Sadie has Arrived

My sister finally went into labor last Thursday, the day before she was going to be induced. Sadie was born Friday September 26th at 1:14am, weighing 8lbs1oz and she was 21.5 inches long. I can't believe how much dark brown hair she has, she looks just like her big sister Megan did at birth, except with more hair. Poor Alyssa seemed abit jealous that she didn't look like her, but she loves her just the same.

Here are some pics:)

Abby & Erica Start Preschool

Last Wednesday Abby and Erica started preschool!! The only go Wednesday mornings from 9:30-11:30, but I think it's really good for them and good for me lol. I was abit nervous with how the girls would be when I left and asked the teacher if I should tell them I was leaving? and she said absolutely. I told them Mommy was going but would be back soon and they just looked at me and said "bye bye mommy"...yah as you can see we have real attachment issues lol. I'm them having each other there and all the playgroups I go to made a big difference.


My friend Tammy signed her daughter Naomi up as well, she's in the middle of the pic with the three of them. We dropped the kids off and went shopping. It was so weird just having our little ones in their strollers, her other daughter is 4 weeks older then Connor. Not sure what's planned for this week, perhaps maybe some R&R back at home with our little ones. Can't shop every week right??


Today has been a great day. I tried putting Abby and Erica together for naptime and they went to sleep right away. Lately I've been putting Abby in Emma's bed, but she seems to get into her stuff sometimes. I wonder if the novelty of sharing a room has worn off as they didn't make a peep. Regardless, i'm happy! Now I just have to get Connor to sleep in his room during the day instead of his swing...as it only goes up to 25lbs. I'm thinking of putting a radio in his room, maybe he is so use to the noise down here that it's too quite up there. Time will tell.

Well here are the pics from preschool:)

What a very productive weekend!! We managed to power wash all the outdoor toys and bring them downstairs to the basement. The kids will still have alot of fun playing in the playhouse, on the slide and stuff....just because summer ends...the summer toys don't have too. As well, I managed to sell off all my maternity clothes on kijiji, as we're definetely not having anymore kids with us both "fixed" so to speak:)

Connor is getting soo big now, in a good healthy way. He's 18lbs and a solid little man. I love the big smile he gives me when I look over at him from afar and smile, his whole face just lights up. It's nice to see someone get that excited by your presence. Abby and Erica are understanding more and more each day and have fell into a great bedtime rountine, sleeping in the same room, in their big girl beds. Tonight Erica tried to climb in with Abby, but we got her back into her bed before she managed to wake Abby up. If she just climbed in and went to sleep with her, I would of left her, but she wants to climb in with her to horse around. Abby was too pooped to care.

Gerry's workings days the next two weeks, so life should be pretty good and normal. My family and Rebecca have been a great help when Gerry works nights. Emma and I even managed to sneak out for some big girl shopping Friday night. Emma really enjoyed it and it felt really good to be able to walk around with her and Connor in his stroller sleeping. Hopefully I'll be able to leave him home with my family soon, but for now he's still a big momma's suck.

Here's some pics from our morning out at Funworx last week.

This weekend was pretty low key, abit of shopping, but other than that it was time to recharge for week two on my own:) The girls start their preschool class on Wednesday, from 9:30-11:30, i'm really excited for them and hope they like it.

Poor Connor has his immunizations tomorrow, oh how I dread those, but I know there necessary. I just feel like he looks up at me as to say "why did you let them do that to me mommy". Luckily there soon forgotten.

Here's some cute pics

Wow, what a week:) Gerry is back to work and working nights this week and next week. I started off really energetic at the beginning of the week, but have been slowing down, as week goes by lol. Oh life was soo much easier with both of us home, and it was so nice spending so much time together. Oh well, it was good while it lasted.

On a positive note, i'm getting alot more exercise and am thinking all these aches and pains are working off some of my pregnancy weight. Hey, there's gotta be some perks to being on the go constantly right. Luckily my family and friends have stopped in to help. I think things will be alot easier on Gerry's day shift weeks. In the meantime, Connor is getting abit more independent, entertaining himself for periods of time in his jumperoo and exersaucer and the girls are getting use to going to bed in the same room.

I took the kids for a playdate Monday and to Funworx Tuesday, they had a really good time and it was nice to get out with them. Abby and Erica start their preschool class on Wednesday, going from 9:30-11:30, I think they'll really enjoy that and I will as well:)

Here's some recent pics of Connor.

Back To School

Emma is back in full swing and enjoying her new school. I guess it makes it easier that it was everyone's first day at the new school. The school, JW Gerth, is beautiful!! Ceramic tile flooring and it has soo many windows with tonnes of natural light shining in.

Here are pictures of Emma's first day of school...

Turkey Point

Okay, i'm not doing too well on updating my blog lately. I'm hoping now that Emma is back in school and i'm working on getting Connor to take naps in his room, i'll be able to co-ordinate them all napping in the afternoon:) That would be perfect for me to digital scrapbook as well, as Gerry will be going back to work Monday. It's been so nice having him home, but I knew it couldn't last forever. I can't believe with all the time we spent together and all the kids we barely argued. That's pretty impressive. I think i'll miss all our time together, but it would be nice to have some sort of routine here.

Last weekend we went to the beach with the kids and my sisters family. It was great, the kids all had a blast. Abby and Erica weren't so sure about the sand in their toes at first, but they warmed up to it after a while.

Here's some pic so them...