GregAndSuzanne

Tomorrow it'll be 2 weeks since we were entrusted with this little creature of ours. There have been a few interesting moments (like this afternoons technicolour display all over my Diesel jeans!), but in general it's been nothing but sheer joy having her join our family. She is so good. Eats just about every 3 hours, produces a nappy at more or less the same time and sleeps pretty well most nights. Needless to say, we are very thankful. I've added a few more photo's and video's if you'd like to see. Suzanne's mom arrived from South Africa today, which is really exciting. She'll be staying with us for the next 2 weeks or so. I'll be off next week as well, so we are looking forward to a great week of enjoying Slough and it's surrounding areas. On another note, church has started with a bang this year. We've had two amazing services so far during which we enjoyed the presence of the Living God. I am so excited about all that He has in store...

No big deal, just that you can now access this blog by going to 'gregandsuzanne.co.uk' rather than 'gregandsuzanne.blogspot.com'. Hopefully prevents me from having to answer 'dot what again?' every time. The old address will still work, though.

4 Days ago this little lass entered our lives with a bang! Even though she is quiet, calm and collective, her joy is evident and complete. Obviously we talk about her to each other most of the time and our family gets updates, pictures and videos etc. I know that next week is peeking around the corner and life has to go on from there. Greg is back to work and routine slowly but surely will start finding its way into our little family. But for this week allow me to focus on her completely and talk about nothing else! I am 70% recovered from giving birth, my greatest need now is to discipline myself to sleep when she does, I am far from that.  My body is foreign to me and I can not wait to get back into shape starting February, but for now I am pushing it to the back of my mind. I will be lying if I didn't say that we are missing our family in this special time and that we wish they could pop in and enjoy their gran daughter whenever they wanted to. I am ...

That's right, what a night... one of the longest of our lives. But a very rewarding one. After about 24 hours of labour, Suzanne gave birth to our beautiful little girl, Liya-Jean (yes, the spelling has changed since this morning - sorry grandma's, gonna have to change those quilts), at 7h55 this morning (1/1/11), weighing 3.025 kg. First things first, pronouncing Liya-Jean... as it's a bit of an issue. Liya is pronounced 'Lee' (as in Bruce 'Lee') + 'Yah' (as in 'Yah'we) or 'ja' (as in the European 'yes'). Jean is pronounced 'je' (as in 'je' t'aime - French for love) + 'an' (as in Arm'an'i). Make sense? Also, I should probably warn you that 'LJ' is not an option, unless you want to face Suzanne's wrath. A little summary of the labour. Suzanne starting having contractions a few days ago, but things started getting really intense yesterday afternoon at 12h. After a few trips to...