jules update

He is practicing sitting up unassisted, working hard to pull his knees under while on his tummy in preparation for crawling, and busy figuring out how to hold things with both hands and pass objects from one hand to another.

He is doing okay on his eating without an ng tube. We are highly concerned that while he is taking in the required calories, he is not gaining weight. We will find out thursday.

We scheduled his upper GI study and surgery preparationg assessments for the weeks following this eating challenge.

With scott's parents here to watch over gigi this weekend at their hotel and Gigi's babysitter watching Jules, we went out to celebrate our anniversary with a yummy dinner at Canlis and the first movie since November when the trauma therapist advised us to go to the movies to escape the NICU and we tried to watch James Bond but couldn't even concentrate and just kept calling the ICU for updates. It was really really nice. A glimpse at a normal life and we loved it.

Joy