our summer

Wow. Where to even start?

At the beginning I suppose, but it's been quite a while so don't expect this pregnant lady to remember everything. This summer actually flew by for me. One of the fastest I've ever experienced. My Mom helped to shed some light on that when she told me it was probably because I was so self-absorbed with feeling so ill all the time that by the time I got better the summer was more than half over.

Hmmmm what does one say when called self-absorbed by the woman that bore you from her womb? Ummmm thanks? Sorry? No idea. hahaha I do love my Mother and really I took no offense, because that's exactly what I was for the first 4 months. It was a nasty time. However I had my suspicions as to why this pregnancy was so vastly different from my first. That's right. I was convinced I was having a girl. I would refer to the baby as 'her' and say things like 'when she gets here..' and so on. Ed challenged me and told me he knew it was a boy. Just to spite and make our lives a little more interesting I'm sure. As the days approached our ultrasound I started to think that I was going to feel really silly if it turned out to be a boy. I had been telling everyone that I was positive it wasn't. A couple of nights before we found out, I had a dream.

Oh yes. A dream.

That I delivered a baby boy. A month early. He was tiny and had dark hair. Much like Noah did when he was born. I started to get really nervous then. Not that I didn't want a boy. I would love any baby that I was blessed with. But I had already gotten it into my head that I would be holding a sweet bundle wrapped in pink come January. PINK everyone. Oh how I wanted a closet full of and frills and bows and dresses and little white tights and, and the color pink. (which is actually spelled really weird if you look at it for a long time)

But I couldn't get this dream out of my head. I've only had one dream ever come remotely close to reality, and that was when I dreamt my sister in law was pregnant with a baby girl. And guess what? She was! I felt psychic. So if I could dream up the gender of her baby, why not mine right? Well wouldn't you know that the very next day I had a dream that the world was being attacked by zombies and people were dying all around me. So much for dreams! I walked into that ultrasound room with confidence and when it came time for her to reveal the gender of my little bump, I only held my breath for a fraction of a second before I heard her say three beautiful words. It's a girl.

Everyone say it together... awwwwwww.

I looked over at Ed who looked genuinely shocked. I think he had almost convinced himself it was a boy. I just smiled real sweet and said I told you so. Never underestimate the power of Mother's intuition.

The end.

Just kidding. I'm so excited! I can hardly wait. We only found out about a week ago and it was the day before we left on a little holiday so I hadn't had any time to shop. When we got back Ed's sister had been on her own trip to the states when she found out it was a girl so she bought two little dresses. Her very first ones! I can't stop holding them up and looking at them. Trying to imagine her in our lives, in the cute dresses. Ahhhh It's fantastic. Ed laughed at me when he saw me looking at it for the 100Th time last night before bed. It was something I did with Noah too. I would lay out his little take home outfit in his crib and try to imagine what life would be like with something so small and precious. Little did I know it is busier and more chaotic then I could have ever thought up. But it's also more fun and rewarding too. Needless to say we are excited and nervous about our expanding little family. So many adventures ahead!


I mentioned a little holiday didn't I? Well it was the best! We took off with our good friends Amber and Brad to Penticton. And get this! We left Noah. -Gasp- I know right? It was both exciting and nerve wracking for me especially. This would be the first time leaving him anywhere besides one, one night stay at my Moms house when we had a big project we wanted to get finished without a certain little someone 'helping'. It turns out I was nervous for no reason. He did wonderfully and was even weened from his soother by the time we got back. Thanks Mom!

Don't judge me. He liked his soother and I liked my sleep.

Brad's parents own a condo and a beautiful boat out there in BC. We ended up staying for 6 days and it was dare I say.. Heaven. We slept in, took the boat out every day, laughed alot, ate even more and just had a really fantastic time. I loved having that one on one time with Ed. It made me appreciate him like crazy and it was wonderful to see him able to relax and break from all his hard work.

What's a vacation without some pictures?

