Just added a bunch of pictures to a Flickr album, many of which are only visible to family (and only family would want to see ALL the pictures…). Mom and Dad, you can also forward this post to relatives and share pictures of baby Isaac that way.

Isaac Pasden’s Stats:

• Chinese name: 宋坤炆 (Sòng Kūnwén)
• Born: 10:16am, Jan. 20, 2015 (Shanghai, China)
• Weight: 4.185 kg = 9 lbs. 4 oz.
• Length: 54 cm = 21 inches
• 3 years and 2 months younger than Alana (born 11-11-2011)

And now some pictures in chronological order, covering the first 11 days of his life (Jan. 20-31, 2015)… He was in the hospital for 3 days following a strange reaction where his skin on his chest and back got all red, but it turned out to not be serious, and they were able to treat his somewhat severe jaundice at the same time. So that was a rather unpleasant separation, but everything seems fine now. (Thank you, everybody for your prayers!)

Alana is getting along with Isaac just fine; she just likes to poke him in the face a little too much and needs to be reminded not to do that occasionally.

Song Shen started her pregnancy leave at the beginning of January, 2015, and gets 4 months off of work.