October 31st

Here are some pictures from our Halloween Day. My mom arrived on Saturday and we took David and Angeline to Bear Creek Park for some festivities. David enjoyed the train ride even though it was a bit scarry. He also made a punkin hat and played on the playground in his dragon costume.

Shortly after 5:30pm wet set out for some tricker treeting. David was tired but when we would ask him if he wanted to go home or if he wanted more candy he would always say "more candy!" He did really well and Jonathan and I get to eat all his peanuty treats so we are happy about that.

Happy Halloween

I will be updating with pictures of David in his costume next time I have access to a computer but I took Angeline's pictures early so I wanted to get them up. Have a safe and fun Halloween.

Angie Bear... 7 1/2 months

Angeline is 7 1/2 months old. I just had to give an update while I have the chance. She waved to me for the first time on Wednesday... so cute! She also waved to Grammy and I tried getting her to wave to Jonathan but she waited until yesterday night. She waved to Miriam at Bible Study and to her big brother David of coarse. So you could be next to have a wave hi or bye from our baby girl.

What we've been up too...

You can see from the top picture in this post that we have been using child labour for our basement renovations. Actually David's favorite thing right now is helping Daddy downstairs. We've been doing the final preparations before drywalling next week (and by "we" I mean Jonathan and Bob). Life is really busy right now plus we have been semi-isolated because of the swine flu going around. At this point no one in our family is getting immunized.

October 15th part 2

Thank you to everyone who lit a candle in memory of Noah on October 15th. October 15th was also mine and Jonathan's 4 year wedding anniversary. Here is a picture of us just before we went out for dinner to celebrate. It was nice to leave the kids and have a quiet un-rushed meal. I was thinking on our anniversary about what our groomsmen Nathan said during his speech on our wedding day. He said something along the lines of "When you look back on your wedding day may you be able to say that was the day that you loved each other the least." We were certainly in love on our wedding day, I don't think that anyone who was there could deny that, but I must say that everything we have experienced in our first four years of marriage has expanded that love a great deal. Everyday in a marriage you have one choice to make... are you going to grow closer together or further apart?

October 15th

National Pregnancy and Infant loss Remembrance Day

In the United States and Canada October 15th has been recognised as National Pregnancy and Infant loss Remembrance Day. This day allows family and friends, through a variety of remembrance ceremonies, to honour their babies who died. Many families will also be lighting candles in rememberance of older children who have died.

There is a candlelight vigil held today at 7pm throughout Canada and the United States.

If you would like to honor Noah in this way please light a candle for him tonight at 7pm or whenever you read this post.

We will be lighting a candle in honor of many... Noah, Anna, Liam, Kimberly, Neil, Dean, Jerry, Kenneth... we light a candle for you and so many others.

Stinker Bell is 7 months old!

I don't like it...

David looked so handsome and grown up in his shirt and tie. I hemmed his dress pants this morning and we took him to get his picture taken. All was going well until he had to sit and smile and then he started crying and saying "I don't like it"... his newest favorite phrase. Jonathan took some pictures when we got to mom & dad's but I am sad not to have a portrait of him on my wall. Maybe he will change his mind by the time we go to get his four year portrait taken.

family reunion

Action shots...

Two of a kind

6 months old

Again I have to say it is hard to believe but Angeline is now 6 month old (September 14th). She weighs 14 pounds and measures 26 inches tall... she has grown a lot in the last few weeks. She has been moving all around for a long time but has recently progressed to an army crawl. She knows what she wants and when she wants it and as long as she is getting whatever it is she is a very happy little girl (I think she is going to prove to be an especially difficult 3 year old). She doesn't sit for long yet on her own but that seems to be improving a bit every day and she has progressed from just rice cereal to "mum mums" (rice crackers) and butternut squash. She will be experiencing carrots and sweet potato shortly.

Just the 3 of us

Here we are just the 3 of us. We are enjoying our visit on the Island but we are missing Daddy lots. My trip over was very long because we missed our first sailing but 7 1/2 hours after leaving our place we arrived at my mom's. There was a major power outage so David had fun running around with a flash light. Now we are just enjoying spending time with family. When we get back we head full swing into fall start ups and all the business of weekly meetings.