North American Intl Auto Show

We enjoyed a nice outing to the Cobo Center where the annual North American Auto Show was going on. We got a chance to see all the new and exciting happenings in the auto industry that will be taking place over the next year. It was a nice place to get Samantha out and about since the temperatures are around 10 degrees now...
Justin picked out his Jaguar and I'm standing in front of the Ferrari. It was just a lot of fun to walk around. There were 2 crash test dummies handing out some information . Samantha enjoyed her outing by sleeping through the whole event. We knew it was time to go when she woke up screaming due to hunger. We were ready to feed her and go home.

One month old, and growing!

So Michelle took Samantha to the pediatrician's one-month office visit, and to our surprise she's already over 9 lbs! (9# 1.8 oz to be exact). She was a tiny 6 lbs, 12.5 oz at birth. We're seeing her grow every day, her cheeks filling in more and with better skin turgor. Quite an amazing process to say the least. Parents are still a bit sleep-deprived and trying to stay sane in the same process! Here are some random house shots ...

Winter wonderland ...

Two decent snowstorms so far this winter, a nice deck-shot of the sun setting on our frozen golf course ...

Simchat Bas

We wrapped up the New Year and Samantha's visit to the world with a Hebrew naming ceremony at our synagogue, Adat Shalom. She was named "Michaela" after Michelle's grandfather, Malvin Freeman, who passed away on 12/17/07 after battling a long illness. It was a beautiful & emotional mceremony, with friends from work in attendance as well.

Additional guests ...

After Beth's departure and week to ourselves, we were greeted by additional out-of-towners: Ray & Adrienne for a week, as well as David & Gretchen for two days. A wonderful chance for bonding with little Samantha, we thank everyone for their travels and look forward to more get-togethers soon!

1st couple of weeks ...

We've been home almost 2 weeks now and Samantha turns 2 weeks old today. The last few weeks have been amazing and terrifying. Birth and labor, hospital stay, and finally bringing home a perfect baby girl. We enjoyed the company of Justin's parents (Myriam and Leslie) and Michelle's mother (Beth) who were able to be there for her entrance into the world. We could not have gone through the labor without the help of Beth and the terrific nurses at HVSH.We're enjoying learning about Samantha and am sure that she is having fun learning about her new world. She's discovered lights and her hands mostly. Ginger is not sure what to do about Samantha. For now they are just realizing each other's existence. We're okay with that at this point!

Try this link to see all the hospital pics taken:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=p5sww8n.5hxae2fr&x=0&y=9bdjhp

Birthday bash!

So in between all the madness of having and caring for a new child, we managed some sanity be leaving the house and attending a birthday party ... that of one-year old Jacob Lovy (son to Rich & Sharlene, who we work with at Botsford). Things really got exciting towards the end when little Jacob went to town on his mini-cake :-)

Samantha Eve Nudell

She's here!

Happy 30th!!

Yours truly turned another decade older (& wiser?), we had a great time celebrating with a delicious dinner at Bone Fish Grill. Later we celebrated with caramel apple pie and the opening of gifts. Michelle got me (us) and awesome GPS tracking device that we can use in our cars to help navigate the open roads. We wrapped up by lighting Channukah lights, which started on Tuesday. All in all a nice evening ...

Visiting guests ...

We were very excited to meet & greet Beth, who's in town visiting our future "addition" to the family :-) We got some more white stuff later that evening after doing some food shopping, she & Michelle have had a very relaxing week shopping and staying at home. Ginger gets into the act with her red devlish eyes ...

Happy Thanksgiving!

We were greeted with our first snowfall on Thanksgiving day. Not much precipitation, maybe an inch or two. But it was nice to see some white stuff. Only pics of food to share, we were guests at a friend's house from work and ate all sorts of delicacies. Kudos to Michelle for making a delicious salmon and stuffing entree!

Baby Girl pics

We recently trimmed Ginger's hair so we can actually see her face! Some random pics of her enjoying the sun a week ago, before the weather got chilly.

Fall scenery

Definitely enjoying the Michigander leaf color changes, some random shots outside our condo & development!

Botsford Autumn Gala

Saturday night Michelle & I were guests of attending physicians at this annual hospital fundraising event. Money raised will go towards construction of the new Botsford Cancer Center, starting in 2008. It was held at the beautifulTam O'Shanter Country Club in West Bloomfield. Several faculty and executives were in attendance, black tie and all. Lot of interesting items were auctioned off during the cocktail, including this one puppy that was pooped out by the end (I lost on a bid for two Lions Thanksgiving Day football tickets). Lots of

great food & wine, overall nice to see everyone dressed up with their significant others!