Is It Summertime Already?

Susanne was so grateful to have such awesome parents. First of all, Gigi helped her with some of Paxton's overnight care. Gigi learned to disassemble Paxton's NG feedings just like Colleen did the other night. This helped Susanne to get more sleep than she normally did, which was so desperately needed at this point. To top that off, Gigi and Poppy spent all morning cleaning the house while Susanne completed some of the things on her to do list. Poppy even spent some extra time scrubbing off the snarf that had accumulated on her windows from the dogs. He definitely had to put some elbow grease behind that.

Gigi thought that it would be good for Susanne to get out of the house and do something mindless like shopping. Susanne liked this idea. Poppy volunteered to babysit Paxton while the girls went out on the town. When they returned home, they realized that Poppy and Paxton had a busy afternoon. Poppy had read Paxton some books, played with some of his toys, took a nap, and walked around the house. Paxton decided to reward Poppy for all of the fun by having three dirty diapers within less than two hours. Way to go Paxton.

Later in the day, the nurse stopped by for another evaluation. Poppy videotaped the entire visit so that Scott could see everything that Paxton had done and how brave he was. The best news of the day was that Paxton had continued to gain weight. He currently weighed 7 lb 10 oz. According to the nurse's last recorded weight, this was an increase of 4 oz. The fact that Paxton was having normal stool and he was gaining weight were both good indicators that he was doing well on the breast milk. Hallelujah!

Luckily, everyone spent most of the day inside. This was a good thing because it reached well into the nineties later in the day. Who would have thought that you could get actually get sunburned in April?

Everyone topped off the evening by eating shrimp tacos and watching American Idol.