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Brady is 2 weeks old today. The time for her to finally come home cannot come fast enough. She’s up to 3 pounds 10.75 ounces and 16.5″ long. Yesterday they opened the lid to her incubator and were gauging how she tolerated room air. She runs warm like her Daddy and is doing so well regulating her temperature that she’s in a regular, open-air crib today! At her 2:00 feeding they just decreaed the amount of time she’s eating to test how she does. So right now she’s finishing up 33ml of milk over an hour and a half. If she does well with the faster feeding, then they’ll write orders to keep her on this schedule.

As Casey posted earlier, he’s back to work this week so I’ll be coming alone for the first visit on weekdays. Now that she’s in an own crib it’s much easier to pick her up and lay her back down when I need to pump. My mom showed up right as I was preparing to pump for the second time so she wasn’t in her crib for long at all. I’ll probably stay for another hour before heading to Target, going home to make dinner, and then coming back with Casey this evening.

Hopefully tomorrow I can get Brady set up with a pediatrician and maybe we can get our infant CPR class completed.

On Christmas Eve we were asked if we would consent to letting one of the nurses take pictures of Brady in a stocking.  Well we *finally* got those pictures back a couple of days ago.  So here is Brady at 3 days old and quite red from being under the bililights but looking super cute nonetheless.

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Brady deep in thought?

Well we made it home safely, we weren’t pulled over by the cops or run off the road by drunks so all is well.  We got to see a bit of fireworks on Pike’s Peak from Brady’s room… well at least I did, Kelly was holding Brady.  The sparkling cider that we brought, while well appreciated was a disaster.  It turns out that the brand that we purchased ‘Martinelli’s’ has a bottle cap instead of a cork.  Having never purchased sparkling cider before, we had no idea.  And of course nobody at the hospital had a bottle opener on their key-chain or whatever.  Bah.  Oh well.

We took a few pics that I will post tomorrow morning when we get up and around.  Most of them were dark because Brady was sleeping most of the time, so no great faces this evening.

I may try to put a dent in the achievements to receive the Audi R8 on Midnight Club tomorrow.  I’m currently 2 of 12 of the items needed.  Maybe I can make some progress on the whole this weekend.

Ok off to bed.

Oh and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

(and a happy birthday to my Dad OMG 60!!!!)

After dropping my Mom off at the airport this morning we went and spent a few hours with Brady.  She is doing well and is up to 24-Cal feedings, though she is down 5 grams from her previous weight.  Hopefully tonight she is up a bit.  We also got to put some clothes on her for the first time today, so no more nekked baby.  She looked kind of shocked when we put it on her, we will see if she is still wearing it when we go back this evening.

We are heading back over to the hospital at 8:30ish this evening and are going to ring in the New Year as a family.  Hopefully we can see the fireworks on top of Pike’s Peak from Brady’s room.  Kelly informed me today that this is the first time that we have been here in the Springs for New Years in quite a few years, as last year we were in Austin, the year before that in Las Vegas.  She thinks 2003 is the last time we may have been here at this time.  Weird.

I have been thinking about picking up a Netbook for working and being a little more mobile around the house.  The HP makes a great one called the Mini 1000, its a 10.2in widescreen display, comes with an 8gb or 16gb SSD and 1GB of memory (when you order from the HP site).  I have been watching a few YouTube vids of folks doing boot time testing and app performance and it looks pretty solid.  Although I may wait until next month when they are expected to release a Linux version with 2GB of RAM stock.  This will probably be cheaper considering the liscensing costs for a Microsoft OS and then I can just wipe it and put my VLK copy of XP Pro on there.  Then again I could see if I can convince my boss to just cough up the cash for a new battery for my work laptop and carry that beast around the house or to and from the hospital but somehow I doubt that will happen.  I also saw a video of someone that had loaded Windows 7 on their HP Mini.  That may be the ticket since they are releasing Beta1 next month.

Anyway.  Here are some pics that we snapped of Brady this morning while I was holding her and after we dressed her in her onesie.  I imagine we will have more pics from this evening that we will post either when we get home or early tomorrow am.  Oh btw we went and bought some sparkling cider to take to the hospital for us and the nurses on duty this evening.

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