Come see Caden/Open House!!!

Michelle and Dan would like to invite you to an Open House/Come See Caden Day! If you are reading this message, then you are invited! We will be having the Open House on Saturday, March 24^th from 1pm to 5pm. Come see our “new” home and visit Caden. You are welcome to bring your family and children as long as they are feeling well and healthy. No need to RSVP, just stop on in during those times. Please email us at dtackland@gmail.com ormichelleackland@gmail.com for our address and/or directions.

We are also planning a baby shower. If you would like to be invited, please shoot us an email ASAP. We are registered at Babies R Us (we aren't picky about brands on MOST items, just registered to give people ideas). All three of us look forward to seeing you soon!

And now for an update...

Caden has been doing GREAT at home. He is up to 7 pounds, and sleeps for 3 hours at a time at night. His eye specialist said his eyes look perfect (preemies tend to have eye issues, especially if they were on oxygen for any length of time), and his pediatrician said he looked perfect at his 2 month check. He is doing everything a newborn should be doing, and about half of what a 2 month old should be doing. His measurements are all in the 0-4 percentile range compared with other 2 month old babies (I wish they would compare him using his adjusted age AND his actual age).

March of Dimes

Caden and I (and possibly Dan) will be walking in the March of Dimes walk on 4/14/12. We would love to have you join our team and/or support our walk! Unfortunately this is also the Saturday of the MCC sale, but we plan to do both (this may be a bit ambitious for a 3 month old, but we'll see)!

www.marchforbabies.org/michelleackland

Home sweet home....depot!

It's true! We spent last weekend (Feb. 25-26) packing up and preparing to leave the hospital. The official orders were made Monday morning, and we left that afternoon. The only slight hiccup came when his nurse told us that insurance wasn't approving his medicine (caffeine to keep him from sleeping too deeply and forgetting to breath), and that a 20 day supply would cost us over $1600! Luckily, after a phone call to the insurance company, we only had to pay a $10 copay.

The doctors wanted us to break up the trip so Caden wouldn't have to spend 16 hours straight in a car. We spent a couple nights in Chicago visiting family, a couple nights in KC visiting friends, and a couple nights in Grafton, NE visiting more family before arriving home early this morning (Sunday the 4th). Caden did very well in the car, and has been eating even more than he was in the hospital. He wakes up to eat every 2-4 hours, and spends the rest of his time sleeping.

We know many of you would like to see him (and we would like to show him off), but we need a couple days to get settled in before we accept company. We are still planning to have an open house, and will work on setting a date for that ASAP!