What's on the go

So we have survived the first week which is the calm before the storm. It hasn't been too bad Noah been up at 6:30am ish now for some reason and is going to bed a 6:30pm, which I am loving that part. Jonas only woke up once last night from 7:30pm to 9am which was also awesome and now if we can only keep that going it would be great, but my hopes aren't very high.

I am pretty sure Jonas is growing like Noah, he has lost his big round tummy and is looking more long an lean, he still has some little rolls on his leg(not so much as rolls but creases), i measured him and he's 27inchs long and if my scale is right for him while he was sitting on it with a wet diaper he was 15lbs or a little more but under 15 1/2lbs, which means he hasn't even put on 1lbs since he was 4 months. Just like his brother did.

Jonas can now sit up by himself for very long periods or till he wants to move, he can also crawl some but it's very slow by stretching with one arm and than the other while lean some to that side, and with that and all the rolling he is completely mobile. Noah is great even though he doesn't nap. I can't believe he is almost 2 in just a few weeks. Where did the time go i don't know. I really wish it didn't have to go so fast, and I was told when I was pregnant with Jonas, that with each consecutive child it goes even fast and it is so so true. It feels like I just came home from the hospital with Jonas and he is going to start solid foods here in a short few wish if I decided to or I might just hold off a little bit but I doubt it b/c he's grabbing everything in sight .

Plans that we have right now aren't much. We or I will be helping friends move Saturday/Sunday. Than starting Sunday Tom is in at a Jave One conference in the city till Friday night (two night he'll stay in there over night and than the other nights he'll get home at midnight most likely and head in at 6am) so we are on our own again, but we'll survive I have no doubt. We'll miss him a lot though. The boys went crazy today b/c he came home early just as I was getting them in bed and that was only not seeing Dad for two days. It will be interesting how they will react the next Friday or Saturday when they see dad.

Well tomorrow is Friday and I am hoping to get myself and the boys to my exercise class than get back and finish house work I didn't get done today and than I hope to meet up with some other mom's from class and take the boys swimming which I need to remember to pick up some swim diapers.

I am exhausted,,,

but had to write this hopefully it will be short and get posted.

Our trip back to Canada was great I have to say and we got our fill of all the things you can't get down in the USA.

Like: a jos louis, Canadian chocolate bars, like mirage bars,smarties, mars etc. Tim Horton's (brought back coffee for tom, got a few timbits, and a Boston cream donuts(which is funny b/c I really don't care for them but when I go home I want one), poutine(the cheese curds were from Montreal too), ketchup and dill pickle chips. And got to love the dollar being lower then the USA everyone bought something to bring home except me(not sure how that happened). Oh and the best we got some fresh halibut fish too at dinner. I know we ate other things but just can't remember now its late.

However I did miss things about California:

Fresh produce(went to the market today and got all organic local grown peas to shell, green beans, strawberries, cherries, white peaches, a few oranges, and potatoes a few other things. I have to say I like where we live and even though there are things/people I miss back home, but I have to say I love this journey of our lives.

I also have to say that BC really impressed me with the fact that a lot of the taxis we saw were Toyota Prius which is the car we almost bought but Tom didn't want to wait six months to get one. Not that that is the case anymore but I don't want to cars, for us cars make us lazy and we don't need anymore of that here. Time to buy tom a new bike and a bike seat for Noah and in December we'll get Jonas one too. Can't wait. I could really see us living out west when the day comes and we move to Canada, but who knows where we'll end up b/c we have no idea.

Coming home

I completely forgot to write this and post this...See I still have many blogs in the draft pile and have not posted them. To give you a little insight, it took me 3 days to finish the last one I put up today that why it date's back and you all just saw it today.

Anyhow I know most of our family know, but just in case some people don't know.

Our flight is book for coming home has been for a while now. So we are coming home this August.

We leave on the RED EYE August 7th and get into Halifax 11am I think on the 8th, than drive to NB till the 14-15th I think and than head to NS till we fly out on the 23rd. Jonas baptism will be on the 16th in Bridgewater with his cousin Ethan during church service, for any family members that are interested in joining us.

Okay it's late but I had to post this b/c I knew I would forget or get it written in a bigger blog and than never post. Night all

Our BC trip

Some of you knew we were going to drive up to Victoria BC for my friend's wedding. We had a good trip overall. Tiffany and Brendon had a beautiful wedding and we were happy to be there for their day. .

