Christmas!

best friends

Anaïs and Eloise 

born one day apart...

best friends

dads and daughters

cafe?

bubbles!

Little dinosaur with her little lamb.

i need more sleep

tummy time with Papa

my little bear.

Adie, this bear outfit is barely big enough!

i'm sad she didn't get more use out of it

cause its sooooo cute

pink socks from Grandma Judy and auntie Adie

only babies can look good in a double chin

Only 1 week left until Christmas and I still need to do my shopping.

Luckily we've been quite mobile already with Eloise.

She had her first car trip yesterday. 

We bought her an early Christmas present, a mobile,

you can kind of see it in the background.

Shopping on the last saturday before Christmas was a mistake.

It took us 30 minutes just to get out of the parking lot!

hoping to post more pictures more often...still getting used to this no sleeping thing.

very tired but EXTREMELY happy,

A

first time out

getting ready to go outside for the first time

thanks Adie and Rob for this amazing bugaboo stroller

works like a charm

son oncle Fred et Papa 

Eloise and Alisia!

totally passed out for her first outing...didn't see a thing!

at least she got some fresh air

11 days old and Eloise has changed so much already.

she is such a good baby.

very calm most of the time 

and more and more alert everyday.

A

happy birthday to me

I spy with my LITTLE eye

Birthday girl with baby girl

Big smiles after a 3:00am feeding

Christian loves this pic

merci Maude et Phil

Eloise made Adie an auntie!

and Owen a cousin!

Everything going really well over here besides saying 

goodbye to my parents this morning.

I have a great pic of of grandma and grandpa with Eloise

but i can't find the cord for my camera! I'll keep looking...

A

Eloise!

our Little has arrived!

Eloise Dompierre

born December 5th, 8lbs

i'm speechless.

we are overwhelmed in the infinite love for our sweet little girl

i will stay in this magical bubble of love that is 

Eloise

and come back later with more pics and details

A

41 plus 1

BIG belly 

41 weeks and 1 day pregnant

being patient and waiting for the body to take its own natural course

i love our midwives!

Food in the big belly

(I love copying ideas from over priced trendy cafes and doing them for half the price at home. Only better cause its organic!) 

Happy after purchasing our new smart phones

busily trying to finish last minute work while waiting for Little to arrive.

Or maybe Little is waiting for C to finish last minute work before he/she CAN arrive

who is waiting for who now!?

the guessing game

So here it is. 

Our Little chart documenting everyone's predictions in 3 different

categories, and the last two columns for girl and boy name suggestions.

In the category of birth date, EVERYONE has lost 

except maybe my own mother who predicts the baby will be born TODAY. 

MOM, could you be the winner?

At least we can say she comes the closest to being right 

(and who knows! there ARE still 7 hours left before the 30th is over).

As for the weight and sex, we'll just have to wait and see.

Thanks to Alisia for creating this AND to everyone who participated.

The name suggestions were especially entertaining ;)

Really hoping for tomorrow to be the big day. December 1st sounds like such a 

nice birthday, no? Plus, its Christian's half birthday!

A

song of the day

Mates of State, 

one of my favourite bands has a song featured on NPR's song of the day. 

Its called "Palomino" from the album Mountaintops

Its really really happy.

Listen to it here

In other news, 

Little is now 40 weeks and 5 days! Doing very well in there. 

Maybe too well since he/she doesn't want to come out!

hangin' in there, 

A

...stiiiillllll waiting....

Pizza in the belly... Little in the belly 

Three days past my due date. 

On average, first babies are born 1 week and 3 days past the due date.

This means I could still have 1 more week left. 

Sigh.

A

Is tonight the night?

I don't think so

:(

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today being the official due date AND my favourite American holiday, I thought it would be 

perfect for our Little to arrive. I woke up with expectations. 

I knew I needed something to keep me busy, so I spent the day cooking and baking. 

Being that there's only 2 more hours left before the day is officially over, I guess its safe to say that today is NOT the day. It's okay.

I had delicious dinner with a very special person

 and I was VERY grateful for that. 

p.s. 

I miss you Mom, Dad, Max, Kurt, Adie, Rob, and Owen. 

I hope you all had a great holiday!

A

first snow

Since Monday, we've been saying that today (wednesday) IS the day.
Last night Christian mentioned that our Little might be sensitive
to the weather and is waiting for the first snow.
Lo and behold the first snow falls on this day!
Seriously, we had no idea there was snow forecasted for today.
Hopefully our intuition and this sign of snow are right on.
Cause I'm ready.
A