1. What is your favorite color? blue
2. What is your favorite toy? garbage truck and excavator
3. What is your favorite fruit? a apple
4. What is your favorite tv show or movie? Dora and Puss in Boots
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? chicken
6. What is your favorite game? the new game (Red Faction on PS3)
7. What is your favorite snack? apple and orange
8. What is your favorite animal? a horse
9. What is your favorite song? gangnam style and call your girlfriend
10. What is your favorite book? games
11. Who is your best friend? Cole and Sam and Luke
12. What is your favorite cereal? chocolate cheerios
13. What is your favorite thing to do outside? go hide and seek
14. What is your favorite drink? water and apple juice and orange juice
15. What is your favorite holiday? blue
16. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Nana
17. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? cereal
18. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? chicken and fries and ketchup
19. What do you want to be when you grow up? Ethan
20. What are you scared of? spiders
21. What makes you feel happy? friends
22. What is your favorite thing to do with Mom? digging excavators
23. What is you favorite thing to do with Dad? new game
24. What is your favorite place to go to? our new house
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Corryn's Birthday Interview
1. What is your favorite color? red, yellow, white
2. What is your favorite toy? a kitty
3. What is your favorite fruit? a orange
4. What is your favorite tv show or movie? about Dora
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? a orange and a chicken
6. What is your favorite game? about race cars
7. What is your favorite snack? Eli snack
8. What is your favorite animal? a big moose
9. What is your favorite song? chip and dales
10. What is your favorite book? about cats
11. Who is your best friend? Daddy
12. What is your favorite cereal? chocolate cheerios
13. What is your favorite thing to do outside? play in the grass
14. What is your favorite drink? water
15. What is your favorite holiday? Mommy
16. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? my kitty
17. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? chocolate
18. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? pancakes
19. What do you want to be when you grow up? make food for Mommy
20. What are you scared of? my bad dream
21. What makes you feel happy? a happy dream
22. What is your favorite thing to do with Mom? make lunch
23. What is you favorite thing to do with Dad? play game
24. Where is your favorite place to go? see Nana
2. What is your favorite toy? a kitty
3. What is your favorite fruit? a orange
4. What is your favorite tv show or movie? about Dora
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? a orange and a chicken
6. What is your favorite game? about race cars
7. What is your favorite snack? Eli snack
8. What is your favorite animal? a big moose
9. What is your favorite song? chip and dales
10. What is your favorite book? about cats
11. Who is your best friend? Daddy
12. What is your favorite cereal? chocolate cheerios
13. What is your favorite thing to do outside? play in the grass
14. What is your favorite drink? water
15. What is your favorite holiday? Mommy
16. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? my kitty
17. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? chocolate
18. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? pancakes
19. What do you want to be when you grow up? make food for Mommy
20. What are you scared of? my bad dream
21. What makes you feel happy? a happy dream
22. What is your favorite thing to do with Mom? make lunch
23. What is you favorite thing to do with Dad? play game
24. Where is your favorite place to go? see Nana
Thursday, September 05, 2013
I can't believe I live here!
Some of these pictures are from when the whole clan was here for the reunion, others are just around Jon's parent's house where we are staying. :)
Picking snails off of the headstone in a historical graveyard. Did you know that the Halifax harbour was the first to respond to the Titanic's SOS call? In fact, the bodies of those whose families weren't wealthy enough to have them shipped home are buried in Halifax cemeteries.
Ethan and his cousin Quin became instant buds.
A rocking boat, so much cooler than a rocking horse. :)
Living here is like a dream. I feel like a character in a book. The kids explore all day and sleep under the star filled skies at night (their beds are right under skylights). I'm anxious to get into our own place but enjoying the lazy days in the mean time. :)
Thursday, April 04, 2013
Spring has sprung and cute stories
I've been explaining to Ethan that when he wakes up from a bad dream he can say a prayer to help him feel safe. Last night he was telling me about a bad dream he had had where he was being chased by a big scary helicopter. He had to run into a tunnel and close the door to get safe. He said that Jesus Christ saved him from the helicopter and helped him find his mom and dad because he missed them. So cute.
