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!