{Samantha: Week 1}

Samantha had a great first week. She's adjusting real well. As for me, this has been a challenging week. I am bursting with joy on how blessed we are to have two wonderful kids and worrying on the other hand with the news of my Dad being admitted to the hospital that same week. Lots of testing being performed and we continue to pray for his recovery.

Big brother William is doing great. He adores his baby sister. Not a day has passed by where he has not given Samantha a good morning kiss. Samantha now gets a kiss first before me! I can see him being a protective and loving big brother to her. Amazing too that he fully recognize that family is Daddy, Mommy, William, Manta (that's how he says her name) and our dog Riley :)

Ed's doing great as well. I have no doubt that he'll be a great Dad to our kids. He's extremely helpful and spends a lot of time taking care of the kids and me :) He absolutely adores his baby girl and his baby girl adores him too! I can see Samantha turning into a Daddy's girl.But for the time being, since I am her "food supply", she is a Mommy's girl :)Samantha has had a couple of weight check up. She didn't loose much weight from her birth weight but our doctor wanted to make sure that breastfeeding was going great. My milk came in a lil later than normal. On her 10th day, she weighed a whooping 8.05 lbs. Doctor was extremely pleased with her progress. She also advised me that I can let Samantha sleep through night and let her wake me up if she wants to be fed. That was music to my ear :) She would sleep 4-5 hr stretch at a time. Glorious! Here's Samantha's first doctor's visit photos.

Last weekend, we also had the pleasure of having Aunt Sonny, Gigi, Sara and Kelsey visit us. It was great to see all of them and we were so glad to be able to spend some quality time with them. Samantha is extremely lucky to have adoring aunts and a loving great grandmommy.

William of course was ecstatic to have family in town. He was so excited to get goodies from everybody and play with them.