Antonization

First of all, do not underestimate how much Brett Favre is part of WI culture and how much they miss him over there. I'm watching the Twins broadcast tonight on which WI tourism advertises for fall. The music for the ad is from the Bodeans--a WI band--and the announcer says to the couple compelled to visit WI after fall's first leave arrives "Go have some fun out there!" The same phrase that every color commentator from Beasley Reece to John Madden used to describe the play of Brett Favre. He's omnipresent! You can't get away from him, Sconsers!
We drove up to Zimmerman this afternoon for a visit. The leaves are noticably more colorful up here than in Edina.
We looked at baby pictures of Anna. Anders has some pure Anna looks. I thought from first sight that he has Anna's eyes, which has only been reinforced by these pictures.
Anders had his first of three sets of immunizations today. Tomorrow he will have the other two. He also has his monthly brain scan tomorrow. That's a weird sentence to write. I'm 29 years older than Anders and I have never had a brain scan or spent a night in the hospital for that matter.
Anders is still hovering at 5 lbs 1oz. He looks a bit more mature in the face, however. His forehead is getting bigger, which is pushing his hair back. Unlike his father he is not losing his hair (in no small part Anders' doing), but it is literally being pushed back by his growing forehead. Also, his hair looks like it's turning strawberry blond on the sides. It's starting to look a bit strawberry blond all over. Anna's hair looked a bit like that when she was a tiny baby. Also, that hair color ran in the family of Anton, Anna's great grandpa. He really is Anna from the eyes up and me from the ears and below.
They moved him down to .75 liters of O2. He is at about 23% O2. I imagine that they will have to move him back up to 1 liter tomorrow after all of his shots and scans.
We can introduce Anders to the bottle whenever we want. I think we may hold off tomorrow since a lot is already happening, but we will probably try on Friday when he hits 36 weeks. At 36 weeks Anders moves into the date range where he could be released. He will not be released for a while, but it's nice to know that time is around the corner. Bottle feeding him, we are told, will help him get out of the hospital more quickly. He's up to 42 mils of food every 3 hours.
All in all, Anders keeps chugging, slowly progressing.