Jesse Lane

Things are good! We’re all home now and reasonably rested. The kids, including Henry are doing fantastic. Here are some pics and vids for those I promised.

Ada Holding Henry

Here are each of the kids holding their brother for the first time.

Ada holds Henry for the 1st time from Jesse Lane on Vimeo.

Edie holds Henry for the 1st time from Jesse Lane on Vimeo.

Here is Henry awake and active!

Henry: Up close and personal from Jesse Lane on Vimeo.

Henry hamming it up again from Jesse Lane on Vimeo.

Finally, here is another cute, music related video of Ada.

Ada Osbourne from Jesse Lane on Vimeo.

Wow, this kid is pretty amazing already! The only tube he has left in him is an IV for his antibiotics and it only needs to be hooked up when he gets dosed. He gets to wear clothes and be held whenever we want. It’s feeling like we have a baby! Anyway, here are some more pics and vids.

Daddy’s 1st Cuddle

This is VERY Gangsta

Arwen Made Henry a Sign

My Momma Holds Henry

DISCLAIMER: If you are one of those people who have a problem seeing a baby nurse, don’t watch the freakin’ video.

Henry’s 1st Real Meal from Jesse Lane on Vimeo.

Henry’s 1st Bath from Jesse Lane on Vimeo.

Henry is doing awesome! He’s had his umbilical catheters taken out. He’s been weened from Dopamine (this was stabilizing his blood pressure). He’s almost off of Oxygen and he’s finally started to get some of Momma’s milk to eat. Best of all, Arwen finally got to hold and cuddle him (my turn will be tomorrow).

Arwen Holding Henry, 1st Time from Jesse Lane on Vimeo.

He’s also been getting some of his energy back. Here he is having a little temper tantrum. The video is kind of long, but he’s cute enough to warrant exposing the masses.

Henry Temper from Jesse Lane on Vimeo.

Finally, here’s some pictures of the little man.

Chillaxin’: Thug Life

Eye Open

Gettin’ Some Sun

Do I Look Like My Daddy?

Well, I sent Arwen home to get some sleep tonight, so I’m staying here at the hospital with Henry. I’d better get to bed too or my wife will kick my ass. G’night.

Henry is here! He was born yesterday, 07/18/08 at 9:29PM. Other stats include
weight: 7.68lbs. 7 lbs. 6.8 oz.
length: 19.75 in.
cuteness: off the charts

Since Henry seems to be a little impatient and came 3 weeks early he got his own room in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). He appears to have either fluid remaining in his lungs, premature lungs, or an infection. However, he has made some great progress since last night and we hope to be taking him home with us very soon.

Here are some pics of him hooked up to all of his monitors blowing spit bubbles.

We’re crazy tired, especially Arwen who is a baby-pushing MACHINE! Now for sleep, later.

I know I promised more posting, but I tried to upload about 10 vids (totalling about 800M) to vimeo and after working all night, only the first one got through. I haven’t had the heart to try again. Here’s the video anyway. It’s Edie and Ada having fun on a slide at the park.

Slides from Jesse Lane on Vimeo.

I just arrived in Iowa City a couple of hours ago to attend the Dynamic Field Theory summer school. Here is a link if you are interested. I’ll be here all week and I may post some stuff about that. Probably won’t have many cute pics and vids .

I haven’t really been to Iowa City since I left 8 years ago. It’s kind of weird. I’m terrible about remembering how to get places so travelling around town should be interesting. If you read this and live in IC, call me, I may be bored in the evenings. Later.

It’s been a while. I’ve been crazy busy with the end of the semester and all, but now I’m back in the hizzy fo’ shizzy. I just finished a brutal final in Computability and Complexity Theory yesterday. Fortunately, it was my only final. Recovery is going well. I’ve already read an entire sci/fi novel since then! A lot has happened since the last post so I have some catching up to do. A bunch of pics and videos. Edie had her conference swim meet, and her team won! There was all of our birthdays, Easter, and just some fun. Edie also got her first stitches, story to come later. As a hold over, here are probably the best pictures I have ever taken. They make me laugh out loud every time (and Billie Jean pops instantly into my head).

Ada Jackson

Ooh ooh!

Those who know me know that I am prone to a little overindulgence myself. I’m a little overweight, I’ve had my share of fun, and I’m very good at succumbing to temptation when it comes to books and gadgets (Charlie Stross calls this, “losing your saving throw vs. shiny”). However, as I was perusing the wares at the Kum & Go on the west side of Ames today while buying gas, I saw the most ridiculous indicator of something gone wrong with our culture of plenty. I saw a 100 oz. insulated mug!

Hugenormous Mug

Now everyone knows that the beverage of choice for those things is soda (pop). Holy crap! Who would ever need that much soda all at once? I can see how something like that can sneak up on you. Hey, a 12 oz. can is kind of small, I could really go for something bigger, voila, the 20 oz. is born (actually, if memory serves, the 16 oz. old glass bottles came long before this, and probably cans for all I know). One liter, two liters, and on and on. We also have the fountain wars. Cups have been getting bigger for a long time. Places like 7-11 proudly proclaim having fountain drinks with monikers like Big Gulp (at least they did back in the day).

Along the same lines…I saw a Smart Car in the parking lot at school today. I saw them all over the place a couple years ago when I was in Germany. They looked pretty small, even then. Jake has video of him comparing the length of a Smart Car to his wingspan, and they are within inches! In the parking lot next to all of those American cars, it looked absolutely dwarfish. Rather comical actually. I didn’t think to snap a pic.

Well, enough of that.

I’m getting some new glasses. I need a change, plus my old ones suck. The lenses pop out when a gentle breeze hits ‘em. Kevin and I went to Hy-Vee the other day and checked out frames. Here are the ones I ended up getting.

New glasses

It was kind of fun looking at all the other glasses too. Here’s some of my favorites.

I don’t think so, too flamboyant

Wow, these make me look like an old guy, and maybe a bit pervy?

Well I think that’s enough for now. Ada agrees, thumbs up!

This isn’t my kid, but it’s still crazy-cute and funny as hell.

As promised, here is another post and before it’s been a month! These are movies from Edie’s swim meet on January 14th (yeah, I know it’s been more than a month). Edie is the second swimmer in the relay. There will probably be more later since next weekend is her conference meet.

Edie 25m backstroke 1/14/08 from Jesse Lane on Vimeo.

Edie 50m freestyle 1/14/08 from Jesse Lane on Vimeo.

Edie 100m freestyle relay 1/14/08 from Jesse Lane on Vimeo.

I’ve been putting off posting for a while for no good reason. Just lazy I guess. I’ve got a bunch of stuff that I’d like to put up so I’ll probably be tossing something out a little more often, at least for a while. In the mean time, here are a couple little video clips to wet your whistle.

Here is Ada (Dylan) playing the guitar and singing a song that she’s making up on the spot. Pure poetry. My favorite parts are the diva-esque way she makes everyone wait for her to finish her Gummy LifeSavers before starting and the awesome British Punk Rock thing her top lip does at the end. Enjoy.

Ada Dylan from Jesse Lane on Vimeo.

And here is Edie playing around with her new camera trying to figure out if she wants to be like iCarly. The video and audio get out of sync and the audio is kind of quiet, so deal. I do like the whole disembodied face and arms thing. And if I do say so myself, she’s damn cute!

iEdie from Jesse Lane on Vimeo.

***Update: Holy crap, Vimeo is awesome! The original AVI of Edie’s movie had messed up audio/video syncing (thus the apology) and Vimeo fixed it automatically when it converted the file! Bravo.