Oh but lets back up.... it's a total of 985 mi or 1,587 km – about 17 hours 36 mins, that is if you drive straight and no stopping. Those who have kids, know it's going to be longer with lots of stops on the way. Well we were late leaving and it didn't help that Noah got up for reasons we don't know at 5:30am that morning (he's normally gets up at 7:30-8am) and of course didn't nap. So I was hoping he would fall asleep but he didn't and two hours into our drive he power puked everywhere which explained the 30-40 mins of screaming for mommy leading up to that. That made us feel like great parents let me tell you. So we had to stop a lot earlier than we wanted to because even though we cleaned everything up we knew things had to be washed that night, or everything was going to stink.

Next day of driving was very long but the boys did well. We stopped at Anacortes, WA to get the ferry to Sidney BC the next morning which left at 7:30am but they ask you to be there 45 min early. Noah up early on the ferry it left at 7:30m

view from the ferry

...We all enjoyed the ferry ride very much. It was a 3 hour crossing with two stops at islands. It was really scenic. Then we got settled into the hotel and walked around a little but didn't do too much else as we were exhausted. Next day was Saturday/wedding day and first day not in the car.

Victoria along the water at night, view from the hotel we stayed at.

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The wedding was beautiful and Noah loved the dance and it took a while to get Noah off the dance floor, Jonas even joined in on the last song we stayed for. Tiffany and her dad

Her dad giving her to Brendon

I sat there hoping she would turn around and she did.

My little man cleans up nice. They all do actually.

Back in the hotel room trying to get the boys to nap before the reception started. No luck with this one.He's still going.


On Sunday we decided to go for a walk and than we headed to Craigdarroch castle which looked amazing but took longer than we thought to get there and we had the stroller so we couldn't go in...I was a little bummed(go to the website and you'll see some pictures and understand why) Here is one from outside. As well we didn't get to go to Butchart garden or the BBQ Tiffany invited us too because by the time we got back to the hotel it was time to drive to the ferry which we just caught(we had a reserved a spot).
Craigdarroch castle

The ferry ride, different route that we took on the way to Victoria, heading to Vancouver instead of Anacortes, WA was also a beautiful ferry ride.
View from the ferry to Vancouver

We spent that evening and the full next day in Vancouver and, being tourists, went on a city tour bus which Noah loved. I wish we had more time there b/c we didn't get to do everything we wanted at all.


We did get to go to the Granville Island market (still didn't get to see everything there) Kids market place, where there was everything from toy stores, to kite and clothing stores.

And we got to go to Chinatown to the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Chinese Garden.

We saw a bit of the rest of the Vancouver Chinatown too which is suppose to be the largest in Canada and the second largest in North America.

Next day it was off to Whistler. I now wish we took the train up there so that we could have relaxed more and walked around on the train. It was amazing up there and I wish I could be up there in the winter, there was still a few skiers and snowboarders up there as the tops of some ski slopes were still open.
Jonas sporting his new winter Olympic 2010 clothes which he thought he needed so he exploded his diaper right up to his neck(kid got skills).

Than it was time to drive home which would now be 1,058 mi or 1,705 km about 18hours. Again that is if you drive straight and no stops so it took us a lot longer than that. It was a long drive home with the last 40min of two screaming kids, Jonas screaming b/c Noah was screaming 'bed bed sleep sleep'.

The boys ready for the drive back home from Whistler.

Just a quick update.

It's been a while since I have written here and I thought I would just let you all know things are good. I don't feel like writing much and I really don't have the time, these days.

Updates

Noah
-has been in a big bed before Jonas was born
-Gave up his soother to the soother fairy much like the tooth fairy, who takes soothers from big boys and girls and gives them to babies that need them. He got a big green ball from the soother fairy in return.
-Can say all his ABC's and it doesn't have to be in order he knows all the letters at random.
-He can count to 10 too and points out numbers/letters on signs when he see them. I swear he has eagle eye for letters and numbers.

Jonas
- is rolling over front to back and back to front no problem now(So he starting to get around the living room now, which means I can't leave him alone in the room long b/c he won't be where I put him).
-He not to sure of the jolly jumper but is slowly getting the hang of it.
-His growing is slowing down a lot just like Noah's did so I don't think we'll have a big baby like we thought. he's fallen all the way to the 42%.

Tom and I
Are good nothing much new here with us at all
we signed our lease for one more yr at our apartment in hope to save some more money.
We are heading to Victoria BC by car on May 14th for a friends wedding
I think we are coming home early August, just hoping for a seat sale at the moment.

well that is it for now. We hope everyone has a good weekend.