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The Growing Johnstone Clan
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Monthly Archives: December 2006
Video – Adelaine’s early hours of life
Adelaine Johnstone makes her first theatrical performances in two short films. Here lines are pretty small now, but they will grow over time.
In the second film, Adelaine is joined by Ellie Johnstone, a film veteran with numerous other videos of her own.
Adelaine meets the world – 4:37 minutes
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Adelaine and Ellie – 5 minutes
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Adelaine Leigh Johnstone
In the early hours of December 28th, 2006, at 2:51 AM, Adelaine Leigh Johnstone was born. Another beautiful baby girl!
The details for the guys: a baby girl was born.
The details for the ladies:
healthy baby girl with good colour,
7 lbs, 14.5 oz
20.5 inches long
A good head of hair, grey eyes, her dad’s long fingers.
Both mother and 2nd daughter are doing well.
More details to follow
Christmas at home
Christmas 2006 was our first one that we celebrated in our own home. Each year we have travelled to share the special day with family, but for obvious reasons, we couldn’t travel this year, unless it was to the hospital to deliver a baby. So this time family came to us. Naomi’s parents were here to celebrate the day with the growing Johnstone clan.
The day started off with a beautiful red sunrise
that illuminated our Christmas snow…
and was followed by the family tradition of the men cooking breakfast.
After overeating in the typical Christmas fashion, we read the Christmas story, thanked the Lord God in prayer, and then began to open presents.
As Ellie wasn’t feeling well, she was down for a nap so we only opened a few things. After Ellie got up we started opening the rest of the presents. Ellie was quite helpful in tearing away wrapping paper.
It would seem that Ellie’s favorite toy this year was a jack-in-the-box, which she kept going back to after each present she opened. She did get one especially cool present from her dad..
Ellie received a wonderful Tux doll. Tux just happens to be the official mascot of Linux! Naomi was thoroughly impressed with her husband’s choice of gifts.
Actually, there were two Tux dolls, one for Ellie, and one for her as yet unborn little sibling.
Later on we had our big Christmas meal with all the fixins..
Followed by one of the greatest Christmas day traditions:
a nap.
I hope you had a great Christmas too.
Where is a donkey when you need one..
This morning we read the Christmas story from the gospels of Luke and Matthew. I started thinking about how the traditional nativity stories feature a pregnant Mary riding on a donkey the day before Jesus is born and about how uncomfortable that would be for a pregnant woman (not that I could really know, but hypothetically speaking). I wonder if a lengthy donkey ride would help induce labour.
The baby countdown clock has reached zero today.. but still no baby. Naomi is perhaps wishing that we had a donkey that could help move things along for us.