Together again at last

Today was full of fun stuff. We gave the babies their bottles this morning, and then Kathryn had her oxygen removed completely, and they got moved into the same crib!

Russ and I spent the day shopping at a nice mall in Atlanta. We both needed a day off, and I found some very cute baby clothes at Janie & Jack and Oilily (on sale, too :-). It will be a little while before they grow into most of them, but I couldn't resist. There was another store there, Strasburg Children, with absolutely precious outfits, but about the only things they had in these babies' size were their doll clothes so we'll have to check them out again when they get a little older (or mail-order from their catalog).

After dinner, we went back over to the hospital to give them their night time bottles too. Kathryn moved her feeding time up by a whole hour by being cranky and fussy and HUNGRY. We tried to settle her down, but the pacifier just made her mad when no food came out of it. Meanwhile James fell asleep again and didn't really want to wake up to eat, but once Russ got him started, he did fine. They're both sucking well and finishing their bottles in good time. They are also emitting some tremendous burps for such tiny creatures. It's hard to believe there could be enough gas in them to make those noises!

Kathryn is still having quite a few bradys, maybe due to the reflux. It doesn't seem to be getting any worse with the bottle feedings, but it needs to get better before we can go home. James is doing much better with those, he only had a few last night and today. Otherwise they're making great progress, and several of the nurses have commented that it won't be long now before they're ready to head home. They have been very good babies so far, but they're starting to be awake more, and aren't entirely happy with the NICU's 4-hour feeding/diaper schedule.

We also heard from the lawyer's office that the interstate paperwork that has to be approved before we can take them home has been sent on its way and should be back (it has to go through some approval process in both states) sometime next week. We're hoping it all comes through in time, because neither we nor the doctors want these little ones to spend any time in a germy hotel room.