Atarau is settling in nicely, and we are starting to find our rhythm. Ata is finding it all pretty boring.
Meanwhile Kahurangi is having tons of fun with his ‘letters’
The bottom word says “kahurangi” according to him, not a bad effort I reckon.
Tag: te po atarau
Back at home
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.
Update from the Hospital
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.
Te Po Atarau has arrived
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
False alert
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.
Only a month to go
The due date is June 6, and going on our experience with Kahurangi that means anytime from now. We still don’t know if a boy or a girl will be arriving, we have one more scan but have decided if we haven’t known this long we might as well wait.
This time around Laurel has her bag packed already and a birth plan written out, so there should be less of me running around like a mentalhead throwing random things into a bag.
Wellington Hospital has a bunch of brand new birthing suites, well a few months old now, which is good because they will have discovered and fixed all the little glitches (just like a software project) that crept in during the build.
Blinky Baby
Another stubborn one
We went for another scan today, and the baby decided to keep his/her legs crossed the entire time. So it’s going to be a suprise.
Here’s a random photo of his/her head.
Laurel is fairly sure it’s a boy, she doesn’t know why, so we will find out in a couple of months.
Its Official, Number 2 is on the way
We went in for Laurel’s 12 week scan this week, and everything is all good. So by June Kahurangi should have a brother or a sister.
We don’t have a working name for this one yet, I suggested Sharpie Pen, since Kahu was Crayon. But Laurel was having none of it, leave any suggestions in the comments.
