We've Survived Two Weeks!

On the one hand, the last two weeks has just flown by, it's hard to believe that we've already survived this far as new parents. Then again, when baby Cassie is inconsolably crying in the middle of the night, it feels like it has gone by very slowly! The next week should be an interesting test as Carrie's mom heads back up to Auburn, and we're on our own with John back at work. In other news, we are in post-production for the next edition of our DVD. Let us know if you'd like to receive a copy.

Check out pictures from week two.

Night Feeding Video

We feed the baby about every 3 hours, 24 hours a day. Thought it might be interesting to some to share a video of one of the late night feeding that John does with Cassie. The 1 hour feeding is trimmed down to just about 7 minutes of highlights. Special bonus, a buttastrophe caught on film! The sound is pretty quiet because it's the middle of the night, you may want to turn up your volume if you want to hear everything.

Wow, What a First Week!

Wow, what a week! Baby Cassie's first week was eventful, fun, educational, and filled with tons of visitors! She had visitors every single day of the week, both at the hospital and at home. It's fun visiting with everyone! We're starting to settle into a regular schedule when Cassie cooperates. Carrie has had the chance to get out of the house and take a field trip to Target (w00t!). John's been able to get out of the house to even play softball for a bit. Nana's been cooking up a storm keeping everybody very well fed. Pops even descended upon the house with a carful of Costco bounty to host a barbeque at the house. Nobody's going hungry, that's for sure. Here's some pictures from the first week.

Sleepy, Stinky Sweetie

We're about halfway through our first week with the baby, and everybody's starting to settle into a routine. We're certainly running into our fair share of speedbumps along the way, but so far so good (knock on wood). Cassie, we've discovered, has a sick sense of humor. She's a sleepy newborn, which makes all of our visitors think that she's just an angel. So far, John's been taking the late night feedings (between 1:30-3:30am) to try and let Carrie get a 5-7 hour block of uninterrupted sleep. Ironically, Cassie has been 2 for 2 in choosing that feeding for her stinkiest buttastrophe each day. Here's some links to share:

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It's been wonderful having so many friends and family come to visit and meet Cassie. Thanks to everyone who's taken time out of their busy schedules, it certainly helps us maintain our sanity to touch base with the outside world from time to time.

Baby Cassie's First Video

For those who won't be able to see baby Cassie in person, we took the opportunity to shoot a little video to share. This is a rare moment when she is both 1.) awake and 2.) not screaming. After the first day, she's had a few moments where she's alert and looking around, and it's been really neat to see her take in the world.

Welcome Home, Baby Cassie!

We got discharged from the hospital today, both mom and baby checked out healthy. Cassie came home in her stylin' Ferrari-red carseat and didn't peep the whole time, just taking in the outside world for the first time. She loves her room, loves her bed, loves the decorations mom put up, and even let mom take a nap for a few hours while dad and nana took care of her. Firsts today: bath, buttastrophe, new outfits, new swaddling blankets, new hat, socks, mittens, bottle.

Ridiculously Good Looking

"I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is." -- Derek Zoolander

Today, Cassie had recovered a lot from the enormous effort of coming into the world and was much more alert and awake than yesterday. She took the opportunity to work on her breastfeeding skillz. We discovered that, like mom with chicken on the bone or shellfish, she gets pissed off when she has to work too hard for her food. We also discovered that, like dad, she's a little narcoleptic and sometimes falls asleep while eating.

Introducing Cassandra Jane Wei

Cassandra Jane was born at 1:35am early on Father's Day, happy and healthy. She's 7 pounds, 6 ounces, and 19 inches long. Both mom and baby are doing well. We are at Good Samaritan Hospital for the next couple of days and happily taking visitors. Please give us a call if you'd like to come visit the baby at the hospital or at home when we check out.

Carrie has officially started labor!

We made our first trip to the hospital very early this morning at 3:00am after Carrie had had contractions for about 4 hours, but were sent home because she far enough along. We were just admitted officially on our second trip to the hospital and Carrie is working on bring Sparkle into the world.

Scheduled: Monday, June 16

Carrie's doctor has decided that she will be ready to have the baby anytime next week, so we have scheduled her to check into Good Samaritan Hospital on Monday morning at 7:30am. Of course, if she goes into labor before that, we'll go before that. But Carrie will definitely be in the process of having the baby by this coming Monday. Stay tuned to this blog for the latest and up to date news about Baby Sparkle. You can subscribe to the RSS feed by clicking the "Subscribe to Posts (Atom)" link at the bottom of the blog. This will allow you to add it to your iGoogle or My Yahoo page, and automatically be notified of new updates without having to regularly check the blog itself.

Two Weeks or Less

We are now inside the two week window. Carrie is officially on maternity leave, our overnight bags are packed, the nursery is all setup, all the baby appliances have fresh batteries. It's just a waiting game now, everybody's on-call 24/7.