Getting ready to move to Minnesota!

For those of you who were wondering, that last blog was written by Jason.  If it is 1:20 in the morning, you can bet that I am sleeping!  To his credit, he has been awesome and taking on daddy duty by himself as I finished up in the office this week and spent some time out saying goodbye to Colorado friends.  He even ventured out with the Baby Bjorn and black and pink diaper bag to take her to a doctor's appointment by himself - her's a picture...feel free to giggle - it's definitely NOT what he thought he'd be doing 5 years ago!

Tomorrow, we are moving to Minnesota!  I can't believe that it's finally here!  We've been talking about it and planning for it for such a long time - we thought it would happen a couple of months ago, but alas, Lucy had her own time in mind!  Jason and I are both ready to move on from this one-bedroom apartment and have a little more space to spread out.  Although, this place worked out great for us this past month as we shuttled Lucy to her appointments.  We are busy packing the temporary stuff that we moved and eating the random food left in the cupboards - pretty sure out last meal will be mayo, prunes and tortillas!

Lucy continues to thrive at home.  She's up to 13 lbs, 8 oz (that is a two pound gain since we brought her home 4 weeks ago!).  And...she passed her swallow study on Wednesday!  That means that we can start to try to bottle feed her.  It is very slow going...she is great a sucking from a bottle, but when she gets liquid in her mouth, she doesn't really know what to do with it so starts to cry.  Our instructions are to try once or twice a day and the thought is that she will eventually get used to sucking, swallowing and breathing at the same time.  We are so excited to be moving her forward with this next skill.  She is also able to roll from her stomach to her back (since she still hates tummy time!) and loves to sit up and look around at the world.  We visited some of our old NICU friends this week and everyone seemed surprised by how well she is doing holding her head up and how big she's gotten.

Just think...our next blog will be from MN!