2006 – a hippie with a minivan

a bit of an update…

I haven’t been around much lately… well not much around anywhere… though I spend most of my day next to the computer.. I don’t type much because I am tired of typing with one hand… so I have just been doing more clicking etc…

We had a nice holiday…. Simon’s mom, sister and her bf came for the eve, we had fondue, exchanged gifts and they stayed the night… the boys had presents waiting for them in the morning…

I got a new Palm which l am having a lot of fun with… and because of a mix up we ended up getting two… so now both Simon & I have one…

Actually after starting this message on the computer, l decided to write the rest on the palm so that it would be easier to write..

Anyway, the holidays were nice… Having Simon at home has also been great… l have really had the chance to babymoon and give Khéna all of my attention… but Xavier and Colin are not lacking attention either…

The boys are all changing so quickly… I took a picture of Xavier yesterday that makes me realize how he is growing… how much he is changing….

He has a new found love now for Playmobil’s and a big bag that l found last year with his pirate ship has kept him busy for two days now… He is almost weaned but not completely. He now goes a week or two without nursing and then comes back for a few days…

Colin has also changed… though the boys can now play together better, they can also fight harder… Colin is still a little joker, he can make us smile in an instant, he has also become very temperamental and very sensitive… I see him taking the role of the middle child…

Colin is in love with trains and was so exicited to get some “Thomas the train” clothes and a new train for his train table…

He still amazes me every day. His vocabulary is amazing which is both great and hard at the same time. Great because we can talk to him and understand him, but it also means that it can be easy to forget that he is still a babe at only 27 months old…

And Khéna… well he just turned a month old yesterday… he is an amazing baby. He is a great sleeper but loves to sleep on mommy… luckily he has a mommy that hates putting him down and who believes that babes should be in arms as much as needed and as much as they want…

EC is doing very well… he just keeps on getting clearer and clearer with his signs… we rarely miss a BM and catch many of his pees…. he is also starting to hold it in more and more until we catch on to what he is trying to tell us…

Khéna also just keeps getting bigger (of course) but he is outgrowing his clothing so fast… footed pj’s need to be 6 months and onsies are 6-9 months…

We have also been all gifted with his first smiles which of course is one of the greatest things… (haven’t caught it on photo yet though)

A few new pics :)

A self-portrait…

Me and my Boys!

This is a 6 month onesie!!!

Curious Boy…

Can Cheeks be too chubby?

Having Maju…

Little Man…

3 weeks old today…

In a few hours it will be three weeks since I gave birth to Khéna, three weeks since he took his first breath, three weeks since I met my third son…

I can’t imagine life without him.

He is becoming so much more aware of the people around him. He looks at us in way that way that shows that he is more aware than we may imagine. Yesterday we went shopping and he was in the wrap pushing his arms out so that his head was free and so that he was looking straight up at me, his eyes and expression were just breathtaking.

He wasn’t just a baby in my arms. He was Khéna Mael. My new little man.

Khéna is a great sleeper still and sleeps pretty much through the night… if he does wake up he nurses a bit, Simon will potty him and then he is back to sleep… since he is co-sleeping he just has to start moving and grunting for his needs to be met so really I don’t think that he really wakes up for any of it anyways… he has a bit of a crying spell during the evening but after making him comfortable and full he calms down and then is ready for the long sleep ahead of him…

EC is doing great… we pretty much catch 100% of his poos now and though we still miss a lot of pees, he always has one waiting for the potty… He surprised me yesterday by not having a bm the whole day and when we got home and during the night he made up for it… His signals are getting so much clearer especially for pooing and he just doesn’t want to use a diaper for that… Hey!!! I don’t blame him!!

On Sat, I put him down to sleep out of arms for the first time and he slept in his Amby for at least an hour and a half… He had not slept out of arms since he was born. By the end of his nap I couldn’t wait to go pick him up, but it felt good to prepare a meal with my hands free while Simon was doing things around the house…

I still can’t believe how big he is… At 3 weeks of age he has outgrown most of the clothes that Xavier and Colin were still wearing at 2-3 months of age… So I now find myself putting all the newborn/3 month old clothes and bringing out the 3-6 and 6 month old stuff…

Anyway… I’m going to take some pics later today but for now I will share the pics of his first nap in his amby bed…

big boy :)

well… the nurse came on Wednesday and it was a great visit. She was completely in awe at the UC and asked tons of questions and loved hearing the answers… especially since she saw that I had done my research and that the answers made sense… she also checked out the pics a bit and found it cool that hen she was looking at the pics she was standing right in the place that he was actually born…
She did a few reflex tests and took his weight… from the 9lbs 8oz he was two days after birth and has been gaining well and on wednesday he weighed in at 11lbs 3oz… wow… such a big boy already!!!

a bit of an update…

A few new pics :)

3 weeks old today…

big boy :)

2 week pics :)