Tiny Olympic Swimmer in the Making

Leiah's First Day in her new BIG Bathtub

First Leiah gets ready by putting on her bathing suit - a cute 2 piece. Her "finding Nemo" swimming diaper was pretty big so it was her tiny bottoms that held everything up.

We put her in her carseat and proceeded to the new big bathtub. Of course she falls soundly asleep on our 7 minute drive so I had to wake her up and get her ready for the new expereince.


The first 7 minutes she quietly took everything in. She just looked around in utter amazement. Once she realised that she was safe and that this was a "fun" expereince - at least for dad, she began to squeal with excitement for the next 15 minutes.

Leiah's Dedication at CLA

On March 25th at the second service at Christian Life Assembly in Langley, We had a formal dedication for Leiah. We wanted to have it at CLA since we had so many friends there. It also provided a place for Leiah's maternal and paternal families to come and celebrate. Cami's dad was the one that prayed for her in the service.



It was a very special Sunday. We were both very moved in the service and back at home. Cami and I have dreams for our little girl and pray into it daily. We see how God has had his hand on Leiah from the very beginning of the journey.


When the service was over we went home for a big party. We had invited all four sets of Leiah's family. I think there were between 50-60 people in our home and we ate food and cake until we could eat no more. It was a wonderful day and a great celebration

Leiah's second set of shots

This past Friday Leiah had her second set of shots. Only three shots this time. Two in one thigh and one in the other. Again, I was the official holder. My job was to hold tightly to Leiah so that the nurse (very friendly and helpful) could execute with the needles.

Leiah has developed her lungs sinc the last set of shots - and she used them. Her recovery time was much quicker this time and both Cami and I did much better as well!!

So that we dont remember these times all too well, there will not be any pics or videos for this post.

Getting Mobile

I think she is beginning to grasp the thought of being mobile. We place her down on her floor blanket and she immediatle rolls over. Now we begin finding her facing the opposite direction from which we first placed her on the blanket. She hasnt figured out how to roll continuosly so she is still always on the blanket.

The 10 sec video shows how she rolls over.

the voice over you hear in the background is Cami asking me about vegetables while i am trying to signal to her that I am capturing a video.

She loves water

We haven’t been able to take her swimming yet but we did the next best thing. No bath in the sink, no bath in her little tub...We filled our soaker tub up with water and then gently lowered her in. She loved the vastness of all the water and after a couple of seconds began splashing away. I picked up a yellow rubber ducky for her earlier that morning so I tossed that in the tub. Holding her on her tummy with my hands, she kicked, and made splashing, swimming motions with her arms as she chased the ducky down. For the next 10 minutes, she chased that ducky around the tub as I moved her back and forth. Every once in a while I pulled her up to sit on my knee on the side of the tub as she panted with excitement. Then she tried to dive back in after the ducky.

ok - So it's been too long

I was at a birthday party over the weekend and a friend of mine came up and gently but firmly stated that I had not updated the blog for a long time. February has been super crazy. Cami had her Birthday, I had my birthday, My brother Magnus and his wife Susan came back from China - all needing big parties. Cami's motto - "any reason to celebrate" It's a great motto.

Leiah's room is still almost ready - I think maybe I am taking my time because I love having her in our room. I can peek over at her any time I want to.


You will notice the cute baby that Leiah is sitting beside at Katie's 2nd birthday party. They both chew on everything so when they sat beside each other they instantly grabbed each others' hand and tried to eat it.