Catching up....

Their Outfits for Easter...

I know my blog is way overdue for an update, but once you hear whats been happening around here, I hope you'll understand the delay! These past two months have been some of the busiest months ive ever lived and believe me, I cannot wait for it to slow down. Im exhausted.

Here is our Jevne update...

EVAN....

Some of you already know the struggle Evan has had with finding a job he is comfortable with since having to leave Amaritech Electric due to the hard hit from the recent recession. He went to a company called Magnaflo for a couple months but working conditions were not up to Evans standards and he decided it was best that he look for another company. Him and a friend then joined the Union so as they would have a place to fall if they ever found themselves out of a job. Evan was then persuaded to try something a little different. Power Systems Electrician. He took a position with Rising Edge Technology hoping that this might be a huge step in a promising postition. He would be dual ticketing which meant a high chance one day he could work in BC. For those of you that dont know, Evan has his Journeyman certificate in Electrical and has focused on Industrial and Oil Field for the past few years. If you dont know what that is, basically he builds the brains of the Rigs. Power Systems Electrician is something quite a bit different and requires more schooling and a completely different ticket. Power Systems is what you might see while driving down the highway or freeway. You know those huge powerful looking contraptions that are surrounded by huge fences and barbed wire and millions of signs warning you that you could explode with a single touch? Yah, well thats what he was about to do! He was only 2 weeks in with this company when he was approached by his old Boss from Amaritech and was offered a postion he couldnt refuse. His own brand new shop. In Red Deer. WOW! After a week or two of talking it over we decided to go for it. After all, we both wanted to get out of Calgary and Evan loved working for Amaritech. So lately is been a bit of a gong show around here. Evan has been working in Red Deer for the past few weeks and comes home on weekends. Hes been having fun setting up shop and getting it organized. Luckily Evan will be working in town for the next couple weeks so we can finish up everything we need to get done in the house and get it on the market.

BRITTANY...

Ive been finding life a bit of a challenge lately. Trying to stay organized amongst two very VERY busy toddlers, a pregnancy, house work, house 'renos', single parenting when Evan is out of town, packing and everything else that involves this thing called 'Life', has proven difficult and draining. There has been an incredible amount of disappointments on my end it seems. As much as we want this move its also coming with sacrifices. A lot of you know by now that I had opted for a home birth this time round. I was able to get a midwife and had redone my room so it was a comfortable to place to be in when Baby Three decides to come. One of my sacrifces with moving is that this just isnt going to happen anymore. Evan would like to move by summer and after searching and searching I found only ONE midwife in central Alberta. Shes not available and Calgary midwives wont travel to Red Deer. The desicion to have baby in Red Deer or Calgary is still up in the air. It makes the future pretty stressful on my end because things this big I like to have a plan for, and unfortunetly there cant be one right now.

We hired a friend to help with some of the work in the house that was still needing to be completed in the basement and outside like the t-bar ceiling, trim, door, new front stairs and completion of the back steps. THANK YOU JARED, you're Awesome! Ive been just as busy with packing up all the the things that dont need to be here, patching and painting the entire main floor, as well as spot patching and painting in the basement and upstairs. Re-organizing the kids' bedrooms, running arrands....honestly Ive been doing so much I cant even remember it all. Just recently I had my, very Pregnant, friend Trina tile around the fire place for me. It looks fabulous! (please dont tell your midwives what I was making you do 3 weeks to your due date!! haha)

Lately ive been trying to take it easy. All this work is beginning to take its toll on me and am finding it more and more difficult to stay awake throughout the days, which also is putting me on edge. Im trying to change my focus back onto the kids and keeping them happy. I pretty sure everything that is going on is beginning to get to them even though im sure they dont truly understand whats happening.

KAEL...

Wow has Kael ever changed since his 3rd birthday. He went from being a kid I never thought would talk to constantly talking! He has a huge passion for space. The previous post shows that he knows all his planets. He reads his space book all the time and he goes through page by page and tells me whats on them and whats happening. He likes to assign people to the space shuttles in the book. He'll say things like "this is Bo-bins (corbin) spaceship!". Or it may be Dawsyns, Naveahs, Mommy's or Daddy's. He also likes to tell me what planets they are going to and who can come with him. His favorite movies are Toy Story, Transformers and Astro Boy. He actually thinks he is THE Buzz Lightyear. He likes to stand on our coffee table, put his wings out and then jump off while at the same time quoting "to infintee, an eeyon!!" (Too Infinity, and Beyond). When he isnt "Buzz lightyear, space ranger", he is the transformer 'Bumblebee'. Evan bought him Bumblebee's robot arm for him and he likes to run around shooting bad robots and monsters. While watching movies he jumps at the opportunity to help fight the bad robots by shooting or punching at the TV. It is by far one of the cutest things ive ever seen.

