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Heart Beat!

I heart the heartbeat finally… no.. the pregnancy isn’t a figure of my imagination… there really is a baby growing in there…

The midwifes always looked on my right side whenever trying to hear the heartbeat because of my inverted uterus I was told… However, I found it right in the middle and heard it perfectly well…

Xavier was sitting next to me so I took his watch and was able to count the heartbeats… so the heart is beating strong at 160…

Xavier and Colin both had slower heartbeats at around 130 so it was a bit weird to hear it going so fast… Wonder if that old wives tale is true… faster heartbeats are supposed to be more common in girls 😉
(x-posted on my pregnancy blog)

Fellow Canadians…

Tune in to CBC tonight at 8pm for Rick Mercers “Talking to Americans”

I love Rick Mercer!!!

7 years…

Simon and I have been married for 7 years today. Our wedding day seems to be so close, yet so far but I have trouble thinking that it has already been 7 years.

I wanted May 8th because Miguel (my first step-dad) died on May 8th a few years before. I wanted the day to have good memories and never wanted it to be a forgotten or overlooked day…

On my wedding day, I`had a medieval style dress, and wore my “doc marten” sandals underneath. My dad got a limo that brought us to the court house and then we went to the bar were Roger (my step-dad) was working (well not that day of course) the bar was ours and we drank, danced, opened gifts and had a lot of fun until it was time to go to the restaurant. Roger arranged for an hour long horse and carriage ride through Old-Montreal to get to the restaurant and by the time we arrived our guest were all waiting for us. We chose “L’auberge St-Gabriel” in old Montreal which is the oldest auberge in North America (1754) and had the banquet room on the second floor with a buffet supper (french cuisine) that turned out to be amazing…

After, we went out with a few friends to a bar on the main (st-Laurent) and had Martinis and a lot of fun…

wow… 7 years ago….

So, happy anniversary to me and my love. I love you Simon and I always will…

you truly are my “perfect friend”

they like it… they really like it!

Well… the bunk bed wasn’t just a success for a few seconds…

Both boys slept in their beds last night and for the first time in Months (actually it is just the 3rd or 4th time in his life) Colin slept through the night before coming into our bed (8-5) .

I think that the difference was that they were more warm and probably way more comfortable then they were in their old beds… Neither of them came into our bed this morning freezing… they were not wearing different pj’s and didn’t have more blankets but I think just having real mattresses made the difference (those plastic crib mattresses don’t hold heat quite well) and probably their new mattresses made it feel a bit more like our bed…

They also have had quite a bit of fun just hanging out in their room and on their beds today… Xavier brought some books up and Colin did to and both sat in their beds looking at books… Thy also played together, Colin gets under his sheet and Xavier pulls it down and then the wrestle…

Colin still has to remember that he can’t stand up in his bed….he has hit his head a few times now… not hard enough to cry but hard enough to want a kiss to make the bobo go away… but even a blown kiss will do 😉

Here are a few more pics from today…

Colin taking a nap…

Ask a kid to look at the camera and they show you their butt..

The boys playing and laughing…

My Silly little Colin…

Xavier climbing…

Proud of his new bed…

bunk bed and blisters…

Well… my mom told me about a year ago that she wanted to buy a bunk bed for the boys when they were a bit older or when their beds didn’t work out anymore… Well, the time had come I reminded her and she said to go ahead and buy it using her card (well after she approuved of it)…

So yesterday I went to pick it up at Sears and of course it came in 3 quite small boxes…. ahh…. assembly…

We also went and bought the mattresses yesterday and they were to be delivered today so this morning I started the process…

Well… it was interesting… 6 hours on and off, an unexpected visit from a friend, a few mishaps, the boys running all over the place, Xavier building things with the wood, a scraped and bruised knee (mine), blisters from using the allen key and at some point I got hit in the head with a pair of pliers….

Well… of course, half way though I see something I did wrong and was able to correct that, it was a pretty big mistake but half an hour later I had corrected it…
Then a screw just didn’t want to go in right and was sticking out about a cm not budging either way, and the more I tried the more it didn’t budge and then the allen key snapped in half… I went to get another allen key from a past project and it still wouldn’t budge and then of course the screw got stripped…
I decided to leave it like that for the time being and kept on assembling… Both beds done, it was time to put the top bunk on the bottom one… I decided I wasn’t going to even attempt that one by myself (which is unlike me) and about 5 minutes later the men with the mattresses arrived and I asked them to do it and they did with a smile…

I then kept on going, putting the ladder together etc and then got to the rail… well… two other screws did the same and got stuck and stripped… though the allen key was spared…

And then once the whole bed was pretty much assembled I find another mistake. The hole for one of the vertical pieces that reinforces the top rail is about 3-4 inches off from where it is supposed to be… of course, my mom then calls and I tell her and she says that I probably put it together wrong…. Ughh!!! no I didn’t!!! it is a defect… the reason I am certain is that everything else fits perfectly… on the peice the defect is on there are also the holes that the ladder fits in and they were perfect… Anyways… after she asks a few more questions (maybe I had the wrong screws etc) she finally realizes that it is probably a defect and then tells me to bring it back and get another one… YEAH RIGHT!!! I didn’t spend all of that time assembling it for nothing!! what happens if the next one has the same problem…

Sears is sending someone to check it out in a week but I don’t know what more could be done that we can’t do by ourselves…

Here is one of the screws… and the misplaced hole (just below berts hair)…