Friday, October 3, 2008

The newest member of our family - Kaia Marie!

Kaia - one day old!
Happy Mom & Dad with baby Kaia

Kaia is Norwegian for "earth" and Marie is honor of her Italian roots.


Kaia - 2.5 hours after Mom came out of recovery



Proud Papa & Kaia, only 10 min.

She isn't sure about leaving Mom's nest



Tim spent the first hour with Kaia in the nursery--calming, soothing and comforting her


She really loves sucking on all her fingers.

Thank goodness, I finally was able to cuddle her.

She is so tiny--at only 6 lbs. 2 oz. and 19 3/4 inches!


A very proud grandpa holds Baby Kaia

Chloe, Kirk and Dutch check out the nursery.

Great-Grandma CJ's knitted dolls waiting for Kaia to come home.


Grandma D made this for Kaia's nursery


Letting my co-workers that I would be gone.


My dear friends at work decorated my desk with Grandma and Grandparent books.
In addition, tons of them wore pink to work in honor of baby Kaia and shared yummy pink frosted cookies and wonderfully scented pink roses!
What special friends...

1 comment:

Gail Schaar said...

Hi Jen and Tim!

Congratulations on the birth of your beautiful baby! I would love to catch up with you sometime after you've settled into your new life.

Gail Schaar
(my mom forwarded your mom's email announcing the good news)