Here are some additional Christmas pics:

Hope you all had a good Christmas. We sure did!

Christmas Eve (Heilig Abend) we spent at Angie & John’s house with Grammy, Papa, John and the Hunt family. We acted out the nativity sceen – with Luka as the baby Jesus – and playing Jingle Bells with Grammys bells.

Christmas Day we spent at Grammy’s house. We had brunch, exchanged gifts, played games and had dinner with the entire family.

Here are a few pics from Grammy’s house – more to come in the next few days.

Luka got a lot of gifts:

Than Luka took a nap:

And here is Luka with his cousin Jake:

Luka is able to sleep in just about any position.

We started to decorate our home for Christmas and also attended Sue & Tracy’s Holiday Hoopla (their Christmas party).

Luka’s Christmas outfit was a big hit!

Today was Luka’s 2 week check-up.

He gained a bit of weight – which is good – and is now at 10.1 lbs (or 4,58 kg).  Part of the 2 week check-up is a blood test, which means he had to be pocked again (his poor heel!).

The doctor said he is fine and everything looks good – yeah!

Yesterday, we went to Grammy’s house for dinner. Cousin Jake was there as well. Can’t wait to get older so I can play with him!

Luka got a gift basket from Yahoo! today. Yeah!

December 6th is Sankt Nikolaus or Santa Claus day in Germany. Kids put there boots in front of the door the night of December 5th and Sankt Nikolaus comes bye and drops something in their boots.

If you’ve been good you will receive chocolates, oranges, nutes and little toys. If you’ve been bad you get a wipe or rode to remind you to be good.

Since Luka is half German, he also put his tiny little boots in front of his door. Although Hillsboro is a far way from Germany, Sankt Nikolaus did come bye to drop off some goodies. Now, it’s hard to find something a 1 week old baby wants other than a fresh diaper or a bottle of food, but Sankt Nikolaus was able to find something: little socks (all the way from Germany) and a little chocolate santa (which mommy eat so baby can “taste” it in the milk).

Now, we aren’t quite sure yet which German and which American traditions to keep for Luka, since keeping both might confuse the poor kid, but we’ll figure it out over the next year or so.

For more info about Sankt Nikolaus see:
http://www.thehistoryofchristmas.com/traditions/germany.htm