Isaac's First Pieces of Clothing - PINK Socks!!!

Jong and I got a surprise when we arrived at Isaac's incubator today. Our macho little boy who already knows how to hold a real fist was wearing BIG, FURRY, FUZZY and VERY PINK socks! Apparently, his body temperature was a little low and the nurse decided to keep his little feet warm but they must not have blue socks. He looked so funny and cute as the socks were waaayyy too big for him. Plus the diapers are also still waaaayyyy too big for him. LOL!!

Yes, he thought it was real funny too!!!

We also spoke with Dr. Ishii. It seems like Isaac's surgery for his PDA will probably happen sometime after Thursday. His infection is getting better but they want to make sure its completely gone and he is in a really good condition. He has also lost a little bit more weight - he weighed 766 today. It seems like the few days of scaling back to 10 ml and then 11 ml per feeding affected his weight. But he is now back to 12 ml so we are hoping he will start gaining weight again. Isaac looked really sweet today as he slept.

The picture below is from last night. I don't know why the nurse did this but she used a alcohol-soaked cotton to wipe the pacifier and then basically immediately gave it to Isaac (I caught her doing this as I was walking towards the incubator when I first arrived). Isaac REALLY didn't like it (I am guessing it tasted horrible!) and tried to spit it out. I took out the pacifier as soon as I finished sterilizing my hands with alcohol and waiting for my hands to dry from the alcohol. However, we still thought he looked really cute with his face all scrunched up. Later on during our visit, I finished pumping milk in front of Isaac's incubator and then we decided to steal out the pacifier and then I expressed some of my milk onto it and put it into Isaac's mouth. You should have seen how peaceful and calm he immediately looked after he got a taste of my milk!! We asked today if we can do the same thing (without disclosing we did it already) and Dr. Ishii said we could dip a Q-tip with my milk and let him taste my milk. We are hoping that they will really do so when he gets fed because I want him to associate getting milk in his stomach with the taste of my milk.
I REALLY like weekends now that I started working again. During the weekdays, I literally have no time left in the day since by the time we get home from work and our Isaac visit, its usually already 9 pm and we wouldn't have eaten dinner yet. Now that my parents are gone, we will be eating dinner out (or taking dinner home) so it will even be later before we get home. After we get home, I still have to pump and Jong and I usually both have to pick up a bit of work again before we go to bed. On weekends, there seems to be so much more time even though it still zips by because its already Saturday night! :)

Hope you all have a good weekend!

Sonia