Back To Work.

Here I am right before I went back to work on Monday morning.

Pasha is sick. She thinks she may have caught the flu that Kalani thinks she may have caught from Laura when she was here. We think Josh may have had a bit of it as well last week, but it did not last more than a day for him. So far I have not caught it (knock, knock, knock).

I get a four day weekend coming up (4th of July and we also get Tuesday off as a site holiday). We do not have any plans. We will probably barbecue on the 4th.


Here is a great picture of Jushua Pasha took before she got sick. This was was his most awake playtime so far. Lasted almost an hour.


And here is pic she took this morning just a minute ago...

Weekend

We had a pretty quite weekend. I go back to work on Monday. I was able to get some last minute things done around the house (fixed the doorbell, downstairs light, garbage disposal, unclogged sinks etc.).

Here is what Joshua is still upto most of the time... sleeping.




Josh also had some visitors this weekend. Here is Daniel and Leanne with Josh...



We also got our dog, Bogey, back from the kennel. We had him there because we were not sure how he would be around Kalani's mom (he can be pretty possessive of Kalani and the baby). We figured we would try him back for the weekend. Things went great he seems to love Kalani's mom (seemed to be a bit possessive of her too).

Here is Bogey waiting outside while Daniel visited...

Pasha

Kalani's mom Pasha arrived from Hawaii today. She will be with us for about a month. Due to jetlag she did not have too much awake time today in North Carolina.

Here is a picture of Joshua first meeting his Grandma.





Here is a series of photos I took messing with Josh and my camera. Hey, if the guy does not want to go to sleep in his crib he opens him self up to be messed with :).

Father's Day

This weekend was my first Father's Day weekend. Kalani's sister Laura came back into town to see Joshua. On Saturday the girls took Josh to the mall for his first shopping trip (they are trying to corrupt him early). I however had a nice quite evening at home. It was very nice to just relax for a bit.


Here is a picture of Josh in his shopping outfit.




On Father's Day Kalani bought me a Latin American cookbook. Laura and I made a great Father's Day feast.

Salmon with Tequila Cream Sauce




and Churros (Thanks for the idea Dave, Dan and Rebecca)



We had a great (but short) visit with Laura. Here she is with Kalani and Joshua right before going to the airport.

Araya

Yesterday we took a trip to see our friend Amanda's new baby Araya. Araya was born 2 days before Joshua. When we went to the hospital we knew Amanda had gone the night before. We thought they may both be born on June 9th. Araya came right away on the night of the 8th and Joshua held out overnight.

Here is a picture of Kalani and I with Araya.



And for all the fashion fans here is Josh's visiting outfit (sheep). That is Araya's father Ken holding Josh.



Late last night (actually early this morning) Josh's Aunt Laura came back to visit (she was here for a week and left 2 days before Joshua came). She is here for the weekend so I am sure she will be in the forthcoming posts about our weekend adventures.

Going Home

We finally got out of the hospital about 10:00 Tuesday night.




He met our two dogs. Chloe, our sweet dog, heard one cry and has since tried to stay as far away from Josh as she can. Bogey, our more macho dog, has been super interested in the baby and wants to follow anywhere he goes. The first few times Bogey heard Josh cry he ran around franticly like... what do we do what do we do...kind of like Josh's mom and dad felt!

Joshua seems to like his new home. For the most part he is sleeping away. Here he is chillin' in his CRIB.



Yesterday we had our first outing to the pediatrition. Afterwards we stopped by our friend Eric's. Kalani seems to think Josh is a dress-up doll and changes his outfits several times a day. Here he is dressed up in his Ralph Lauren baby outfit at Eric's.



This is the outfit Kalani picked out for this morning. He tore off the hat within seconds.

Picture Day

Joshua is out of his bili blanket today (yeah). He has another test this afternoon at 5. Assuming this all goes well we will be going home tonight.

With the blanket out of the way, it was time for Josh's official hospital photo. This will be available on the hospital web site.

This was our first time dressing him in non hospital cloths. As you can see not all new born clothes do not actually fit all new borns. Here he is drowning in the first outfit (and oh so happy about it).



We wanted him to open his eyes in the photo as he does here.





No such luck, here is a copy of the final photo. Still cute with the eyes closed.




Here is the official hospital photo (click to see his hospital home page).

Joshua Day 2

Joshua's second day started out great. He had been the perfect baby sleeping in 4 hour blocks, eating, pooping and than going back to bed.

Here is a picture of Joshua on his second morning looking as cute as could be (so his mom and dad say anyway).



Later that morning Josh was taken back to the nursery for further observation. He had some respiratory and other minor health problems from being born prematurely. He was later released back to us.

On his second night Josh was not as cooperative as his fist night. He was not sleeping between feedings most of the night. Leaving 2 tired parents. This morning however Joshua seems to be back to his sluggish ways (not really even wanting to be woken to eat).

They have also diagnosed Joshua with Jaundice. This has made his skin a nice tan complexion (clearly not from is haole parents). This is very treatable and not serious at all if treated. The treatment is to place a blue light next to the babies skin to help process the red blood cells.

He is a picture of Josh with his pimped out blanket (neon undercarage).

Josh's First Day

Joshua Lokahi Bauer was born on June, 10 2005 at 9:11 AM EST. At birth Joshua weighed 7lbs 4 oz (quite big for a month early) and was 19'' long.

The delivery came after a hectic three weeks of Kalani being very sick with pregnancy-induced high blood pressure (pre-eclampsia)- we had 6 hospital admiddsion, ending in 16 hours of labor follow by a primary C-Section. Despite these obstacles both mom and baby are now doing very well. Here is a picture of Josh while we were still in the delivery room.



Here is a picture of Joshua taken by our friends Chris and Dianne when they came to visit us in the hospital.

Picture previously here was removed due to Kalani censorship

Here is Kalani and I a couple of days before Josh was born.

Here is a picture of us from earlier in the pregnancy.