10) I like going for rides in the car and going shopping... those are some of my best nap times!
9) 5:00 am is my favorite time of the day! I don't want to miss a minute of the day!
8) I like to give my mom "special showers" when she least expects it!
7) I like to be quiet and shy for my guests so they keep coming back to see me!
6) Who needs toys when my hands are soooooo interesting!
5) I like to change clothes as often as my mom does!
4) When I'm all bundled up and buckled into my car seat is the best time for a diaper change!
3) I'm always ready for my close up! I'm so photogenic!
2) Books, music and rocking relax me when I'm upset.
1) Cuddles with mom and dad are THE BEST!
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Sunday, January 21, 2007
My First Week
This week I spent my time playing with my parents and grandparents. I really liked laying in the sun and playing with grandma! Then great grandma Ennos came to see me! I was on my best behavior for her and slept in her arms for hours!
I have a few things figured out now, I know I get fed every 3 hours or so and I know that baths are not much fun. Mostly I know that I love to be cuddled and that there is always someone who wants to cuddle with me!
I have been watching mommy as she does all of my laundry and I'm thinking up ways that I can make more all the time! And I've been watching my daddy set up all of these cool toys for me. He seems a bit frustrated with how they go together but he tells me they will be worth it when they're done! Thanks to everyone for all the nice gifts, so far my favourites are my warm clothes and my soother. Daddy tells me he might let me play with some of the others soon too!
It's been a great first week for me! I just can't figure out why everyone else looks so tired?
Friday, January 19, 2007
Message from Mommy
Hmmm.... life seems a little different around here. I have been meaning to get around to answering a few emails and making some phone calls but I haven't quite gotten around to it. Wonder why?
Cale, Jay and I are doing well and are so happy to be home. We want to thank all of you for the overwhelming support and congratulations. Jay would bring the messages to me in the hospital from all of you and they raised my spirits after such few hours of sleep. We are so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends.
As we settle in, we would love to have visitors, phone calls, emails (although they might go unanswered for awhile).
Cale, Jay and I are doing well and are so happy to be home. We want to thank all of you for the overwhelming support and congratulations. Jay would bring the messages to me in the hospital from all of you and they raised my spirits after such few hours of sleep. We are so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends.
As we settle in, we would love to have visitors, phone calls, emails (although they might go unanswered for awhile).
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Monday, January 15, 2007
What's In a Name?
CALE MORRISON FLADAGER - The history of a name…
Many people ask for the roots of “the name” when a child is born. The names we chosen have great meaning for us personally:
First giving respect to the Fladager male lineage having a middle name beginning with “M”. Grandpa Fladager had Mobel Martin, dad has Fergus Meredith, I have Jay Michael and now Cale has Cale Morrison.
Second, we liked that each of the middle names of the Fladager males has the “next vowel” of the educational a,e,i,o, u pattern as the second letter: as above Martin, Meredith, Michael, and now Morrison… implying I guess, that the next generation will have to deal with a Mu as the first 2 letters… good luck with that Cale!
Next, there are 7 letters between the “F” and an “M” for Fergus and Mobel. Then there are 4 letters between the “F” and “J” for Fergus and Jay. The pattern continues as there are 7 letters between the “C” for Cale and the ”J” for Jay. Implying again that Cale will have to deal with his child having a four letter away pattern making it a first name beginning with a “G”.
With all of this said, I can just see this grandchild of mine, Geoffrey Muckler Fladager or perhaps Geraldine Muffy Fladager!
Ok, we’ve gone too far now! The actual name references are found below! Pay attention to each of the italicized words as they are what drew us to these names.
Thirty-seven years have passed since the breakup of the Velvet Underground. For most of that time, it has been hard to imagine what rock and roll would be like if the band had never existed. In popular music, as in almost everything else, success is usually about arithmetic. You’re only as big as the cumulative weight of your numbers: chart figures, concert attendance, press hurrahs, and your record label’s after-tax profits. Therefore, in the mid – and late 60’s, by every accepted measure of the time, the Velvet Underground were a most remarkable failure.
From 1965 – 1970, the Velvet Underground recorded four studio albums – none of which cracked the top 100. When the band broke up in 1970, they were tired, broke and barely mourned, remembered mostly for their brief heyday as protégés of the pop-art superstar Andy Warhol. However, the Velvets changed rock & roll in spectacular and fundamental ways. The original line-up which featured guitarist and vocalist Lou Reed, bassist, pianist and viola player John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison and drummer Maureen Tucker liberated music from the parochial enthusiasms of teenage innocence, setting contentious but enduring standards for white noise and narrative realism in popular music. Producer / artist Brian Eno remarked that, “hardly anyone bought the group’s records when they first came out, but those who did went on to form their own bands”. They directly influenced legends such as David Bowie, Roxy Music, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Iggy Pop, Joy Division, R.E.M., U2, Henry Rollins, Nirvana and Sonic Youth.
