the pics...

some people have been hounding me to post pics so fine! here ya go! you still have to visit!!!

den - computer desk side

hallie's room

kai's room

view into hallie's room

emerson's very first bedroom

master bedroom
master bedroom

den toy shelf/chair
stairs/foyer
view from front door


kitchen

mudroom
mudroom

great room
great room
kitchen from great room

pictures!

i took some pics of the new place.... i'm in love! all of us are loving it! anyway, i'm not sure if i should post some pics or you may never come to visit me.... i'm going to go shower and i'll be back and i'm sure i'll upload some ;)

we are now in possession of the new house!!!!

we got the keys today, earlier than expected although with playschool and stuff, we didn't really go over there until 5pm anyway! it's soooooo nice to be in! it's already so much bigger, i can feel the space. or maybe that is because it's empty LOL -- that could be it!!

so the electrician came tonight to plan out the basement work, he will come back tomorrow to complete the work.

the painter came tonight to paint the kids' rooms. he has a lot of work ahead of him! he's over there now until early morning i imagine...

i brought over 1 van load of stuff tonight... pictures, smaller boxes... i put some away but it just seems like so much work so i am back at the old house, parked on the computer for a while. tomorrow will be work day. movers come at 9am, telus comes at 8am! aaaahhhh!! we have couches coming tomorrow too, but i have no idea on what time!

sooooooooo when are you all coming to visit?? i'll take some pics once we're "in" and post them!

last night was playschool registration. i went at 5:30pm and it started at 7pm. i was 6th in line, and by 6pm there were at least 25 people in line. and this is only current member registration, not even public registration!!! it was krazy! but i got kai into the class i wanted to for next fall, which is all that matters. he'll be going mon/wed/fri mornings. hallie will be going to morning kindergarten. it will be a completely new schedule for us but i think it will work out well!

anyway, take care and i'll be back once we're up and running with internet over at the new place. *should* be tomorrow but you never know....

had big plans...

i had big plans for tonight, to pack some stuff, organize... but i went to upload a video of emerson walking. it was super short. so then i got into this huge long video edit and made a little vid of the kids from the past 6 months or so... take a peek. Em's walking is at the end. it's just under 3 minutes. nothing special, just some cute and HAPPY kids :)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IoC7Lp3Ok5o

steps!

emerson is finally taking some steps here and there! she isn't too stable yet, but she can take a few in a row... and today she was doing them on her own, without me coaching.... she just took off! awwwwwwwww she is growing up! and i have some serious baby itch!!! i'll try to get some video of the steps up, just things have been insanely busy this week!

it's one of those weeks where i feel every single minute is scheduled for something or another! today we had swimming, then my dad worked my playschool duty day at hallie's request... tomorrow i drop kai at school, go meet my dad to pick out paint colors for the kids' rooms, then back to pick up kai, then to a bday party, then to pick up after school kid who gets out at noon thrusdays, back to bday party.... then i have to be at playschool registration 1.5 hrs before it even starts! and this is not even public registration! insane! it's nice having the kids go to such a highly desired school, but the wait to register is just krazy. most of the time, the public doesn't make it in unless they get in off the wait list. alumni fills the school up so fast. my kids LOVE it there!

ok gotta run, thought i'd update about my not so little girl! what a bittersweet milestone....

she is 16.5 months old and taking her first steps.......

getting into trouble...

emerson and her hair getting into trouble under the bathroom sink....

WHO did she get her hair from????!!!!

wow

wow i can't believe my last blog entry was so boring... and i really have nothing exciting to talk about tonight either...

let's see.... tomorrow is LMO. looking forward to that. then we have a tv repair guy coming in the afternoon. our brand new (purchased dec 2006) plasma tv is already having some issues... thank goodness it's under warranty. kipp is pretty stressed about it -- the tv to him is like my computer or camera to me i guess. i couldn't live without either one for too long... how sad...

today we hung out here in the morning, then we visited juanita & kids after lunch and playschool drop off. it was a nice afternoon :) my kids were driving my nuts all morning and after school. i feel like i have "checked out" from being a mom this week, i am too focused on movnig and i'm finding it hard to focus or anything else, including the kids. i feel badly :(

tonight, since i was about to lose it with the kids, i decided to take them for a walk in the mini blizzard. i put emerson to bed (kipp was home) and i took hallie & kai, in the stroller, for a jog/walk. i was impressed that both of them fit in the stroller pretty well (our new chariot) and the pushing was so smooth.... the kids had a blast and especially enjoyed the wheelies! we walked to.... our new house, of course! where else?? LOL i stopped in to ask our new neighbors a question about school and turns out they are sending their son to the same school as hallie and hallie's friend mackenzie. woo hoo!!!! how awesome! the neighbors invited us in for a little play/visit.... it was great! too bad kipp wasn't there, he STILL has not met them. weird! i feel like i've known them forever.

ok, well that's about it. nothing else exciting to report.

do you ever feel like you're living in a little bubble and sometimes you contact those from the outside and they only ignore you, or are too busy for you? i miss some dear friends who i haven't gotten together with much lately.... sara you are one of them!!!! i know you're busy, so i will have to just kidnap you sometime... thanks for the blog, you rock!

our week...

we had a good week, for the most part!

tuesday - went to ladies morning out, it was a good class :) took kai to school.... that night i went out with some moms to a restaurant and had a great time! we were there chatting until 10:30pm!

wednesday - kids had swimming in the morning... kai wasn't seeming quite himself so he missed swimming and spent the day with grandma, and grandpa too once he was home from work. i think they even managed a nap together! hallie had school, and after had her little friend mackenzie over. they are getting to be such great friends, it's so cute!

