Happy Halloween!

Is it Wednesday already? Another week is just flying by. This is probably my last pregnancy and I am trying to savour it, but time just whips away. My due date is in less than five weeks now; I can't believe it. I will be a bit sad to not be pregnant anymore, but I also can't wait to hold my beautiful little baby in my arms and look at that sweet, pudgy little face.

Today is Halloween so we're going to a family fun event here in town. Then there will be fireworks at the beach beside our house, so we'll sit out on the patio and watch. Fun!

Showing me what a froggy does (sticks out his tongue)

Wuzup?

This thing wants to get fresh with my husband

Our Visit to the Dinosaur Show

Stuck in the car again
Angelina wasn't sure what to think about Timbits. She took about a half hour to eat one. Kailea popped them into her mouth whole one after another. Looking at the Dinosaurs
Daddy, I don't really like this part! Crayons are more fun than dinosaurs.

Baby and the Belly

I ambushed the little one as she was waking up. Good morning sunshine!
Little Miss Muffin
Some people wanted to see a belly pic. Oops, not the best shot, but there's the belly.
Angelina loves the new baby already. She rubs and kisses my belly. What a wonderful sister she will be.
A picture of my two babes together. And Dabba too.

Smarty Pants

I haven't been teaching Angelina her colours becuase I thought she was too young. Then last week we tried asking her for her toys by colour and she picked up the right one every time. Then she picked up a yellow one and said "ya-yo" without being asked. Turns out she can say most of the colours too! And I had no freaking idea.


Seeing her soak up knowledge like she has been makes me so glad that I raise her. She learns so much and I want it to be the right stuff. I take my job very serously, and make sure her days are full and varied. If Angelina was in a daycare she would only go on an outing once a month. We are out most of the time, seeing all different people and places. And at a daycare, no one would be reading to Angelina very much. I think that with seven children for every one adult, if Angelina was in a daycare she would tend to hit and have tantrums, because that's what she would have to do to get attention. Daycares are a good thing for some kids, but not mine.

I keep wanting to go to one of these Tupperware parties. That one is like a week before my due date, so I can't be sure if I can make it, Ang. How is the wedding photography going? I tried to take a picture of the Canada butt, but this is the best I could do so far:



I'll have to try again when she is both wearing the suit and standing still. Good luck to me.

YAY!!!!

The jogging suit finally fits!!! She looks sooo cute in it! I love the butt that says CANADA... If we have a girl.... I MEAN.... when we have a little girl,you might have to hand it back down to me... I love it!! :)

Glad to hear you had a good Thanksgiving... We didn't do too much, I photographed a wedding on the saturday, so had turkey dinner there. Bryce went to his Grandmas that night. The next day we had a dinner at my moms house, which I must complain I was an hour 1/2 late for because of some meth head that wanted to jump off the bridge and had drank too much wine... "Kids, a whole bottle of methadone and a whole bottle of wine aren't good for washing down turkey dinner!" So ya, finally got off work and made it for dinner, and then Thanksgiving day, Bryce and I stayed home and watched TV, while he did school work and I worked on getting pictures edited.

What is everyone else up to??? would like to hear from you...

Does anyone want to come to a tupperware party in vernon on Nov.23??? you should come... I know, it sounds boring, I thought that before I went to sammi's on the weekend ("I said BEFORE, Sammi !! :) and then we had soo much fun..and got lots of free stuff. Our Tupperware Lady rocks! I will remind you all closer to the date as well.

My Little Pumpkin

We had another good weekend. I made a huge Thanksgiving dinner and Matt was kind enough to do all the gross parts of the Turkey, which is almost everything for the Turkey. Angelina was the life of the party. She was playing games with everyone and feeding each person veggies and dip.

Ang, remember this pretty suit that you got for Angelina before she was born?

Love at first sight. I didn't get my camera out in time but Angelina and this kid were standing inches apart, smiling at each other for a long time.

Three beautiful cousins. In a month and a half there will be almost twice as many of them.

You think I can get any of these kids to look at the camera?

Here you go, Deegy.

Turkey Days

Yay, thank you Ang. And thanks for the reminder about family, haha. Lucky you, you get to drink wine! How was your turkey day?

Our thanksgiving weekend (1 of 2) was really fun. The first night we got stood up, but that's what happens when you have plans with stoners. My sister came though and we had a good dinner. Sunday was dinner with the Garcias, which is always wild and fun with all the kids. It was also nice to spend time with Matt's sister Nicole, who is the same amount pregnant as me and her son and my daughter just love each other. Angelina follows Deigan around everywhere, even motoring up the stairs, and Deigan gives her lots of hugs and kisses.

