Another one coming - Sweepstake open for Sept/Oct birth dates

[lejoueurdepipeau]

Brilliant news - even though I didn't win the guessing game! Congratulations to you all! Welcome to the world little Pawasdee!

[playtowin]

Oooohhh the excitement ... the anticipation .....

Up until Monday this week, the doc and the missus were all set for sometime around the end of this month, then after a checkup (or should that be a checkdown?) on Monday evening, the doc decided Missis Gaz had to go in today if baby was not making it's own plans.

As far as the sweepstake goes, - playtowin (appropriately named) was closest with 22 Sept ... does it count if birth is induced early?

Baby Pawasdee (pronounced Pah-wa-dee) arrived at 2:09pm this afternoon (Bangkok time) weighing 3.3Kg.
She has masses of wavy black hair (unlike her brother Edward who still looks like he has none) and is going to be a singer (again unlike Edward, who never squawked once in his first 48 hours).

She has Tan's eyes and nose, and at times looks likes Tan's Mum, and at other times like my Mum's Mum. She's also a fuss-puss and won't lie still if no-one is holding her or giving her a finger to hold onto.

Tan is doing surprisingly well - labour was only 2 hours (induced) and she might be getting kicked out of the hospital tomorrow (i.e. within 24 hours of going in). As neither the doctor or the nurses had ever seen me, they were surprised at Pawasdee's light colouring, elicited that her dad is a westerner, and immediately bumped Tan from a four-bed side ward to a private room .... at 2 1/2 times the price of where she was first put. Grrrrr. Tan's going to try and swing the whole thing under the 30-Baht (50p) government health scheme (good girl - she's finally learning <wink>).

Half the village were at the hospital this evening, including all the Grannies and Aged-Aunts, nieces, cousins and so on. Tan will be going straight over to the village for a month when she's released so they can fuss over her and the kids ... and so I can have a serious month's work trying to rebuild my online income, because we're sure going to need it - the decision has been made to shut Tan's bricks and mortar shop before the end of this month, because it's making less than a quid a day and not covering costs (obviously). And that comes on top of fleece-bay giving me a prolonged forced holiday that started on 31 August (I've got zilch earnings so far this month).


I'll be posting photos in my album on FaceBook a bit later, once I've got all the emails sent (if you haven't got a link - just search FaceBook for this selling ID - you'll find me.

Dunno if it'll work, but I'll try linking to the photos there to also post them on here. Gimme an hour or so as they have to be web-optimised first.

Gaz

Awe, congratulations to you all- hope mun and babe are doing ok and home soon.

[maroy41]

Mrs Gaz is expecting again and number 1 son is still not out of pampers.

I blame New Year's Eve, Burn's Night, Chinese New Year (take your pick.)

So sweepstake's open - pick your date - oh, and the two girls were midnight-ish and junior was mid-evening - just in case you want to take a stab at the time too.

hohum - I must stop sucking my finger and poking it in her ear.

By the way congratulations

[gazlannathai]

OK, here we go with photos - more on my FaceBook profile



And just so he doesn't feel left out, I thought you might like to see how Edward's training as an express deliveries rider is progressing



I'll try to get more pictures later today. Tan's going to be released tomorrow, then she'll be heading straight to the village for a month to be fussed over by the shamans and bead-shakers (wink - LOL)

Laterz
Gaz

[meebo1]

All three are lovely.

[shezz]

My guess is the


18th September @ around hmmmmmmmm 2.09 ish

























Ok ok

Cograts gaz glad everything went great, will keep eye out for photo's, hope business picks up for you

[Spyder1942]

7th Oct 1.35am Lick your fingers but put plastic gloves on before you poke her ear.

[gazlannathai]

Hmmmm

Finks I need to change the title of this thread?

Thanks everyone - just back from hospital and they'll be getting out tomorrow, which means I'll be spending the morning doing the run around of the halls of non-English-speaking bureaucracy to get all the paperwork cleared (sigh - what they don't realise is that I know that to get the jobs they've got, they had to complete an extra 4 years of English as part of their degrees at uni, on top of the compulsory 10 years of English in Junior and High School - really P's me off at times it does).

Looks like little miss's short name is going to be Dee - my Mum says she can't get her tongue around the full name - LOL - hope she lives up to it (in Thai "dee" means "good").

Right I'm off to treat myself with a couple of hours playing mindless games on the 'puter, then it's back to the grindstone prepping and uploading listings for here, there, and my webbies.

Gaz

[cornishmaid1961]

Awwww congratulations mummy & daddy Gaz !