We spent Canadian thanksgiving in Calgary this year, surrounded by our families. We had two wonderful dinners with tasty fare and desserts. My parents graciously welcomed us into their home to stay. A highlight was playing Rockband: The Beatles with Dylan and my Dad. I consider the Beatles the greatest band of all time, so it is fun to enjoy their music. The animation and illustrations bring the music to life and remind me of the Cirque de Soleil performance I saw in Las Vegas two years ago. I highly reccomend playing the game especially with a baby boomer. I also really enjoyed attending church and the lessons were interesting and inspiring.
Category Archives: Family
We are having a girl!
Due to a new policy at our local radiology clinic and a very miserable radiologist tech we were unable to find out the sex of our baby. Unfortunately I had to miss the ultrasound or I would have just interpreted it myself. So instead we decided to get a private ultrasound done on our vacation in Palm Springs. What a nice place too! They projected the ultrasound on a huge theater style screen and had huge comfy couches for our whole family to sit on. The tech was fun and personable. She went hunting for the sex right away and told us that we were having our first girl! Then we got to see precious 4D footage of her moving and yawning and her cute little body and face.
Wow. I’m incredibly excited and just love telling everyone. The more people I tell the more real it feels because at this point I can’t even imagine what having a little girl is like. I’m really interested to see how it changes the dynamics in our family. I’m curious to feel what it’s like to love a little girl and be her dad with all the spectrum of emotions. I love my boys so much its hard to imagine anything different. Maybe it will be the same? I’m sure it will be different. Perhaps I’ll be insufferably doting! The exciting part is all of my siblings are also having children right now, so we will have 4 cousins all within a year of one another. Crazy and wonderful!
Hanging with Liz and Kent
Last night we traveled to Calgary to stay with the Cranmers and be with our soon-to-be daughter Serenity. It was great time together. I really enjoyed watching the cousins play. The adults stayed up late just talking, reminiscing and laughing. Saturday we just hung around the house stopping for eggs benedict and pizza structured around games movies chatting and play. Now we are off to see Australia leaving the kids with sitters.
UPDATE: Just returned from Australia and it was superb. Had me teary about ten times. I was very impressed with the themes and story the performances direction and cinematography. Oscars are on the way.
Painting
The past couple of nights I’ve stolen an hour or so to paint a room with my four boys. I love the feeling of working alongside my family on a project. The boys are all quite proud of their handiwork and the paint job turned out great. It was quite adorable when Brigs and Joshua painted their names on the wall. A classic moment.
A Weekend to Remember
We traveled to Calgary this weekend to spend more time with our soon-to-be daughter, currently going by the name of Serenity. Our time with Serenity kicked off at a Church Christmas party with a dinner, program, and dance. The highlight was watching Serenity dance– the girl has rhythm and energy! I even had my first dance with her which was a great moment. She has really already formed a strong attachment to Daria which is so cute to watch. Saturday Serenity came over to spend time with the boys at my in-laws. Joshua’s characteristic instinct to love and protect has already kicked in and he has been so tender and loving about and with Serenity. She is a fun little girl who loves to laugh and play and has a good nature about her. Noah loved seeing another little person smaller then him. I’m looking forward to them having lots of playtime in the coming months and watching that relationship form. Today we spent another hour with Serenity and we learned some of her favourite foods and that she is a very good copycat right now. She copied nearly all of my hand movements and facial expressions. We’ve decided we are going to do baby sign language with her as she has lots to express but no vocabulary yet which is visibly frustrating her. It was a magical weekend that we couldn’t have orchestrated any better. She recognized us, started to call us by names, and gave us all oh so many hugs and goodbyes. I’m going to really miss her this week and can’t wait till we can take her home for good. I have no doubts about her place in our family.