Kael is still a very affectionate little boy. I blogged once before about his tearful moment while watching "Where the wild things are" (he cried at the end). Well the other day while watching "The Ugly Duckling" it happened once again. As Ugly Duckling was being mocked and started crying, so did Kael. Embarrassed, he ran over to Daddy and cuddled in. He is also very intuned to how Mommy, Daddy and Naveah are feeling. When one of us gets hurt or is upset or frustrated, Kael is the first to run over to give us a hug, rub our back and ask if we are okay. As much as he love to tease Naveah by taking her toys he also loves to find her toys to play with when she is upset, even resorting to giving her his own if there isnt another around! He then says something like "there you go Aya, see Aya's happy!!!". Kael has such a passion for life and all things in it. I cant wait to see what the little man will accomplish in his lifetime. I know they will all be great things.

NAVEAH...

Ive tried to describe her before and there are still no words to describe her fully. Shes incredibly independant. Shes loud, shes sweet, shes sensitive and very demanding. She loves animals. Her favorites being birds/ducks and Cats. However she gets pretty excited over seeing any other kind. She loves playing with her big Brother. They wrestle all the time and chase eachother around the house. I love hearing them laugh and giggle together. In the mornings I lay in bed waiting to her Naveah call out for her brother to come let her out. We keep a baby gate in her doorway cause she doesnt like the door closed but she also doesnt like to stay in her room. But every morning I hear the creek of her door open all the way and she stands at the gate babbling to herself then calling out "boy" so Kael comes and gets her. She cant say 'Kael' yet so she calls him 'Boy'. Something she came up with on her own!

She loves reading books, or rather, looking at the pictures. Her favorite is a disney storybook that has a combo of stories inside. She likes to find the pages that Nemo is on. Her favorite movies are 'Finding Nemo', 'A Bugs life'. and 'Astro Boy'. I love listening to her little voice as she watches the movies and points out everything she sees. She lists off all the fishes, sharks, turtles and Nemos she can find or all the bugs and plants....in Astro boy its her mostly doing her cute little dance below the TV repeating over and over "Asso BOY, asso BOY!" then points and tells me to look. (I think she might have a little crush!)

MAN does this girl love to eat! Im thinking she might get her love of carbs from me. She could eat and eat and eat and have no problem having more. She is the reason I need to keep a child lock on the pantry! im in trouble when she learns to open the fridge too. In the mornings we have a pretty large breakfast and a few hours later its snack time. Its never usually enough for her. In between snack time and lunch she makes numourous attempts to raid the pantry. I cant tell you how many times this girl has laid down in front of the pantry screaming and crying at me cause I wont let her have anymore and tell her to 'wait for lunch". Its mostly bread she is after! Whenever we have finished a meal you can count on Naveah to go around picking off whatever anyone else may have left on their plates, or dropped on the floor! (ew).

Naveah talked very early, her first word was spit out at about 10 months old and it was "Downstairs"!!! Since then she hasnt had much of a problem trying to repeat whatever you say. The last couple weeks I cant believe the conversations we can have with her now. AND shes not even TWO! Its such a strange thing for me as Kael didnt really start getting into his vocabulary until he turned 3. But Naveah is such a parrot!

They are both very excited about Baby Three to come. They are always lifting up my shirt to try and look at it. Kael will say "Mommies baby is growing in there? The babies a little one?" (I show him all the time roughly how big baby is). He sometimes even comes up to me sometimes rubs my tummy and says "Mommies tummy a BIG tummy, see its a big one!". I say "you aint seen nothing yet!". Then theres Naveah, always good for a laugh. When she sees Kael checking out my tummy she will sit back lift up her shirt and say "baby's growing" while pointing at her belly button.

As of Wednesday April 21 our house has been listed on the market. You can check it out here (and pass onto your friends please! you never know whos looking!) http://mls.ca/propertyDetails.aspx?propertyId=9406977

We are hoping for a quick sale so that we can get the ball rolling on finding the house for us in Red Deer or Sylvan Lake.

"See Im a Spaceman!"

Kael got a space book for his birthday. He loves it. He reads it everynight. It only took a week or two before he new all of his planets! Finally got it on video I usually have to help him out with Mars, but thats cause in the pictures Mars looks very similar to Venus and it confuses him... check it out!

Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus aka Urvenus, and Neptune.

A Day Smothered in Hearts.

Oh Valentines. The day everyone loves to hate. Its funny how when you have no one to share the day with you hate it, but as soon as you have someone it becomes of the most important days of the year. And heaven forbid if that special someone doesn't plan it out just right. Well i've never been a 'romantic' person but i've always liked the holiday to be acknowledged in some way or another.

I got the Kids excited for the day by cutting out cards for them to decorate for a few friends and family members. They had lots of fun coloring with the felts. I only usually let them use crayons. Naveah reminded me why I only do that when she started to color all over the table, then her hands, then her face -instead of the paper. But it was still fun and they had fun picking out the colors they wanted and scribbling all over the page.

