A day of firsts

Happy belated Halloween from my little pumpkin (the cutest pumpkin in the patch.) Oliver celebrated his first Halloween by sleeping through most of the trick or treating. It was also his first time in our church on Sunday besides church in Omaha for Annaliese's baptism. Unlike church in Omaha where he slept through most of it, he did not sleep at all during church this week. Oliver likes to be on the move. Whether that be in the stroller, people walking him around, rocking in the chair, riding in a shopping cart or in the car or even just laying on the floor for a short time to kick; so sitting in church he didn't like. So, Oliver and I walked around the halls of the church listening to the sermon.

Oliver has also started laughing. He only does it when he is really tired and just about ready to fall asleep but it is so cute. He'll give you a big smile, then laugh, and then close his eyes and fall asleep. I'll miss all of this when I go back to work in a week from today so hopefully he only has milestones on my days off... yeah right. I'll be mostly working nights so that I can stay on a regular schedule and Shawn will take Oliver to daycare so I can sleep during the day. Poor Shawn will have to get up with him during the night though, and I will have restfull sleep during the day...hopefully. But we're thinking that Oliver will be sleeping through the night here shortly. He's averaging a span of 5-6 hours initially, we feed him and he goes back to sleep, and then always awakes around 5:30-6:00 am. We're sort of getting a routine down with a bath at night around the same time then feeding him, story time, and rocking to sleep.

Monday I took him into the lab again for his blood draw and it was 7.7 so no transfusion needed this time. He's not looking pale and is acting very normal for him, not irritable or fussy.