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So a lot of the family are looking for more photos of the little ones.  It’s not that there are not enough pictures being taken of them, it’s just that I don’t seem to get a hold of them very often.  My wife is taking A TON of pictures.  Thank goodness we made the move to digital a while ago, otherwise we’d be paying a fortune in developing fees.  So I’m adding these to the mix.  Again there are just a few but it’s better than nothing right?    We just did some family portraits too, I’ll upload them when I get them.  Enjoy.

Ellie holding Cai’s nose       Holding hands (awwww)      Two Cuties    

Cairo’s close up        Ellie close up          Cairo in Flames Gear (my fave)

Well that didn’t take much longer.  So 2 days, well technically 3 days, after my last post the new Canucks arrived.  My wife went in for an ultra sound on Valentine’s Day and they decided it would be best if she didn’t leave.  She ended up with Preclampsia, so bad that they felt she needed to get the babies out on the 14th.  So I got the call at work at around 2pm.  Off I run to get everything set at home, and then off to the hospital.  She was induced at around 6pm on the 14th and at 3:44am and 3:46am on the 15th, Eleanor and Cairo were brought into the world.  Ellie weighed in at 4 lbs, 13 oz, and Ciaro at 4 lbs, 6.5 oz.  Both ended up spending some time in the NICU as they were preemies (made it to 35 weeks).  Ellie got up to speed much quicker and was able to come home on the 20th.  Cai is still there as he’s having a little bit of an issue with some arrythmia problems.  Sounds like it’s managable but still something we will need to get trained on and watch for. 

Luckily with Ellie being a preemie, she’s actually not quite ready to be up and awake much.  So she’s on a 4 hour feeding schedule that allows us to get some decent sleep.  We’re told not to expect that to continue much after her actual due date comes as she will then be a newborn and want to destroy our sleep schedule as much as possible.  So we’re enjoying it while it lasts.  And now, on to the good stuff.  The pics!!

Cai eyes open     Ellie and Cai     Ellie in the Hospital     Ellie Sleepy

Update: More pictures:

Mom and Cai 1   Mom and Cai 2   Mom and Cai 3   Mom, Cai, Ellie 1

Mom,Cai,Ellie 2   Mom and Ellie 1   Mom and Ellie 2   Mom and Ellie 3

Cai’s Faux Hawk

Well I’m freshly back from my most recent trip abroad. We visited the land of the Nile and pyramids. The wife has always dreamed about visiting Egypt and so when she called me about a cheap trip she had found, what could I say? So off we go. It was a 9 and a half hour trip from JFK to Cairo (going over). The trip started pretty well, all went as planned. Egypt is an interesting place. We went with a guided tour group which is the ONLY way to visit. I would highly adivse against travelling there on your own unless you are a very seasoned traveller abroad.
As you may or may not know, Egypt is basically a 3rd world country, or underprivaliged nation (for you PC people). The general city itself is quite old and very dirty. There are about 17 million people living in Cairo. Having said that, 95% of their income is from tourism, so the real tourist hotels and such treat you fairly well. The hotels themselves were clean, and the staff generally nice. We stayed at a hotel for a day then flew to Abu Simbel to visit a temple then back to Aswan to hop on a cruise ship to head up the Nile. The Nile is a very dirty river and had a certian smell to it. The scenery was very nice though. Lush green areas surrounding the Nile on both sides.
So we visited just about every temple there was, hit the pyramids, the sphinx, the Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, and several markets. Now the markets are quite an experience. For those who have been to Mexico, you know what the local markets are like. Well multiply that by 5 (worse that is) and you have the Egyptian markets. Everything is bartering, and they will tell you anything to get a buck out of you. Started wearing on my nerves very quickly. This is the part that having a guide with you helps at. He was good at answering our questions and making sure we were not being taken too much.
Basically the sites were absolutly awsome, I was glad I went to see them. But I really could have done without the hasseling of the markets. By the way the hasseling went further than just the market place but I’ll save that for another day. Click below for an album of photos we took while there.

Egypt Experience

Ahhh, vacations are great, especially when you actually get to GO somewhere. We went to Puerto Vallarta for our honeymoon and stayed at the Paradise Village Resort. What a great place. We had a blast. Great food, great service, wonderful location. We played on the beach, went horse back riding to a waterfall and took a moonlight cruise to what I refer to as a “Mexican luau”. It was incredible. Now the bad part, I’m back at work. Oh well, guess we just have to start planning for the next one.
By the way, the wedding was great, minus the event posted below. The pics can be seen here, if you’re bored and so inclined.