Evan and I celebrated the night before. We dropped the kids off at Nanny and Papa Jevne's and we went out for supper to the 'Cattle Baron'. One of my favorite restaurants. We were going to go out to a movie but by the time we were done dinner we were so incredibly full that the thought of sitting in an uncomfy movie theatre was quickly becoming a not so good plan. Instead we rented a movie and decided to cozy up on the couch in some jammies and our tea.
In the morning it was so nice to be able to sleep in and just take our time getting ready for the day. We headed out and went for breakfast and then went to go pick up the kids. From there we took the kids the Calgary Humaine Society. They just love it there. Naveah gets so excited to see all the kitty cats and rabbits. She goes from window to window looking at every single one. Occationally she would run past one then stop in her tracks and back up. She makes sure not to miss one! After moving on the the next bunch of animals she would yell back "bubye dee dats!!!" or "bubye radat!". All the dogs must have been out training or something cause there were only a few of them in their rooms. We went from window to window looking for a puppy. Every room that was empty they would say "mmmmm nope?" and move onto the next.
Afterwards we headed to South Center Mall to let the kids play at all the play places there. Then it was time to go home where we hung out a bit, had a quick dinner and dessert then it was time for tired little kids to go to sleep. OH! and I also made Naveah a pretty cute little skirt for Valentines Day. She looked adorable!

Today was Family Day and it was indeed a good day. Evan took the kids downstairs this morning and let me have some extra time to sleep. It was another lazy morning. When I came downstairs I worked on our weekly meal plan and then made the grocery list to match. We didnt head out the door till after lunch. We just headed to superstore and got our groceries then it was back home so little miss cranky pants could sleep! We stayed in for the rest of the day. Visited with our neighbor, put away groceries, hung out then Evan took the kids downstairs to watch a movie while I made dinner. We had home made pizza! I even made the dough! It was my first attempt at pizza dough and it was a great success! I think ill definitely be doing that again.

I am so thankful for my little (growing) family. We have every element we need. Kael is our adventure. Naveah is our determination. Evan is our provider. And me? Well im the Mother- need I say more? I cant wait to see what this next baby brings.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Whoever Said 3's a Crowd!?

Baby Jevne #3 is in the making!

I am currently about 8 Weeks along and am Due September 10, 2010.

We have tried to explain it to Kael and Naveah. Kael says " mommies baby in der?" then he points at his own tummy and says "See bigger monster in Kaels tummy!". Naveah usually just points to my belly button and then points at hers and yells "AH da dun!" (belly button) with total excitement. But the other day it was pretty cute when I asked Kael where Mommies baby was. Kael then started to look under the couch, in the toy drawer and then looks at me like "what!?". I showed him again that baby is in Mommies tummy and its only this big!(showing him about the size of a coffee bean) Kael and Naveah both came over to my tummy and said "HI!" and then kissed my tummy. It was very cute! Im sure once the 'bump' comes they will both be very excited over having a new baby brother or sister!

This time around is a little more exciting for us. Alberta Health Care now covers Midwifery service and I was able to find one very quickly! Yay for no more dealing with text book Doctors! We are also excited to explore the option of a home birth!

The Little Clock Strikes 3!

Its happened. Kael turned 3! I can remember thinking when he was just a teeny baby about the day he would turn 3. I couldnt even phathom the idea! I couldnt imagine this cute little baby running around and talking. Playing with toy guns and building spaceships. Counting to 10 and knowing his ABC's! But its here and its happening and how much fun it can be. He is such a busy body with SO much love to everyone. He's incredibly passionate about his love for rockets and spaceships but is sure not to let his huge collection cars feel left out. I still think there is some engineering in his future!

The morning of his birthday Kael was greeted by one of his new toys when he came into the living room. We got him a 3 wheel 'Lightening McQueen' Scooter. He thinks its pretty cool! We hid one of his other toys we got him as I was going to wait until later to give it to him, but sneaky him spotted it while coming down the stairs and yelled "I WANT THAT TRUCK!". I guess Id didnt pick a good enough hiding place. We got him a little toy Moon Truck. It comes with a bunch of little men with backpacks and guns. I also made him a pair of Outer Space PJ's.

We wanted to make his birthday a little extra fun this year now that he is old enough to understand the whole process. I planned a get together and the Science Center for him and all his little friends. There sure was a lot of people there! Although I didnt get to take all the pictures I wanted of Kael playing with his friends I had so much fun watching him run around and learn new things. That is, when I wasnt chasing Naveah!

Kael had lots of fun on a pulley chair and was even able to do it all by himself! He also loved the water play center. Managed to stay fairly dry too! At noon we all met in the cafeteria as it was too hard to stay as a group. We had lunch, mingled, and Kael opened some of his gifts.