This coming weekend some of my mom's family is coming from Calgary and I'm making the turkey dinner for the first time. I figure cooking a turkey can't be that hard, since everybody does it. That's what I used to think about giving birth though. Wow, I just compared giving birth and roasting a turkey.

DIDDO

Seeing it is only Keira writing on here, I just thought I would wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving....drink lots of wine, eat lats of Turkey and dont forget....though they do tend to be annoying.... You DO LOVE YOUR FAMILY!!!!! :) Oh, dont forget....Pumkin Pie!!!

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Remember when I said this baby was too busy to stop for a picture?

Sleeping Beauty

This baby was much smaller last July!
Wow, so long and lean

This girl is amazing! Her vocabulary is huge and now she's starting to pronounce things really well. The other night she was eating broccoli and she said "broccoli" -crystal clear- three times. It is very weird to hear such a big word from such a tiny girl.

She also does the funniest things, like the other night she got up after we had all gone to bed. She went to my closet and opened it, got my nightie, put it on, and went back to bed and to sleep. I have also found her standing by the bed stroking my hair in the middle of the night. And she often puts her foot up on the bed, just her foot, so I will rub it. I love my baby, she is so much fun!

My due date is exactly two months away, December 3rd. Soon I will have two hillarious sweet little monsters, not just one. Nothing could be better than that!

Freeze!

I almost wish I could freeze time. My new baby is all big and snuggly in my tummy, and Angelina is sweeter and funner than ever. Now she is saying little sentences, like "bump daddy, bump" (when they were playing a headbutting game) or "up, mama" or the like. She's picking up new words all on her own and more than once a day she will surprise me with them. Of course I wouldn't really freeze time, since my babies will keep doing more and more fun stuff and being a part of it is amazing beyond description.

This week we went to Lindsay's party in Kelowna, had a visit and dinner with Sammi and Ang, and went to our first strata meeting. Matt is the treasurer of the building now. This weekend will be the ususal and then we have three Thanksgivings, two of them here. Oh well, three turkey dinners isn't so bad. What are you guys doing for Thanksgiving?

Three new pairs of shoes, fun!
A pretty neclace to go with the shoes
Gotta run!
Pulling around her new wagon

I, Robot

This is what "sleeping like a baby" is
It is so hard to take a picture of the munchkin; she won't stay still. Finally I collapsed on the floor and she came over to check it out. That's how I got this picture!
Here we are, a still moment. What a sweetpea.

Of the many new things we've bought for our place, our favourite is the Roomba! Have you heard of this? It's a robot vacuum. When I go out, I just press the button and the little guy plays a cheerful little song and starts rolling around. When I come home, all the floors are thoroughly cleaned and Roomba has plugged himself back into his charger! We have the new generation one and it does so many amazing things, I couldn't believe it until I had one. It's my neat little butler-pet.

I realized recently that the new baby arrives very soon, and now it dominates my thoughts every day. I am really enjoying this pregnancy; it's at the stage now where I can play with the baby. I poke baby, baby kicks me back. Sometimes pretty darn hard! Only two months until I have to give birth again, which terrifies me. But then we'll get to know our beautiful, wonderful little baby. We'll be full family of four; itsn't that just crazy? I can't believe it myself.

Catch Up

Happy Birthday today to Nicole and Erin! And recently it was Leia's and Kailea's and soon it will be Robyn's. Wow, so many birthdays are in August and September!

We have been in the new place for over two weeks now, and it has been so nice. Moving in was one pleasant surprise after another. We had forgotten how big this place is, and that the non-carpet floors were tile. Also the last time we had seen the place the appliances were not here, and the hallways, lobbies, green spaces and common rooms had not been finished.

Angelina was kind enough to let me write this while she was awake, since she decided not to have a nap today. But now she is saying, "Out! Out!" So off we go to play outside!

Helping daddy
Bananas taste better here
How lucky am I to look at this gorgeous face all day?
Part of the park beside our house. There's lots of room to run around!
You are my sunshine!

We're Alive!

Happy birthday Sammi! Darn, we missed the party! But we finally have a phone connection from slow, horrible Telus, so I'll email out the new number ASAP.

We also have set up our computer and are building our new computer desk today so I should be on here sometimes now. I still haven't gotten to my emails but will do that this week. I'll post some pictures too, of course. Meanwhile, does anyone else have anything to say? Come on, talk to me!

