One more friend on the web!

My friend Francois asked my for photos of my life in Tassie for 2 years before I managed to send him something. It helped me realise I could do better to stay in touch with people I like around the planet.

Since then, I've caught up with technology (would you believe it - me, an IT analyst). In the last year, I bought a digital camera, started using email (outside work) and my Yahoo account and made this blog with Marc - Marc created the blog but I'm now the main contributor. My next challenge is to make movies from the images I recorded since Philippe's birth on the video camera.

Now, am I right to complain about my friends and family not using the internet??? Maybe, maybe not. Since I've been on maternity leave, I've been looking forward to get any news from Francois, my only friend with a blog. But not anymore. I couple days ago, I found out that Pascal, another of my friend in Canada has got a blog too. That's great! I now have 2 friends I can look forward to hear from. And I'm sure there is more of you out there.

DO YOU KNOW ME and HAVE YOU GOT A BLOG or a PHOTO ALBUM? If the answer is yes, hurry up! Send me the links so I can stay tuned.

Enjoy spring or fall, depending where you are!
Edith

Philippe a 1 mois - One month old

Philippe turned 1 month old this week. I've put some new photos on Flickr to show you how he changes, and how our days are like.

After one month, we're still alive and quite well. Yes, he will have the odd bad night (like last night when he stayed awake for 2 hours) but he usually settle nicely. He feeds well, sleeps well and grows very quickly. He no longer fits in his smallest pyjamas. So, I'd say so far, it's not as bas (read as hard) as I expected. Thanks to Marc for keeping me balanced and to Yolande for allowing me the afternoon naps. It makes a huge difference when you can think clearly.

Here's an idea of what the first month was like (for me):

- I lost 9 kilos in the first week (pretty amazing!) and 3 more since then.
- I don't drink wine as it passes through the milk and I don't want Philippe to get it.
- I love my morning coffee, but it's now a "coffee flavored steamed milk".
- I'm always hungry after the mid-night feed: I struggle between the 2 most important things : should I get up and eat something or get some sleep while I can?
- I started a new book a week ago, I'm at page 58.
- I still haven't found the news headlines for September 11, 2006 that I want to add to the Baby Book.
- I got back in touch with most friends from my hotmail and yahoo adress books and got news from a lot of people I met at l'INSA (when I studied in Lyon for a year in 1996-97).
- I miss my family in Quebec and Ontario more than ever before.
- We went out for brunch on the second weekend. I still had the baby blues and felt terrible, but those eggs benedict were really good!
- Philippe and I have started the yoga class together. I thought my son was a noisy baby. He's nothing compared to some others in the room!
- I saw the first smile and my heart nearly came out of my chest. I had never felt so much love at once.
- 3 days later Philippe did a smiling session to share with Dad and Grand-maman.
- Whenever the weather in not too windy, we go for walks on the beach. I love to carry Philippe around and he sleeps with the sound of the waves.
- I managed to get my toe nails polished and had my hair done once since we came back from the hospital!
- I feel myself again. Normal, and improved. Philippe is making me a better person.

State of the Nation - L'État de la nation

Last Saturday, a couple hours before our visitors arrived. Thank god there are 3 of us to look after the house and Philippe or how would it look like??? Let's face it: we're not exactly on top of things! What are we doing all day? Well, I'm mainly feeding Philippe or trying to catch up on sleep, Yolande looks after the kitchen 3 times a day (cooking and cleaning), while Marc runs around, organising the veggie patch and giving Terrapine a hard time because she keeps brining back some dead bunnies on the door step! So the new baby is keeping us all busy!

The paediatrician said not too think logically or try to establish some paterns. Absolutely right, go figure why Philippe will eat every 2 hours and then sleep for 5 hours... Anyway, we got lucky on Saturday, he was sleeping so we manage to get the place cleaned before the visitors arrived! Felt really good!

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Samedi dernier, quelques heures avant l'arrivée de Micheal, le cousin de Marc. Heureusement, nous sommes 3 à s'occuper de Philippe et de la maison, je me demande de quoi ça aurait l'air! On n'est pas encore tout à fait en contrôle. En général, je nourris Philippe ou je sieste pour ratrapper le sommeil perdu la nuit, Yolande s'occupe de la cuisine 3 fois par jours et Marc cours partout, dans le jardin ou à chicaner Terrapine qui passe son temps à nous livrer des lapinots morts sur le pas de la porte! On ne flâne pas vraiment...

Le pédiâtre avait raison: il ne faut pas utiliser la logique pour comprendre l'horaire d'un bébé naissant, chaque journée est différente. Samedi on a eu de la chance, Philippe a fait un long dodo et on a réussi a tout nettoyer avant l'arrivée de la visite. Ah, ça fait vraiment du bien!