What Flower Are You?

I found this link on a friend's blog and thought I would give it a try. This is the discription of me: "You have a shy personality. You tend to hesitate before trying new things or meeting new people. But once people get to know you, you open up and show the world what you are really all about." I think its pretty accurate and I don't mind being compared to a violet. They're nice flowers. So what flower are you?

I am a Violet What Flower Are You?

Sorry...

I have been feeling sorry for all the people who faithfully check my blog only to be disappointed when they see the same post come up every time they check. I have noticed I am getting fewer and fewer visits to my blog and I can't blame you. There are some people's blogs that I don't check very often because I know I will be disappointed. Well, I don't like being one of those people. I just don't really know what to write about. Life has been going along as usual. No big news or revelations. I have new pictures of Hannah of course but then I think that people might get tired of me just going on and on about her. But then, if you do get tired of that you can just stop reading my blog I guess! So here goes...more pictures of Hannah.

She started talking a couple of months ago and now...well she is like a sponge. We are constantly amazed at the words she knows. For instance, it is really important for a one and a half year old to know words like valve and toe jam. Toe jam is one of her latest obsessions, actually. A few times a day she will pull her socks off to look for lint from her socks which she brings to us to dispose of. Sorry this video is dark and sideways but its the best I can do at this point since we don't have sophisticated programs for this stuff.

When she is not preoccupied with toe jam, another favourite thing of Hannah's is "washing" the dishes. Taylor loves doing this too so they each get a brush and procede to make a big mess:

This is the aftermath. At least its just water!

They also like to colour together. I bought some markers that only colour on special paper and not on walls or clothes or little faces. They have been a life saver or at least a clean up saver. Its a good time to practice colours too. Hannah is good at naming colours although she still mixes them up quite a bit. Her favourite guess is blue.

Another of her favourite things to do is to pull all the cushions off the couch and jump on it. Her cousins were over the other day and the three of them had a blast.

Sometimes Daddy gets in on the fun too.

Baby Pictures

So here are the first pictures of the youngest member of our family. The first is a side profile and he or she has its hands up by its head so you can kind of make out the fingers by the eyes.

This a leg from the side with the knees pulled up to the chubby tummy. Those are the feet that have been kicking me a lot lately.

This is a picture of forearms and hands. It looked like all ten fingers and toes were there. This time I had a screen of my own to watch while the technician did her thing so I got to see a lot more than I ever have before. It was really exciting because they aren't supposed to say anything to you but I could tell what she was looking for most of the time. I saw the chambers of the heart working well and all the appropriate body parts (even though I did see something, I am not that good at reading ultrasounds so I am not going to guess at whether this is a boy or a girl). It was also a much better experience because, for the first time I actually wasn't in a lot of pain with a full bladder. I had forgotten to drink anything until right before my appointment and then I chugged a whole bunch. I was so afraid that they would say I didn't have enough and I would have to come back another day but instead I had a really pleasant appointment and I made a lot of trips to the bathroom afterwards. I'll have to remember that for next time.

And The After Pictures...Finally

The renovations on our kitchen/family room that we started in October are finally finished. We took out the fireplace and cut a big hole in the wall between the two rooms. Then we painted and got new carpet in the family room and lino in the kitchen. We also put a door on the family room so we could put the TV in there and not worry about waking up the kids. We really love it and we love the space in the living room now that the TV is gone. So here are the pictures:

Now we are starting on Hannah's "big girl room" which used to be the office. The new baby will get her old room. I will have to post pictures of that once we are done that project too. It never ends does it?

Mini Vacation

In November Jason and I took a little vacation at the place in Ucluelet where we went on our honeymoon. November is the wetest month there and people often go there to storm watch in the winter. We didn't see storms (though we drove through a rainstorm on the way there and marrowly missed the huge windstorm on the way back). We did get to see some big waves. It is hard to get pictures of waves and a picture can't capture the awesomeness of them but here are our attemps:

BIG NEWS

So here's the promised BIG NEWS. We are having a baby!! (no Dan we aren't selling our house, not unless there's a lot more than one bun in the oven). We tried to keep it a secret as long as possible but I was starting to have a hard time hiding it. So far this pregnancy has gone as usual -- I'm sick and tired, and sick and tired of being sick and tired, not to mention trips to the bathroom and kitchen late at night. The ultrasound showed only one baby. I was starting to wonder because of how sick and hungry I have been. Maybe my memory just isn't so clear since God has a way of helping us forget some of the less pleasant parts of bringing these beautiful babies into the world. By the way, the due date is June 20th so the kids will be 22 months apart. We had been planning to have them 21 months apart but God had other plans and we had a miscarriage in September. Yes, that isn't that long ago! The doctor said he hadn't seen anyone else get pregnant so fast after a miscarriage so this was a real answer to prayer for me (I am not so good with waiting sometimes!) Thanks to all of you who prayed!

Giving in to Peer Pressure!

So... I have been asked to do another post finally. It has been a long time so I am giving in and doing another one. Before I get to the really BIG NEWS post, I have to put in this great picture of Hannah and Taylor. They are becoming really good friends as you can see.