Christchurch Wedding and Portrait Photography by Johannes van Kan » the baby

More Ida

jvk — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:51:46 +0000

Ida hits Lyttelton (under construction): Ida at the Lyttelton Coffee Co

I certainly cannot get enough of this adorable girl.

The fascination is endless ... something to make up for being puked over ....

My apologies to people who thought that I would be blogging about being a photographer.

That will come soon enough.

Sorry for the lack of posts for a while.

Take care

Johannes

: one of us needs more sleep

Its been one week now …

jvk — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:42:34 +0000

Six hundred images later Ida is still beautiful.

I am not lying about the 600 images ...

Now I am beginning to understand where all of the powerful emotions come from... already I am protective, proud, and besotted.

It is something that only the reality can give you any idea of what it is like. People offer you their wisdoms but not until the baby is yours does any of it make sense.

Thank you to everybody for their best wishes and gifts.

I won't be able to help myself showing you images of our beautiful Ida Valentina but will try to get back to my 'knitting' as soon as possible.

The day before Ida was born

See, I did help!

We arrived home to a Wreath from our neighbour, Ann, and a sign from our staff

Meet Ida Valentina

jvk — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:52:19 +0000

She is beautiful .... that is undeniable.

She is 7lb 3oz and was born at 6:42am

Mum is good ... in fact fantastic.

Ida Valentina van Kan

Take care

Johannes (Very tired)

Four weeks more or less.

jvk — Sat, 16 May 2009 23:21:00 +0000

With four weeks to go, and the nesting plan firmly underway, we will still never be completely ready for the arrival of Spider (not her real name.)
Suddenly after eight months of pregnancy we are on the doorstep of phase 2 .... the birth and consequences thereof.
Holy crap! (Not a religious aspersion!)
We have a room ... somehow it went from duck blue to beige (it was supposed to be white ... don't know what happened there.)
We have a room for the crying, vomiting, poohing machine that we will love vigorously.
Well the room is actually for all of the wonderful things that our generous friends and neighbours have given us. Its a weird phenomenon the overwhelming generosity of the people around you when they hear there is a family in the making.

Unederlying all of this is the frequent assertions that 1 it is not a piece of cake.
2 anyone who says it is a piece of cake is not being wholly honest
3 even though it is not a piece of cake it is far more rewarding than any cake you might imagine.
4 once it comes out you cannot put it back in (that is a medical fact)
So here we are ... the bag is packed and there is petrol in the car.... and its four weeks ... more or less.