Growing news!!!

The last year, our first in Seattle, has been a wonderful one. One would think that it would be hard to top off a wedding, house, new town, mountain excursions, and all that. Well, we certainly found a way! We're expecting a baby this summer!!! Melissa is now 24 weeks pregnant - time flies. Everything is going very well, despite the bumps of pregnancy.

The baby is more and more active everyday. Feeling her (it's a girl!) move is wonderful.

A couple of weeks ago we went for an ultrasound. They checked all the organs, limbs, heart (amazing to see the 4 chambers and everything already working). It was very impressive to see how active and interactive she already is.

Here are a few pictures from the ultrasound. Most of them are a little strange, but some of you (grandparents!) might enjoy looking at them.

First one is a profile, and the next one is the nifty 3-D image they do. That's a very neat software... Luc is still trying to figure out exactly how they do it.

For geeks, you can check out that little clip. It starts with the profile view, then they pick the domain for the 3-D image, and the little face appears... Her left hand is touching her left cheek in the video. The dark spot on the right hand side of her face is the out of focus umbilical cord. It takes a little bit to figure out what is what, but when you do, it's amazingly adorable.

We're definitely very excited.

Weekend in Vancouver

We just had a fabulous weekend in Vancouver! It has been one year since Melissa moved to Seattle, and we finally made it to BC. We took Friday off (it was Luc's birthday) and drove up to Vancouver. Clouds rolled in as we were heading north, but that didn't tamper our spirit. We stayed for 2 nights in a cute little B&B in the West Side called The Corkscrew Inn. Very cute... with fun stain glass windows and even a little corkscrew (!) museum.

It was a wonderful relaxing weekend. We took long walks on Kitsilano Beach (pictured above), went to the VanDusen Botanical Garden where we got a few good ideas for our yard, and ... wait for it ... went to see a curling match!!!



It tuned out that the World Junior Curling Championship was going on at the new olympic center last weekend. We saw the semi-finals saturday night (women: Canada vs Switzerland; men: Denmark vs US). Melissa had never seen curling... It was very enternaining. The new building are nice... although not quite finished.



The end of the games were a little confusing... I need to brush up on the rules. Anyway, the Canadian girls won that night, but eventually lost to Scotland, and the boys from Denmark won the game we saw, and went on to become the junior world champions the next day.

We spent our sunday morning at the market at Granville Island. It started to snow during lunch, but stopped as soon as we left the city and the sun even came out for the drive back. All and all, a fantastic weekend! It's fun to get away.