Ethan's favorite toys are his three garbage trucks and occasionally (when I'm feeling very patient) I will let him play with some shredded paper as trash for his trucks. I say patient because this makes a HUGE mess that could only be cleaned up with the vacuum. Luckily, he enjoys vacuuming them up as well. Anyway, today he came up to me and asked if he could have some "garbage fingers"... shredded paper. Cute.
Ethan is deathly afraid of the car wash. Jon is determined to toughen him up and asks him every time we're out if he wants to go to the car wash. Ethan responds with a stern "NO!" and then goes on for about 20 minutes about how scary the car wash is and how we shouldn't go there. So cute.
Corryn couldn't find her beloved kitty kitty one night as the kids were going to bed. After searching every room in the house we gave up and said that we would look for it in the morning. In the morning Jon had Corryn say a prayer for help. Shortly after that I looked out the window and saw that kitty kitty was left outside by our garden. Now whenever she says prayer, even on the food, she includes "thank you help find my kitty." Yesterday's lunch prayer was "Thank you help find my kitty, thank you Swiper no swiping, name Jesus Christ, Amen."
Ethan's favorite toys are his three garbage trucks and occasionally (when I'm feeling very patient) I will let him play with some shredded paper as trash for his trucks. I say patient because this makes a HUGE mess that could only be cleaned up with the vacuum. Luckily, he enjoys vacuuming them up as well. Anyway, today he came up to me and asked if he could have some "garbage fingers"... shredded paper. Cute.
Ethan is deathly afraid of the car wash. Jon is determined to toughen him up and asks him every time we're out if he wants to go to the car wash. Ethan responds with a stern "NO!" and then goes on for about 20 minutes about how scary the car wash is and how we shouldn't go there. So cute.
Corryn couldn't find her beloved kitty kitty one night as the kids were going to bed. After searching every room in the house we gave up and said that we would look for it in the morning. In the morning Jon had Corryn say a prayer for help. Shortly after that I looked out the window and saw that kitty kitty was left outside by our garden. Now whenever she says prayer, even on the food, she includes "thank you help find my kitty." Yesterday's lunch prayer was "Thank you help find my kitty, thank you Swiper no swiping, name Jesus Christ, Amen."
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Saturday, March 09, 2013
Elias Glyn Evans
Because we wanted to have an in-home blessing on Sunday, March 3rd, I needed to have Eli by Friday to ensure that I would be home in time. I had a scheduled induction for Thursday 6:30am, I was 39 weeks 5 days along. The night before we packed our hospital bags and then pretended to sleep until our alarm went off at 5:30am. I rolled over and saw that there was a voicemail on my phone... it was the hospital saying that there wasn't room for me that morning and that it was probably not going to happen that day. I was BUMMED to say the least, but at the same time I knew Eli would come when he was supposed to come so I should just enjoy the family in town while I had it and not worry about the details.
At 9:30am the hospital called again and said that there was an opening but I had to be checked in by 10am or else I'd lose my time slot. (Seriously? Hospitals are weird.) We rushed out the door (we being me, Jon, and Jon's mum) and left the kids with Jon's dad. Kudos to Jon's dad for juggling my crazy kids all day! :)
We arrived on time, but my nurse was not available until almost noon so we spent two hours chatting in my delivery room and watching Jon and his mum eat lunch. I inquired about the option of just having my water broken to jump start labor but I was sternly turned downed saying that the doctor was on a schedule today and wanted to deliver as soon as possible. Little did he know that I would be LIGHTNING FAST!
So by noon I was hooked up to pitocin, I turned the lights down low and turned on my selected labor music and got in the zone. They couldn't find a birthing ball that wasn't flat (figures) and so I instead stood next to my bed rocking side to side and using my learned breathing techniques to deal with the ever increasingly strong contractions. Oh, I forgot to mention, when I arrived at the hosp I was dilated to a 3. By 2pm I was a 6 and still holding strong to my med-free plan. I felt pretty great.
Pretty soon the contractions were so strong that I no longer felt strong enough to keep standing and so I instead laid on my side and clung to the bed railing. The next 20 or so minutes were a blur to me... absolute HELL. I was moaning and on the verge of screaming, clinging to the bed rail and convulsing in pain with each overlapping contraction.
From 2pm to 2:30pm I went from a 6 to a 10.
