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 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.
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.
This morning I made a trip to Wal-Mart at about 1:00 AM. Not because I had to get that last minute gift for my wife.. not me. I did my shopping way early this year. I think I got her gift on Friday.
Anyway.. I had to go to the store to get a humidifier for Ellie. She had come down with croup – a nice sick cough. We could hear her in bed hacking away, and thankfully Wal-Mart was open 24 hours now to accommodate those who hadn’t planned ahead like me. It was a pretty busy place at 1:30 AM on Christmas Eve morning.
Ellie is doing better today. She still doesn’t have a younger brother or sister (much to Naomi’s dismay).
I hope you have a great Christmas.
God bless.
Troy and Naomi, Ellie and ??
No.. not the good ones you see in the night sky. I’m talking about the cheesy kind of northern lights.. the annual “lets-dust-off-the-really-old-tacky-lights- we-had-out-last-year-and-hope-everyone-forgets-how-corny-they-were” kind of northern lights. Each year the down town of Owen Sound lights up the Festival of Northern Lights. The displays are pretty much the same as last year (and the year before, and the year before..), yet people still travel from all over to see them. I fully suspect some of the displays are older than me. Where else can you see a Christmas R2-D2?
Or a Santa on a chopper?
I guess from a distance it is nice, in an expensive electric display kind of way.
