here is Naomi!

Baby Blake Arrives!!

God is good! I cant say I have been through a rollercoaster as big as seeing my wonderful wife give birth to our baby daughter, Naomi Annelies Blake.
It started off with leonore waters breaking at 9:30pm on Tuesday 24th July at homegroup of all places! We will never forget that evening and I am sure neither will the homegroup... I am leaving leonore to explain the technical stuff which follows....Well can't believe I have personally delivered a baby! Wow I now have even more respect for women. It went amazingly well and after having the perfect pregnancy I indeed had the perfect delivery despite being very painful of course. Basically as Chris said my waters broke and then everything started to happen. Within 4 hours I was 6-7cm dilated and very soon had urges to push which led to the most painful bit for me. Pushing Naomi out took forever it seems but was only really an average hour. Anyway she delivered in the pool which was great relief for me and all as planned at home! God is good! How amazing and overwhelming to bring my own beautiful baby to the surface who was wide awake taking it her surroundings. She is absolutely gorgious and we haven't taken our eyes of her since!

Latest Bump - 4 weeks to go!!

mother love

Last weekend my mum came over from Holland to see me and bump for the last time before meeting him or her soon after its born. It was so nice spending time together getting excited about the baby. My mum was not impressed by the dumping ground the baby room had become and we subsequently spend 2 days shopping and sorting out all the things we had been given into some welcoming order! Anyway its now starting to look like a proper baby room and I am getting more into the nesting stage now as they call it, thanks to my mum's inspiring ideas and presence! We had a bbq in our new garden on sunday where ma met some of our lovely friends. We had a bit of a giggle at ma's english language as she translated it from dutch. Some classics to remember; the back of the house mum called the 'backside' (I had to correct her eventually) and while chris was spilling some food on his top she told him he needed a 'slap'! Slap means a bib in dutch so you can imagine what our friends might have thought about Chris' mother-in law who wants to slap him! Don't think my mum minded us laughing at her as she was joining in too!

our pram!

Thought we'd show you our pram as we are very excited about it. Never thought it would need that much research deciding on a pram but these days there is so much choice and babies can seriously travel in style now. We loved the top of the range pram as you can imagine but could not justify the cost however much we love baby blake to be well travelled. Anyway I headed for ebay and am since quite addicted!! The result is a second hand pram in very good conditioning for a good price so we're very chuffed with that.