May

Finally an update! After the kids had the flu, I got it for a day and a bit, and I think Mike did as well. Seems like so long ago I don't remember — and of course baby brain doesn't help!

The zoo was SO much fun though.. the kids had a blast, the weather was great, Ben even got to hold Benson the owl in the "Rapter" show. He is still talking about it :)








We have been doing hard work here and there, playing lots, cooking hot dogs over our fire pit & eating dinner outside and watching everything grow! Ben named our rhubarb plant Big Leaf, he just loves watching it grow, commenting every so often on how much he's grown! It was Mike's birthday on the 20th, and Ben helped me make rhubarb cake — except he told Daddy that we baked him "roast beef cake"!! Either way, it was a yummy roast beef cake! Lots of projects underway and getting started/finished around the house.. kitchen backsplash (tile is finally ordered!), re-doing the hot tub surround, filling in the hole in deck from fish pond (raccoons ate them all mid-May), painting our bedroom/bathroom and of course we gotta paint the kids rooms! And all of this done before the baby comes?!? Hmm.

This few Saturdays ago we had family pictures taken with my friend Sarah. It was so much fun. We went to Whonnock Lake here in Maple Ridge, not that far from home. The weather was perfect, and of course I wasn't prepared for water play — no towels, toys, changes of clothes. Lesson learned! She has given some sneak peeks and I am so excited to see the rest!







Tomorrow we are off to the Island — Lake Days in Lake Cowichan at Granny & Grampa's! I am sure Ben will love seeing the parade even more than last year :) Pics to come of that!

Flu

The stomach flu has hit the kids HARD. My goodness... it's so hard to see them like this.

Saturday we went to the Zoo. When we came home that afternoon, Daisy starting puking right before dinner (sorry, I have been around it too much to tip-toe around it!) and had some BAD diapers, resulting in a bath at midnight, then Ben coming into bed with me and puking. I spent the WHOLE night in bed with him, he was puking every half an hour and it has just gone on and on and on and on. Daisy started to get better yesterday, actually ate a wee bit, walking around etc, but then she spiked a high fever and was SO lethargic. I was so scared about dehydration so we went to the ER. I knew they would tell me to just keep doing what we were doing, which they did, but we did learn a few things and felt better having them checked out. Late night though.

Today Ben seems to be a bit better, but still puking. Daisy is still lethargic, but sleeping it off thanks to Gravol suppositories (sorry my babies!).

Will update about our trip to the zoo later..

The NEWS!

For those of you who don't know, I am expecting baby number three! I will put a link to the left to go to my pregnancy blog :)

Easter!

Pics of what the Easter Bunny left for the kids! Ben got a Gardena garden tool set and a kite. Daisy got a couple books and a stuffed toy.. Granny & Grampa also gave them some clothes, Daisy got new Robeez, and a couple treats.

We did a little hunt around the house (it was raining too hard outside) and had a good day! It was nice and quiet, just us, no running around or big dinners to prepare. Of course these are the only pictures I took of the whole day (bad mommy).

Daisy at the park

Ben was too busy riding, so all I got shots of was Daisy — when she wasn't trying to eat the rocks.

Pasta night!

New bike trailer & bike...

Ben is just like his dad.. he LOVES bike riding, or doing anything around bikes. We were given a little two wheeler (with training wheels) for him to learn on, an upgrade from the tricycle. He would ride that all day if he could. His "new old bike" he called it. He was getting really good on it, even was able to balance in the middle on just the two wheels. We told him that if he got better at it, that his reward was a new bike. Not sure if this was more for him or for Mike to get to take him to the bike store (no Canadian Tire specials here), but this Saturday was THE DAY!

I had just bought a new bike trailer off of Craigslist (smokin' deal!) and they were trying it out for the first time. They were going to go to the bike store to "look".

He didn't want his picture taken.. surprise surprise.

Suffered through this one..

Ben's new Norco Macho bike!

I think he likes it :)