The Cutajar Blog

So where is everyone?

Well, as you can see, this blog has been pretty quite as late. That's because we all have our own blogs now and are busy working away on those. Here's where we all are:

Arthur

Arthur's First Steps

Camille

Owen

See you around !

Baby Arthur has his own website

Arthur has his own website: owenson.info. We decided to give him a different surname as a unique gift to help him stand out in the future (he won't have to spell it out to everyone also). Anyway, check out his website: Arthur Owenson

More Arthur photos

More baby pictures of little Arthur up on Flickr: Baby - a photoset on Flickr

And keep your eyes peeled ... he wants a blog of his very own too. Coming to your browsers soon!

Keeping baby happy

And now for something completely different: Seven reasons babies cry and how to soothe them.

Father and Son

Father and son
Originally uploaded by owencutajar.

Here's my favourite photo so far. Dad and son sharing a moment just before leaving hospital to go home.

The more I use Flickr, the more I like it. Check out the Baby collection here

We have a baby boy!

It's a boy!! Last night Camille gave birth to a little boy, perfectly healthy. Both mum and babe doing fine.

If you want the fine detail, the baby was born at 7:48, weighing 7 pounds 12 ounces (around 3.5kg). We've been toying with a couple of names, but haven't settled on one yet; more details when we get there.

It was a pretty guelling experience; Camille had a full 5 days of contractions before having her labour pushed forward on Wednesday. All was fine in the end; the pain was all worth it. I'll be posting up more photos onto Flickr soon; so have a look there.

Have a great 2006

And that's the end of 2005! It's been quite an eventful year; we've got pregnant, closed down our shop in Staines, moved to the Isle of Man and had a host of changes in our lives. We haven't quite won the lottery yet, but Hope's impending arrival is just as thrilling!

2006 opens up with our child due to the born any day now! As parenthood beckons, I'm sure this year will be more eventful and exciting than the last. Hope you guys have a great 2006 also!

Isle of Man move

Well, after a year of commuting to the Isle of Man, we have finally moved over and are having the baby here in January. This means I can now walk to work, instead of having to fly over and also means I should be able to get some more family time in. Here's some photos of our new abode:

Eventful Sunday

Yesterday was quite an eventful day, which was unexpected as Sundays are usually quite quiet at Casa Cutajar. The first big thing was that we have stopped taking orders from The Joke Shop. We've been running the site for a number of years now; and it had grown from a germ of an idea to a full-fledged multi-channel retail project with an outlet in Staines and sales online through it's website and eBay. But since we've had Hope on the way and the pending move to the Isle of Man, we needed to focus on our home-life once again and closing down The Joke Shop was part of that. We're hoping to sell the website and corresponding stock if we can; so if you know anyone who fancies running an online business, just give me a shout.

Yesterday I also had an amazing experience. Camille's been telling me that she's been feeling the baby move for quite a few weeks now, but as the baby's getting older, it's movements have been more and more pronounced. Yesterday I actually felt the baby kick which is astonishing as Camille is still in her 2nd trimester. It was only one of the many movements and kicks she felt while we were feeling for the baby, but it was very significant to me. After all the difficulty in getting pregnant, the pregnancy has been great so far, let's hope it stays that way!