Oh that sister of mine

She just about got me too... J loves to throw a prank out there every now and then.

J called me and asked if I checked my email yet today, I said no. She told me to go look because she wants to know if it is true......(I am already flustered at this point with something else.) I open my email and I see this:

I think "what the" when I read it....and wondered how or how someone could do this. Then I started to look at it more and thinking to myself that is not a scanned image and the typo error.....I am still investigating it when I hear her start to giggle, then I new it was a joke.... I told her she almost had me.....lol

She wants to do this to my other sis H...

I have to think of something to get her back....hmmmmmm

Have you ever said yes but knew you should of said no...

That is what I did and now I am trying to figure how to get out of it..... I am getting all stressed and emotional over it. Backtracking is hard to do. I need a backbone.......

Oh what a sight....

If only I had the guts to pull my camera out of the bag.....

I took the boys to a little park yesterday (one we do not go to often) Just as we were getting ready to leave and saw this young girl or pre-teen walking with a stroller towards us, when I got a closer look she had her dog in the stroller (this is a baby stroller not the dog kind...) I was like oh okay interesting never thought to do that as a kid. She then gets the dog out for the stroller, I thought she was going to go over to the grassy field part of the park but no she took it to the slide and they went down it walked along the jungle gym part and then she put it in the baby swing (this is where I wish I could just pull out my camera and shot) Here I am worried about someone looking at me funny with a camera and yet here is this girl just doing her thing and pushing the dog in the baby swing.......

Look at my boy.....

My baby is turning into a toddler.....whaaaaaaaa. For the last couple of week or so he was taking a few steps between DH and I and the on the 26th he started to do it all on his own:

And a photo of the little man himself.

$87.23

That is what this costs me:


15 little pills (150mg of clomid) that I have to take for 5days not to mention the major hot flashes that have been coming my way oh and the mood swings.

As you can guess af found me she left as fast as she came, I had lite spotting for a day and then gone....poof. No cramps this time, One day shy of 3wks late.

Last Friday (22nd) I went to Wally world to fill the clomid prescription and I dropped it off walked around the store for a few minutes. When I came back to the pharmacy the pharmacist said that it was not done yet because they were not sure if my Dr made an error on the slip and wrote 150mg down instead of 100mg, apparently they are advises not to give 150mg to anyone..... So she tried calling the clinic and got voice mail so they sent a fax and were waiting for a response, this is a 3pm the clinic closes at 4pm....... So I left without my clomid and they said they'd call when it was ready. I guess the clinic called them Saturday because the called to say I can come get it, the pharmacist said that my Dr did not seem to concerned and said that she has giving that out to a few of her patients.

So I am home taking the hot flashing moody filled drug.....

Well I was attemping to shooting Lighting but then this happened.....

As far as I know everyone got out, the teenagers were only home not sure where mom was or is and dad was at work....from what the other neighbor told me the kids were smoking in the garage and the cig landed in a gas/oil pan.

My son saw it 1st he was eating his supper when I heard him say "oh mama look fire" ...I though what so I looked out the window and sure enough(It was small at this point only in the garage), so I scrambled for the phone to call 911 ...... So scary when it is so close to home. It all happened so fast and then it was this ball of fire I could feel the heat when looking out the window.....Neighbors were scrambling. The houses on both side of this were damage aswell I'd say from what I could see 2 of the 3 are lost.

A family needs prayers tonight..






I am still shaking

And it begins

Ri is starting to walk....YEAH... (I think) I am wondering if I need to become the "Incredible" mom with the arms that stretch to no end.



That's my boy/s as you see Lil O had to get in on it.

Ok who is holding AF hostage....hmmmm

somebody PLEASE send her my way... 1w 2days late... nope not pg.

On this day 8yrs ago

I married my friend
the one I laugh with,
Dream with
live for
love

My marriage is great we have had no major battles other then trying for a baby.... I love you

Ask if I am surprised..........

now if it was positive I would of been surprised. So where is AF oh where can she be, I want her to find me please please please..........

Well still no

sign of AF...... I have no pg tests here and I will not be able to get out tomorrow since mum and J are coming over and I do not need to get their hopes up yet.

Hmmm well no sign of spot or af

so does this mean I am either pg (which I do not think so) or my FSH levels are still high...... Spot always arrives 2days before AF and AF is due Monday.

