David Pictures

Pictures of David this last month!

He loves to empty his toy bins and climb in.

David loves to read with Jaclyn most of the time.

My little man!
He loves to read his Bible.

Enjoying lunch!

David Pictures

Jaclyn Pictures

Here are a few pictures of Jaclyn from the last month.

She has teeth!

Father-Daughter play time
David loves to read with Jaclyn.

She loves cars!

Hanging out together.

Jaclyn Pictures

November Update

Sorry it has been awhile since I have blogged. We have had a busy November so far. The beginning of the month we had some family visit us for a few days and had a wonderful visit with them!

All four of us have been sick at some point this month. This cold/flu has lasted a long time around here. Jaclyn has been hanging on to the cough for the last two weeks. She has also been teething a lot and is still working on popping a couple of teeth. David was finally getting better. He had a few days where he was feeling good and then on Monday he woke up with a runny nose. Yesterday he developed a cough and only wanted to cuddle with me. Then just before his nap he started to lose his voice and after his nap he felt worse. After taking him to the doctor we found out that he has a chest infection. Luckily I caught it early and he is feeling much better after two doses of his medicine. I am a little concerned about Jaclyn now because her cough changed today. So I will be watching her and if she gets worse I will be taking her to the doctor as well. I am praying that both of my kids get better before the weekend or at least a lot better by Friday.

I have the most wonderful husband! For my birthday this year Chris wanted to do something for me that we are normally unable to do. He gave me a weekend trip away for just the two of us! I was given a few options on the location and I chose to go to Seattle. I have always liked Seattle. Its just one of those places that I enjoy visiting. When we were dating we made day trips there and it will be nice to go there again just the two of us. Chris has been looking into things to do well we are there and he has found a few things that he thinks I will enjoy. He hasn't told me all of his plans but I am sure looking forward to it! One thing I am really looking forward to is sleeping past 6:30am for three days in a row. I have been more tired these days due to my thyroid acting up and I am looking forward to a little more sleep then I usually get.

I am also looking forward to some alone time with my husband! As most of you know over the next two years Chris will be very busy with school for his masters degree. When he isn't in class or studying I expect him to be spending as much time with our kids as possible as well as working a part time job. So this weekend will be a great time for us to be alone together before he goes fully into his studies next month. I am not saying I will not see him once he starts school but I expect our time to be cut with everything else going on in our lives. So as you see I really want my kids to feel better before we leave them for the weekend. They will be in great hands with my brother and sister-in-law and I am not worried about them. I just know that they will all have a better weekend if David and Jaclyn are feeling better. As well as the fact that my kids like most children want their mom when they are sick and I will be in Seattle.

So if you are the praying type, please pray that my kids feel better and that they have a wonderful time with their aunt, uncle and cousin this weekend.

I will try and post some updated pictures of the kids soon as well. They are both growing so fast. David amazes me all the time with how much he is growing into a little boy. He has quite a sense of humor. Jaclyn also amazes me. I call her my little firecracker because she is always going and will have these burst of energy and get into everything she can get her hands on. She also loves to laugh and has started to dance this week. David and Jaclyn love to dance together! Chris and I love to watch them together, they are becoming good little friends!

November Update

So Sweet

Today when I was putting David down for his nap. He gave me a hug and started to play with my hair and then he looked up at me with a big smile and said "pretty mommy".

Then he gave me a kiss and went to his bed.

It was very sweet and it put a smile on my face. I love my little boy!

So Sweet

Pumpkin Patch

I Love Fall! I love how the leaves and trees look in the fall. I think that it is a beautiful season.

As a family we are trying to find things that we can do together and if we really enjoy it we will try and do that activity again and again. This year we went to a local pumpkin patch and let David run around. He loved it! He kept saying "pumpkins, more pumpkins". He tried picking them up and if it was to heavy for him to pick up he would try and roll it.

Jaclyn enjoyed it as well. She mostly liked to watch David and every once in awhile he would come over to her and make faces at her so she would smile at him. Then he would be gone to explore the pumpkins again. We had a lot of fun and I think we will try and go to a local pumpkin patch every fall.

Right after this picture was taken he knocked the top pumpkin off!