Shortly after 2:30pm I held up my white flag and said that I wanted something for the pain. Luckily, the nurse informed me that even though I was a 10 they were still able to provide me with something... if the anesthesiologist could get there before the doctor did to deliver Eli. I was satisfied. I knew the next person through the door would be pain relief or the doctor giving me permission to push. The next thing I was aware of was a sharp pinch in my back. It was the anesthesiologist giving me a spinal shot (same drug as an epidural but just a one-time shot instead of a catheter). He administered the shot right where I was, I didn't have to shift at all. This was good because at this point the contractions were happening on top of each other and I was NOT moving from clinging to the bedrail, there was no way I could consciously sit up and bend over for a shot.
Within seconds the relier came and I was in heaven. Also within seconds the doctor showed up, and I was ready to push. So to recap, at 2:30pm I was a 10 and the doc/anesthesiologist was called. At 2:45pm I received the shot and at 2:50pm I was in position to push. ELI WAS BORN AT 2:52pm! That's how fast things happened. He came out in one push.
You may think, "Aw, that's too bad. She made it all the way to a 10 without the meds and then gave in for the last 5 minutes." But honestly, I don't regret my decision one bit. Not only did I not have to experience the "ring of fire" but I also didn't have to feel a thing while I was being stitched, leaving me able to enjoy the time right after Eli was born. Holding him was amazing, all that dark hair. He looked like a spitting image of Ethan, just slightly smaller. 7lbs 14oz, 20.5in. That's all for now... more to come later. :)
At 9:30am the hospital called again and said that there was an opening but I had to be checked in by 10am or else I'd lose my time slot. (Seriously? Hospitals are weird.) We rushed out the door (we being me, Jon, and Jon's mum) and left the kids with Jon's dad. Kudos to Jon's dad for juggling my crazy kids all day! :)
We arrived on time, but my nurse was not available until almost noon so we spent two hours chatting in my delivery room and watching Jon and his mum eat lunch. I inquired about the option of just having my water broken to jump start labor but I was sternly turned downed saying that the doctor was on a schedule today and wanted to deliver as soon as possible. Little did he know that I would be LIGHTNING FAST!
So by noon I was hooked up to pitocin, I turned the lights down low and turned on my selected labor music and got in the zone. They couldn't find a birthing ball that wasn't flat (figures) and so I instead stood next to my bed rocking side to side and using my learned breathing techniques to deal with the ever increasingly strong contractions. Oh, I forgot to mention, when I arrived at the hosp I was dilated to a 3. By 2pm I was a 6 and still holding strong to my med-free plan. I felt pretty great.
Pretty soon the contractions were so strong that I no longer felt strong enough to keep standing and so I instead laid on my side and clung to the bed railing. The next 20 or so minutes were a blur to me... absolute HELL. I was moaning and on the verge of screaming, clinging to the bed rail and convulsing in pain with each overlapping contraction.
From 2pm to 2:30pm I went from a 6 to a 10.
Shortly after 2:30pm I held up my white flag and said that I wanted something for the pain. Luckily, the nurse informed me that even though I was a 10 they were still able to provide me with something... if the anesthesiologist could get there before the doctor did to deliver Eli. I was satisfied. I knew the next person through the door would be pain relief or the doctor giving me permission to push. The next thing I was aware of was a sharp pinch in my back. It was the anesthesiologist giving me a spinal shot (same drug as an epidural but just a one-time shot instead of a catheter). He administered the shot right where I was, I didn't have to shift at all. This was good because at this point the contractions were happening on top of each other and I was NOT moving from clinging to the bedrail, there was no way I could consciously sit up and bend over for a shot.
Within seconds the relier came and I was in heaven. Also within seconds the doctor showed up, and I was ready to push. So to recap, at 2:30pm I was a 10 and the doc/anesthesiologist was called. At 2:45pm I received the shot and at 2:50pm I was in position to push. ELI WAS BORN AT 2:52pm! That's how fast things happened. He came out in one push.
You may think, "Aw, that's too bad. She made it all the way to a 10 without the meds and then gave in for the last 5 minutes." But honestly, I don't regret my decision one bit. Not only did I not have to experience the "ring of fire" but I also didn't have to feel a thing while I was being stitched, leaving me able to enjoy the time right after Eli was born. Holding him was amazing, all that dark hair. He looked like a spitting image of Ethan, just slightly smaller. 7lbs 14oz, 20.5in. That's all for now... more to come later. :)
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