Sisters Meet.

Amazing experience for all. Lots of giggles and excitement - followed by an attention shift to the shiny helium balloon.

Thank you for the overwhelming amount of emails, calls, visits, messages, and #mentions from friends and family. We hope to get back to all of you soon.

Feeding Frenzy

Almost 24 hours old and already firing on all cylinders. We've seen a long list of firsts already.

Two highlights:
- woke (for the tenth time) this morning to some sweet serenadeing from a house wren just outside our window on a section of scaffolding

- our third dirty diaper in less than a day.

- her big shiny blue-ish dark grey eyes.

- three smiles that she served up only for Mother in a private moment together.

- basically she is a miracle.

Well that's more than two but we gotta run for a bath.

Thank you Rhea for being such a patient and understanding big sister and for letting us use your blog.

... Eyes Open for the First Time.

It had to be for Grampa. Not only that, but she attached and fed properly for the first time immediately afterwards!

Hailey's First Visitors

Grandma, Grampa and Sophie came over this afternoon and generated a serious performance.....

Tekin' Breeze.

Going for a stroll in the new wing at Mercy. (Good place to spy on the embassy hehe).

Walkin and Rollin

Mommy Jules doing great already. Surgery Schmergery.

Rest time.

Perfect in every way. Little sister Hailey is getting lots of rest along with Mom and I am told that no children under 9 years would be allowed in the facility.

No rush I supose although I can't wait to film the first encounter. Thanks Carolyn for spending the morning with us!

A few minutes worth of breast feeding already although things are pretty low key with more snoozing in order so far.

Only a couple blinks of the eys so far for Hailey - like this world is still to scary and bright for more than a peep.

Baby Hailey!

Born about 7:45 am this morning. Seven point three seven pounds, excellent APGAR scores. Both doing great, mother and baby snoozing now. Lots of Black hair just like Rhea had.

Rhea is a big sister today.

Getting Ready For Baby.

Helping clean up the house for the expected new arrival. Exciting times.

Sideways Smile

Slide Impact

Be careful with this high speed, steep angled, wooden one at PopEyes on Vlissengen Rd. Its crazy-scary fast - and addictive we found out.

We did sample every single one at the new playground at the national park as well. None quite as quick but the curving blue plastic one in the central jungle gym got top marks by our judging panel of one.

Climbing Champion

Climbing anything is fun stuff, coming back down is a little tougher and has required a little coaching to master. Pictured here with Uncle Oliver.

Sea Wall

Stationed now in Georgetown in anticipation for the little sibling, Rhea and Julie are pictured on an evening stroll on the legendary sea wall.

Towers and castles are a regular talking point and we've had to learn the word 'Cathedral' to help describe St Georges more accurately.

Her latest observation has been the various Guyanese creole versus north american pronunciations.

For example:

Cat vs. 'Cyat'
Twenty vs 'Twenteh'
Goat vs 'goot'


It's funny having your two year old try to correct your accent to a more acceptable version of the queen's language. A sponge is truly an understatement in terms of her observational powers.

She of course knows all about being a big sister and has started talking regularly on the subject.

Princes Purple

Milestone of the week:

Climbing all the way up a ten foot step ladder onto the third floor of Grampa's house. Then learning how to turn around and climb all the way back down again.

Up was easy but the other way took a few coaching sessions and a few episodes of 'freaking out'. Truly an amazing inherent balance of daring and caution.

Happy Birthday Great Grandma Pep & Uncle Gary.

Special Birthday Greetings go out to our very dear Grandmother and Great-Grandmother today. Uncle Gary we love you almost as much and welcome to the Twenties my man!

Girls Wear Dresses

Question from this morning:

Dad: Look, there's Buggs Bunny!
RTMT: Where? Where's the Bug daddy?

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Also recently: Why?

- an important first imho. Hopefully the first of thousands.

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Dresses. Thanks to numerous aunties and adopted grandmothers we have enough dresses to last for the next year or two. The idea that PJ's are more appropriate for sleeping than a 'Ballerina' or 'Princess' dress is regularly a point of serious discussion and sometimes even a flop-down tantrum.