Our Baby

Our Baby   March 5, 3013

Hmmm, boy or girl?

I Love smiles with missing teeth :)

Saidey took a belly picture for me

  

   Two weeks ago I had an special ultrasound appointment in Surrey, so we dropped the girls off at Bens moms and off we went. I was happy that Ben was able to get time off and come along, because the doctor doing the ulrasound was going to tell us how our baby was growing and if there were any problems as she did the ultrasound. Thankfully we had a chatty, friendly Doctor doing the ultrasound. There is nothing more nerve wracking than a quiet sternfaced ultrasound technician!!! As she measured and checked out our baby she kept saying things like, " amazing  femur" and " perfect head". It is amazing how all these body parts need to form and grow to make a healthy little person, and we were so thankful to God when the Doctor told us everything looks perfect. We found out what we are having and are super excited! Now we just have to try keep it a secret for four more months:)
   The girls are still very excited about the baby, but they do not know if its a boy or a girl. I dont think they would of been able to keep it a secret! They talk about our baby every day, and are always coming up with name suggestions. They giggle if they are sitting on my lap and i tell them that the baby is kicking them.
  

Saidey is Five!

Saidey is Five!     January 15,  2014

Opening her birthday presents

                                                       Posing outside the Vancouver Scince Centre 

   On Saideys birthday we decided to do something special and go to the Vancouver Science Centre. Because it was boxing day it was only open from 12:00 - 6:00 but we definitely could of spent the whole day there. We all had a lot of fun and leaned some new things. The girls got to make a maraca, get their faces painted, listen to a story about a turtle and then pet a real turtle, but I think their favorite part was all the water play. They got to learn about things floating and how to build a dam. Ben really wanted to watch an I-Max movie, so we got tickets for one about polar bears but Hannah fell asleep 5 minutes into the movie, and Saidey was asking if we were done the whole time, but Ben and I thought it was interesting!
   Then we bought Pizza for supper, Saideys favorite! I cant believe she is five already.

Hannah Is Three January 7, 2013

Hannah Is Three   January 7, 2014

 

 

   I cant believe our little girl is three! Three years flew by. Hannah never liked being a "little girl"

and we definitely are not allowed to call her our "Baby" anymore! She likes to be called an "older girl". Even before she could walk she has been trying to be just like her big sister. Lately she is checking every morning to see if her hair is as long as Saideys. She also loves to copy everything Saidey says.

   Hannah definitely has her own personality though. She loves to help in the kitchen, washing dishes, baking, and sweeping the floor. She loves to look at books and pretend to read them "all by my big girl self". She is cuddly, and every Sunday for second service she climbs on my lap and falls asleep almost as soon as we get into church. She also still naps almost every day of the week to, unless we have somewhere to be, then she can skip a day. I love watching her color pictures, she try's so hard to stay in the lines. She also loves to dance and sing. Daily she comes up with new names for our baby, She loves Milo for a boys name ( I think she got this one from Milo and Otis) and today for a girl she came up with Mary, Rainbow Dash, or Hannah.

   For Hannah's birthday we played with the dress up set she got from Grandpa and Grandma, had fun in the snow outside, and then Opa and Oma came for her birthday supper.  



Birthday Party January 2, 2014

Birthday Party     January 2, 2014

   We did the girls birthday party before all the Christmas busyness started this year. They got very spoiled with lots of fun presents! The kids ate cupcakes, played, and made candy necklaces.

   That night we went to a Christmas Concert put on by the kids at the school where some of the girls cousins go. It was fun to try find the cousins in the big group while they were singing. After the concert Ben said we should go out for ice cream. The girls thought it was fun to go for ice cream so late, but were disappointed that the Mc Donalds playplace was closed for the night!

Oma December 6, 2013

Oma  December 6,  2013


   This past Tuesday Oma had a stroke. I was very surprised when I heard because she always seems so healthy! Thankfully the Doctors say she is doing well.
   It is hard to be so far away, it would be so nice to see her. It is hard to tell how serious it is and if she has changed from here.
   I remember when Bens Opa was in the Hospital before he passed away how shocked we were when we got to see him and  talk to him on face time. Its hard for it to seem real when your not there.
   Oma is one of my favorite people. She never complains, about anything! She is the only person I know that drinks tea from a dainty tea cup and saucer. Oma is a real lady, I love all her skirts, and that she washes her hair and sets it in rollers on Saturday so that on Sunday she will look her very best. Oma is strong, after Opa died she didn't give up, never seemed angry to be the one left behind. Oma is also very funny, and thankfully I've heard her sense of humor is still there after the stroke.
   I remember the last Friday before we moved to BC me and the girls went to clean Omas, and while we were having coffee they were so funny. Saidey and Hannah were asking her random things like, "Are you a door Oma?" and she would have a funny reason why not, and then " are you a chicken Oma?" and so they were all pretending to be chickens.  The girls miss Oma, and Saidey especially is very worried about her and thinks we should send her a plant in the mail.

   When Saidey and Hannah were born we got to pick a blanket Oma made or money to buy a gift, and both times we picked a beautiful blanket. We use the blanket for the girls for there Baptism, and it hangs on their crib while they are babies and then I put it in their keepsake boxes. I have no idea how much the stroke affected Omas hands, but it would be very very special to have a blanket for this next baby.
   We pray that God will be with Oma, and that He will give her healing and comfort. That He will give her the strength she needs to deal with the changes the stroke brings, and with however this might change her life.
   We love you Oma!

Big Changes

Big Changes  November 4, 2013

   Big things are happening for our family lately!  One night not even a week ago we started talking again about moving to BC for sort of a working vacation, and now not even a week later we are packing like crazy! It will be so nice for the girls to get to know there BC side of the family better, and Ben is excited that he was able to get his old job back. So the Lord willing we leave in 2 weeks, and hopefully the roads will be okay. We plan to go until the middle of next August and move back to Alberta in time for Saidey to start Kindergarten.
   And the reason the girls look so excited in the picture above is because right before I took this very blurry picture Ben told them that they were going to get a new baby brother or sister. So we are praying that everything goes well and sometime at the very end of June hopefully we will be a family of five.

Trick or Treat and The Lost Tooth

Trick or Treat and The Lost Tooth  November 4,  2013

Lost her first tooth!

   Exciting news, Saidey lost her first tooth. This is a very exciting milestone, one that makes me excited instead of sad that they are growing up so fast. Saidey was not excited at all, not when we discovered the loose tooth, or when it fell out. We tried to help her understand that this was something very exciting, but she just wanted to keep her little tooth! She was excited to wake up the morning after her tooth fell out and find that the tooth fairy really is real and had left her a toonie because her baby tooth was so clean. It was fun to answer all there tooth fairy questions. They decided after a long discussion that the tooth fairy is like a fly, and can squeeze through tiny cracks in our house and that is how she gets in and out. We love her missing tooth smile!

   The girls were also very excited to trick or teat, Saidey was Snow White and Hannah was Sleeping Beauty. They got to wear a tiny bit of lipstick and get pink cheeks, so that and all the candy they got made there day!