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I am for some reason finding it really hard to leave the house, it just seems like so much work to pack everything up....maybe I pack to much...lol.... Diaper bag, juice, snacks, ect... my camera and not to mention I have to get dressed, I want to at least look presentable when I leave the house. I just keep finding excuses to not go out and yet I would like to get out and I really want to get the boys out and yet I find myself staying in and feeling guilty.


On another note this little guy flew into our window, I am amazed he was not hurt just more stunned then anything or scared the crap out of him (as you can see). He stayed there for quiet awhile the flew to the ledge hung out for a bit the flew off. He was still pretty tiny and must be learning to fly and had his 1st lesson in windows.....

I never knew it took a

a FULL day to put in air condition in the house which we did this last week and today they came to install the pure air filter system and cleaned out the furnace (which he said was pretty dirty, rocks and cement inside it) which took 7hrs...I tell ya that is quiet the job they have and they are good to. Of course since we had it installed it has not been very hot....lol.

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On another note Lil O is starting with the embarrassing words/comments...lol.
When we see a man young or old Lil O say "Hi Ole Man" and his best yet is he LOVES to announce when he toots "I tooted mama, I tooted" that is nice lil O thanks for telling us all.

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Great my eggs are getting old....

that is what the Dr S said.

my last test of my Day 3 FSH levels back in Feb/Mar were 13 & 17

Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) Day 3 FSH is often used as a gauge of ovarian reserve. In general, under 6 is excellent, 6-9 is good, 9-10 fair, 10-13 diminished reserve, 13+ very hard to stimulate. In PCOS testing, the LH:FSH ratio may be used in the diagnosis. The ratio is usually close to 1:1, but if the LH is higher, it is one possible indication of PCOS.

Another hurdle for baby, the journey just does not get easier does it. It also has me thinking that yea I am getting older to, I still feel like I am in my mid 20's (I can only wish)

So looks like we will be moving on to IUI if my next Day 3 test (FSH) comes back high as the Dr put it "we need to get aggressive". I have also noticed that AF has been much lighter then normal almost like a spot but a bit heavier and only stays maybe a day and a half that can be due to the high levels of fsh.

Clomid has not been to nice to me this month I have been very moody, snappy and the hot flashes oh my.........plus my head hurts.

Look what I shot last night

I was in my glory...lol both DH and I were going ooooo ahhhh wow..... These were taken from my bedroom window.

My new lens has arrived Sigma 18-200mm DC OS

and I likey alot. The big brown truck pulled up and came a knocking to my surprise, dh said ah mamma's new toy...the ups guy chuckled... I said my new lens, that is....don't want him thinking something else... so I slapped the sucker on my camera, dh said oh watch out boys momma is armed. My aim was the cat my stuckie boy here he is: this is SOOC other then a crop.

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You had to be there moment

I was bathing Lil O and as I was done with him I called for Ri. Dh was bouncing Ri on the exercise ball coming towards me and then he stood Ri up on the floor and gave him a little push to walk towards me (the boy does not walk yet) and so he actually took a quick step and then started to fall towards me, I am seeing this out of the corner of my eye so I reached out and grabbed him gave the "what the" look to dh as he started to laugh hard and then said I forgot this one does not walk yet...lol we had a good laugh over it.

Phew

my back hurts, when your kids do not feel well they just want to be held. Ri is all better now, then it was Lil O's turn last night.... He woke up a few time in the night so I just brang him to sleep with me, what a restless sleeper he is..you know that feeling you get like your falling in your sleep and then your body jumps well Lil O seems to do the 2 to 3 time in an hr, not sure if that is normal..

This morning he seems better and my back still hurts.

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playing around with my blog it is not 100% yet since I have only figure this xml stuff out with some help from SJH blog design it has been very helpful..... so bare with me till I find what I like..

Ri does not feel well

not sure if it was from the walk we went on the other day because buy the time we got home it was so hot so could be a little heat stroke since he was pretty out of it since then, before the walk he was fine. Or he could be teething some molars or he just plan feels like crap. He has not eating anything in the last 24hr I got about 3 cans of pediasure in him but since this afternoon he has had nothing what so ever he refuses what I try to offer him.

Why do they always get sick on a weekend or better yet a long weekend, I am so not a fan of walking clinics (bad experience as a kid)

I think he is finally asleep. he has been attached to me all day, my back hurts and I am tired. I am sure the neighbors are happy too.

