.one more month

Our big day is coming and we are slowly working on preparing for it.

I’m preparing mentally and emotionally. Hoping I won’t be so sore for so long after giving birth this time around. And those post partum hormones made me an anxious mess for the longest time. I won’t let that happen again ok? This time I know what’s coming, so I’ll take control over my anxieties. I’ll breathe in deeply and relax and take care of this baby without feeling like the weight of the world is on my shoulders. I’ll breathe out slowly and I won’t let myself be overwhelmed with all the bodily leaking and soreness and hair falling out problems that will come. 

This time I know it won’t last forever.

And if none of this preparation does any good… at least I know that the end result will be worth going through it all again.

  

Air told me that he is preparing to take Ames off my hands as much as he possibly can, and to cook and clean as much as he possibly can. We are both extremely hopeful that he will have good enough health and endurance to make it through the delivery with me without passing out… he gets so dizzy these days with his anemia. Lets all pray for him ok?

 

I’ll have you know that Ames is preparing too... maybe even more than the rest of us. He loves to tell everyone about his baby sister whenever possible. He will give my belly big hugs and kisses and tickles. He plays with his cars and toys on my belly to keep her involved (happening as I type this).

We gave him a baby dolly a few weeks ago that he adores and attends to with as much love and kindness as you could ever expect from a two year old. We call her Practice Sister.

This is gonna be great!

.gusa gram

These last few months have been a whirlwind. Air has been on short term disability since July and it’s been so different to have him around so much. It’s been a strange transition for him to go from being completely stressed out and busy with work 24/7, to having a completely different kind of stress and just trying to keep our family afloat. It’s actually been really nice to have Air around every day, of course it would be better if he weren’t so sick, and it would be better still if we didn’t have this uncertain future/doomsday thing sort of looming over us. If you asked us right now where we’ll be and what we’ll be doing five months from now, we would have no answer for you. And that’s pretty scary.

At least we know we’ll still have our little family, plus one more little girl who we can’t wait to meet.

We have been lacking a little bit with taking photos and videos lately too! This is probably the worst we’ve done with this ever. Boo…

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↓↓↓We babysat a friend’s fish for a month. Ames enjoyed it a lot, but Air and I were excited to give it back. Guess Air and I aren’t pet people?//Ames loves his chubby little cousin Jake. He always asks to “hold it?” and then he says, “that’s a big one!” haha↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓We finally carpeted our basement this summer and have been in heaven actually having a basement ever since. Ames’s favorite thing is pretending the steps are his bed. Air and I both did this when we were little//We set up an old projector in the basement and enjoy watching all the Disney movies down there↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Some days you just need to make a recipe that calls for a pound of butter. Salted caramel bars were pretty yummy↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Ames loves play dough, he especially likes to smash everything I create?//We have a lot of fun at Tam and Jadey’s acreage. They have a perfect fire pit for spending an evening roasting dogs, s’mores, bannock and singing songs with the family↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓We went to a free Edmonton Symphony performance at Churchill Square downtown. They performed all of the best Disney songs and we got to see tons of cute little girls dressed up as princesses↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Ames loves to “help” us whenever we’re cooking. He usually stands on a stool and tinkers with anything in his reach//Air is seriously an amazing chef, and I am seriously a lucky girl↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓It snowed here on September 8th… that was insane. Luckily it’s melted and warmed up again for now//Ames sure loves his superheroes. He would wear this spiderman shirt every day if I let him… also his Daddy’s lambs wool socks for pants?↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Ames is a super funny little guy… he is constantly cracking us up around here—coming up with all of his own jokes and shocking us with his understanding of everything. We love our Amesy so much↓↓↓

And a few videos:

.30 weeks pregnant + our 6th Anniversary

Remember when I was pregnant with Ames and I posted pictures of myself almost every other week? I obviously haven’t been doing that with this pregnancy. I figure you already know what I look like pregnant… also I just don’t have that kind of time and energy anymore, ironically that’s a result of the previous pregnancy.

Lately this pregnancy has been really good! I’m always forgetting that I’m even pregnant at all, until I have to bend down to pick something up, or I can’t sleep at night because my hips hurt. Then there’s all of the rolling, kicking and hiccupping this little girly is always busy doing. I love to feel her move and know that she is doing so well. She is growing perfectly.

Air and I are so happy to know that there is a little baby girl coming our way. To have something like this to look forward to right now has meant the world to us… This baby is going to light up our lives in a few months. I can’t believe she’s almost here.

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Our Anniversary this year was unlike any Anniversary we have had so far—considering that our first 5 Anniversaries were probably some of the most special and adventurous days of our lives.

This year we….. stayed home. The whole day. Went nowhere. Did mostly nothing.

It was kinda nice?

Air cooked for me though. I’m always reminded that I’m the luckiest woman in the world when he does that.

Breakfast was heart-shaped french toast on home made bread. Amazing.

Dinner was Air’s delicious peanut chicken milanesa, broccoli and mashed potatoes with fried potato slices artistically placed atop. This guy…

We sang songs from South Pacific during dinner…

And we ended the evening with Ames smashing his pinky in a closet door…

Got to admit we are pretty proud of ourselves for spending $0 this year. It was so tempting to get a babysitter, eat out, see a show, buy each other gifts…

We’re a good team, Air and I. We can get through anything together I know it.

Love you Air-bear

.gusa gram

I’m a behind, once again, in posting about our lives. I guess I don't really have much to post about since we got back from vacation in June… Air's been getting some medical procedures done that have basically put him under house arrest for months. I have been budgeting my butt off and trying not to spend any pennies. Honestly, I have a few reasons to just stop blogging right now, but here I am. You know I can’t stay away from you blog. I’m hopelessly devoted.

So here we go.

↓↓↓Tessa The Beautiful graduated from High School. We loved taking photos for her… she is one of the most photogenic people I know. We are so happy for her to finally be done with grade school. She is definitely going to be a successful human. We love you Tessa!↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓a long time ago Tamera’s sweet baby Jake was blessed//Air in his office on one of his final days at work (unbeknownst to him…)↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Ames having fun with buckets of water and a yogurt popsicle//summer evening roasting bannock at the fire with the family↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓7-eleven day free slurpees!//Ames beginning his terrible twos↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓watching the Lego Movie with his buddy Rhys//I painted Ames’ toe yellow and it has been the most exciting feature of his life ever since↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓swimming at the Ledge with his buddy Addison//so lucky to have such fun aunts↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓We found an awesome new park one day… Ames and I spend a lot of days at parks//another hot day swimming at the Legislature fountains with friends↓↓↓

 

...aaaaand the videos!

↓↓↓This was Ames' first time in his kiddie pool this summer... he was pretty nervous at first↓↓↓

↓↓↓Sometimes we are lucky and Ames makes up random songs about stuff. He was singing about garbage here↓↓↓

↓↓↓I think we know where Ames gets his singing talents from↓↓↓

↓↓↓Ames learned how to blow into his grandpa's harmonica pretty easily... we need to get him one of these!↓↓↓

↓↓↓he loves going down the slide like "supaman!". If you listen closely you'll hear him say "mommy yook", which is probably the thing he says the most these days↓↓↓

↓↓↓playing in the pools at the Ledge. He doesn't like getting splashed↓↓↓

↓↓↓making up another version of one of his favorite songs on the way to church↓↓↓

↓↓↓I taught Ames to tell you how old he is↓↓↓

↓↓↓One of my proudest moments as a parent was teaching Ames to do this belly trick. He's a natural!↓↓↓