1 month old

Already 1 month old. They grow up so fast ;-)

What a month it has been - Tired? Sleepless? Stressed? A little bit of all the above, I guess. But that's expected and we are not complaining at all.

Thanks to everybody who came to visit and check in on us. We don't get out very much at the moment and don't want to lose the "grow-up-voice", since all day it's baby-babble at home.

Daddy clowning around Noah not impressed


Falling asleep after burping on Mummy

After a bath

Who's a handsome man????


So, what has little Noah been up to?
Well, he's been on a road trip to his grandparents in Boca. But don't ask him about the drive, he was sleeping door to door all the way. He liked it there a lot, there were more friendly faces to play with, more hands to fuzz about him and more helpers to change him.
Also he made his way to the supermarket once already. He needed more diapers and other baby things.
Next, we are waiting for the grandparents from Germany to arrive. They are up north at the moment and will get here on Thursday Oct 1. Then we'll have all new adventures to experience.

Noah's going home

On Saturday Rosie and Noah were cleared to go home, i.e. both were able to pee and poop ;-)

Getting all papers ready, signing important documents and strapping Noah in his car seat was all that was left do do.



Just like his mum, Noah seems to fall asleep easily in the car and is not bothered by noise and movement.

Noah's first days

Right from the beginning he was loved by many.

Rosie's parents stayed all day in the hospital with us and friends visited only hours after he was born.


(Pictures stolen from "auntie Ying's" facebook)


We even managed to set up a video call to his German grand parents, who were also very happy to see their American grand son.

Over the next couple of days more and more friends dropped in to meet Noah and we tried to make them pose with him...

Noah Sebastian

Born August 26 2009 at 9am. Weighing in at 3660g and 20 inches tall.

In the end he came out in a hurry ... The c-section was scheduled for 10.40am, but was pushed forward to 8am, when the other mum-to-be, who had that spot, didn't show up. I guess she wasn't ready ;-)
Because of the re-scheduled time I almost missed it, since I went back home to pick up the grand parents, after dropping off Rosie at the hospital at 6am. Just before 8am she called to hurry us up - she was going into the OR. So I raced over by myself again, made it to the waiting area, sat down for a couple of minutes, and was called in too.
The doctor was just waiting for me to sit down, so he could start. 15 minutes later we heard our baby boy cry for the first time and he was taken to be cleaned up, checked, weighted and wrapped up. This is the first glimpse we got of him.


Just minutes later, the doctor was still working on Rosie to close the incision, the nurse placed Noah on her chest. With tears in the eyes we could hold him for the first time. He was just perfect: ten toes, ten fingers and everything else accounted for. For good measure he also came with a generous amount of dark hair.