Ya know I love summer

but I really do not like the bees, wasps and spiders that come with it. Why do they bother me now? They never use to.

I was outside the other day with my sis H and mum and the boys and a couple of bees (I think the were bees) kept flying around us and it just gives me the creepies... and then we all watched as not one but to went under my lower deck ack so that means I probably have a nest under there....great...now I will avoid going out till dh or someone gets rid of them. So we went up to the upper deck let the boys play some more and then another dang bee comes along and kept coming and going and I just had it because is was flying right around Lil O's face and started to freak him out, H grabbed lil O and I grabbed Ri and in we went. This just sucks I want to enjoy the outdoors as do my boys the love outside but I do not want to get attacked by bees and wasp and why are they so dang huge now they never use to be this big when I was a kid. I really have to get over this but even right now just typing this I get the shivers and creepies....

Video of Lil O

He loves to watch himself. When I pull it out to tape him he comes running to watch but I have to explain to him that he needs mommy to record 1st before he can watch......um....he does not get that just yet...lol...so I have to be creative and so I turned the screen for him to see himself and I recorded...

Man do days just fly by..

way to fast..

Here is a little video of Ri taken with the new digi cam: So far the camera is good for video (good for what I need it for) the picture taken part of it is not the greatest might be good for a still shot but not a moving 1 or 2yr old it becomes a blur the picture taking part of it is just not fast enough.

My new toy

has arrived, way sooner then I expected it to. It sucks tho because the memory card I ordered is not here yet and this camcorder only has a built in 32mb memory...not very big. So I have not been able to really play with it.

It is nice and small easily fits into a pocket or my camera bag..YEAH.

5.0MP CMOS
1 2MP Max. Interpolation
2.5 " LIPS LCD
8x Digital Zoom
Portable Game Player
TV-Out & MPEG4 up to D1 720 x 480 @30fps
16-in-1
DSC, DV, WebCam, Video Stabilizer, Voice recorder,
TV-out, USB drive, Monitor video, game,
Digital zoom, DPOF, Direct Print, Slide show, Voice memo, Picture frame.

Lockdown....

A school where 2 of my nephew's go to were in lockdown TWICE in a matter of 6 months. I can not remember why for the 1st one but this second one was just on Thursday because of a lunatic of a husband threaten his wife with a gun in the house across the street.

My nephew said that the principle came on the speak announcing that they are in lock down code White. the teacher then locked all doors told the kids to get away from the windows and sit on the floor. My sisters did not now what was happening till my one nephew texted her.

They were released way past school time and only if the parent was there to get them with ID.

Later that night the guy gave himself up, wife was unharmed.

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A few days before that a husband murdered his wife and 2 dd and the tenant then himself he did not touch the 1yr old dd. The police were really shook up about it.

This city is getting worse, what is going on! also last weekend another lunatic went on the rampage of hijacking cars at gun point and one of his hijackings was close to my home. He did this 4 or 5times that day till the police caught him at a Junior high school...

What is with all these people.

Watch this momma

Just testing this video loading thing out.

This is some of the things that Lil O wants me to watch, finally got it on tape

this video is taken with my old Olympus camera, the one I got for Mothers Day last year is great but I do not like how I have to down laod videos from it and well it takes to long so I have resorted back to the Olympus point and shoot camera till the one that I bid on E-bay arrives, hopefully it is a good one lots seem to like it online so we will see. The new one is also the size of a plam/black berry so it will be easier to carry around with me too and when I have my camera with me too.


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Well it takes awhile for a video to load to blogger it has been 3min so far.....


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Not bad took almost 11minutes to load this video.

5DPO

that means 5 day past ovulation.... I am now in the 2ww(week wait), lovely. DH keeps saying are you pg? When will you know?.....truthfully I do not think so and I will no in say 7 or 10 days.

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Lil O, ri gramma and grandpa and I all went swimming yesterday and lil O surprised me he was playing in the water so freely and even walked till the water reached his neck and did not freak out. He also went down the slide a couple of times.

Ri he was just having lots of fun splashing away..

Ri was so tired when we got hom but just would not sleep in his crib, so I brought him downstairs gave him some milk and he sat beside me and passed out. I was able to inch myself free after 1hr so I could start super, of course I had to take a shot of my boy asleep...he looks so peacful.

