Amelia's First Play Date

Amelia and Zia together, but totally unaware of each other!

Amelia - Two Weeks Old

Amelia alert and bright eyed!

Amelia's First Dip in the Pool - Two and a half weeks old

Amelia's first swim...more like dip! We probably spent more time taking photos than we actually did in the water. We just couldn't resist after we put her sunglasses and sun hat on! Too cute for words, really!

Amelia's First Swim...

Thank you to my first grade class last year for this cute little swimming suit, which was part of an incredible gift basket put together by the parents. I have been dying to put it on her!

I love the size difference!

Look how cool I am in my shades! (Thank you Jen, BK, and Anthony!)

Don't you just want to kiss my chubby cheeks?!?

Blowouts and Burps

Amelia is now 2 weeks old and everyday is a new discovery. She is becoming more alert and showing more and more personality by the day. We have been doing our best to break free of the house and do the things we enjoy. Amelia has gone for power walks in her stroller (yes, I am a huge power walker who swings his arms, wears sweatbands and can power walk 1 mile in under 6 minutes), has been thrown in Liz's sling and taken out to lunch, and tomorrow we hope to get her in the pool. I have to say that we are adapting well to parenthood. Today Liz took the brunt of a diaper blowout on her pants, and then moments later a sufficient quantity of milk was burped up onto her shirt. We laughed, cleaned everyone up, and still went out to lunch at a nice restaurant.

Welcome Amelia!

As nearly all of you know at this point our daughter was born this past Tuesday (October 5) at 9:10 pm in Jakarta, Indonesia. Amelia and Liz are doing extremely well. We are back at our home and Amelia is adjusting to her new environment with relative ease. Every moment is absolutely amazing and we cannot take our eyes off of her. Here are a few pictures for you to enjoy.

From Bump to Basketball!

Here we are at 36 weeks...quite a change from my little bump this summer!

We had a check-up yesterday and everything is right on the mark.

There are more photos of Baby Haske's room and some of my nesting projects - like making reusable wipes - at this link:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lizhaske/HaskeBaby?authkey=Gv1sRgCM3x5djS-46QqQE#

Enjoy!