Two weeks!?

I have a baby asleep on my chest while leaning back in my chair....a la velcro baby (says Mike). I really cannot believe it has been two weeks since Chase arrived. It feels like forever ago, but I look at him and marvel at how "old" he is already.

Big sister is in love...she kisses the baby and often wants to bring him everywhere...queue, "I go potty, Mommy....bring Baby Chase!" This is all well and good unless he is hungry and she needs to go to bed because sleeping toddler does not bode well with cranky newborn. She has had a couple of nights where she wanted to play after midnight...so maybe it was her canine teeth coming in or maybe it is some adjustment to her role as only child changing a bit. We'll see...in the meantime she is getting a lot of mommy love and cuddles during the day when everyone should be awake.

Daddy started his job at the new studio a week and a little bit after Chase was born and I've fared pretty well being at home with the two munchkins...the good news is that he no longer has to commute 1.5 hours and only has to drive a half hour...that means two more hours of daddytime a day--woo hoo to that!

Baby Chase...the man you are all curious about...is doing FANTASTIC! At the two day check up after leaving the hospital he went from 4lbs. 9.5ounces to 4lbs. 13.5ounces far surpassing their expectations...and then at the two week check up which was only 6 days later he was up to 5lbs. 7ounces! Momma has some magic milk! The pathology on his placenta also came back and it was a bit swollen (?? normal I guess) and the cord was poorly inserted which is why he is so tiny...major lack of nutrition in utero. We're still following up with the doctors at UMASS Children's to just make sure there isn't something else going on, but everyone seems pretty confident that he is a-ok and will continue gaining and catching up on the growth charts.

Mommy is doing well....but forgot how hard it is to wake up every two hours all night...and it seems as though he needs to burp every feeding (Emmie never needed to) and that is takes about 40 minutes to get said burp out...but they are only little once and I look down at his cute little face and know that before I even realize it I'll be bringing him to college longing for his baby days...so I enjoy this time now.

Well, velcro baby is starting to stir and big sister should be up from her nap any minute now....so I'm off. I'll be back with more pictures soon, though!