Five Weeks Old

Everybody's doing great! Jake is up to a SUPER chunky 6 pounds, 9 ounces, almost 3 pounds above his birth weight! The doctor commented last night that if we took him to a grocery store now, no one would know that he's a preemie. I think it's the double chin! Abby is up to 4 pounds, 14 ounces. I can't believe my little girl is almost 5 pounds! She has had some good gains this week so it seems like she's going to start closing in on Jake more quickly.

Bottle feeding is still a work in progress, but we're getting there. Abby has been doing better than Jake at it recently, so she might make some of the nurses' prediction that she will come home before him true after all. She even finished a full bottle for Jeff on Saturday, which they have both done before for nurses who are expert feeders but never for us. It was great! Jeff was so proud that he took a picture of the bottle, which you can see below. In other news, both of them have had eye and hearing exams and everything looks great.

As we told them last night, we're almost ready for them to be home - I made a bunch of meals for the freezer over the weekend, we had our last "date night" at Morton's on Friday night, and we did a bunch of work on the nursery. Pictures of our progress, and some cute ones from the past week including Grandpa Gib holding one of the babies for the first time! are below. Getting closer to coming home every day!