Sterling Morrison stated, “We never had an agenda for success”. They only goal was the power of possibility achieved through the willful exploitation of tension in the most real and brutally honest way. Andy Warhol mused that the, “Velvets were great because they didn’t try to make it slick and smooth and ruin it”. It was all real, sincere, aboveboard and they were exactly as they seemed to be.
John Cale, born in Garnant Wales, is a classically trained pianist and viola player. As a young student at Goldsmith College of Art in London he wrote his first symphonies and won the prestigious Leonard Bernstein Scholarship in Modern Composition as selected by Aaron Copeland. However, his love of the avant-garde drew him to New York to the dada-ist Fluxus movement and LaMonte Young’s proto-minimalist performing group. Cale combined his classical talent with his ability to use discord, silence and feedback to define the Velvet Underground art-rock sound.
Sterling Morrison was also classically trained as a trumpet player but was drawn to the freedom of the guitar at an early age. He attained a Ph. D. in medieval studies and taught English literature at various universities. Sterling's guitar playing was key for a group used to backbeats and blues. Rhythmically, he was all angles, adding a jagged edge to a rounded rock & roll style. John Cale said of his friend that, “He was always unpretentious, he had a thirst for knowledge, a pride in his children and a deeply impressive dignity as he struggled through and succumbed to his illness (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma).
Beyond influencing us musically, these men define the ability to look at the world differently and see it for what it could be. This is tremendously appealing to us as parents. We highly value the ability to function successfully in society while understanding all of the nuances that made the success attainable. We admire the ability to look beyond the obvious and see things for how they really are, break them apart, provide discord and rearrange things for others to see differently as well. At the same time these men also represent the utmost of respect and humility. No success came without work, none without praise and gratitude and none without love and the best of intentions.
What’s in a name…
Many people ask for the roots of “the name” when a child is born. The names we chosen have great meaning for us personally:
First giving respect to the Fladager male lineage having a middle name beginning with “M”. Grandpa Fladager had Mobel Martin, dad has Fergus Meredith, I have Jay Michael and now Cale has Cale Morrison.
Second, we liked that each of the middle names of the Fladager males has the “next vowel” of the educational a,e,i,o, u pattern as the second letter: as above Martin, Meredith, Michael, and now Morrison… implying I guess, that the next generation will have to deal with a Mu as the first 2 letters… good luck with that Cale!
Next, there are 7 letters between the “F” and an “M” for Fergus and Mobel. Then there are 4 letters between the “F” and “J” for Fergus and Jay. The pattern continues as there are 7 letters between the “C” for Cale and the ”J” for Jay. Implying again that Cale will have to deal with his child having a four letter away pattern making it a first name beginning with a “G”.
With all of this said, I can just see this grandchild of mine, Geoffrey Muckler Fladager or perhaps Geraldine Muffy Fladager!
Ok, we’ve gone too far now! The actual name references are found below! Pay attention to each of the italicized words as they are what drew us to these names.
Thirty-seven years have passed since the breakup of the Velvet Underground. For most of that time, it has been hard to imagine what rock and roll would be like if the band had never existed. In popular music, as in almost everything else, success is usually about arithmetic. You’re only as big as the cumulative weight of your numbers: chart figures, concert attendance, press hurrahs, and your record label’s after-tax profits. Therefore, in the mid – and late 60’s, by every accepted measure of the time, the Velvet Underground were a most remarkable failure.
From 1965 – 1970, the Velvet Underground recorded four studio albums – none of which cracked the top 100. When the band broke up in 1970, they were tired, broke and barely mourned, remembered mostly for their brief heyday as protégés of the pop-art superstar Andy Warhol. However, the Velvets changed rock & roll in spectacular and fundamental ways. The original line-up which featured guitarist and vocalist Lou Reed, bassist, pianist and viola player John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison and drummer Maureen Tucker liberated music from the parochial enthusiasms of teenage innocence, setting contentious but enduring standards for white noise and narrative realism in popular music. Producer / artist Brian Eno remarked that, “hardly anyone bought the group’s records when they first came out, but those who did went on to form their own bands”. They directly influenced legends such as David Bowie, Roxy Music, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Iggy Pop, Joy Division, R.E.M., U2, Henry Rollins, Nirvana and Sonic Youth.
Sterling Morrison stated, “We never had an agenda for success”. They only goal was the power of possibility achieved through the willful exploitation of tension in the most real and brutally honest way. Andy Warhol mused that the, “Velvets were great because they didn’t try to make it slick and smooth and ruin it”. It was all real, sincere, aboveboard and they were exactly as they seemed to be.
