My Bebes

A few weeks ago I read a post of Dixie's that hit home to me. I have been struggling lately with the fact that I am not going to have any more babies. My little girlies are the last and they are truly becoming little girls rather than babies very fast. They will be 18 months in less than 1 week! I cannot believe how fast time has gone!! I thought though that I would celebrate my babies and post some pics of when they were born. Hope you all enjoy...

A long, exhausting labour, but here's my little boy!

Daddy was so overjoyed and emotional that he cried for the first 10 minutes.

Our first family picture.

Little man the first day home - he ended up being in the NICU from Wednesday until we brought him home on Sunday. He LOVED having his hand right by his mouth or cheek for the first few months.

Me and my baby girls - much easier labour this time and they were good in spite of being 5 weeks early. We were doubly blessed.

PROUD Daddy - two girls to protect.

I don't know who was more blessed, me for having my mom at the delivery or her for getting to be there. Two little granddaughters to add to the grandson - how lucky for a lady who thought she would only ever have two grandchildren! :)

Baby girls in the NICU where they got to spend the first 2 weeks of their lives feeding and growing. (A on the left and K on the right)

Finally home on June 11 and they can cuddle together in the same bassinet. (K on the left and A on the right) Looking back at photos, they looked SO different right from the start.

New Website... and the JOY of being a parent

So after saying that I was going to blog more now that our "big secret" was out in the open - literally now too, as my "sticky out belly" is becoming more so every day! (the pic to the right was on Christmas Day when I was 13 weeks) - I have not blogged in the past week and a half. It's been a bit insane at our house and every spare moment has been taken up with finishing of the basement. I have also been working hard on my Tupperware - this is going to be a good month. I had an Open House on Thursday - which one person came to, but that is the nature of the thing. I am not discouraged about it, though.

MODULAR MATES are on at least 40% off!

This is definitely the month to get your pantry organised or add to the MMs that you already have. I went to a Training Day on Saturday and it was so good. I am more pumped about this business than I have ever been and I am looking at how I am going to run it and do business so differently now. The potential is there for me to go far if I want to put a little time and effort into it and I am finding more confidence in it, which I am loving for myself. I signed myself up for a website too, so if you want to order from it, the product will come directly to you wherever you are. I also thought if there is anyone who want s to have a book party and get your family and friends to order, I can send you catalogues and flyers and you can get host credit to spend on exclusive items or regular priced items as well as half-off items with orders over $250. If your party is over $525, you can get double host credits until the 24th of the month. Think about it and let me know if you are interested. Oh, my website is http://my.tupperware.ca/relsdon - please stop by anytime! :) There is also going to be a link on this site so you can go there whenever you want to.
On another subject altogether, I am feeling good for those of you who have been wondering. Tired and utterly exhausted some days and at times I feel incapable of dealing with R and the discipline and direction that a two year old needs, but other than that I am doing well. I love being pregnant again and at times I feel the baby move, though nothing on regular basis. I am looking forward to the day when that is a daily occurrence. Less than 6 months now until this baby comes and though various people comment on how hard it is to have two kids (gotta love that when you are already "committed" so to say! :) I am still looking forward to it. People always commented on how having a baby changes your life when I was pregnant with R and while that was totally true and I was depressed for a month after he was born, after I got over that we have never looked back. We LOVE being parents and though our lives have changed, the joy and the love and the laughter that he brings into our lives and the richness that we have as a result is worth the world. We often comment to each other about how he is the best thing we ever did and will laugh about things he has done in the day and just even at the sheer joy that he is. I can only imagine that this baby will add to that joy and though it may be difficult at times and there will be adjustments, we will make it through and I know that we will adjust and we will love that this baby is a part of our family. I cannot wait for R to have a sibling and see them together.
So, those of you with two kids, tell me all the good things about it.

