Two Weeks Old!!

Emily is two weeks old today! She is getting more and more active and yesterday she gained 40 grams of weight. She's still not back to her birth weight yet but Amber and I are really excited to see her getting more active and drinking more and more, like a pro!

If everything continues to go okay we may have Emily move out of the NICU soon and stay with us in our hospital room at the children's hospital.

Today is paperwork day!! Amber did the lion's share of the feedings yesterday and Brian went around on paperwork errands - picking up extra copies of the birth certificate, copying everything, getting the passport photos re-done and re-re-done, etc. And today is Emily's first road trip - to the US Consulate in a children's hospital ambulance. The consulate insists on doing the DNA test onsite, so the girl is coming with. The DNA test is the catalyst for all the paperwork - the thing that takes the most time to complete, since the samples have to be taken, shipped to Arizona, the test run, and the hardcopy results shipped back BEFORE Emily's passport application can begin. And hopefully we will get the EMERGENCY passport, the one the consulate can issue directly, instead of the permanent one. Then the FRRO exit visa. But today is the day all the paperwork gets into motion.

Riding around in auto rickshaws yesterday there was one fellow who was particularly enthusiastic to see me. Apparently he had driven Amber and a friend around earlier and perhaps had even been a bit cheeky with them? (There is a UK couple here that has me brushing up on my british-isms) I told Amber that she is my sugar-mama, and Emily's, and that's it!



Speaking of the FRRO exit visa, yesterday we said bon voyage to our friend Charlie from Detroit. He and his mom were here picking up his gorgeous son Kavin and we hope they made it out on their flights okay!!! All together it took them almost exactly one month from Kavin's birth to their departure. We are hoping it will be the same or less time for us but the important thing is we have Emily and are enjoying every second with her no matter where we are.