David making faces.
My cute kids!

David and Jaclyn both fit on a pumpkin together.

Beautiful Girl

My Boys!

David and the pumpkins.

Pumpkin Patch

Teeth and Eyes!

I thought I would give you all an update on David and Jaclyn.

Jaclyn has been teething for the last couple of weeks and on Tuesday she popped her first tooth. I expect more teeth to come in the next few weeks as it seems that she is teething more every day. Jaclyn is also starting to crawl a lot more. David thinks that because she is getting around on her own now and because she likes to stand with my help that she can walk. He holds her hands and wants to walk her around. I explain to him every time that she is too little to walk still so he will hold her hands and dance with her instead. He will hum and rock her back and forth, all the while Jaclyn is smiling up at him. Its pretty cute!

Ever since David was a baby I have watched him and the way he uses his eyes. He used to go cross-eyed as a baby and then randomly as he has grown. I never thought to much about it, I just figured that he might need glasses when he got older like I did. Well over the last two weeks his eyes have gotten worse. What I mean by this is that he will go cross-eyed on and off at different times in the day. Sometimes, when he is doing something, one of his eyes will wounder while the other eye stays in one place. I decided to get him into the optometrist to check out what was happening.

Well, we went and had his eyes tested today. They said that he is farsighted and will need glasses, which was sort of expected. But, that is not all... They are also sending him to a specialist to do more test on his eyes. There could be a problems with some of the muscles around his eyes. The reason he needs a specialist to see him is that normal eye tests don't tend to work at his age. They have to put drops in his eyes to open up his pupil to do those tests. The doctor that I saw today told me that he is following a pattern of having a muscle that is unable to keep up with the eyes and what they are trying to do. To fix this problem they usually have to do a surgery to correct the muscle in the eyes. He would still need to wear glasses after that for his far-sightedness but that would be it.

For now, we don't know if he has this muscle problem or if he has to have surgery on his eyes. All we know is that he needs glasses and until we see the specialist we are not sure as to how strong of a prescription he will need or if he needs surgery. I have an appointment for him in the beginning of December and we will go from there.

On a lighter note with all of this, Chris and I have talked about the fact that David will look very cute in glasses and that he will most likely like to wear them because I wear glasses. He is always trying to put on my glasses and pretend he is like me. We are hoping he still likes the idea of wearing glasses when we get some for him!

Here is a picture of his eyes this week.

My little lady!
Playing outside

Side note: This is my 100 blog entry. YAY!!

Teeth and Eyes!

My Amazing Girl

Jaclyn is one strong little girl. She will often do push-ups well baby style push-ups.

Most children her age get up on their hands and knees. Jaclyn however gets up on her hands and toes. She has been doing this now for awhile. Over the last few weeks she has been able to hold herself up for over a minute at a time. She does get on her knees as well but I think she prefers to be on her toes!

Also she weighs 19lbs now at 7 months.

Side note David weighed 19lbs at 10 months.

My Amazing Girl

Aquarium

Yesterday we went to the Aquarium with some friends Amy and Jared and their beautiful son Silas. They came out from Prince George to visit there family for Thanksgiving and we met them at the Aquarium on Monday . After walking around for the morning they came back to our house. Travis, Rosie and their son Spencer came over as well and we all visited over tea and cookies. Both of these couple are people that Chris went to collage with and I met after they were all done at CBC. Chris has kept in contact with a lot of people from his CBC days and most of them are married with children all over Canada. I have met only a few in person and more via the blogging world or facebook. I have really enjoyed getting to know everyone that Chris knew at CBC both in person and over the computer. Chris and I have talked about how I talk the people from his CBC days more then he does now. Its funny how life goes!

Anyways back to the Aquarium David had such a great time there. He wanted to climb into all the tanks with the fish. At one point when we was looking at the beluga's outside he tried to get his leg over the side to go swimming with them. It was pretty cute. Chris was a little more careful after that when looking over the tanks with David. Jaclyn seemed to enjoy watching the bright coloured fish swimming. I am looking forward to taking her there again when she is older and can enjoy it more.

I hope that everyone had a good Thanksgiving!

