Seven weeks old

33 weeks!

When we got to the hospital this morning, Evan had a whole outfit on. (Pardon the glare on the picture, I didn't want to turn the lights on and wake him up.) He looked like he was ready to shuffle down to play cards with his cronies! 

Look! I'm in pants!

Evan was amazing during bottle time today. He slurped down 20 mL and left 12 behind for the tube. He is doing such a great job of sucking and breathing. He kept his stats up the whole time. Evan also seems to be speeding up the bottling process. The first few bottles took about a half hour or so (and that was for small amounts). Today, he took 20 mL in about a half hour. He is really associating sucking with food. Whenever I pulled the bottle out to give him a break, he'd open his mouth and stick his tongue out. Evan still needs to work on one thing at a time though. He did fill his pants (as usual) so he was not comfortable for snuggle time after he was done with the bottle. He only stayed out for a little bit before we put him back to relax in his house.

Evan tried to launch on Daddy today, but thankfully Andrew was prepared for him. (I somehow managed to "miss" the diaper change - thankfully I had to milk. I think I was up for diaper duty and I'm still a little traumatized from yesterday...)

During our visit tonight, Evan got his thumb in his mouth and was happily sucking away. I hadn't seen him actually suck his thumb. All other attempts have been kind of clumsy, with Evan sucking the side of his thumb or the back of his hand. I knew it was only a matter of time before he got the coordination down. It was so adorable to watch him suck away.

Mm, thumb!

I'm waiting for a video to upload of Evan snuggling with Andrew. He was pretty alert and starting to get hungry. (He was snuggling before his 9 pm snack.) Check back tomorrow for the video. :) Update as promised: http://vimeo.com/77374161

My boys hanging out.