Still No Feeding Tube

It's been a week since Jordyn pulled out her tube and so far so good.  There are definitely some bottles she doesn't finish but overall I think she's doing pretty good.  I spoke to our Kids on the Move nurse that comes by once a month and her opinion is that Jordyn knows she doesn't have to finish her bottles because I have always pushed the remainder through her tube.  She needs to realize that whatever she takes is all she's going to get and then she'll stop being lazy.  It made sense to me.  I've kept all the feeding tube supplies but I'm hoping I won't ever need them again!!!

Playing at the Park

New Halloween Shirts

Weights

Jordy pulled out her feeding tube on Sunday morning so I'm going to leave it out again and see how she does.  She seems so close so hopefully this time she can pull it off.  I weighed the girls today and Addi weighs 12 lb 7 oz and Jordyn is 12 lb 2 oz.  We're gaining weight and doing good!  We'll keep our fingers crossed that the feeding tube is out for good!

Halloween Pillow

Tiff made Rylee a Halloween pillowcase and gave it to her yesterday.  She loves it.  She had to bring it out to the Living Room with her this morning while she had her cup of milk.

Today is Bert's birthday and he went to play cards tonight with the guys.  Peggy helped me take care of the kids.  Bert puts Rylee to bed every night so she didn't want me to do it.  She finally crashed in my bed around midnight.  It was a long night!  :)  Bert had a lot of fun, though, so it was worth it!

"Boo"

Drew was saying "Boo" to Jordyn and it made her smile.

Follow-up Clinic

The girls had their first NICU Follow-up Clinic today.  Our appointment was at 8:30 so Mom came over to the house to take care of Ry and help get the boys all ready for school.  Bert and I took the babies to the clinic.  The girls saw the opthamologist and then got their measurements taken.  Afterward we saw the Pediatrician and then the Nutritionist.  There was a lot of waiting in between so we were there all morning!  The girls were tired and ready to go home!  We ran into a couple of other NICU babies that were born around the same time as we were so it was fun to visit with the parents and see how big the babies were now.  I told the nutritionist that we are almost done with our freezer supply of breastmilk so we are going to start mixing it with the Neosure and get the girls used to the formula.  After we use up all of the cans of Neosure, (which I have a lot of because my Nurses sent me home with so many when we were discharged from the NICU and because I was able to get some for free because I have twins) she wants us to switch to Good Start Nourish which will be easier on the girls stomachs.  We are supposed to use the special Preemie formula until their birthday and then we can switch to whatever formula we want until their adjusted birthday in May.  It's going to start getting expensive now!