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Hello O ... I think....

Well the slippery egg white CM is here and I don't think bd will be happening tonight, depends on when DH gets home....

I should probably call the clinic on Monday since I have been off the clomid for a couple of months since finishing my last dose, see what to do next.

Oh also the other day the Dr that watched my pg's, Dr O was on TV last week to raise fertility awareness and is trying to have fertility treatments covered in Canada, he says that the government should not ignore those that have a had a hard time trying to have a family and that it is not the couples fault that they can not conceive a baby without the help of medicine.

Momma momma Watch this

as Lil O comes running over to show me that he can stomp his feet then he runs off......comes running back repeating momma momma watch this as he shows that he jumps and off he goes only to come back a few more times but the last one made me smile and laugh so.... as he puts his hands on his hips and then shakes his little booty and hips all over with the biggest smile ever on his face....

Yes momma is watching as you learn all these new things... My little boy is growing and oh how I love this boy so so much.

Vet update...

and so it is CANCER, Misty has cancer not even a dog can escape it, It is on her spine.

DH just spoke with the vet again and they told him she is in a lot of pain and so he (dh) made the decision to put her down does not want her to suffer anymore then she has to. They said they can do it tonight, off went dh to hold his girl one last time...EDIT**(The vet told dh that he was amazed that Misty was still able to stand and move around because her spinal cord was pretty much gone, she was a strong dog I will give her that)

Yeah Misty and I never really got a long well but I still did not want to see her suffer like she was.

Rest in peace Misty girl.

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Our dog is sick

DH feels guilty... I will be honest I have not been the best dog mommy (I am not a dog person, she was dh dog) I will tell you I have never really trusted her, she is to wild for my liking and well dh did not train her well.

I grew up with all types of dog and as I got older I have discovered I am not much of a dog person anymore (I have said that already) For the last couple of weeks Misty (our dog) has not been able to stand on her front paw and she yelps in pain all the time, it is sad to see her like this. The vet has done multiple blood tests and nothing other then low white cell count and low thyroid then they did another and her white cell count was lower.....they were thinking cancer plus she has lost lots of weight. Well Misty spent the night at the vet hospital so they can watch her and do x-rays (which will cost us $2500.00 on top of the $300.00 already spent) they saw some abnormal stuff and have to do more tests... We are now waiting.....

Dh last night said he feels like he is going to have to put his girl down he feels bad but he says she is a dog and he now has a family to take care of and we can not afford to pay out for the outrageous cost for a Vet. I told him that she is till like a member of the family to him (I will admit not much to me, she has snapped at me and growled at the boys a few times. She is not around the boys and I) I really don't know what I am trying to post here because sad but true I will not miss her much but I know dh will.....
Also I believe she'd be in a better place because dh works lots and so she never gets and walks and hardly ever gets to come in the house because I do not want her around the boys so she is stuck in a dog kennel all day not big enough to run in and it is not fair to her at all.

Don't get me wrong I do not wish Misty ill or death but she is not doing well...and she has not had the greatest life in the last 6yrs...not the kind of life a dog should have.

UPDATE
It is cancer, it is on her spine.


nothing is safe from this disease.

Hmmm ... Yup body is off

AF arrived a week early, I started to spot when I thought it should of been the O fairy but Noooo it was af making her way.

No cramps this time which is good, really good.

Well on to next month.

What a great day today!

We, Dh myself and the boys all went to Bragg Creek today. Nice little drive boys did great Ri slept all the way while Lil O fought to stay awake and only fell asleep as we arrived..lol go figure..lol

We grabbed some lunch sat at a picnic table & ate. I then put together a little helicopter that my mum bought the boys and Lil O and I played with it (wish I got some photos but dh was holding Ri) Lil O was laughing in delight as I pulled the string and up went the helicopter and off Lil O went chasing it yelling "I get it, I get it momma" then he falls flat on his face. I just said to him "Oh WIPE OUT" he looked at me and then a silly little grin goes across his face gets up wipes his hands on his coat and runs for the helicopter, brings it back to me saying "again again".

