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.