Happy Birthday - LASSE

Yesterday was an exciting day. I got a SMS that morning with the message that Lene and Mike had left for the hospital. All day I was sitting in Berlin nervously waiting for another SMS but it didn't come until this morning: Lasse had arrived late at night. He is healthy and the parents exhausted but happy. We are happy to welcome him in this world and our family. Johanna wanted to spell out his name on the computer and my friends in the states asked how to pronounce his name. We can't wait to meet him some time next year. Lasse's birthday is the same day as the birthday of my friend Susanne who died earlier this year of breast cancer. Is this the cycle of life? Here are his first family pictures.