Everyone is back at home healthy and happy. Our first post natal midwife visit should be happening in the next 10 mins or so.
Tons of photos on our gallery
Still working on getting a routine going, and catching up on sleep, but it’s all going pretty well.
After a lot of people asking we thought we should tell you that Te Po Atarau’s can be shortened to Ata. (Which can mean morning or light)
Mum and baby are both doing fine. Ata is pretty quiet when he is a awake, but chatters away when he is asleep. He is feeding well and is pretty alert and happy.
On perhaps the coldest day of the year so far, son number two decided it would be a great time to arrive. So after Laurel woke up at 4am, by 5.30am we decided it was time to head into the hospital. By 7am, Laurel was 6cm dilated and at 10.29am Te Po Atarau William Creed Barr Cormack was born.
After a few false starts earlier when he decided to really get going he sure didn’t muck around. He was 4.24kg (not a small fella) with all the requisite fingers and toes.
What does the name translate as?
Po
1.(verb) (-ngia) To set (of the sun)
2. (noun) darkness,night
Atarau
(noun) moonlight, moon
So Te Po Atarau – Moonlight night
William
William Haberfeld – First Immigrant to NZ on the Cormack side
William Hallam – Great Great Grandfather (Chris’s Mothers side)
William P White – Laurel’s Great Great Grandfather
William Aitken Johnston – Great Great Grandfather
Creed
William Creed, great great great Grandfather
Grandfather’s middle name
Kahurangi has met his little brother, and told everyone to be quiet because he is sleeping.
Updated
Fixing William P White.
Update 2
Adding some more William information
Kahurangi’s daycare had a safari themed day, so his mum dressed him up as an entomologist. (Not into dressing kids up in camo gear)
On Saturday we took Kahurangi out to sleep over with his cousin Manaia. It was the first time he has slept at his Aunty and Uncle’s house, and it went pretty well. From what Donna has said they had a lot of fun and some pretty funny quotes came out of it. One of the best ones was when Julian was in his office using the computer and Kahu walked in and said
Move Julian, I need to do some work
They listened to Olivia (a story they both love) and were yelling “Olivia” so Donna said no yelling inside. So they went to the window and yelled at it, thinking that was yelling outside. They also made Anzac biscuits, Kahu loves baking with his Aunty, and eating the results of baking too.
They both went to sleep ok, but around 3am Manaia woke up and came to the room Kahu was sleeping in and knocked on the door until Donna let him in. So they ended sharing a bed until 7 when they woke up.
Today we all met up for Yum Cha and then the Wellington Orchestra doing a special concert for kids.
I spotted that there is going to be another Koha workshop in Kenya next week. This will be the second workshop to be held.
I hope it goes well, and I hope as Translation Manager we can get some more African Translations of Koha on http://translate.koha.org
The Staff at Horowhenua Library Trust
Most people familiar with the Koha ILS will have heard of Rosalie Blake and Joann Ransom from HLT who played the biggest roles in creating Koha. What people probably won’t have thought about is all the other librarians and staff at HLT who all played major roles in the creation of Koha. I’m not going to name names because I may accidentally leave someone out, and causing offence is the last thing these posts were designed to do.
But be it the circulation librarians explaining to me how they circulate books, or them putting up with the occasional segmentation fault of the underlying C code in the circulation interace. Or the acquisitions and cataloguing staff spending countless hours explaining how they work to a programmer who just seems unable to grasp it 🙂 Or just the bucket of Cookie time cookies I got given for Christmas one year. All these things, and many more like them, are reasons why Koha exists and is successful.
This morning I was listening to “The little things” from Trinity Roots … it’s main line is “It’s the little things that really matter” and it is true, it is and always has been the Thank You’s and the smiles that have kept me working on Koha.
Anthony Mao
I’m not exactly sure when Anthony first became involved in Koha, I know it was before 2006 when he contributed a Chinese translation of Paul Poulains Logiciel documentaire. Anthony is a big part of the koha-taiwan group, which provides numerous resources in Chinese. He has played a big part in getting Koha installed in Libraries in Taiwan and also in mainland China. Including as far as I know, the first public library in China to be running Koha, Qin Xian County Public Library, in the ShanXi province.
So Anthony, I would like to say Xie Xie to you. (I tried to do it in chinese characters but the stupid database kept wrecking the utf8, I will have to fix that)
Roger Buck
Although Roger Buck was the 10th and first Australian committer to Koha, his real claim to fame was setting up and maintaining the first Koha wiki. But more than that, he actually put a lot of content on it. 🙂 He set the wiki up on the 20th of March 2002, and it lived there until it was shifted to it’s current home some 3 years or so later. Roger was also a frequent contributor on the mailing lists, helping out other users.
I’m gonna pull out the Australian stereotypes on this one and say “Bonza Roger”
Our new son is proving to be a contrary one already. Last night he pretended that he was ready to arrive, pretty much all night, then decided nope, not yet. That plus the, I won’t show you what gender I am until you have decided you want to wait and be suprised, stunt he pulled already leads us to believe he is going to follow in his big brothers footsteps.
We are back on wait and see mode again now, hopefully he either arrives or doesn’t and Laurel can get a good nights sleep, no more false labour though.
Kōrerorero 