Biggest Surprises

This morning at breakfast, CD asked, "CT, what is the biggest surprise since you've been here?"

My answers:

1. The whole deal with the bottles. I guess I thought clean bottles got dropped off by a stork once a day. But they do not. The bottles and their parts have to be handwashed, air dried, sanitzed in the microwave, and put in a bucket. WOW
2. The importance of the burp. I knew you were supposed to burp after a kid eats, but you really have to make sure they burp!
3. The amount of breast milk Chris has saved. Those of you that have been reading for a while have seen the photos and know that breast milk had been transported back to the hospital and to other homes due to the power outages in Louisville. But here's the reality: until a few hours ago, there was breast milk in five places. FIVE DIFFERENT HOMES! CD is quite proud of her breast-milk hoarding skills. So you can imagine her sadness when she had to discard this much milk today. 

The reason for the discard: between Chris' c-section and car accident, this milk was laced with Percocet. The neonatologist said that if Chris didn't have to feed this milk to the kids, don't. Even though she has plenty in the remaining four homes, she was still sad to see her hard work go to the trash.