The Tosa Knutson Family Blog

Brothers Indeed

So, do you think that Peter and Michael look alike? Here’s a pic of each of them at one day old. Can you tell me who’s on the right or left?

July 14, 2010

Happy Bastille Day and welcome to the world, Michael Andrew Knutson.

Michael was born yesterday at 5:46pm. He weighed in at 7lbs 2oz and 20 1/4 inches long. Here are some pics of the proud parents, brother and grandparents. More to come as aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents get to meet Michael in the coming days.

Peter was born in a small hospital with five rooms for delivery and recovery. St. Joseph’s is a bit bigger with 16 delivery rooms and 44 recovery rooms. Beyond that the experiences were remarkably similar. Oops. Lani is telling me that is not the case - other differences included minor things like being induced rather than going into labor at a neighbor’s house; a gap in the flowing of the epidural created more pain for mommy than desired; Peter was born in WA and Michael in WI; so other than that Lani is willing to concede that things were very similar.

That’s all we’ve got for now. Enjoy. And please no comments about the need to update the header photos and information. We’ll get to it. Soon…ish.

Baby Shower

My collegues at school threw me a surprise baby shower on June 14 during the last week of school.  The shower was the day before our final concerts at school, and we had rehearsal all morning the day before.  It was nice to be able to relax and enjoy the lunch, cake, and gifts after such a crazy morning.  Thanks everyone!  For those of you who are curious, I was 35 weeks along in this photos.

Peter’s Birthday Party Weekend

This year we decided to throw a joint birthday party for Peter and his cousin Aaron who is three weeks older than him.  Since I was 8 months pregnant at that point and therefore did not have to clean my house for such an event, I was thrilled by the idea.  We had planned to have the party at Tim’s brother’s house, but the basement flooded.  Grandma and Grandpa Knutson came to the rescue and the party ended up at their house in Rockford.  My parents and my brother Kyle and wife Alissa were able to make the festivities as well.

Grandpa Roger and Grandma Lolo were able to come a day early to play with Peter and help around our house in Milwaukee.  And yes, one of the pictures is of our back steps.  Peter has many imaginary friends these days, including Diego and Dora.  Peter insisted that he take a picture of Diego sitting on the back step with Grandma’s camera. 

And pictures from the big birthday party:

My Big Fat Greek Reunion

Since we have no baby news to report yet and I’m done with big projects at school and elsewhere, I thought I would do some updating of our poorly maintained blog.

In June, the Greek side of Tim’s family (his mom’s mom was from Greece) got together in Chicago for a picnic, games, and hanging out.  Here are a few highlights from the day: