Sunday, January 28, 2007

Baby Jack

Baby Jack Liam Britton was born Jan 27, 2007 at 6:50 PM. Weighing in at 8lb 13oz and 21 in long. Mom, Jack and I are all doing well. More updates soon! We are in room 2247 at the Queensway Carleton hospital for about 3 days...

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Some pictures

Ben's dad (Paul) made me a bird house for Christmas. It is hanging outside on the patio off of the living room, and the cats are thoroughly enjoying the view...







Nursery Pictures





Here are some pictures that Ben took last night of the nursery "pre-Jack". We are scheduled to be induced tomorrow evening, so it won't be long now! (Which is about time, because I am almost 2 weeks past my due date now!)




Monday, January 15, 2007

Ode to the elephant...


Well, my due date has come and gone and still no Jack. I have officially entered my 10th month of pregnancy. Sleep is growing to be a huge challenge (for both Ben and I) and I have become pretty impossible to live with! Insanely uncomfortable 100% of the time, none of my clothes fit anymore (seriously, I have one shirt left that fits!) and impossibly enough, I continue to get bigger!


In my utter and complete boredom, I have been watching a lot of television and came across a National Geographic program called 'In the Womb'. This particular show was about the gestation of a baby elephant. Did you know that elephants are pregnant for 22 months? I can't even imagine. And elephant babies weigh approx. 265 lbs at birth, which made me feel a bit better about my potential 9 pounder. It is incredible how maternal and protective the mother elephants are- you would think there would be some serious resentment issues.


Anyway, this is likely to be my last post until the big announcement because surely it's all going to get started soon. Although, maybe he'll just hang in there until Kindergarten. Perish the thought.




Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Christmas Day





































Christmas Eve...







































Frontier Ranch- revisited...



























































































For those of you who don't know, my grandparents ran a summer camp for many years near White Lake (Arnprior-ish), Ontario called Frontier Ranch. They sold it many years ago, and many of us have kind of avoided it ever since in order to preserve the memory. It was beautiful in it's hay-day... 800 acres of horseback riding trails, lake and forest... My cousin and her husband came to Canada from where they are living in France for the holidays, and since neither Greg nor Ben had ever seen the ranch, we decided to make a pilgrimage. It had recently snowed, which was good because it hid the fact that everything is much more grown over than we remembered it. Although all of the snow in the world couldn't cover up the fact that there is now a sattelite dish mounted on the 200+ year old log house!!! (I really have to start taking more pictures- because Ben is absent in all of these as he was the photographer. ) We finished up the day at my aunt's apartment with dinner and a visit with Grandma. It was a great day.
















Shawna's Murder Mystery/ Birthday
















Here are a few pics from the murder mystery at Shawna and Sully's back in early December.