The beauty Noah likes to call 'Amer'. When we got home I was looking through the memory card from the trip and Noah kept demanding to see more pictures of her. I think he has a little crush. Although he's usually into blonds, so you should feel special Amer.

Being all pregnant and stuff there wasn't much for me to do but sit on the boat. Amber was a trooper and stayed with me. We soaked up some sun and cheered our talented husbands on.

We fished for all of about 10 minutes out of the whole trip. Apparently Brad doesn't have the patience he used to so after he caught a bunch of seaweed 10 minutes in he declared the fishing part of the vacation officially over. No one seemed to mind, there are much better things to do than fish you know.

Like knee boarding and wake boarding. You know, tough manly stuff. Don't you think they look tough and manly?

Ed getting ready for his first attempt at wake boarding after a brief demonstration by our instructor Brad.

He was a little nervous to start out but he caught on really quickly and didn't look back. I don't think I had ever seen him so excited about something other than basketball. He was this little Spanish fish. You couldn't get the guy out of the water!

Most of the time he looked like this.

And then there were other times when he looked like this.

They had so much fun out there and it was really neat to watch him excel at and enjoy something so quickly. Like a kid in a candy store. That was Ed. I couldn't stop smiling at him.

It was sad to head back home at the end but there was talk of making it an annual vacay. So here's to next year!

Earlier in the summer Ed celebrated his twenty eighth birthday and I my big two five! Ed threw me a surprise party with most of our wonderful friends in attendance. It was my first ever surprise party. I told him that's what I wanted months in advance. I even enlisted the help of Amber to plan it because I didn't think Ed would. Well he did, and I really was surprised! It was a couple of days before my actual birthday but he had me going the whole time. Acting all aloof like he didn't even remember that I wanted a party. I even cried that morning thinking that it was just going to be another missed surprise party. Well there you have it. My fantastic actor of a husband pulled it all off for me. My best birthday to date! Good friends, good food, good times. Let's do it again next year!

Blowing out Ed's birthday cake. Every time Noah sees a flame he says 'birthday' and insists on blowing it out. over and over. Not so fun for my scented candles.

And speaking of the little cheese ball. Isn't he a ham? I just love this kid. He keeps us on our toes and makes us laugh all the time. He adores wrestling with his Dad and is getting his little boy merit badges in the forms of bruises and scrapes all over his knees and shins. They're so cute! He has such a fun personality and his vocabulary is expanding daily.

A couple of weeks back I was straightening the house while he played. He had been grabbing at my plant in the living room, which he knows is off limits, all morning and I was getting more than a little frustrated. I had left to put some laundry away when I heard a crash. Already knowing what I was going to find I took a deep breath and counted to the customary 10 before I walked back into the living room.

I didn't say anything, just stood in the middle of the room with my hands on my hips, trying to give him my very best impression of my mom's angry eyes.

He looked at the plant, then at me, then at the plant again until he threw his little hands up in the air and said "are you kidding me?!"

How could I be mad after that?? The little phrase courtesy of his Father's road rage. He melts my heart.

Somewhere in between all of the summer activity, my little boy grew up. Into a big boy complete with a big boy bed.

Which lasted approximately less than 24 hours.

I caved at 4:00 a.m.

I was so excited for the milestone that I completely overlooked how much work it was going to be. I started thinking about how much I love my sleep, need my sleep, and so there I was in the wee hours of the morning with my screwdriver, confining my son, once again to his crib.

I just wasn't ready for it. Maybe we'll try again in a couple of months. When I'm a little older.

Well that just about recaps the highlights of the summer as far as I can remember. It's good to be back blogging again, I'm equally excited to catch up on everyone else's lives via the internet.

I'm sure you're all doing mostly what we are. Trying to settle into a schedule again, waiting for school to start. I'm always sad to see the end of summer but it also means the start of my favorite season. Fall. Mmmm I can almost hear the crunch of the leaves and smell the crisp air. I'm ready!If anyone has any good ideas about Halloween costumes or any websites I can look at for Noah please let me know. I'm having a hard time finding one that I like.