Time to learn the hard lesson of parenting...we are not in control. I should have learned this after giving him birth 10 weeks early, but well, I didnt. Now that the end is in sight, its just a little too easy to plan ahead. Two weeks says the doctor, well Miles has other plans.

Our big issue right now is feeding. Miles started to learn bottle feeding last week. We are no longer doing much breast feeding as the bottle is more important so we know how much he food he gets. So now, once per eight hour shift, Miles gets to try to feed from a bottle. And well, the results are mixed. As I have wrote a few days back, he started out with flying colors and after one try, even finished an entire 40 ml bottle. And now, he is more content with a half a bottle until he knocks himself out. Along the way, he forgets to breathe sending the monitors and his parents into a frenzy. We are assured this is all normal and in many cases, it just all clicks one day. Lesson learned. Its on Miles' timeline, not ours.

Fortunately, he is not burning all of his calories on the hard work of eating. He is putting on weight and now stands strong at 4 pounds, 6 oz or 2000 grams. As he fills out, I think he looks more and more like Dave with blond hair...an interesting combination!