The boys are doing well. They have been continuing their escalated feeding schedule, but it has lead to a net loss of sleep for us at night. Donovan (Captain Chaos) eats in a very chaotic and spastic manner, which leads to an Exxon Valdez-like amount of breast milk spillage all over (1) his mother, (2) his mother’s clothes, (3) the bed, and (4) himself. Its hard to describe, but when he goes in to latch onto Melissa, he shakes his head side to side, in excitement, and doesn’t get very good suction resulting in massive spillage during the feeding process. He also breathes when he is supposed to be sucking, and that leads to massive drippage further spreading the pool.
Hayden, on the other hand, is an amazing feeder. The only problem is that he lets out a breast milk-curdling scream when he wakes up to alert the world that he is hungry. Between the two boys, it makes for an unpleasant start to an otherwise longer and messier feeding process. Could be worse.
The boys had a nice weekend. We planned to take them to Tony and Mollie’s wedding, but realized the morning of that we were biting off more than we could truly expect from them, and Donovan was a little under the weather. Instead, I went alone. The wedding was great. I was very happy for Tony and Mollie, and they had a lovely ceremony. It was great to see the Luedtke boys all in tuxes as well. I was also very excited to see several Appleton buddies including Craig, Bill, Tony, Mike (Gerasimos, Gas Station, Prince etc.), Greg and many others. Sorry I missed the reception, we would have had a good time.
We took the boys up north to the camper on Sunday and Monday. Grandma Sue was up there on Sunday to help care for the boys. Melissa’s sister, Laura, and Laura’s fiancée Scott were up all day Monday as well. It was very nice to be up there. The weather was terrible though, and we didn’t get any yard work done. Instead, the boys stayed inside, except for a walk, and we all watched The Pursuit of Happyness and Invincible. The Pursuit of Happyness was better.
On Sunday, Grandma Sue’s coworker Arlinda let us use her industrial baby measuring scale to weigh the boys. Thanks Arlinda! We were quite surprised at the results. Donovan weighed 6 lbs 6 ozs. Hayden weighed 6 lbs 8 ozs. They were approximately 10-13 ounces less than that when they left the hospital a week earlier. We are very excited the boys are packing on the pounds. Someday they will be on a NutriSystem commercial if they keep this up.
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Way too much information. Seriously.
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