Jack is doing well -- his new word is APPLE! Although I don't think he knows exactly what an apple is, it's still way too cute when he says it.

We saw Jack's eye doctor last week. He said Jack looks good and doesn't need glasses at this time. We talked about the visual field cut to Jack's right side and both agreed it's still there, but he compensates very well. He asked me if I felt Jack was using one eye more than the other and I told him yes, I felt Jack used his left eye more than his right and the doctor agreed. So we were instructed to patch his left eye several hours a day to make the right eye work harder. So far Jack doesn't like it at all. I actually have to put mittens on his hands so he can't rip the patch off (see attached picture). I've been able to get about 2 hours a day so far. Later in the evening seems to work better than first thing in the morning.

I recently sent out an e-mail about honoring Jack thought the March of Dimes. If you'd like to visit Jack's preemie page through the march of dimes copy and paste the following link.

http://www.marchofdimes.com/howtohelp/b.asp?band_id=761

Jack also had to have blood drawn to see if his level of Tegretol is in its therapeutic range. We haven't gotten the results back yet. He HATES getting blood drawn and I hate it too. Poor fella.

Up until this week we used to rock Jack to sleep at night while we watched tv...however lately he squirms and tries to get down to play so we decided it was time to put him to bed on his own. The first night was horrible! He screamed and screamed for 30 minutes (which felt like 30 hours) it broke my heart in pieces but I knew it had to be done. Jack likes to sleep to music so I remembered seeing a little music player that had a little projector in it to show pictures on the ceiling -- I ran to wal-mart yesterday and purchased it. BOY WHAT A DIFFERENCE! Jason and I put Jack in his bed at 9:00 and turned on his little movie and music player and told Jack it was night night time and to have a good time watching his movie. The boy didn't make a PEEP! Although we went in to check on him before he was sleeping -- BIG MISTAKE! He cried for a few minutes but then fell fast asleep. My little baby is growing up -- he doesn't need mommy to rock him to sleep anymore!

I noticed this week that the website owner (babababies) added some nifty things to their websites. Now you can comment on each individual journal entry AND I can add pictures to each journal entry. NEATO!

We are loving the warm weather!! Jason and I got Jack a neat jogging stroller (because he's getting too long for his small stroller) and we all love it. It's 'souped' up with all kinds of things...it's like the Cadillac of strollers! I'll have to get some pictures of Jack in it.

I hope everyone is doing well. Time to put Jack down for his nap (which unlike night night time, he's been going down for naps on his own for almost a year now)!