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New Video Page

We are taking a ton of videos with our new addition, so we have a new link to all of our videos. Check out all the fun including Natalie "talking", rolling over and just getting started with the Jolly Jumper. Chwyl Videos

New Pics

Lots of new pics of Natalie at our Gallery. Chwyl Gallery

Natalie Dancing (sort of)

More Natalie cuteness!

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Natalie's Firts Movie

This is Natalie at one week old. Too cute, if you ask me!

 

Welcome Natalie Rose Chwyl

Natalie Rose was born at 5:25 pm on Saturday, November 22. Pics of our big day are here.

Vital Stats

• 8 lbs 2 oz
• 20.5 cm from head to toe
• brown hair
• blue eyes
• eyes: mom
• nose: mom
• mouth: mom
• cheeks: dad

 

We are so happy, words can not describe it! I think Natalie is near perfect. She is gorgeous, alert and observing everything around her. She is a great eater and a solid sleeper. She has not cried unless she is hungry or we are taking too long changing her and she is getting cold. She loves to cuddle with both mom and pop.

Heather is doing as well one can after going through what she did. Sleep deprivation seems to be the biggest challenge right now. She is natural mom and I am incredibly proud of her.

All is good. Tomorrow Keesha comes home to a strange, new world!

The Time Has Come!!!

We are on our way to the hospital! More news to come!!!!

Tick Tock

So it's Sunday, November 16 and we are still waiting for our little arrival. The baby is 2 days overdue, but there is no cause for alarm - all is well. Heather's doctor says she will not think about inducing until we are 2 weeks overdue, at which time she will do an ultrasound to see if induction is needed.

While I am here, I thought I would share with you all of the names we have been calling our cute little fetus. For those of you who don't know, we have been naming the baby every week based the size it was for the week. We have also been alternating the gender we use each week since we do not not know the sex. Here we are:

• Week 5: The size of a sesame seed - Sesame (M)
• Week 6: The size of a lentil bean - Lenny (F)
• Week 7: The size of a blueberry - Blueberry (M)
• Week 8: The size of a kidney bean - ???? (F)
• Week 9: The size of a grape - ???? (M)
• Week 10: The size of a kumquat - Kumquat (F)
• Week 11: The size of a fig - Newton (M)
• Week 12: The size of a lime - Margarita (F)
• Week 13: The size of a shrimp - Bubba (M)
• Week 14: The size of a lemon - Lulu (F)
• Week 15: The size of an apple - Johnny (Appleseed) (M)
• Week 16: The size of an avocado - LGA (Little Green Alien) (F)
• Week 17: The size of a turnip - Turner (M)
• Week 18: The size of a bell pepper - Belle of the Ball (F)
• Week 19: The size of a tomato - Tommy (M)
• Week 20: The size of a bannana - Hanna (F)
• Week 21: The size of a carrot - Carrot Top (M)
• Week 22: The size of a squash - Princess Buttercup (F)
• Week 23: The size of a mango - Gomango (M)
• Week 24: The size of a corn - Niblett (F)
• Week 25: The size of a rutabaga - Rudy (M)
• Week 26: The size of a cucumber - ???? (F)
• Week 27: The size of a cauliflower - Fleury (M)
• Week 28: The size of a coconut - Neu (Hawiian for coconut) (F)
• Week 29: The size of a papaya - Papa Yaya (M)
• Week 30: The size of a cantaloupe - Saladia (F)
• Week 31: The size of a pineapple - Spike (M)
• Week 32: The size of a bunch of bananas - Baby Formerly Known as Spike (F)
• Week 33: The size of a honey dew melon - Dewie (M)
• Week 34: The size of a big bowl of cherries - BBC (F)
• Week 35: The size of a large pineapple - Mohawk (M)
• Week 36: The size of a massive coconut - Dolly (Parton) (F)
• Week 37: The size of a watermelon - Wally (M)
• Week 38: The size of a watermelon - Loni (F)

Every week after Loni we have just been sticking with "Baby".

New Photo Gallery

Check out our brand new, hot shot, ultra cool photo gallery! We will adding tons of photos over the next weeks (like ALL the digital images we have). You can leave comments and rate the pics if you like.

Our Greece pics are up, and they are fantastic (more of a compliment to the scenery than the photographers). Our trip was phenomenal.

Chow for now!

Ultrasound Day

We just got back from the ultrasound of little baby Chwyl. Overwhelming is probably the best word to describe it - although awesome comes pretty close as well. Everything seems to have gone well, but we have to wait a couple of days before reviewing everything with our doctor.

I guess the baby wasn't very cooperative as he/she was moving a lot and decided to curl up in Heather backwards with his/her butt up by Heather's belly button and head down by her spine. This, and the fact that we are only in week 18, made identifying the sex impossible, so we will be going into the birth not knowing if we are having a boy or a girl. We do know that it has 2 legs and 2 arms, as well as hands, feet, a head with eyes, a beating heart, lungs, diaphram, a bladder and a stomach!

Click here for the picture!

Happy Easter!

Heather and I spent Easter enjoying the company of my mom and our niece, Sonnjea. They drove up from the sunny BC interior and were greeted with mounds of snow on the ground! (and probably started wondering why they ever left home).

We had a great visit. Mom looks hot as the pounds continue to melt off of her, and Sonnjea is so much cooler than I ever was or ever will be. We Rock Banded until we couldn't see straight almost every night. Our band, Dog's Breakfast was anchored by Frantastik on the guitar and Hazmatt on the drums. B Liscious fronted the band on the mic as best he could. Good times.

Thanks for the visit, gals. we will continue our march to superstardom the next time you visit!

We love ya,
Brian, Heather and Keesha

A World of Change for Brian!!

This has been a life changing day for me - I can hear out of my right ear for the first time, and "HOLY SH*T!!", what a difference! Now, Heather can sit on my right side and whisper sweet nothings in my ear, and I can hear them perfectly. We can have conversations in the car while I drive, and when we aren't talking, I can hear the music clear as a bell.

I find I just sit and listen to the world, and it is fantastic. Of course, my brain has some adjusting to do - all the new sounds are pretty overwhelming at times, and everything seems twice as loud as I am now hearing through twice as many ears!

All of this wonder and joy has been brought to me via my Bone Anchored Hearing Aid or BAHA, which is a new wonder of science. The hearing aid clips to a titanium screw in the back of my skull on my right side. The screw transmits the sound from the BAHA into my skull and my skull transmits the sound into my inner ear - and I hear!

Pics of my implant will be coming soon. For more on BAHAs, read this.

I get all my care from a great team at COMPRU.

Keesha gets new collar.

Bark, bark bark - bark bark grrr. Bark bark car ride bark bark Petsmart!
sigh...

Woof woof,
Keesha

Fly Web Works Up And Running

So, yeah! Brian has started a web development business called Fly Web Works. Things are moving slowly, but they are moving!