One Week Later...

Wow. It seems like only yesterday I was in the hospital waiting for our baby boy to make his appearance into this world. Can't believe it's been a week already... also can't believe my baby boy is already a week old. We're so proud of how much progress he has already made. 


It's hard for Jesse and I to believe we're already parents...but we wouldn't change it for anything in this world. We find ourselves driving to the hospital everyday...sometimes twice a day (once in the morning and then again late that night). Each time we go it seems like Gabe has done so much since the last time we were there. He's doing so well. We knew he was...since the doctor's all told us that he was doing remarkably well for how early and small he was. But now, we can even see the change in him. He just looks more relaxed. He's breathing completely on his own now...which is amazing! The other night, when they took the light off of him for jaundice... he just opened his eyes and just stared at us for a long time. I missed it the first time because I had left the room to go to the bathroom. Jesse came out and asked what i was doing and told me that he had been staring at him...so of course i had to hurry and get back in there! He likes his pacifier too. He's just so adorable. so perfect. I got to change his diaper for the first time last night. His little preemie diapers are so small...even too big for him now. Jesse and I look at the other babies in the NICU and at other babies we see...and it's just so hard for us to imagine that Gabriel will be that size someday too. 


Well, that's it for now. It's time to get to bed... our day's have been flying by. So before I know it, it'll be time to get up in the morning and head back down to carbondale to spend the afternoon with Gabriel :) 

6.27.2011