1 Month Old!

We can't believe it, but Thursday is already Luke's 1 month birthday! A whole month full of days that sometimes felt like years themselves and gave us quite a few gray hairs, but here we are. We couldn't have done it without all of you and of course the amazing doctors and nurses in the NICU at the hospital.

Luke's week so far has been pretty typical for him, lots of ups and downs on the ventilator settings and we learned a valuable lesson about not focusing so much on the individual numbers, because it will and has been driving us crazy. Instead we're focusing on the little victories, for example, he's up to 5ML's of milk now and increasing each day. We found out today that when they eventually get him up to 20ML's, they can start to wean him off of his I.V. nutrients. He did get a visit from Santa on Tuesday, but it was a quick one as Luke was having a bad morning when he came by. We got to see a lot of the other parents bring their babies out to pose for pictures with Santa, which was sort of hard to watch, but we were happy for the parents, many of whom have already been there for a LOT longer than we have been and need those happy days just as much as we do.

He's about 1 lb, 14 oz now and looking more "mature" each day. We'll make sure to let everyone know when he cracks the 2-pound mark.