Later we went over to a little stream and I was trying to show Lil O how to throw rocks in the water....well...the rocks at 1st went everywhere but the water then he started to hit just before the water and then watch the rock roll into the water (sometimes hs was lucky and a splash would happen) He kept signing for more rocks so we went looking and daddy pointed out one rock and I at the same time pointed to another...would you not know it they were both a good sized rock for him to carry and well Lil O wanted to carry both all by himself and that was something to see....lol...He was getting frustrated because one would keep slipping out of his arms. While he was showing his frustration dh and I were LOL so hard LIL O did NOT want any help what so ever.... Dh caught a video of it on his phone I will try and post later as with some photos)

It was a great day, not very often dh takes the day off and we all do something together..

Family time well spent.

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ah extension tubes......

loving them... AWESOME.

here are the tubes:

And a couple of photos taken with a tube and the 50mm:
(click on photo to see bigger)

the flower is not cropped

the plant was cropped just a bit
(to much bright light at the tip of the leaf on the left)

Self Portrait

I needed to up date my profile photo. I took the shot today because I had my hair cut so all was good..lol

By golly

I think Lil O is getting use to the water...YEAH!

We went swimming with gramma and Papa and he was having a blast, he was all laughs and giggles till I dunked him..lol . He was back to smiles a few minutes later that is after he scowled and tried to dunk me.

Here we go again

head bumps that is...Ri has finally started to pull himself up on things and well his balance is still not the greatest. I have being hearing thumps then a pause and a cry a lot in the last couple of days. Lil O has even started to try and protect his brother from falling, as soon as Ri has pulled himself up Lil O is right behind him with is hands out to catch him if he falls (I need to get a shot of this..lol) I have a video of Ri pulling himself up just need to upload it (with the many others that I am falling behind on)

Just when I thought I would not

spend more money, dh comes along and says that one of his clients wants to know if I would take photos of the houses she is selling (she is a real estate agent). I then tell dh that I do not have the proper lens for that, he said go buy it. I said it is a $600.00 or more for this lens, his response.....Well she says she has lots of houses for sell and knows others that may be interested too so buy it...

two things:

This scares me (not so much not that I have had time to think about it..lol) I just get nervous when I go to take photos for people I do not know...lol

Spending so much on a lens is well scary and that is really not to expensive either....

I am going to Bite the bullet I will go buy it today since it looks like I will be taking photos of a house on Monday...YIKES!

I sure hope I get the number of houses to pay for this lens

Well she is back

AF was trying to break through hard this morning but I beat her with a dose of Midol....take that you witch!

This was my 5th month, last dose of clomid for a couple of months. DH and I really need to time things better we have been OFF in the bd department, we NEED to get back in the grove of things.

Updating blog...New template

I decided to finally switch over to the beta I found a site with free templates (because I like the 3 colums) here is the site feel free to check it out Blogger Templates
I did come across other sites but this one was easy.

so bare with me as I have to reload all my friends and other stuff.

Nipple be gone.....snip

One way to stop your toddler from using this


is to do this



I sniped the nipple head off in front of Lil O. He look a bit confused at first then I gave him his milk with the sippy spout, his brow scrunched up and looked at me and said nooooo I said yesssss so drink your milk I put it on the counter and went to give Ri his milk. Lil O took his milk sat in his chair gave me one last look and leaned back and drank his milk..... I was impressed.....ok shocked. The last time I tried to have him not use his nipple (I did not snip the top off) he just flat out refused to drink. It has been 1week now and he has not looked back.

Now he is on this

Now on to potty training....any tips?

Yeah April............

From having no snow on the ground 2days ago and near 20c, yesterday it started to snow and is now -11c (12f) I am tired of the snow. Yup it is April.

Disapointed....& when will I learn....

I have ask someone to go with me to swim with the boys every Wed. morning at 10:30am for 45min to 1hr because Lil O needed to get use to the water (he freaks at swimming lessons, so I thought get him use to the pool and go thru some of the lessons with him) well that person said yes and well out of the 5times this person has only gone with me once the 1st time since then has always had something else to do, so much for the commitment to me and the boys. When they canceled on me last week they promised to come this week and the following. It is Wednesday today and I am going alone with just the boys because they have plans again......guess they forgot the promise, it really disappoints me and then I get upset with myself because I really should know better then to rely on someone else. I understand thing pop up and you need to deal with it but every Wednesday? Why can you not pay bills or go shopping another day last time I checked there was 7 days in a week.

Just getting a little vent out.

Off to swimming I go.

