Answering Prayers and Taking some Time

David has really been growing up!  He's getting better at his tummy time.  He tolerates it much better and does an excellent job holding his head up.  He can sit in the bumbo now for a lot longer, and him flipping over from tummy to back has become much more consistent.  He may not do it EVERY time you do tummy time, but he is better about doing it at least once a day.  He is also OBSESSED with his hands and sucking his thumb.  He loves gnawing on it every chance he gets.  He will suck a paci, but he definitely prefers his fist and thumb.  I just keep thinking about years from now....you can throw out the paci, but you can't throw out your thumb!  Then I think about how my mom said she sucked her thumb until she was 10 and I hope thumb sucking isn't genetic.....

I thought he was still in 0-3 month clothes, and it was a surprise to me last weekend that he can now fit in 3-6 months.  I am so happy my chunk monk is growing like he's supposed to, but I am nervous he is not going to fit into any of the cute outfits I bought for him to wear this summer!!  I assumed he would be wearing 3-6 mo in warmer months. Hopefully since he's short it can maybe buy us a little more time in all of the 3mo bubbles I've spent money on!

We haven't had any doctor's appointments in Jackson for the month of February.  This marks the first month since January 2012, that I haven't had to make at least ONE trip to Jackson, if not more.  Of course, come March and April, the appointments pick back up and we head back several days in each of these months for follow up appointments with various specialists.  I continue to pray that at our April follow up with our NICU docs, we can get off the oxygen and actually start getting out of the house a little more.  I'm sure David is looking forward to seeing more of the world!

It is continuing to take some time to adjust to being at home.  Mainly for me....David and Charles are just fine!  I was so focused on survival for so many months, that being home and working and trying to re-establish some sort of social life, is proving to be much more difficult than I thought it would be.  You think that when you are struggling to survive all those months, that all you need to do is come home, and then everything will be back to normal and as it should be.  What you don't count on, is how all those months of trying to survive change you as a person. You are not quite sure HOW you are different, but you just know that you are.  It's difficult trying to figure out this new person that has been left behind from the wreckage and how to make that new person fit into the old life from before.  You are different, but everything else is the same.  A very gray area.  Regardless, it will happen and everything will eventually fall into place again....it just takes some time!  And for my extreme-planning self, more time than I anticipated or had scheduled into my calendar..  

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I randomly stumbled on this today and it reminds me of my continued prayer for healing for David.  He has been doing so incredibly well, and I know the Lord is continuing to answer our prayer for health and healing.  The answers are not over night, or on my timeline, but they are coming in the Lord's way.