Anyone still watch ER? Well one of the story lines this year is one of the doctors, Abby, having a preemie baby. Oh joy. Not sure how I feel about this one. Anyways, a lot of what I’ve seen so far of the storyline is like a real condensed version of life in the NICU, so they are getting a lot of it right (on further watching, they definitely didn’t get it right), which makes it that much harder to watch. Oh how I miss the George Clooney days.

Update: Okay, I’m writing my comments as I watch the show:

1. Wait the baby is barely surviving and then 1 week passes and he’s a feeder and grower! Ugh, I’m beginning to hate this show more.
2. The “Quiet Please” sign. Classic. I saw a lot of mom’s put signs like that on their baby’s cribs (including mama Kaufman). The NICU can be such a LOUD place.
3. Abby’s comments about “Have you checked the mail lately“. Ugh, we still have mail issues. In fact the post office stopped delivering our mail this week and I had to go down to the post office to have it redelivered. Have I told you all how much I hate mail and everything that has to do with mail? Last week we had some prescriptions sent to us in the mail. It came in a box that didn’t quite fit in our community mailbox. Our mail woman jammed it in there so tight I had to go get a knife and carve it out. I left the box in the mailbox because I couldn’t get it out. She threw it on our front door the next day, but she couldn’t have knocked on our door to say we had too much mail? What happened to the days where we knew the name of the person who delivered our mail. Oh wait, that was before my time, but still!
4. Son of a bi…The baby now has NEC and was rushed into the OR. I now officially hate this show.
5. Abby chastises her mom for making the “Quiet Please” sign. How ungrateful!
6. What? The baby is already out of surgery and the NICU? That was quick. Wait a minute Abby’s holding him with no tubes or leads? The baby is already wearing baby clothes? Okay, I’m done with this craptastic show. I’m only watching Grey’s Anatomy for now on. Update: Apparently there was some text flashed on the screen saying “2 months later”. I’m still done with the show. Now if I can figure out how to tell Tivo I don’t like this show anymore, I would be golden.

So much has happened since our last big post. Well not really. Let’s see, Paige is definitely have some sight issues with her right eye. We are totally bummed about that. We talked to our eye doctor about when we patch Paige’s good eye, she freaks out. It looks like she might have CVI. Basically the brain doesn’t make the right connection to the eyes. The big problem with this diagnosis is we just don’t know what she can and can’t see or how well she can see since she can’t let us know. That is probably the most frustrating thing about this. Sometimes you look at her and trick yourself into believing she can see you just fine, but can she? It’s actually really difficult to tell sometimes. That’s the thing about CVI, she might be able to see some of the time and other times she could have some sort of visual impairment. We are trying to get another impromptu appointment with the eye doctor just to triple check everything. In the meantime we are patching Paige’s good eye for 8 hours a day. Let me tell you, there is a lot of crying in our house nowadays.

Remember that post about our nutritionist being really concerned about Cole’s weight? Well somehow we now have an appointment with our GI doctor this week. We weren’t scheduled to see him for another month. Our speech therapist is adamant about them not doing a thing with Cole. We shall see what comes from that appointment. Cole’s eating habits have definitely improved over the last month. I can only attribute that to all the therapy Cole has been receiving. Every week he is looking better in better in all things baby.

The good news this past weekend was my parents were here in town from TX. The bad news was Tobie has been super sick since Thursday. Luckily we had the family here to help out because our leader was out of commission. The babies are under sick-watch 2006. Our peed wants us to bring them in at the first sign of trouble (so far nothing, they look and sound great). We had a great time with the parentals. There were talks about us moving to San Antonio to be closer to them. Just talks people, nothing definite. I’m hoping a bidding war breaks out between all the out of state relatives. Yes you can buy our relocation! I might even throw in a baby. I kid I kid (make me an offer). It does suck not being close to a lot of our extended family, but I guess that is life, right? Why you all don’t want to live in AZ is beyond me. It’s a dry heat people.

Lastly, Paige started laughing this past weekend. It happened while we were feeding her pudding. It was hilarious. Unfortunately I screwed up the video I was taking of it, but did manage to get some good snapshots (seen above). I’m totally bummed out about that the lost video though. I have to say there is nothing more infectious than a baby’s laugh in response to your laugh. Why can’t we laugh all day instead of cry? Do you hear me babies? Do you smell what the Eric is cooking?