahs and ooohs, which is nice to hear.

Yesterday we took John by my school so I could work in my room for a little bit. Didn't get much done- my room was moved at the end of last school year, and since I wasn't there to do it, everything just got sort of dumped (I was just moving from one side of a partitioned room to the other) and nothing was organized. Plus, some stuff is still in the other room, so that poor new teacher moving in there had to work around things in the closet and workroom, unfortunately. I'm going to go back up there a couple of days next week to try to organize and set my room up, since during Pre-planning we really don't have much planning time, it is almost all meetings and trainings, ugh! The few teachers who were at the school were very excited to see John. My principal tried to enroll him in Kindergarten because he is so smart, although he's not that smart: he tried to nurse on one of the teachers who was holding him. It was funny.

Today I think we are taking my car to the shop. I need an oil change. It hasn't been three thousand miles since my last one but it has been 4 months. It actually hasn't even been two thousand miles. I had my oil changed right before I went on bedrest, so my poor car hasn't been driven much. I also need to have something else done, I can't remember what, something about the fifth cylinder misfiring- the 'check engine' light is on and we had a free diagnostic run at Auto Zone (they'll check anybody's for free and tell you what is wrong). So I have to do that.

Today's pics: a couple of pictures of John in his Snuggle Nest, waking up after a nap in his downstairs crib