Timo's first days at home

Timo was born on Thursday and we came home from the hospital on Saturday. Mom Hawkins (or "Jaja" to her grandkids) arrived on Friday afternoon to help out during these early days. As she usually does when she visits, she arrived laden with all sorts of goodies, such as boy clothes (thanks to Rachel and others, too!), some clothes for Gemma, and foodstuffs of various kinds: coffee and walnuts from Costco, nice black tea, lentils, rice, and a bag of the crumby bits and sugary dust that always gets left over at the bottom of a box of frosted mini-wheats. I will save this to mix into my next batch of granola! In fact, Mom H. seems to be passing along a bag of the stuff every time we meet, which I suppose makes her my official supplier frosted-mini-wheat-crumby-sugar-y-dust supplier, aside from that left over from my own consumption of this lovely cereal). 

1st (of many to come) Father/Son self-portraits

And although she's only been here for 4 days, Mom has already made the following: 4 gigantic loaves of Cuban bread; sausage-lentil stew; dhal with rice; and a big batch of potato dough rolls. She is presently working on pork chops! Thank you, Mum, for your generosity!!

Mum with her yummy Cuban bread.

Timo sporting his little spiky hair!

Welcome home, Timo!

Jaja had Gemma help her form rolls - Gemma was loving it and was very proud of her handiwork.