Wednesday PM - From this day forward, I can make no promises about the frequency, length, continuity, or anything else regarding my posts. Grant has been home for just under 24 hours, and already our world has changed. No plans are safe, no schedule is etched in stone. But we don't care! It is impossible to put into words how great it is to have him home. He's a very good baby, and only cries when he's hungry (translation: Heidi and I are late with his feeding), or if he's having a little gas. Both problems are easily remedied. One problem he has from being a premie is reflux, or spitting up his milk. Last night we discovered that as long as we hold him sitting up while he sleeps, he doesn't lose anything. That's fine only it makes it difficult for us to sleep sitting up, but we're working through these minor details. After last night, we've decided to have a night nurse for the first few days until we re-establish our routine.

Today Heidi and I had a "comedy-of-errors" event that we probably won't ever forget. I was in the process of changing Grant, when I started dropping things on the floor. She came over to help me, but was still hooked up to some of the breast-pumping equipment. When she bent over to pick up the things on the floor, breast milk went everywhere. But wait, it gets better. Now destracted by the mayhem going on beside me, I fail to notice that Grant has managed to remove the cloth used to prevent him from spraying during the diaper change. The next thing I know is that he has made himself into a fountain, spraying everything within a 3 ft. radius. Eventually everything was thrown away or cleaned, and we survived what was the first of what will probably be many more of these "event's".

Our happiness at having Grant home is only tempered by the fact that Adam is still in the hospital. The concern of having them in two different places is now reality, and it will take some time for us to come up with a schedule that gets Adam his time. The hospital's child life specialist will spend time with him and some of the nurses also do a little extra when they can. But Mom and Dad need their time too, so it will just be a matter of putting together a schedule (see "schedule" reference in first paragraph). He weighs 4lb 4oz as of last night. The docs have decided to fix his ostomy next week, which means he will be back in the Level 3 NICU. We're a little apprehensive about that as it is surgery with general anesthesia, but all the doctors say he's ready to get this out of the way. Once this is done his growth rate should increase, and he should be on his way to coming home. We're still not sure if he'll come home before or after his heart surgery.

Heidi is out shopping for more stuff, and Grant is starting to fuss for his 6:00 feeding (at 6:15), so I'll close with the hope that I can get the pictures on the Yahoo site before I go to sleep. But remember, no promises...