Oliver is doing wonderfully and is progressing well toward his goal of all oral feeding. Ever since Mexico, he has been eating up a storm. Claudia says he can eat a baby yogurt container in one day, and finish off a baby jar in two days. Plus about 20ml of breastmilk from a bottle. He’s even started on some “stage 2″ foods, which are chunkier in texture. He is eating with enthusiasm, and has some weight to show for it. At his weekly, he weighed in at 15 pounds 13 oz, which is a gain of 6 oz in one week! All this was despite being even more active, and no real increase in feeds, just that he’s eating a lot now. Claudia says he’s pulling up on furniture too, which is very exciting. He’d better not start walking without me there or I’ll have to cut my trip short!

Here are some photos mom has been sending me.

Two cute new photos from Claudia. Apparently Oliver loves oatmeal, now that Claudia added butter to it (duhh!)

Mom sent me these lovely photos today. Thanks mom.

Claudia sent me this cute photo from Mexico. Yes, that’s right, the Yores are taking their first little vacation since Oliver was born! I hear the whole family is eating lots and having a great time.

Here is what Claudia said: “He is resting after playing in the pool. He now has 4 teeth!!! Two up top and two below. He is of course famous around here! Melting everyones heart. Hi Oliver, they all say! Ay que lindo!!!”

I can totally picture that. Oliver loves to make people smile. He is such a charmer already. I’ll never forget one of the first times we brought Oliver back to the Pediatric ICU at Lucile Packard. While Claudia was busy talking to someone, Oliver started smiling at people and pretty soon everyone at the nurses’ station was talking about him and waving and then people walking by stopped to see what everyone was looking at… Oliver just hammed it up, he went from one face to another smiling his big beautiful smile and drawing people in.