Baskets of love

I went over to J'nea's today and we took alot of pictures of the boys. Zane was not very happy about getting posed this way and that way. Once he fell asleep we got some really cute pictures. Zander had fun getting his picture taken, and doing different poses. We took over a hundred pictures so it was hard to choose what pictures to post.

Poor Dad

The kids have fun playing with Jay when ever they can. Tonight they are having a pillow fight and just being silly.

a month already!

It is hard to believe it has been a month already. It has been so crazy with the kids all being sick and in and out of the hospital. Things are getting settled down now so I will try and post more pictures every few days.

Bath time

Zander was having a bath and I thought I would see if Zane would like to have a bath with his big brother. Zane normally doesn't like bath time, but he enjoyed his bath with Zander. Zander is always wanting to help, so he wanted wash Zane's hair for me.

Zane Devlin

Our new little addition to the family

born January 21, 2006 at 4:55 pm

5 lbs 13 oz, 19 inches

Saturday started off the same as any day. we went shopping in the morning, Ember had a birthday party to go to so we needed to get her a present to take. We came home and had lunch.

After lunch I started to have pains, but they were the same as the pains that I have been getting since December so I didn't think to much of it. Jay and I were deciding who was going to take Ember to the birthday party. I went to the washroom and noticed some bleeding. Jay dropped me off at the hospital at 3:30 and then took Ember and Zander to the birthday party. Auntie Laura met Jay at the birthday party and took Zander and would pick Ember up after the party so Jay could come to the hospital to be with me.

By the time Jay got back to the hospital my contrations were 2 to 3 minutes apart and I was ready to push. The baby was in such a hurry to come that I was not able to get any pain medication. The baby came out with the cord wraped around his neck a couple of times but he was ok, Jay was pretty worried for a few minutes. The baby was born at 4:55. It all happened so fast that we were in shock. Jay could have gone and picked Ember at the party because the party wasn't over until 5:45.

The baby was three weeks early but was healthy, he didn't have to go to neo natal at all, just to the regular nursery. I got settled into my room by 8 pm and the baby spent the night in the room with me.

In the morning my doctor came in and said I could go home that was about 9:30 am. The baby's doctor said he could go home that was at about 10:30 am on the condition that we bring the baby back at 5 to get some bloodwork done. the blood work had to be done once the baby was 24 hours old. we decided to stay in the hospital until the blood work was done so we didn't have to get bundled up twice.

Time outs at our house

Just Kidding

I am not sure what Zander was thinking last night. I don't know if he was pretending he was a dog or just looking for a good hiding place. I was trying to get Zander to get changed for bed and he decied to go into the dog's kennel and closed the door. he was very happpy in there but if you tried to open the door he would pull it closed again and scream at me. He stayed in there for several minutes before he lost intrest.

Good-Bye Pheobe

We decided we needed to downsize our critters before the new baby comes. We didn't have the space or time for our great dane anymore. We are all a little sad to see her go, but she has gone to a new home that has more space and where she will get more attention.

Ember and Pheobe hanging out on Ember's bed.

Zander and Pheobe were good buddies. When ever I told Pheobe to go to her blanket Zander would race there and sit and keep her company. He would also go downstairs into the crawl space if he thought she had spent too much time down there by her self. I think he will miss her.

Jay getting hugs and kisses.

Jr G.I Joes

Ember's cousins Jacob and Anthony really wanted to get some army gear for Christmas and they got their wish. On boxing day they got shirts, hats and face paint. They had to try on their stuff on right away and had fun playing army men for quite a while. Ember didn't want to be left out but she didn't want to be an army guy like her cousins. She diecided she was going to be the army cat, then she changed it to the army ferret.

Future hockey star

Uncle Kevin took Jacob, Anthony, and Ember outside to burn off some energy on Boxing Day. The kids were having a hard time waiting to open gifts so they needed a distraction.
































The weather was too nice for them to go skating outside, but they were able to play street hockey.

Boxing Day

We went down to Weyburn to get together with my side of the family. We have a big potluck style dinner were everyone is in charge of bringing something.

The adults have a $10.00 gift exchange, where no one is sure who gets what gift. This year we played a new game Dayna read a story were everyone passed a gift to the right or to left when they heard the words right and left in the story. Dayna had to read the story slowly so no one got mixed up.

The kids got spoiled from everyone buying them gifts.

The adults played several different games chracnole, taboo and a what if game.