Welcome Lelu Mae Horvat!

We are thrilled to introduce our new daughter, Lelu Mae Horvat ("Lee-loo")! She was born on July 14, 2012 at 9:44pm. She is 7lbs 14 oz and 19 inches long. Luka was the same weight, but beat her on height at 20 1/2 inches. She is perfect! She is a very sweet and alert baby and we can't wait for you to meet her. Her birthday is extra special since she shares it with Tajalli's grandfather, Gramps.

Mommy and baby are doing great after 3 1/2 hrs of intense, natural labor. Luka is very excited to be a big brother. We will becoming home from the hospital tomorrow. Feel free to check out our family blog: http://horvatfamily.blogspot.com/ for more regular updates. If you are not yet subscribed, just let me know and we'll add you.

The hospital had a resident professional photographer who took some pictures of Lelu and us when she was 1 day old. Click here to see a quick slide show (note if you are accessing via smart phone, it may not work). http://www.our365.com/NewbornPortraits/BabyDetail.aspx?birthid=b6e0f9c7-03e0-421b-b6f9-82086a8c463d&utm_source=wnshare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=wnshare_mom_babylink&utm_campaign=wnshare_button

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Thank you for all of your prayers and support.

Hi! Wanted to share her name: Lelu Mae Horvat!

Contractions are intense now. Headed back to the hospital!

Baby update

It's been an interesting day! Once we arrived at the hospital, they took us to triage and ran a bunch of tests. They did confirm that my water broke. Around 8am they said we could leave, go for a walk, get breakfast, etc. since I wasn't in active labor. At this point my contractions were 4-5 minutes a part. They suggested coming back once my contractions were more intense and frequent.

We went to breakfast, most likely Tim and I's last breakfast alone for a while. Then drove back to the hospital, parked our car and walked to College Ave. We shopped around for a while and even decided to see a movie at 12:30pm since things hadn't really progressed much. The movie was terrible, but at least we weren't in the hospital. We both tried taking a quick nap. Who would have thought we'd have a date night while in the middle of labor!

We then went back to the hospital around 2pm and luckily had a wonderful nurse, Tanya, who discussed all of our options with us. If we had been admitted, they would have wanted to give me pitocin in a couple of hours to get things going. Since we didn't want to be induced, we decided to come home.

We got home around 2:30pm and are just trying to lay low until things get more intense. Hopefully, she will come soon!

My water broke at 4am and we arrived at the hospital at 6:30am with contractions every 4-5 minutes.

Almost here

Wow, we have really ignored our family blog. My hope is to do a better job maintaining it moving forward.

As you all know we are patiently waiting for our daughter to arrive. We are now 3 days past her original due date. Luka was born 2 days after his due date, with the help of an acupuncture treatment to get things going. Today at 1pm, I'm going to get a treatment and we will see what happens. Our hope is to avoid being induced, so it can be as natural as possible. We shall see... We cannot wait to meet her!

Luka, who is almost 3 1/2 years old now, seems very excited about the arrival of his baby sister and often likes to give her "squeeze hugs" and "nose kisses." These have both become good night and good bye traditions in our family. His behavior has also been quite challenging and I'm sure its a combination of his age and also the uncertainty of what his life will be like once she arrives. He is going to be such an amazing big brother and I cannot wait to see them together.

We are so grateful for all of the support from all of our friends and family throughout this pregnancy. We couldn't be doing this without you! Here are some recent pics of the family and the baby room.

Will share more news soon. Lots of love.

Luka is 5 months old!

Hi everyone! Sorry we have been so bad about adding to our blog lately. Things have been extremely busy. However, life has been full in so many ways and Luka continues to bring us so much joy. He is 5 months old today and everytime you hold him, you just can't stop kissing his cute cheeks! He has now rolled over from his stomach to his back and is laughing more every day. He even seems to know his name! His last doctor's visit he weighed 18 pounds and is 26 1/2 inches long. Both his height and weight is in the 90th percentile. He still is co-sleeping with us, although has now slept in his crib as long as 1 hr 30 min, which is great. He is still waking up to nurse a couple minutes 3-4 times during the night. We've been exploring introducing rice cereal and/or food and we think we're going to wait until he is at least 6 months. Given his weight, he isn't having a problem getting enough to eat. :-) Fortunately, I have been able to continue to breastfeed and pump at work and that has been going really well. Now that the summer is here, our summer camps are in full swing and going well so far! www.galileo-learning.com We are hoping to get Luka in the pool one of these days. Given how much he likes to splash in the bath, we're thinking he'll love the pool too! How is your summer going so far? Here is some video and pictures we've taken recently.