The move went really great and we love, love love our new home.

do you have a new #?

we need to get a hold of you... may be coming out to the greek house or turtle bay pub tomorow to celebrate sammis birthday and I am trying to get a hold of people...& Shawn is back from working in India...

Happy Birthday Sam

Hope you have a great 25th birthday! PS pretend I said all this last weekend when it was your actual birthday... sorry.

I've been crazy busy all week with this move and haven't made it onto the computer to check the email or anything, so if anybody's waiting on a response from me I appologize.

Tomorrow is the big day, wish us luck with the movers and lawyers and stuff. We have already had good luck with the investment; I talked to the realtor this morning and she said that a tiny unit with a really bad view is selling now for almost as much as we paid for ours. So in just over a month our property value has already gone up. Wohoo!

I will tell one funny pregnancy story before I get back to packing: this morning I smelled a really foul stench. I said to Matt "That was the grossest fart ever! It smells like you farted last week and bottled it up to let it rot for awhile and just released it now!" Turns out I was not smelling a fart at all, but some freshly poured Cheerios, not rotten in the least. Pregnancy is so funny.

I don't think I told you about the condo yet

Exactly one week until we're in our new place, and we are so excited. It's been almost a couple of months since we have even seen it, and even then, it was only twice and we weren't sure we were going to buy it.

I remember it well though, becuase we loved it so much and we made the realtor stay late so we could see it longer. We loved it. It's all brand-new and nicely coloured and good-looking. The living room and bedrooms are carpeted with nice cooshy carpet which is perfect for babies. There is a laundry room and tons of closet space. The windows are all huge and have a nice view of the grounds and the pool and the mountains and sky. It is right beside a beautiful park and beach, and just a couple blocks from our favourite restaurant in the world (you know what I'm talking about!)

It's also a good investment. The building is still being finished and the value is expected to go up when it is. It's "resort living" becuase of the pool, hottub, gym, common areas and beach; those kinds of properties are hot. If you know Matt and I, then you know that we did our research on the real estate market, and area- and resort- specific projections before we decided to buy.

All-in-all, the place is perfect for us in pretty much every way. We are very happy now, but living in our own beloved home will be the icing on the cake.

Do the Pineapple

Things are getting pretty exciting and busy around here, with just one more weekend left before the move. It's amazing, Matt points out, how much of our lives we spend moving. It's been a number of times in the past two years, and every time it makes us busy for a few weeks. It will be nice to settle down in our own place and stay for a while.

Recently Matt came across a bum at his work, picking cigarette butts out of the ashtray outside. He started a conversation with Matt and told him that he used to be a middle-class man with a family. He got divorced and then became a bum voluntarily. He walks the same route every day collecting cans, and just from that he makes $80 a day! He owns a small barbeque and buys all his own food, and he smokes half-cigarettes out of ashtrays so he doesn't have to buy them. Matt said that the guy would be handsome if he cleaned up. The bum said he was happier now without responsibilities. Isn't that interesting?

I finally got around to taking the last pineapple picture that I've been meaning to do for a few months. Here is the growth of my little beauty as compared to a pineapple in about a year:

A few days old. What a tiny little beauty!

About six months

Look how grown up!

I used to be just this big?

A little dance called "the Pineapple"

Mama's Big Helper

Normally I wouldn't want my panties on the internet, but I just had to show you Angelina's favourite game: wear mama's clothes. She loves playing in the laundry and dressing herself in my clothes. Especially my underwear, maybe becuase it's the closest to baby-size.

Angelina has a couple other favourite games. One is to run back and forth between me and Matt (yes, by herself!) and at the last minute charge and just throw herself on top of us. Another is to play mama. She loves to feed and dress and take care of me and her teddy bear. I bought her a doll-size crib and dresser on the weekend and will get a babydoll and stroller next, so she can practise for the new baby.

The new baby will be here in about three and a half months, holy cow. I have only gained about 10 pounds, but baby is over a foot long, according to what I read, and is very strong, according to what I feel! Oh, I can't wait!

Angelina is doing very well. She sleeps in her own little bed now instead of a crib. She says almost 30 words regularly. I won't list them, becuase that's boring, but I will tell you a couple of my favourites: she says "twist!" and does a little twisty dance, and says "Einstein" when she wants to watch a baby Einstein movie. She's also the most friendly little baby of all. She loves waving and talking to babies and kids, and going over to them to offer them a toy, even really big kids.

She wore these around proudly all afternoon

So helpful with the laundry

Helping with the move. She put my shirt on by herself, not bad!

Wow, daddy's shoes are way bigger!
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Practicing one of her favourite words (booby).