Thanx to; Cayden, Mia, Keira, Anika, Traver, Corbin, Berkley, Hailyn, Makenna and baby Addison, Jayde and baby Logan, Cosette, Anothony and Lliam for coming along and making Kael's day so fun! And thanx of course to all the Mommies and Daddies that brought them!

Later on that night we invited the rest of the family over for Cake. Kael was very excited to blow out the candles on his Space Shuttle cake I made him. After cake Kael opened up more presents and then just played and played and played. Needless to say, bedtime was a challenge that night.

Kael insisted on cutting the cake himself.....

Since his Birthday we have started potty training! He is doing very well though we are only on day 2. We only had one accident the first day and 1 today. Although he was trying to tell me he needed to pee both times he had an accident. So we dont really count those. I made him an 'Outer Space' sticker potty chart for him to give him a little extra motivation. He told me what he wanted me to draw on it. A rocket, a moon, a spaceship and twinkle stars. We hung it up in the half bath here on the main floor cause its the one hed be most often using and I brought up a celection of stickers. Hes pretty excited to get to pick his sticker and put it on his chart. I told him that after 7 days he will get a BIG prize as long as the stickers keep going on the chart. What that big prize is? Not sure yet, but ill find something.

Heres Kael so proud of his sticker chart...

Showing off his new gynch! Dinosaurs!!!

Belated Birthday Cake

For New Years we had some friends over for an early dinner. I made a scrumcious roast in the crock pot, mini yorkshire puddings and potatoes. Trina and Jared brought a greek salad (amazing!), and Dee finally made me a birthday cake for dessert. Its a few months late, but it was pretty awesome! After dinner all the kids ran around and pulled out every toy in the house, the boys went and watched the hockey game and us girls just sat on the couchs and giggled. Everyone was gone by about 9:30 but I think it was a pretty good end to the year and a good start to another. Here are the last pics of us taken in 2009!

So far this year has been pretty entertaining. The kids have been pretty goofy. Kael has become a chatterbox, hardly stopped to take a breath. Mostly he talks about monsters. Where they are, when they will come out, where they are stuck, what they are eating and what he is going to shoot them with. He still into builing things with his mega blocks. Trailers, robots and spaceship mostly. He got some "bright builders" blocks for Christmas. They are kinda star shaped with slits all through them and he built a pretty awesome train with them the other night. I wish I had taken a picture!

Naveah is quite taken with her new toys she got for Christmas and wont let anyone else touch them. Her Upsy Daisy doll and bed (see previous crimis post for pic), and Iggle Piggle. He is another character from 'In the Night Garden'. She carries them around with her all day. Hugging them, rocking them, tucking them into bed and kissing them. Windows shatter whenever she catches another little person touching them. She immediatly screams and races over to what you would think is a crime scene. She keeps everyone on their toes. She made me giggle the other day as I looked over at her and she had fallen asleep in her highchair while I was preparing lunch.

One of the presents we got Kael for Christmas was the movie "Fly Me to the Moon". Its a cute little show about three little flies that need adventure so they go to the moon with the human astronauts. I was lucky enough to come across the movie while grocery shopping one day as its one of his favorites and I lost the DVD we had. Whats more fun about the new one though is that its got a 3D version! So one afternoon while I was cleaning out the basement Evan put the movie on and Him, Kael and Naveah checked it out (oh and Zuli).

2010 so far has been rocky. But happy moments like these ones tend to take over the bad ones.

Happy New Years Everyone!

Tears of a Little Boy

Today I realized something. Kael is really something special. I mean, Ive always thought he was special but its now something a little extra...

Aaron, Stef, Naveah, Kael and I all went to a movie today. 'Where the Wild Things Are'. Kael was pretty excited to go see a 'monster movie'. Naveah just fell asleep. I wasnt sure if Kael was really enjoying the movie or not. It was a hard movie to get into, really slow and not very exciting. It picked up though when the monsters were in the picture. He was talking throughout the whole movie...telling me what the monsters were doing...etc. Over half the time I couldnt understand what he was saying but I could tell he was having a good time.

When we got close to the end of the movie it came time for the boy to leave the monsters. The monsters were crying, the boy was crying and they all started howling like wolves. I asked Kael "can you do that?". He responded with a little howl. When the monsters started howling again I leaned over to Kael and said he should do it again. He whined "no" and I looked over and realized he had tears in his eyes and his lip started quivering. The poor boy was CRYING!!! He was so sad to see the departure between the boy and the monsters! I hugged him and told him that everything is OK, that the boy was going home to see him Mommy. I felt his little tears dripping down onto my hand and I felt so sad for him. How heartbreaking it was to see him like that! I had no idea he was that tuned into emotion! It all ended happily of course but wow! How precious is this kid!?