@ home

The good news is Mattigan is home.  Doing very well.  She's up to 7# 7oz as of today.

A little reflux so she's on some medicine for that.  It's the world's teeny tiniest dose.

Matti's still got the two holes in her heart (a PFO and a PDA).  Both small.  They should self-resolve.  If not, one is no big deal many people have it.  The other would require a minor surgery (NOT open heart!) around the time she would be starting school.  The murmur(s) were loud enough for her pediatrician to hear today.  This is a good thing.  Weird note on heart murmurs.  The bigger the hole in the heart, the quieter the murmur.  The smaller the hole in the heart, the louder the murmur.  So to go from intermittently being able to hear it to being able to hear it each time is actually a good thing.  (Are you shaking your head?  :)  I am.)

Matti passed her vision screening so she doesn't have to return until 6 months.  Then they screen for cross eyes, lazy eyes, etc.

Let's see...anything else... She's started sleeping a little longer at the beginning of the night.  Then still wants to be fed pretty frequently.  So she should start sleeping through most of the night soon.  I figure just about the time she starts teething. :D

Mattigan doesn't track you too much with her eyes yet.  But she does look for you when you talk.  And she has started to take a swing with her little fists at the toys that dangle above her crib.  She can REALLY scoot herself in circles like a little inchworm.  You put her to bed and come back to find her head where her toes used to be.  She also grunts and makes a lot of noises.

Her eyes are changing from the baby grey blue.  They were originally what I think of in crayola crayon colors as 'stormy seas'.  And now they seem to have a brown/green to the centers of them. Daddy's eyes are really pretty blue and green in the center.  Mama's are gold brown with green to them.

So overall Mattigan is basically at or beyond the newborn stage.  Matti's personality gets clearer by the day and she is even more fiesty and full of it than we originally thought.  She's pretty sweet and loves to cuddle.  Her favorite sleeping spot is tucked in on her belly to your chest.  And she absolutely knows my weakness is when I read to her at night and she looks up from her meditative drooling to gaze with those big baby eyes as if to say, 'That's it?  Read another book to me Mama.'

The bad news is I've lost track of keeping up with the blog.  I don't intend to stop blogging.  There's a lot of people in the family not on facebook who do like to look at this.  But I need to figure out a better way to upload photos. (C'mon, admit it.  I know that you're here for the cuteness not my witty repertoire.)

So don't abandon hope.  I will get more on here!