New arrival!
On Friday 4th September 2009 at 1:04 am Mitchell David Sinclair arrived!

Things all went relatively smoothly, Shelli's labour was only 2 1/2 hours and Shelli gave birth just under half an hour after we got to the hospital!
Mitchell weighed in at 4.2kg (9lb 6) and immediately demonstrated a decent set of pipes. 

Although the hospital staff were very good we decided to go home as soon as possible and after the doctors arrived at 9:00 and gave Mitchell a clean bill of health we checked out and went home.

The first 4 days have been good, but very busy.  The first couple of nights were a bit rough and Mitchell was a bit sleepy and jaundiced and it was hard to get a proper feed into him but now he's really into the swing of it and drinking very well, sleeping lots and is very awake and alert during his wake times.

Shelli is now wearing a ski-boot type thing on her foot which lets her walk around the house nearly normally.  She'll be out of that in another couple of weeks. (She fell over and broke a bone in her foot 3 weeks ago...)

Sooo... Its just dawned on me that we have 3 kids under 5.  It sounds scary when you say it like that.  Abby is 4 now, and she is good little girl most of the time, she is very responsible and quite advanced for her age - she is reading quite well now, she reads stories to Lachie.  By the time Mitchell is mobile and getting into mischief she'll be a very handy little helper - I hope.

Our house will hopefully start construction this month, and will be ready in may-june next year.  So far away!  We can't wait to move in, it will be fantastic to have all that space.

It certainly seems like this blog has fallen into disuse, like so many blogs on the internet.  But it is an excellent way to publish updates of what we are doing, and I find it facinating looking back at entries and comments from a few years ago (which is normally only 4 or 5 posts back...)
I really need to do some work on it to make it a bit more useable, then hopefully we'll actually use it more...

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Thanks
John

5 minutes old (surprisingly he didn't mind this)	Resting after the big event	Abby and Mitchell	Surprise! (he didn't like the flash)	Awww
Who are you??	Planning for world domination already	First bath	Actually this is alright

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