My new best friend....

is this:
and not for what your thinking........... it is for my camera, I posted on the photography board that I am on at 2Peas about having some dust or hair or something in my camera not lens and one mentions a Rocket Blower (I have never heard off) and then another mentioned that she heard of others using the snot nose thingies. So I hunted mine down, I never used it on my boys so why not try it right? Well I am doing the jiggy here because it worked AWESOME! Saves me from sending my camera in for cleaning and me having to part with it.

Boys went to swimming lessons again

and again Lil O cried or said NO to anything the instructor wanted him to do and just clung on to me. Before we got into the water she had us put lifejackets on the kids and as soon as Lil O's was on he started to cry (yeah it was cold an wet, I will give him that) but as we walked into the water he cried and then the instructor want them to float on front for a little bet, he had nothing I SAY nothing to do with it just cried and screamed nooooooo. So fine I just let him stand an watch the other kids do it (hoping he'd then try...NOT) Now we move into the deeper part of the pool and again we needed to practice floating, well again Lil O would not try....mommy is getting frustrated at this point and trying not to show it... Later the instructor came up and said maybe he is just not a water baby or even sometimes if he was ever scared in the water that it put the fear into him. I said well nothing has ever scared him in the water and when he is not in class he is fine he will blow bubble float on front and back but for some odd reason he wants nothing to do with the swimming lessons...

When we were done DH was sitting waiting for Ri's lessons to start (same instructor) so I told him that next week he takes lil O in and maybe, hopefully he will do better and not have mommy to cling to.

I will post some photos of Ri up in a bit.


Afterwards as Lil O and I were waiting for Daddy and Ri to change he was playing on some rocks they have indoors and kept telling me click cheese basically telling me to take photos of him....so I shot away.

Owie owie owie.....

Why does it have to hurt so much..... I am O'ing and it started when I went to bed last night and I tell you I got no sleep, yes I could take something but that can affect the whole fertilization thing so I suffered.

Also I do not know why but the back of my neck and my jaw are very sore, I open my mouth and it hurts my neck????

OH OH OH and I received my Speedlite yesterday and waiting for the batteries to charge was like forever..... and I have not really had a chance to play with it yet...

It is snowing today surprise surprise...lol caused lots of accident this morning then it stopped warmed up and melted the snow and guess what It is SNOWING yet again.

More money spent.....

I bought a Speedlite/external flash for my camera and some extension tubes plus a white balance filter cap these things are not to cheap I tell ya. Now waiting is the hard part I am a little girl in the candy shop with all this camera stuff around me...lol

Good thing DH supports my addition.............

Foot + Nose =

Yup Ri's 1st bloody nose all thanks to Big Bro, not intentionally they were both on the floor and legs were going crazy and well Lil O lost control.....Ri got the brunt of it.

He was back to all smiles a few minutes later.

Sharing & click

I asked my oldest "Lil O" to get a toy for Ri to play with and I went to see what to make for supper. I turn to see what they are up to and well he got his brother some toys, the whole toy box..lol (sorry for the bad shot camera was on wrong setting and I had to move fast before he ran)

I took the shot and then he does this, so of course I had to take another quick shot.

that is my boy..

Lil O was that kid...

who screamed and cried through out his swimming lesson.....

We started swimming lessons on Mar 16th and he wanted nothing to do with it. I thought maybe he wanted daddy so we switched (Ri's lesson was next) nope that did not work he wanted mama but did not want to swim. Everyone kept looking at us I felt small...lol but hey he is only 2 right.

When his lesson was done we sat and watch Ri with daddy and he was happily splashing away till daddy dunked him, he was not impressed and then daddy did it again oh let me tell ya...lol he was fine after no more dunking.

Will we (lil O and I ) waited he played in the little wadding pool part and what do you know he was letting help him float on his back and front and he even blew bubbles...go figure right.

So this last Wednesday I went to the pool with both boys and granma (my mum) she held Ri will I tried (key ward TRIED) to work with Lil O, once again he did not want to do anything but play with the water that was spraying out of the pool. I just let him play and get used to the surroundings and hopefully he will start to cooperate more at lessons. Swimming lessons are every Sunday and I plan on going swimming every Wednesday at the parent & Tot pool time to get him use to the water.

Photo will follow when I get them back from granma's camera (auntie J was taking photos)

Well it is about time

She showed her ugly face! (I am talking AF) She made herself known last night, can we say MIDOL take me away.....ahhhh...it did, plus a little massage from dh helped too..lol

23 days late, I will not deny that I was kind of hoping for a little miracle but I know all to well not to get my hopes up.

