Happy New Year

I hope that everyone has had a fabulous start to the new year. We have accomplished many things during Kyle's week off, but of course the list is never ending. We were able to get a somewhat better family shot and spend time playing with the boys.

Nathan

Nathan has been very busy this week. He has been slowly starting to bottle again, but the two weeks around Christmas he was just very aggressive and seemed very very hungry. So this past Wednesday after throwing up his feeding tube twice, I looked at Kyle and said since he has been bottling somewhat consistently over the past 24 hours what about just leaving it out. We decided that since the tube causes irritation and he was very aggressively wanting to suck on anything lets give it a try. So far so good. He has bottled and taken his meds orally since Wednesday. He fell asleep with the bottle in his mouth Wednesday night.



He still sleeps very welly anywhere during the day. Now that we have bottling taken care of hopefully we can work on sleeping during the night. He prefers that I hold him instead of him laying on me now. Hopefully that is a step forward in sleeping on his own.



We decided this week to try Nathan in the Exersaucer because in the Bumbo he just lets his head fall back. He hasn't played with the toys yet, but he does hold his head up and look around more. Yay!!!!

Jacen

This is our final week of new veggies. Here are two pictures of him trying sweet potatoes for the first time.



Jacen has enjoyed playing with all the new toys. Daddy is showing Jacen how his new doggy works. Jacen loves when it says his name.



We are still practicing sitting up. We have a very content child who doesn't care if he is on his back or sitting up or or on his tummy. Hopefully he will get interested eventually.



Bryan and Larisa from San Angelo came to visit the O'Briants in the hospital and stayed with us. Larisa enjoyed spending time with the boys.

Story Time

I try to make make sure that we read books every day. Nathan wasn't really interested in the books but rather enjoyed studying the Bumbo. Jacen wanted to touch and hold the books while I was reading.