Luka Pics Weeks 6-8

Here are the latest pictures of Luka with friends and family.

http://www1.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=285001888/a=3957549_3957549/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish

It's hard to believe that Luka is 2 months old now. He is doing great and smiling a bunch, which sure is a treat. At his 7 week doctor's appointment he weighed 12 1/2 pounds! He's probably past 13 pounds already and wearing mostly 3-6 month clothes now.

We are slowly getting settled into our new home and it's feeling great. Our new address is 5980 Majestic Ave., Oakland, CA 94605.

Fortunately, we just secured a daycare for Luka. It's a family care center in a couples home and the mother speaks Spanish to all of the kids. It's also five minutes from our house. We think Luka will be happy and well taken care of there.

We'll send more pics again right before Tajalli goes back to work on April 27th. Have a great April!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Pictures of Luka from weeks 2 - 5

Here are two links to pictures of Luka from the last couple of weeks:

http://www1.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=284803288/a=3957549_3957549/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish

http://www1.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=284869707/a=3957549_3957549/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish

ENJOY!

New house!

Wow, time has flown by quickly and so much has happened. Luka just fell asleep in his bouncy chair, so I'll have a quick moment to write a little.

As of Monday, March 2nd we finally closed on our first home. It still doesn't feel real to Tim and I, but we are extremely happy and relieved. It's the original house we wanted to Majestic Avenue in Oakland. There are pics on the blog from back in October I believe. We are moving this Saturday and have some friends helping us with some electrical work this week. We'll now have more space for visitors, so do come! :-)

I just dropped off my Dad and brother Neisan at the airport. They were here for a long weekend. It was great timing to meet Luka and help us with a lot of house stuff. I'll upload some pictures soon.

Luka is doing great and already 11 pounds and 4 1/2 weeks old. It is going by so quickly! He is already growing out of some of his clothes.

Overall we are doing great. It will be so nice once we are all settled in. I'll upload some pics soon.

PS. Our new address is 5980 Majestic Avenue, Oakland, CA 94605.

New pics of Luka and family

Dearest Family & Friends,

We are so excited to share with you the newest pictures of Luka and our family taken by our friend and talented photographer, Sara Goetz. Sara does amazing photography here in the SF Bay Area. You can first check out a couple of the best pictures on her blog:

http://blog.saragoetzphotography.com

At the bottom of our blog posting is a link to the slide show. It is underneath the picture of Luka smiling with Tajalli holding him. It says " Enjoy your slideshow!" Just click there and it will take you to it....it has music too, so turn on your speakers. :-)

If you are interested in subscribing to her blog, just click on the top right hand corner (subscribe by email). Her blog is wonderful and she regularly posts tips on taking great photographs along with work from her sessions.

If you would like to see all of the pictures or order some prints, you can click here:

http://www.saragoetzphotography.com/pickpic/gallery/jump.php

You click on "Luka" on the top left and then the passcode is: newborn
After putting in your email, you want to click "enter gallery."

We are thankful that she has offered us their special family and friends pricing.

We hope you enjoy these new pictures!

With love,

Tim, Tajalli, Luka and Bubba

Baby Luka is here!

Our new love our life has arrived.

Luka Franjo "Franyo" Horvat
January 29, 2009 @ 6:18pm
7 lbs 14 oz, 20 1/2 inches

Labor went well....my water broke around 8:45pm on 1/28 and then we got to the hospital at 8am the next morning. Active/Intense labor lasted about 3 1/2 hours. We are all doing well and just trying to catch up on sleep. He is such a beautiful miracle.

It is hard to believe that he is now already 10 days old! We are trying to get him to switch his nights and days, which I guess is pretty normal. He pretty much sleeps in 1-2 1/2 hours chunks and then I nurse him for 30 min to 1 hr. Then he hangs out for about an hour and then starts the cycle all over again. I never thought I would be a night person, but I'm finding myself awake quite a bit after midnight! :-)

He started smiling a couple days ago and that has been such a treat. It seems to correlate with breastfeeding and when he is about to poop or fart....such a daddy's little boy! He seems to really enjoy spending time in his bouncy too, which comes in handy if Tim is asleep and I need to go to the bathroom or get something to eat. I'm sure we'll be using it more when Tim goes back to work. He also has managed to pee on his Mommy and Daddy at least 4-5 times now in the midst of a diaper change. That has been fun!

Today we have a photographer coming over to take newborn pictures of Luka. Her name is Sara Goetz and is the wife of one of my colleagues at work. She is such a talented photographer. We will share those pics soon!

We've had several visitors already and it's been wonderful introducing Luka to close friends and family. Our first out of town visitor is Chandra, my best friend from college. She'll be here for a couple days this week....yea!

On the house front, we are so close to moving in we can taste it. The title company is trying to get things wrapped up.....please keep your fingers crossed that it we will close escrow this week. If all goes well, we'll move some time the week of Feb 16, before Tim goes back to work. We'll let you know once it really happens.

Thanks to everyone for all of your love and support and hope to connect with you soon. Feel free to call anytime...if we're sleeping our phones will be off, but we'll call you back as soon as we are able.

Lots of Luka love coming your way.

At the hospital

Tim here: Taj's water broke last night around 8:30 ( 1/28 ). We waited to go to the hospital until 8am this morning. Tajalli was having contractions on and off thru the night. She is doing fine, a little tired but not in much pain. We are on our third nurse so far!! All seem pretty nice though. We will post again soon.