Here is to another month.

Also I am a year old as is Ri. Ri had his party on the weekend I will post photo in a bit.

Ri is ONE!

I can not get over how fast this year has gone by, my baby is one today.

He says Mama, Dada has started to do the army crawl and still rolls all over the place to get to where he wants.He thinks it is funny when he touches big Bro's toys that are all lined up perfectly and laughs when Lil O gets upset. I think I have t-r-o-u-b-l-e on my hands.

We went to the Dr yesterday for both boys:

We checked over Ri 1st because I knew Lil O would freak so by doing Ri 1st he'd see what was going on and not be to upset when it became his turn, he did great. Ri's weight is 18 1/4 lbs, height is 75cm (22.5inches) his Birth weight ~ 1960 grams (4lbs 5.1oz), Length ~ 41.5cm (16.5inc)
The weigh scale scared him a bit when the Dr put him on it and moved the scale part of it. Other then that he did great.

Lil O's weight 28lbs, height is 95cm (28.5inches)
at birth he was: 4lbs 3.5oz (1931g), length: 17 1/4 inches (45cm)

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As for AF she is still MIA. I went to go for a blood test yesterday since I had to go for my thyroid check from my family Dr the Fertility Dr sent /faxed the lab for a pg test and do you think the lab could find it...Nope...so I tried calling the Clinic a few times but all I got was the voice mail, got to LOVE voice mail....so I did not get the pg test. I started to spot a bit last night so I thought AF was coming but NOPE not here yet.

My next challenge for baby

is a MIA AF, she is gone, disappeared, left, nowhere to be found...
I did not mark down when she last came but I am pretty sure is was like the 1st week of Feb. No I am not pg, you need to bd on time for that..lol and that is another thing I don't think I O'ed either and if I did it was really late (I had O like pains on the 8th).
I am going to call the fertility clinic on Monday because they should now since I had to do another cycle day 3 blood test and then I will know for sure how late I am.

I have a copy cat

and he bringing attention to the things I don't realize that I do:
- Like standing with my hands on my hips (at 1st I did not know where he got that and then I caught myself.)
- Standing with my legs crossed (my mum does this too)
- saying "Stop it please" (Lil O repeats STOP IT often to Ri)
- No no no nooooo
- saying sonny boy or son (Lil O calls out mama mama I respond yes sonny boy or son)

The words just pour out his mouth so fast now that he amazes me.

The boys start swimming lesson on Sunday DH is actually coming with, he will go in with one of the boys most likely Ri because Lil O is all about the mama again. Today Lil O was crying over something and DH went in to see what was up and was hugging him, well when I walked into the room lil O pushed daddy aside and ran to me...lol.

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I have been pretty busy with photos lately, all edits done and I just finished one order and waiting for another order to come in. Sure can take up a lot of time.
I did received a compliment tho, DH saw the mom of the senior/grad photos I took of her son at one of the spa's he massages at and she said she was very happy with the photos and having a hard time picking and then the sister said "yeah they turned out really good my brother actually looks good"...lol ah siblings.

When he starts you can not stop him..

Lil O has picked up more words then I can count. He copies what I say even on the TV he copies and dances around when he gets it right..lol (good thing I do not swear, never have)

Ri well no crawling yet but he sure gets around doing the back scoot and rolling....Lil O is in trouble soon. Oh the fights that are soon to begin, well they have kind of started already. When Ri grabs a hold of Lil O's toys that he has parked in a row he throws a fit and either tries to drag Ri out of the way or bonk him on the head but mostly rolls him away. Yup sign of things to come and it only brings memories of my older sis J back she was not the nicest while growing up (I guess she did not like always having to watch me)

Ri has started whole milk and it seems to be going down pretty good.

What have I been up to you ask...

PHOTOS, photos and more photos....

I have taken some baby shots, my niece T had an event at school so took some shots there and then I did a senior/grad shoot..... now I am doing some editing where it is needed...

here are a couple of baby shots I have taken: I use to baby sit this little guys mom when she her self was a baby, It is kind of weird that she now has her own and close to my own baby's age..lol





Off now to edit some of the senior/grad shots... well when it is dark that is. It is easier to edit without all the daylight flooding the house.