manylives.ca

Just a quick follow-up to our Twitter updates (on the left): Nico’s surgery and post-op recovery have gone very well. This morning he was smiling and making faces with us and the medical staff during his admission and surgery prep, right up to the point where he fell asleep. He awoke pretty distressed due to […]

The short version: Nico is healthy and his development looks good. He has palate repair surgery scheduled for Thursday, May 21, and this time he’s not sick so it appears the surgery will go ahead! The long version after the jump … (more…)

Dear Nico, Today you are eighteen months old. You were still a babe when we met and now you’re a toddler. You’ve learned to walk–actually, swagger is more like it. You’ve got a cute gun-slinging bow-legged posture that says, “Here I come! Watch out, world!” You’ve even started dancing, turning in circles and raising your […]

All are welcomed to the baptism of Nico Han-Kun Gresik de Raaf to be held on the Fifth Sunday in Easter (Mother’s Day), May 10th, 2009 at 10:00 am at the Church of the Ascension, 253 Echo Drive, Ottawa, Ontario

I have a terrible head cold. Yesterday Shawn stayed home from work so I got a little break but today I suffered through one of my worst mornings evah: stoned on cold medication, sore nose, sniffly, lymph glands the size of walnuts. All I wanted to do was crawl in bed. Instead I dragged myself […]