Merry Christmas to all! (It's a little long, but you'll want to bear with me to the end)

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope that you are having a wonderful Christmas with family and friends and that you are enjoying celebrating the birth of Jesus.
Our family has had a busy few weeks. There is a nasty flu going around Calgary and two weeks ago I was supposed to drop off R at my neighbour's house so that I could go get my Christmas shopping done. She phoned me the morning of and let me know that her son was sick and that her daughter had been sick earlier in the week. So, shopping was out that day. We planned that I would bring R over this past Thursday and would go shopping then, but that morning I went into R's room to discover that he had thrown up in the night and there went my best laid plans! On Wednesday we had been at my parents for the day as my Grandma on my dad's side was here visiting, so I was hoping that R's flu was not the one going around that took out whole families one at a time. Turned out he only threw up twice and had a fever and everyone else he came into contact with has stayed healthy. Thank God - honestly, I was praying so hard, because who wants to be sick over Christmas!
So Friday we went shopping, both R and I and he was an ANGEL! We were in and out in 2 hours and I got everything that I needed - I had a list of all the things I needed and the places I was going and we got it done. In the afternoon we picked up DH after work and he and R went to Chapters while I got the last grocery shopping I needed to done. That evening we started on the painting downstairs. And we painted Saturday afternoon while R was in napping, and after he went to bed in the evening and finished it yesterday afternoon while he napped - the painting is DONE! YEAH! My back hurts badly, but it is over - I rollered the entire basement and M edged and did the finicky work and we got it done. We are putting down the flooring this week and Dad is coming on Saturday to help hang door and put up our canopy garage that we got for Christmas from Mom and Dad and C and M. And then the basement is usable. We can move a lot of the toys downstairs and have a little sanity upstairs again. But I got ahead of myself.
On Sunday we went to church and then to my parents where we had Christmas dinner, then opened presents. I got a Snowbabies music ornament, a sweater and Corelle "Urban Black" dishes - 8 place settings. I was happy! My dishes were wedding presents - so 10 years old - and beginning to chip on the edges and they took up so much room in my cupboard. DH got the phone he was wanting and R got... well, a lot of things. I'll tell you all about them on his blog in the next few days. We went to my aunt's house for dessert and spent some time with my grandma and cousins as well as aunt and uncle there. DH, R and I stayed overnight at Mom and Dad's, DH went to work in the morning and R and I picked him up at noon.
As everything had been insane the past week, not as I planned it to happen, our house was a mess last night and I cleaned up after we got home from the Christmas Eve service. It was a bit of a later night the past several for me.
This morning we got up and R had a bottle while DH read the Christmas story, then we opened presents. DH and I only exchanged stockings as we are going to Riverdance in February. I got shower stuff from my sister-in-law and we got chocolate and money from my in-laws. It's going towards living room furniture, which I am going to look for tomorrow morning, maybe get a Boxing Day special. Mom and Dad came over in the afternoon and we all spent time together and had supper - ham, my favorite! It was a relaxing kind of Christmas Day. It was a good thing.
I realise that the last few months my blog has been a bit sporadic. I have been finding it a bit difficult to find things to write about because the things that have been most on my mind I have written about elsewhere. Two months ago today DH and I found out that we are going to be parents a second time over!

YES, WE ARE HAVING A BABY!!!!

We are so excited! The little one is to arrive on the 3rd of July, so the day before my birthday. I felt a little nauseous for weeks 5-7, but got past that. I have been insanely forgetful and scatterbrained in the past 2 months, it's quite awful for me and extremely frustrating for DH. I started a blog for this little one the day I found out, but I have it private, only I can read it, which I think I will continue for a little while yet - not ready to share it yet with anyone. DH hasn't even read it. :)
So that is our news. If you got our Christmas letter you already know, as we told in it. We are 13 weeks tomorrow, so now into the 2nd trimester. At the end of January we get the ultrasound so we can officially "meet" this little person. R calls the baby "Nemo". Another tidbit for you...
Anyways, I am starting to babble and not make sense, so I will write more another time and get myself to bed now. Again,
Have a very Merry Christmas!