the baby came .. on monday

the baby in tiina's belly decided to make an appearence! we got home from taavi's baptism around 7:30pm sunday night. my parent's had been nervous to leave town because tiina was due on the 30th and we were going to stay with eeli when the labor started. well, less than 2 hours after we returned, tiina informed us that her water had broken...about an hour later (after a nice brisk walk with my mom around the 4 square blocks in our neighborhood) tiina and teemu were at the hospital. my mom got up with eeli after he woke extra early monday morning (5:17am) which ironically was the start of tiina's 15 minutes of hard (drug-free) pushing! this little girl was born at 5:34am -- just 7 hours after the water broke. we were all so excited to meet her. she is very sweet and when we are all in the room you can see her listening to the noise as if she recognizes all of our voices. we are all pretty smitten. you can see more pictures of her here -- with her big brother eeli. her name is SILLA and i just can't get enough of her!