Trouble (maker) In Paradise

Oh, Colin. Already testing the waters. "What can I do next to have the nurses fuss over me?" is the thought that seems to predominate that tiny little head of his. His new trick: pulling out his feeding tube. That's right, our boy seems to have had it with that long tube that goes down his throat and into that little tummy of his. The nurse told us that he learned to do this yesterday, and as we arrived at the hospital, she had just replaced it. We thought to ourselves that maybe as he was "flailing" around that he managed to hook it and it came out just by accident - that is until we saw our man in action! Not 15 minutes later, Colin, thinking that no one was looking, brought his hand up to his face. He grabbed the tubing and gave a small yank! It didn't come out all the way, but not to seem so obvious, he laid back, acting as if he was asleep. A few moments went by, and up comes the hand again, this time giving another good yank. We're at least 2/3 of the way there now, but not to seem too obvious, he appeared to rest again, this now big loop of a tube coming from his mouth. Finally, a few moments later, Colin got a good grip and with one final pull, the tube came completely out! Success! Our boy went right back to "acting" as if he was asleep, kind of like "I didn't do it"! What a stinker. At least he wasn't actually feeding at the time, so the tube was empty - but still!
Though Colin appears to be learning the ways of a trouble-maker, we got word yesterday afternoon that the real trouble-makers are those bad bacteria buggies which had a delayed growth on his latest culture from the 16th :-( Unfortunately, this means that Colin will continue to stay on antibiotics for an additional 7-10 days. We thought we were in the clear as we were so close to getting him needle-free. Overall, this is a minor setback as he is clearly responding to the antibiotics. We just haven't squashed all the bugs yet.
The last bit of information for today was that Colin apparently doesn't tolerate HMF very well. They tried to administer it again yesterday, and he had a good-sized aspirate (food left over in the tube from the feeding). So, in order to get his calories up, they switched him to a powdered formula called Enfamil which he seems to be tolerating to this point. Whatever works, we'll take. Our guy needs to grow, and grow quickly. It's hard to believe right now that he'll make it home by his due date in mid-February which is what the original target date was. That would make it 3 months in the ICN - plenty enough for mommy and daddy, but certainly enough for Colin. Keep your fingers crossed for us! We want our baby home.