Visit from the Vickers

Thursday night, the Vancouver arm of the Vickers family stopped by with some delicious lasagna and dessert. Both the food and the company were much appreciated, and with it came Belle’s first visit with someone close to her size. Luke, her second cousin, is four months old and gave us a bit of a preview […]

The First Week

So, as of Tuesday, we completed our first week as parents. I don’t think either of us felt we were particularly unprepared for or surprised by anything, except perhaps by how incredibly happy and enamoured of her that we are already. It certainly helps that she’s so darn cute and that she lets us sleep […]

New Parent or Drug User? Can you tell the difference?

So Michelle went to the Shoppers Drug Mart just down the street to get some more diapers a few days ago. This was early in our first week with Belle and sleep was at a premium in those days. Dazed and drifting, she stumbled through the aisles, looking for the diapers. Despite her mental fog, […]

The Events that Transpired on the 19th of January, 2010.

So here’s a quick recap of what happened at the hospital, and some photographic evidence of said events. 2100h – Michelle’s water breaks. Patrick takes Cooper to Craig and Katie’s while Michelle changes her pants three times in fifteen minutes. 2200h – Arrival at the hospital. Quite busy, so we check-in and then park ourselves […]

Welcome Isabelle!

She’s here! Born at 4:17am today, weighing in at 7lbs 5oz, and as beautiful as can be, Isabelle Kathleen Armstrong is now part of the outside world! Her mom is doing great, and was an absolute rockstar, powering through labour like it “weren’t no thang.” We are overjoyed.

At the Hospital

So here we are! It’s 3:00am right now, and Michelle’s water broke at about 9:00pm, I dropped Cooper off with some friends, and we made our way to the hospital. It took awhile to get into admitting, then it took awhile to get into a delivery room, but Michelle was a total trooper. With the […]

Michelle at 38 Weeks

Hopefully this is the last photo shoot that we’ll have time for! We’re ready for you, Isabelle!

At the doctor’s office

The doctor is running a little late, so I have time for a blog post, and Michelle has time to do some more knitting.

Knitting up a storm at 37 weeks.

We’re ready to have this baby anytime now. As far as we’re concerned, she’s done cookin’ and we can hardly wait. In other news, Michelle has taken up knitting with her typical, take-no-prisoners approach. In only three or four weeks, the tally is sitting at approximately 6 baby hats, 4 adult toques, 3 scarves, 2 […]

34 Weeks

We’re at about 34 weeks now, and things are looking pretty good. Isabelle is definitely raring to go, but we’re going to do our best to convince her to stay and cook for about another 20 days. Michelle is resting lots, even though she’s not very good at it. She’s also taught herself to knit, […]