Saturday, January 19, 2008

Baby is Here!




Welcome to planet earth, Evan Tomas Williams

Born on January 17, 2008 at 8:35 pm in Mountain View, CA weighing in at 7.5 pounds. Heleen delivered completely natural and baby was able to latch on straight away for feeding. Heleen trusted me to coach her through and catch him as she pushed...It was the most amazing yoga practice of our lives. Breathing and concentration with the perfect postures! We had the expert guidance of our midwife Lin and our loving nurse Wendy. We feel so lucky and so blessed.

Presently, we are all happy, healthy, and home. I'll be busy trying to get up more pictures and return all of the calls, texts, and emails as quick as I can.



Monday, January 7, 2008

Christmas belly

Christmas time

Here we are at our friend Karens house where we celebrated Christmas with her 3 beautiful daughters, wonderful friends and delicious food. And as you can see Adarsh never stops having fun. This time it's all about shaking my belly or trying to grab the basketball inside of me ;-)

We've had a wonderful holiday time chilling out and gathering the last bits and pieces together for our little man. Adarsh's aunt and uncle came for a short visit as well which was great fun. New Years eve we were in bed by 11pm which is quite extraordinary for us as our usual time is 9-9:30pm as we have to get up very early in the am. Adarsh was teaching on New Years day as well so we had a good excuse not to wait till midnight. Honestly, it didn't matter to me. There aren't any fancy fireworks going on in the neighbourhoods in the US like where I grew up in Holland anyway. In my little home town everybody goes outside at midnight to fire off all the fireworks they have and it was always mesmerizing for me as a kid and a lot of fun. After the fireworks were finished everybody went around till the early hours to wish eachother a happy new year. Very celebratory and fun. My sisters are still doing this and as they had the new year already at 3pm (my time here) the new year had also begun for me.

Anyhow....we've only got a few days left till due date so things are starting to get exciting. I still feel very good and everything is going smooth. If this little boy is going to be as easy as during my pregnancy I'm gonna be a happy mama.

Stay tuned for updates on the new arrival!!

Happy new year!! Enjoy every second of your amazing journey!

Heleen