John Cale, born in Garnant Wales, is a classically trained pianist and viola player. As a young student at Goldsmith College of Art in London he wrote his first symphonies and won the prestigious Leonard Bernstein Scholarship in Modern Composition as selected by Aaron Copeland. However, his love of the avant-garde drew him to New York to the dada-ist Fluxus movement and LaMonte Young’s proto-minimalist performing group. Cale combined his classical talent with his ability to use discord, silence and feedback to define the Velvet Underground art-rock sound.
Sterling Morrison was also classically trained as a trumpet player but was drawn to the freedom of the guitar at an early age. He attained a Ph. D. in medieval studies and taught English literature at various universities. Sterling's guitar playing was key for a group used to backbeats and blues. Rhythmically, he was all angles, adding a jagged edge to a rounded rock & roll style. John Cale said of his friend that, “He was always unpretentious, he had a thirst for knowledge, a pride in his children and a deeply impressive dignity as he struggled through and succumbed to his illness (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma).
Beyond influencing us musically, these men define the ability to look at the world differently and see it for what it could be. This is tremendously appealing to us as parents. We highly value the ability to function successfully in society while understanding all of the nuances that made the success attainable. We admire the ability to look beyond the obvious and see things for how they really are, break them apart, provide discord and rearrange things for others to see differently as well. At the same time these men also represent the utmost of respect and humility. No success came without work, none without praise and gratitude and none without love and the best of intentions.
What’s in a name…
The Arrival!
He's Here!!!!!
January 15th (Martin Luther King Jr. Day and 3 days before his beloved Aunt Lisa's B'day)at 9:26 am, the world was introduced to our pride and joy, Cale Morrison Fladager. At 6 lbs 15 oz. and 50.5 cm long he came bursting onto the scene with a good strong cry and a twinkle in his eye! He has a good amount of brown wavy hair and brown / green eyes. He is as healthy and happy as his mom with his dad's sense of seriousness and down to businessness.
The birth was relatively short after having waited out most of the bad parts at home before going to the hospital. This made the whole experience go by rather quickly and uneventfully.
Both sets of grandparents as well as aunt Lisa, uncle Trevor and friend Wendy have been by to see him. You can see them beaming and looking on with wonder in the posted photos.
Thanks to all who have been waiting so patiently / impatiently, your prayers and well wishes are appreciated!
Check out the posting that explains the meaning behind the name and the great DAY 1 pictures we took. Such a handsome boy!
January 15th (Martin Luther King Jr. Day and 3 days before his beloved Aunt Lisa's B'day)at 9:26 am, the world was introduced to our pride and joy, Cale Morrison Fladager. At 6 lbs 15 oz. and 50.5 cm long he came bursting onto the scene with a good strong cry and a twinkle in his eye! He has a good amount of brown wavy hair and brown / green eyes. He is as healthy and happy as his mom with his dad's sense of seriousness and down to businessness.
The birth was relatively short after having waited out most of the bad parts at home before going to the hospital. This made the whole experience go by rather quickly and uneventfully.
Both sets of grandparents as well as aunt Lisa, uncle Trevor and friend Wendy have been by to see him. You can see them beaming and looking on with wonder in the posted photos.
Thanks to all who have been waiting so patiently / impatiently, your prayers and well wishes are appreciated!
Check out the posting that explains the meaning behind the name and the great DAY 1 pictures we took. Such a handsome boy!
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Still Waiting...
Many of you have been wondering what is going on. Well, the answer is NOTHING! I am on my maternity leave now so I am using the time to rest up before our world becomes taken over by something under 10 pounds (hopefully). I am hoping that in the next post we will have much more to report.
Thank you all for your care and concern. It is so nice to know that you are all wishing us the best. This baby is spoiled already!
Thank you all for your care and concern. It is so nice to know that you are all wishing us the best. This baby is spoiled already!
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Happy New Year!
Well, we were hoping for a New Year's baby but we are still waiting. Consequently, the New Year's baby born in Regina was actually due on January 22. That was a little tough to swallow. I guess our baby has found a fairly comfortable spot for awhile and is content to stay put. Jay keeps reminding me that I am due on January 12th so we shouldn't be so impatient.
Thanks for all of the comments you have been making. It's been fun reading them. I'm also glad to see that you are passing along the address to others since I don't have everyone's email address. It really does make the miles seem less when we get comments from all of you.
As for the "green thing" that many of you have commented on. It doesn't show up very well in the photos but it's actually a giant leaf. Since we don't have a back yard, we thought we would create an indoor garden for the baby. Hope that clears some confusion up.
We wish you all health, happiness, joy, and peace this new year!
Thanks for all of the comments you have been making. It's been fun reading them. I'm also glad to see that you are passing along the address to others since I don't have everyone's email address. It really does make the miles seem less when we get comments from all of you.
As for the "green thing" that many of you have commented on. It doesn't show up very well in the photos but it's actually a giant leaf. Since we don't have a back yard, we thought we would create an indoor garden for the baby. Hope that clears some confusion up.
We wish you all health, happiness, joy, and peace this new year!
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