Aquarium

Lunch Time

The other day I let David feed Jaclyn her bottle. Every time she would have milk dripping down her face he would take the bottle away and wipe her mouth it was really funny!!

Lunch Time

Early Morning

Once upon a time David slept until 8am.................................that seems so long ago now! David now wakes up between 6:30-7am, for awhile it was 6am. I have gotten use to the earlier wake ups but I find that David does better during the day when he sleeps until at least 7am (and so do I). When David wakes up before 7am he is not aloud out of his bed until then. I have to say though this has been a bit of a challenge for me, I don't mind cuddling with him until such time but I don't find his bed comfortable so I have brought him into our bed lately. Jaclyn wakes up most mornings between 7:30-8:00am I really appreciate that time.

However this morning Jaclyn woke up before 6am and David was not far behind her. So this morning I have a house full of tired people. Jaclyn went down for her morning nap early today and David is all about cuddling with me. As for myself I had my first cup of tea today before 7:00am. I think I will go make myself another one now.

Here are some pictures of the kids this morning. And yes David is wearing pink socks he wanted to wear his sisters socks this morning, he is a strange boy sometimes!

Early Morning

Seven Months

Seven Months

Fat Lips

In my son's short but very full life he has managed to give me different injuries. None of them have been bad or on purpose. David just has so much enthusiasm that he puts his whole body into whatever he is doing.

For example I just put him down for a nap and he gave me a kiss and then started to give me more kisses. It then turned into a little game. Then it happened............he kissed me with his teeth. He didn't bite me, he was smiling and kissed with his teeth. Well you guessed it he split my top lip. After we collided he said "mommy owie , David teeth owie". Then he wanted a hug and to go to bed. As I sit here with my lip getting fatter I think about how life has been with a little boy. He has given my more fat lips then I can count and one broken nose (last Christmas) .

At this stage in life I am glad that I am the one who is getting hurt and not him. In a few years when he is braking bones or falling off his bike (I am almost positive that he will be one of those boys) I will be wishing we were back here and he was giving me fat lips.

Life with a boy will definitely keep me busy, but I am enjoying every bit of it.........fat lip and all!

Fat Lips

Last Weekend

Last weekend we went on a family camp with our church. Here are some pictures from it. It was a wet and windy weekend but we had lots of fun. The kids stayed warm in our double stroller and weren't fazed by the weather. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of then in the stroller.....next time!

Last Weekend

Pictures

Here are a few pictures from the last few weeks.

Chris and David reading the bible together.

Jaclyn on the move.....
Bright eyes!
My silly boy!

Pictures

Little People Party

I have always liked Fisher Price's Little People. When David was born we started to collect them and on his first birthday he was given a few Little People sets. These toys seem to be his old faithful, he will put them away for awhile and play with other toys. Then one day they come out again and the only ones we play with for a time. I love watching him use his imagination with them. He likes to have the pirate on the ark and Noah in Dino land. Over the last few weeks we have started to have little people parties. This just means that we gather up as many little people as we can find and we bring them into the living room and set them up. We still haven't had them all attend the "party".

They have girly Little People and I am thinking we might add some of those to our collections for Jaclyn. She already likes to play with them, well mostly she teeths on them. It looks as though she will have the same love for these toys as her brother and I do!

Little People Party

My Other Favorite Person

This last weekend I arranged to have our kids go for a sleepover at my sister-in-laws house and I took Chris out for dinner to celebrate his birthday that was last week. It was nice to go out and not worry about what time it was or be on a tight schedule. We even slept-in the next morning!

We had a wonderful time together just talking and enjoying each others company. I am glad that we are able to have times like this to spend together, just the two of us! We love our children and also realize that they will only be living in our house for the next 16 to 20 years and then we will be on our own again. We both feel that it is important to work on our relationship every day so that when our children grow up and move out that we still have something to talk about and things in common and most of all Love for each other!

It was nice to have a reason to go out and spend time together. Having time for the two of us will become more of a priority and need to be organize over the next few years. With Chris in school and with me focused on our children as they are learning and growing our time will easily slip away.

Here is a picture Chris wanted to take to remember our night out! Thanks again Jana for taking the kids, you rock!!

My Other Favorite Person