New Arrival!!!!

Hi everyone. It's that time again; that once every blue moon event when I write a post instead of Deborah! A very quick announcement for everyone. We became parents again in the early hours of June 21st 2009. We have been blessed with another little girl; Anna Jane Grace Chapman was born at 2:51am in the Cottage Hospital in Peterhead. Her birth weight was 6lb 10oz, and mother and baby are doing great. Just to clarify, though we are not hyphenating, her first name is "Anna Jane", so Jane is not a middle name.

Deborah's waters broke at 1:30am, just as we were about to retire after an evening of painting in the nursery (hence, this was the only night all week that we were NOT prepared for going to the hospital) so I guess that made for a 1 hour 20 minute labour. While this was even shorter than when Abigail was born, we live 5 minutes from the hospital, so we had plenty of time to get there after "Auntie Rachel" Gaunt came to babysit the fast-asleep Abigail. Deborah's Mum is here and her Dad will travel up tomorrow, so I will likely finish out the last two weeks of work before the summer holidays and will then take my two weeks paternity leave in August as originally planned. Deborah is tired but doing a fantastic job as always, and is planning to come home tomorrow afternoon. We covet your prayers as we begin another chapter in our life as a family, praying especially that Anna Jane will grow in strength, stature and eventually faith.

And now the part you've all been waiting for.... pictures!

Anna Jane Grace Chapman: about 40 minutes old

As I discovered last time: babies come with hats!!

(West Wing fans chuckle!)

The new line-up for the Chapman Family!

Abigail, painting Anna Jane's room, blissfully unaware of what she would awaken to the next morning!!

P.S. Before anyone says it, Dad is already aware of the awful fact; two weddings!

Summer day Video's

Here are some of the clips that we took.







She had already fallen on her butt earlier.







That will have to be all for now as I am exhausted. I will do a few more pictures later.

Great summer day

We had the best day ever! David was off school Monday and better yet the weather was set to be hot and Sunny. We arranged to meet up with JA, Kristen, Brennan and Jonathan at Cruden Bay beach late morning. The kids seemed a bit reluctant to take their shoes off at first but once they saw that we were doing it and getting to paddle and splash in the water they both couldn't wait to get their shoes off and join in. Though the water was cold it was impossible to get them out. Abby was running into the waves and then back out and in again, at one point we had to stop her from running in above her waist! Of course the inevitable happened when she ran in lost her balance and sat down in the water, she laughed and was ready to go again. Later she was running in and fell forwards onto her hands and knees. So she was well and truly soaked! I could not believe that I did not think to take a change of clothes - thankfully the beach is only 15 minutes drive from our house. We also saw a starfish in the water which was really cool. We ended up staying longer than we planned and after a quick stop by the house to get dried and changed we all went to McDonalds for lunch. Our plan then was to head to Aiden Park and again, though the kids were tired they enjoyed playing on swings, slides and see saws. Again we were reluctant to leave but eventually headed for home. We had thought about having a BBQ but it was so late in the day that we just grabbed a quick bite and had to say goodbye as bedtimes loomed. Here are just a few of the pictures and I will post the videos in another post so that I can get these on now and not have to wait on video.

The Beach















The Park











Trying to get a cute cousins in the daisy's picture



I think this one is about the best





This one cracked me up, their expressions are great!



On the way home, what a day!