Today is n’s 3 week birthday. We are having fun gradually getting to know him. Here are some random observations:
He has really light eyebrows.
He has a dimple on his left cheek.
He gets the hiccups multiple times a day. (He used to get them a lot in utero, too).
He doesn’t like baths or diaper changes.
He has a seemingly endless appetite.

While we were in the hospital with k, n continued to quietly reach some milestones. His umbilical cord came off on Friday. We gave him his first bath on Saturday. (He didn’t like it). Also, he managed to go from 7 lb. 4 oz. on Thursday to 8 lb. on Tuesday!

I can’t believe it has been a week since n was born. It simultaneously seems like a short and long time ago. On Friday we took n to his first doctor’s appointment. He had lost a good amount of weight since my milk had just come in the day before. (The same thing had happened with k). I wasn’t as worried, since we had previous experience with k. However, when we got home, my mom brought k over and told us she had noticed k had a rash. I gave her some Benadryl and thought things were OK, but the next day, it was still there, so D brought her to the doctor. Long story short, k has been staying with my parents since Sat. since she has some sort of virus, and we don’t want n to get sick. I feel bad because I want to spend time with k, especially since she hadn’t been adjusting very well to n coming home. I can’t wait for everyone to be healthy and thriving so that we can all spend time together. Meanwhile, D went back to work today–his time off flew by really fast.

D is passing these mini tubes of mini m&ms at work today as birth announcements, in lieu of cigars 🙂

If you’re not part of our family or facebook circle, you might be wondering if I’m still pregnant, nine days overdue! Well, the good news is that baby n finally did come out on Monday, six days past his due date.

Here are the stats:
Nathan Kenji Lim
March 16, 2009
6:41 p.m.
7 lb, 11 oz.
22 inches

D took this picture of n being given a bath in the nursery.

n’s forehead was bruised coming down the birth canal (sorry if that mental image grosses anyone out). One nurse called them “stork bites”. They are already significantly lighter, and hopefully will disappear soon.

I think n looks a lot like k when she was born. Here his eyes are actually open.

k has been having a difficult time with the adjustment this far. This was the first picture she would let us take with the baby. (She was wearing her Cal shirt in support of their debut in the NCAA tourney. I guess it didn’t work.)