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The whole family rocks out to Jingle Bells on Xmas Day. Another quiet activity in the Klasky-Timmins' household:

Yesterday, Eli fell and bonked his head on a plastic toy truck in his hands. What ensued was really scary for Lisa, who worked her way through lots of blood and baby shrieks to discover that he'd knocked one of his front teeth loose. An emergency trip to the dentist revealed that his tooth had to be pulled. Our little guy will be missing one of his front teeth until he's somewhere between 5 and 7 years old, when his adult tooth comes in. He seems in good spirits and his parents have cried more than he has so far.

Yikes! Only one month after Eli started crawling, he appears like he's getting close to walking. It's a whole new world...

Shopping for holiday gifts mid-week (thanks to maternity/paternity leave), we realized there was NO line to visit with Santa Claus. Eli sure looks small next to the jolly elf.

Jake is behaving (so far, at least) like a really sweet "big brother" to Eli. He gives him gentle hugs and kisses and doesn't seem too worse for the wear, although he did direct Ben with "Daddy - Go over there and take Eli with you!" recently, so that he could have a little solo time with his Mama. We've posted a few new photos on our photo gallery site for those of you who want to follow along at home.

Click here if you'd like to see more first-day photos of the little guy.

Welcome to our word, Eli!
Eli Maxwell Timmins Klasky - whom his older brother has been calling "Max" in utero - came into the world yesterday in quick fashion. Lisa called Ben at 3:30pm to say that contractions had just started. Ben's parents were on call, and picked up Jake from daycare. Lisa and Ben (together with doula extraordinaire Carol Hasko) rushed to make the 4:35 ferry to Seattle, and Eli was born only two hours later.

Eli's Vitals

Lisa and I went in for an ultrasound - with about 11 weeks to go until the delivery. They used a new 3-D technology which looked like live claymation moving on the screen. Very cool, and far more revealing than a standard 2-D ultrasound. Here is a picture of our little guy's fist and massive biceps (actually, what looks like a bicep is the umbilical chord, I think). Cool, huh?!