NaBloPoMo – Page 14 – a hippie with a minivan

Khéna's birthday in pictures…

Making decorations the day before…

and birthday hats the morning of…

Grandmaman (Simon’s mom) brought over a game for the boys to play…

hungry, hungry frogs!

Two of the gifts that we gave Khéna are kitchen/food toys so we brought the toy kitchen in from outside and cleaned it up… both Khéna and Colin had a renewed interest in it and spent quite a bit of time making tea and other treats…

Here are some of the decorations that the boys made the day before… Paper chains are so easy to make and look so nice and festive around the house…

Cake time!! I made my favourite Chocolate cake recipe… (the corners got accidentally squished but no one cared but me)

Khéna was so excited at blowing out the candle and us all singing the birthday song…

Yay!!!!

The two Grandmas with the boys… (my mom is on the left)

Looking at one of the new gifts… (Xavier picked this one out)

Playing with his new Helicopter…

It was really a great day…

The boys played and had tons of fun with their two grandmothers here, we ordered Pizza and had cake and all the presents were perfect for Khéna and we know that he will enjoy them for a long time to come…

It was just a perfect day altogether…

32+ weeks…

My photos from Khéna’s birthday today are uploading and I am heading to bed, so to get my post in for today (only 2 days lefts after this for NaBloPoMo) I will share some pics that Simon took of me today…

It is rare that he picks up the camera without me asking so I was happy to oblige…

simple pic of me…

this is a shot that I have wanted for while…

Looking back…

Today was the last day that Khéna is 2… tomorrow he will wake up a three year old!!

It’s amazing how time passes fast…

From this…
(10 days)

to this…
(1 year)

to this…
(2 years)

to this…

Love you little man… good night, and I’ll see you when you’re three!!

Me… before I was born…

My computer told me this morning that I am 32 weeks…

Not much has changed since last week for me, but I thought I would share these few pics…

These are me , in my mom.

My mom has always told me that these are X-rays. While I was scanning them and really looking at them I was wondering if they really are. You can’t see much dense tissue like bone, but then when looking at the last two and looking at my head/skull you can see where the teeth would be etc… any insight would be great!

The first here is at 7 1/2 months pregnant. You can’t see much on it except that I was head down.

The other two are a lot more telling. these were taken 4 1/2 hourse before I was born.

My mom had a long labour and I was posterior, as you can see on this first one, my head is down and looking towards my mom’s front. You can see the curve of my back along towards her back and my knees giving her that bulge on the top of her uterus.

They tried to turn me and you can see in this second one that I have turned a bit and I am slightly lower. If you can’t make it out much, look at the bottom and you can see the roundness of my head facing the camera.

I find these pics amazing (not only that it is me) especially when I am feeling my own little baby inside and I can visualize what I am feeling…

Simply Give Birth….

For too long, the drama, and pain and horrifyingly out-of -control helplessness, has been the predominant tale of childbirth.

It’s time for that story to go the way of dinosaurs.

There’s a new way to tell our birth stories, a simple way, with humor and spirit and matter-of-fact exuberance.

Simply Give Birth is a collection of 30 such stories that will have you laugh and cry and just might inspire you!

This is the summary of Heather Cushman-Dowdee’s (otherwise known as Hathor the Cowgoddess) newest book…

I finally received my copy yesterday and I have to say that it is pretty exciting… Not only is this book an amazing collection of birth stories, many of which are UC’s, but the story of Khéna’s birth was included in it also… 🙂

I haven’t read all the stories yet, but I am making my way through it and they are all amazing, and as the title says, they are all simple birth stories in their purest form, births that are just part of everyday life, stories with little intervention and with the women themselves in charge, which is so refreshing and inspirational.

If you want your very own copy, get it here! You won’t be disappointed!