December Update

Waw, december just flew by! Two big events this month: Luke turned 1-month old and celebrated his first christmas.

Luke's 1-month birthday was a quiet family affair. Luke got an extra helping of milk, a bear hug from dad, and the undivided attention from Papy and Mamy.





For those of you who are interested, we have more pictures of Luke posted here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/asavineau/LukeInDecember

For christmas we headed down to the south of france to see Alex's family. It was great to find some sunshine (though not warm weather!) on our trip. We have a load of christmas pictures that you can view here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/asavineau/Christmas2007


Tomorrow we celebrate New Year's eve with friends of ours. We hope we can make it past midnight!

Happy New Year to all of you - may 2008 bring you lots of love and happiness!

Settling in

On Friday we celebrated Luke's 2-week birthday. In those two weeks, he:

-learned how to breastfeed
-learned to soil a diaper
-learned how to be incredibly cute
-gained an astonishing 35grams/day (that's 1.2ounces for you americans and brits)
-became an american citizen
-had his first pediatric visit
-learned how to projectile pee (he loves to aim for his dad!)

I think we can all agree he's a prodigy! :-) I've posted just a few more pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/asavineau/FirstTwoWeeks


Next week Alex returns to work and his mom will be visiting us for a week. We'll also be celebrating Luke's first St. Nicholas holiday, a Belgian tradition celebrated the night of December 5th. For all of you who are David Sedaris fans, check out his story on St. Nicholas "6 to 8 Black Men"; it's hilarious. http://filebox.vt.edu/j/juvandyk/pics/6to8blackmen.htm