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Prince or Princess?

anyone want to guess if i am a boy or girl? :)

Visiting Family

 Aurora and I were lucky enough to get to go back to Chicago for another visit this month! Our Christmas visit was foiled by the chicken pox so it was really nice to be able to get back so soon and see everyone (we didn't get to see 95% of the family at Christmas due to Aurora's infectiousness)

Here are a few pictures from our trip. Most of them are of Aurora and her cousin (or second cousin or something like that) Ezekiel who we stayed with. The two of them were pretty hilarious. They thought they were siblings.

 Playing in Zeke's backyard...

 Driving to the Children's Museum on our last day there. (note Aurora's sunglasses are upside down)

 making pretend sandwiches at the mini Potbelly at the children's museum

 Playing with air with Auntie Alison and Zeke

 and getting ready for Chicago Sports Jersy night at cubbies.

It was so great to see everyone and especially to spend so much time with my dear friend Alison. She is probably the sweetest person i know and I love every minute i get to spend with her. Oh and Aurora loves her too she probably would have stayed to live there if i gave her the option.... lol

pregnancy so far

Well, it's been a while since I've posted anything. I have been so sick for the last couple months that it was all I could do to get out of bed during the day and try to keep Aurora out of trouble.

I finally started taking Diclectin a week and a half ago and man has that made a huge difference!!! I can function now!! I actually get up and go out and eat meals again!! It's really nice.

I had a midwife appointment and heard the heartbeat a couple weeks ago. It was a nice steady 160, maybe there is hope for another girl. :) Not that i would be upset if it's a boy, I just have all girl stuff so it would be easiest to have another girl.

My "big ultrasound" is coming up soon, April 8th. It will be fun to see the baby, maybe help it to seem a bit more real too, my last ultrasound was at 6 weeks so there wasn't much to see besides a blinking heart. Still fun, but I didn't have this ultrasound with Aurora so it should be fun, and hopefully we'll find out if we're having a boy or girl!!! :)

getting ready for Valentines

Here's some valentines day cards, still have a few to go

Potato Heads

Aurora got Mr and Mrs Potato Head from her Uncle Zachary and Auntie Ruth for Christmas this year. A few days ago her cousins were over for the afternoon and she and Allistair decided to play with the Potato Heads. They had a great time decorating themselves though instead of the potato heads. 

Here are a couple pictures of them. They did wear the lips and teeth too but my computer is moving very slowly at the moment and i don't have the patients to wait for them to upload. :)

Winter fun

Aurora had a good time playing out in the snow in our backyard today. She just got new snow pants and was eager to test them out. 

 She had a good time out there, despite losing her mittens every few minutes.

I'm doing ok. The medicine that i was so happy to get makes me extremely exhausted (on top of regular pregnancy tiredness) and dizzy so i don't do a whole lot most days. I still have to take it pretty easy but it looks like things are good. I had an ultrasound on Thursday and the baby looked good.

Caleb is busy working and helping me out (since i am kind of useless these days). They will soon be moving into the new plant at work so that should be interesting.

ya!

I got a nice surprise today. My doctor decided to give me the hormone pills i need! i didn't even have to ask!! What a huge relief!

Our Family

 Happy New Year from the four of us! :)

(yup, we found out a couple weeks ago)

Please pray, i have had problems in the past with my hormone levels which if too low can cause a miscarriage. Here in Canada medical is about 10 years behind so i don't have access to some of the medicine i did in Chicago so we really have to trust that God will keep the baby safe.

January so far

 We had a birthday party for Aurora this week, it was a bit late but we wanted her friends to be back. She's pretty obsessed with tea parties so that is what we did for her. She had 8 friends, and a very noisy time. It was pretty fun.

I unfortunately didn't take a lot of pictures because i was running around but here is one of her friends in his crown.

 We also discovered that Aurora finally has enough hair for pigtails and a ponytail. She is pretty proud of herself.
I think she looks so much older!

Christmas Day

Christmas Day with my family, yes we decorated gingerbread houses both places. :)

 goofy Shanelle, she makes me laugh!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve with Caleb's family

the 8 hour trip that took 14+

These first two are out of order, oops. As you can see, we arrived safely and Aurora is having a blast. She and Ezekiel are great friends already, and she likes Carl (the dog) quite a bit too.

 Discover toy guns. ya, we are in the US now. lol. Here she is "shooting" Carl. She hasn't really figured out how to hold the gun properly despite her daddy's best efforts to correct her.

 Ok, back to the trip from hell.

Unfortunately i didn't even think about taking pictures until we were through the worst of it, i was too stressed out and freaked to think about pictures.
It was still pretty bad at this point, worse than I've ever seen (but an improvement from earlier in the trip believe it or not)

Here is a picture of our GSP showing how slow we were driving. At times we were down lower. Oh, it also shows our estimated arrival time, we didn't actually get in till after 2am (time change made it 1am)

 This picture doesn't really do it justice, but this road was down to 1 lane, the other lane had several feet of snow covering it.Our lane had a lot of big drifts on it to that we kept having to plow through.

 the sun setting, great now we get to do it in the dark!! good thing we were already past the really bad parts!

 Us, driving

 Aurora. She was an angel, i couldn't believe how good she was stuck in that chair for 14 hours with only 2 breaks. We could tell people were praying (also for the fact that we didn't go off the road or crash)

 Here is another attempt to show how bad the road was. Still doesn't do it justice.

Once we got to the 401 it was a lot better. We still kept it well under the speed limit though. By the time we reached the US we were so tired and relieved. And even more so once we finally reached Chicago!!

Now that we are here we are having a great time with our dear friends (who happen to be family also). Aurora and Zeke already love each other and are having a blast playing together.

Today I'm going to have lunch with two of my very good friends from work. I'm really looking forward to seeing them since the last time was a year ago.

setting up the tree

our week

My funny girl in her toque and sun glasses.

 these pictures crack me up. she is such a turkey!

 Aurora and daddy at Christmas in the Country

 checking out the animals

 Aurora had a great time going to a photo shoot with me today. She got to hold the baby and was so into feeding her that she sobbed when her mommy took her to burp her in the middle of her bottle. Silly Aurora. she sure likes babies!