thursday - woke up at 5:45am to kai puking in our bed. EW. so, i got up with him and hallie and started the day far too EARLY. kai didn't throw up again after that, but had it coming out the other end all day all day thursday, so he missed playschool... BUT i was scheduled to be duty mom so i still went in for my shift while my dad babysat my kids. i cancelled my dayhome kids for this day...

friday - kai is almost completely better... by noon he seems 100% better. no one else sick... so far so good *knock on wood* we stayed home this morning, i got some packing done... the kids all played, babies napped... it was a calm morning. hallie had playschool and after school she went to mackenzie's house. (when we move, we can see mack's front door to her house from our front door, we are very close!! how perfect) she stayed there for dinner (her first dinner on her own, away from home besides grandparents' house!)

yes, so VERY low key week... no pictures even... we move in 7 days!!! i plan to have a pretty low key week this coming week too. this weekend, no big plans... some packing, some errends, have to register hallie for soccer. she is playing community soccer with mackenzie, while kai is playing in a different league all together with his buddies. either way, we would have had to run around like krazy so as it stands, we are doing soccer mon thru thurs once it starts in the spring. wish us luck with that! LOL (kipp also has his own soccer 2x/week so this could get interesting!)

emerson trying to break into a juice box she found in the pantry... but she isn't allowed that kind of juice... sorry babe!

daddy & little emerrrrrrrr...
my cutie girls...

hallie was being quite the little poser, as usual!

my beautiful children!

these are my pictures... i know there are a few but i had quite a few "favorites" for once! a nice feeling!

i liked this one for my mom's wall, but my mom thought emerson's head was cut off :(

i also love this one... not sure why...
my group shot!
emerson showing off her tummy...

her eye's are always tearing... aw!


emerson LOVED this place, she wa so happy to be sitting here... and she wouldn't crawl on the floor... so she was sorta contained, although it was by choice LOL

standing on her own!

princess hallie - this one is going on my mom's wall, 8x10 size and *i* took it!!! at least one of mine makes it to the wall LOL!



poor emerson touched a cactus of some sort and has a bunch of prickles in her hand...

hallie wanted a pic of her and the fish!
my babies.... should we have another? they are pretty darn cute!

i have to share.... !!

Hope and i and all of our kids (and her husband) all met up at the Muttart Conservatory on the weekend! the kids had a blast playing together... we will have to get them together again sometime! and we enjoyed our surroundings and it felt like it wasn't winter for a couple hours! beautiful!!! of course we took some pictures too... the purpose of the visit there was for Hope to show me a bit more about my camera. these are the pictures HOPE took, which i love! thank you miss Hope ;) you never cease to amaze me!

this one is awesome, all of the kids together with emmy in the middle!







my favorite one of emerson!! my mom is getting this one framed for her wall in 8x10 size...

and my mom didn't want emmy's drool on the pic so *i* edited it... how does it look??
i also love this one, this is totally kai!
and this one was also printed in 8x10 for my mom's wall....

pb & j .....

the perfect sandwich.... COBS fresh white bread, and some smooth peanut butter and welch's grape jelly.... mmmmmmmm.... had to take a pic.........

my hallie...

she looks so tall in these pics..... kipp said they look weird!

fish lips!

i am still alive!

i haven't been to great at updating... and yet i hate when people don't update! and even more, i really hate when people don't even have blogs to begin with! come on sara! ;) ha ha!

so we are moving in 11 more sleeps!!!!!! AAAAAHHHHHH!!! i started packing a little bit... the kids' books and toys... maybe i'll do some kitchen packing later tonight... the stuff i don't use. (small appliances.. you know, those things that require cooking or baking, 2 things i don't really do! LOL)

oops - i just remembered LMO is tomorrow morning and i haven't yet started the book! we have to read 2 chapters before tomorrow. i'll get right on that! this time our book is called, "bringing up boys" ... should be good!

we skipped playschool today. instead, we went to emerson's doctor appt which was at 9:45am. we left our house at about 9:25am, so a bit late considering the roads were not good. it had snowed a lot last night, and was still snowing as we drove this morning. yes, roads were SLOW... it took us 1 hour to get to the university, when it normally takes us about 15 minutes. oh wait, i bet about 10-15 minutes was spent in the parkade... the one that didn't say FULL yet, it was full! AAAHHH that was not fun. us, along with like 5 other vehicles were driving in circles waiting for a spot... in a small area... it was like a race! and we couldn't exit the parkade either because you have to pay inside the building. OH - and it was a heated parkade so we were fogging up fast, and sweating like pigs! not fun... and i had 4 kids with me! ok, vent over!

soooooooo emerson's doc appt.... she will be needing surgery for blocked tear ducts. fun. it's a simple, quick procedure but it does involve general anaesthetic (sp?) and that is always a small risk. but emmy is a pro... she's done that 4 times before... so i'm not too worried. i'm not sure WHEN this will happen because we have to be referred, and who knows how long that all takes.

AND he is also sending emerson for hearing tests, as she is 16 months old and has no words yet. he's not worried about her not walking yet because she is close, and he won't worry until she is 18/19 months. also, i asked about her constant DROOLing LOL... and he said it is ok for her to be drooling up to age 2 - 2.5yrs... then after that if it's still a problem, they will do botox injections into their salivary glands.... it's a pretty easy procedure. this is what they do for kids like emmy, babies even, who can't swallow... they choke... emmy could've had this before as she choked a lot on her spit (she still does) -- but she never got sick from it (pneumonia) so they didn't act on it. the reason they would act on it after 2 - 2.5 yrs is only because they thought kids going to playschool don't want to be drooling everywhere. fair enough. sounds like it's still an optional thing though.

soooooooooooo that is the news on us. not a lot... the other kids are doing well, nothing new. and now, for some pics.... which will be above this post so you will have already looked at them before reading this... meaning there is no point in what i am writing... blah!!