In 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

Leo's coming home Wednesday! THIS WEDNESDAY! As in 3 days from now!!! We just got the word late this morning. Presuming nothing calamitous happens in the next 48 hours, he's all ours starting Wednesday morning. We're going to do our overnight "room in" on Tuesday night and then that's it. See ya later. Nice having you here, but now it's time to go. My head is spinning. I can't believe it's going to be here already...already, as in 9 weeks later. But still! We've gotten so used to everything that it's really almost overwhelming to think about him being home! What do we do with him? When do we change his diaper? Before he eats? After he eats? When he wakes up? How exactly does this whole parenting thing work?

So he's off the feeding tube, as reported yesterday, and doing great on his on demand feedings. I think he took upwards of 70ML at one of his feeds earlier this morning. Craziness. AND he's off the oxygen! They took him off of it yesterday afternoon and he's doing great so far with it.

So we'll just be normal, boring, crazy parents of a newborn in another few days. Nothing special anymore. Can't wait. We will have lots of follow-up doctor's visits, to figure out the kidney issues and anything else lingering. But it's all outpatient stuff at this point and nothing that's keeping him from going home.

So I'll be heading outside in a few minutes to do some last minute gardening/weeding (cause who knows when I'll do that again!!) and we're installing the car seat today (car seat test for Leo will be tomorrow likely), and we're wrapping up a couple outside projects as much as we can too. And making a run for nipples...never thought I'd say that...cause I have lots of bottles but forgot the nipples. Awesome. And, and, and.

Stay tuned for what I'm sure will be several frenzied posts about our impending change in parenting status here over the next few days...Yay Leo!!