Miracle Of Birth No. 17,346,301,856... And Counting

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We’re all pretty excited about welcoming the newest member to the extended clan, my first nephew, eight pound, 10 ounce Cole, who stepped out last Friday afternoon, June 19.
He’s up and about and pretty much running the Ottawa household. His amazing mum is in great shape, dad is anchored to the radiator in the front room with the same length of string we used to prevent him floating off following the birth of Isabelle back in Dec. 2001. The grandparents are ecstatic and are threatening to move into the basement, and Netminders everywhere are warned to set their photo attachment filters to maximum in order to weed out the inevitable flurry of multiple meg files to be produced in coming weeks as the above mentioned shoot every waking moment of young Cole’s life.
Myself and the gal are even now conspiring to fly over sometime between now and mid-August. Crazy post-SASs deals to be found if you dig deep, including a tasty Cathay fare from Sing to Toronto for about $520 US. If it happens, and it remains a big IF, we’ll get the bike tuned up and go for a ten day tear about northern Ontario, maybe do some camping or something, as well as seeing family and friends on the east coast.
We’d like to hit the west coast as well, perhaps pick up Drew’s wee Yammy 650 for a quick run up the coast, look at a couple of properties I’ve been following on the Net (hey, a guy can dream, right?).
‘Course there’s been a whole lot of irregular behavior out there as well so I think some of our time will be spent tummy rubbing at least two other swellin’ bellies that we’re aware of at this time. A word of warning to breeder women heading for Vancouver: think Bottle Water. Stay away from the taps. I repeat, Stay away from the taps.
I’m off to Bandung for a couple of dry, cool mountain days, traipsing about Tanjungsari sub-district observing matters village-based early childhood development programs and generally making a pain of myself to any and all forced to decipher my garbled Bahasa Indonesia.
Back to Jak Sunday hopefully with time and energy to blog-on.