Tuesday, September 30, 2008

In the morning when I rise...


The sounds of geese getting ready for flight wake us up every morning. Well...they wake me up every morning. Christine has this superhuman ability to sleep through anything! This is a quality that, for people like me who find it difficult to sleep at the best of times, I wish I had. However...she can't clap with one hand! Point me.

Things in Waterloo are settling down. We, by we I mean I, no longer go the grocery store every day, classes are now a month into the semester, and the leaves are changing colours. This was something I missed dearly when I moved to Winnipeg. Since it becomes cold so quickly the leaves don't have the chance to die a slow colourful death, which I guess is more humane if you are a leaf activist but by golly I like the reds, yellows, and shades in between. Anyways, things here are going quite well.

Speaking of well, that would be the opposite of how Christine has been feeling lately. Nausea or when will it stop I am at sixteen weeks enough is enough already, as we call it, has become the fourth member of the house. It is kind of like one of those house guests who never tells you when it is going to arrive or when it is going to leave and, on top of it all, stays long enough just to make it's presence felt even in it's absence. At this point, as I am sure many pregnant women are apt to say, one is enough. In any case, as far as the pregnancy goes, things are going quite well. Nausea is apparently a sign that the pregnancy is strong and healthy. For that we are thankful.

Well, I think that is all for now. We enjoy getting calls from people so please feel free to call us. It is always nice to have a call from home.




Monday, September 15, 2008

Toben

The wonderful adventures of Toben!



Playing hide and seek at the hotel in Thunder Bay


Fun with blankets


Helping Christine do some work


Goin' out clubbin'


Playing with the camera


Another game of hide and go seek


Playing with his Golden Compass bucket


I love dress up

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Autumn's beginnings

Autumn's beginnings...




David's wilderness adventure OR I saw three deer and all I got was a picture of their bums

Since my life is not terribly exciting right now i.e. no job and house-husbanding, I tend to find certain things, that some people would think mundane, very exciting. Take today for example. I just walked out of the door (to do my third activity grocery shopping) and there was a deer standing about 20 feet away from me giving me a stare down. I immediately ran back to get the camera to capture this unbelievable event for Christine and those of you who read these posts. Dashing out of the door with the camera, it looked like it had disappeared but ohhhh no. There were, in fact, 3 of them! In my attempts to get closer I kind of scared them off. It was probably because of my blindingly white skin and goofy excited look on my face. I mean, who wouldn't be excited to see 3 deer directly behind their house? After a few attempts of getting a decent shot I just watched them hop away. And as quickly as they had come they disappeared. Thus, all I got was a picture of their bums jumping away.



I wonder why they didn't find me as interesting?


Saturday, September 06, 2008

We made it 3 months!

The ultrasound picture is now a couple of weeks old. In the past few days I have what in pregnant-lingo is called "popped." So it feels like I am actually pregnant right in time for the morning/all-day sickness to begin to dissipate. Thank goodness for our wonderful midwife and her access to anti-nausea drugs!! Countdown: 6 more months to go!

Ultrasound # 1

Here is the first of our little ultrasound blob...in other words our little bundle of cells.



Sorry about the blurriness the baby was moving around like a jumping jellybean

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

A labour day visit

We took a nice trip to Oshawa yesterday to visit with my brother Jason, his fiancée Michelle, our nieces, Brittany, and Lorisa, and our nephew Lucas. Here are some pictures.



Lucas chewing on his safety glasses



Pretty much my favourite picture



Lorisa smiling because she is so excited to see her favourite aunt and uncle


Brittany on one of her random tangents

A delicious dinner which was also fun to play with






From prune to plum

Welcome to this weeks update!

Our little prune has now achieved good sized plum status! I am not sure why pregnancy websites and books compare developing fetus'/developing babies to fruit and vegetables but I guess it is a much more pleasant thought to think of a plum than say a rock, or a soft ball (which in case you didn't know isn't exactly "soft"). "Your baby is now the size of a good sized rock" doesn't sound as appealing I guess.
In any case, we are hoping in the next few weeks to hear the lub dub of our little plum's heart. This is something I am rather excited about. While the first ultrasound was pretty impressive, it was quite difficult to visualize this tiny object turning into a full-on talking, walking, somersaulting, watermelon....I mean baby. Ultrasound number two comes with stereo sound. This makes it so much more real...

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