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April 5, 2010 Leave a Comment
This is great fun for Anoush. She can move almost all the groceries we bring home from the back door to the kitchen. She impresses us with her knowledge of the food as she picks up each package. Enjoy!
December 31, 2009 1 Comment
Tera, Anoush and I wish you a very happy, healthy and successful 2010! Although it is not possible to have all those who are important to us in the same place at the same time to ring in the New Year, know you are with us in spirit.
Tonight, we celebrate 2010 with Roza and Tatevik. Roza has made a tremendous feast of ham, crepes (blinchiq), chicken, salads, fruits and six types of deserts including my favorite Gavar Paklava (22 layers of thin dough with walnuts and honey). We hope in the year ahead we will be able to share a similar joy with you.
Happy New Year!
December 25, 2009 Leave a Comment
Christmas Greetings from Armenia! We are spending the holidays in Armenia, where December 25th is just another day, as Christmas will be celebrated here on January 6 based on the Armenian Apostolic calendar. Whenever or whatever you celebrate, may this be a special holiday season for you and your family!
December 17, 2009 Leave a Comment
In Week 22, baby breaks the one pound marker and is about eight inches in length. Baby now has a good ability to grip, has grown eyelashes, eyebrows and is growing hair on the head, which has no pigment at this point (though we’re secretly hoping for a red head this time).
December 12, 2009 2 Comments
Later this week, we’ll be departing Bristol for a three week vacation to Armenia to celebrate Christmas and the New Year in Armenian-style. This means we’ll have limited communication through the holidays and would like to express our early wishes for a happy holiday season to all!
Some of you have the habit of sending us small Christmas packages this time of year, and while they are always much appreciated, we’re requesting that everyone ‘hold the gifts’ this time, and instead send us a happy holidays email in lieu of pretty wrapped packages. Since we’ll be away and unable to retrieve packages, it’s possible that they would be returned to their senders, which just means wasted postage and frustration for you. Furthermore, our mailing address is soon to change as we’re moving into a new apartment mid-January after returning from Armenia.
December 12, 2009 Leave a Comment
You Sprague Baby Belly Picture Fans are in luck. After a delay, the Baby Belly Growth Chart is back! It will go on hiatus for a few weeks when we’re in Armenia, but here is the first installation – Week 21. You will notice that Week 21 for Baby II is significantly more prominent than Week 21 was for Anoush!
By now, our little one is very active, can hear our voices, sense light and darkness, and even has developed taste buds! At 21 weeks, baby is about 7 inches in length and around 11 ounces in weight.
December 12, 2009 Leave a Comment
It’s been quite some time since we’ve posted anything here on our website, and while many of you have been keeping up with us via Facebook, others of you have been completely left in the dark. Here’s a quick update on the Sprague family. Both of us have completed our masters degrees (Terra’s an MEd and Jason’s an MBA), graduating from their universities with high honors and are still living in Bristol, England.
Jason is working as a management consultant for Happold Consulting based out of their Bath office. He travels two or three days a week to client sites in Manchester, London and Birmingham and the balance of the time works in the Bath office or from home. He helps clients to plan and implement change processes in their businesses. He’s also staying busy helping in a volunteer capacity as a trustee for Changes Bristol, a non-profit charity that offers talking therapy for people with mental health problems.
Terra is working on a contract basis at the University of Bristol’s Graduate School of Education doing some report editing, researching and writing on a variety of projects. Most notably, she’s helping to write and manage the production process of an upcoming book about educational priorities in small states of the commonwealth, which is due to complete by Easter. She’s still on the hunt for funding to start her PhD next autumn, researching cultural impacts of recent education reforms in small states, Armenia in particular.
Anoush is growing leaps and bounds in both physical and cognitive senses. She’s a 20 month old cuddly chatter box who is quickly learning the art of wielding her free will. Here favourite phrases now are “happy day” and “you okay?” She loves to help Mom with laundry and sweeping the floor. She is very good at entertaining herself and loves playing with her dolls and stuffed animals, coloring and is still a big fan of reading and going to the library.
We have some big family changes on the horizon as well. If you haven’t heard, we’re expecting a baby mid April. Tera is 22 weeks pregnant and feeling well with a returned sense of energy and enjoying the second trimester. Given the circumstances of Anoush’s birth, she’ll have a late-pregnancy scan around 37 weeks to be sure this baby doesn’t prefer the breech presentation, and provided a normal presentation, will be allowed a home birth with the midwifes. Given our growing family situation, we’re also moving into a larger apartment after the first of the year. We are still in Bristol and will actually be moving just five minutes up the road from our current place. If you’d like our new address, let us know and we’ll gladly send it to you via email.
November 8, 2009 Leave a Comment
For those of you who are not Facebook Users, we’ve imported the photos here for you to see. Click this link to see the new pictures. Enjoy!
June 10, 2009 Leave a Comment
Tonight, I added Tera’s Facebook photos. Go to the Facebook Photo page to see them. There are some great ones of Anoush!
Sorry, they are not easy to navigate yet. I hope to have some time this summer to improve that but until them, use your ‘middle click’ to view the pictures in a new window or tab.
May 6, 2009 2 Comments
Apologies for the long silence. We will post photos and an update soon.