Time Flies..

Trace in his outfit from Auntie Mel and Uncle Nate
Not so happy about the family pic!
Lukas (3 months) and Trace (3.5 weeks) my son seems to be punching the other kids already! lol
Tummy time with his new buddy!
His bath in Auntie Lisa's sink!

Wow I can't believe that it has been a month already.. tomorrow is Trace's one month. I have been a mommy for a whole entire month and I have made it. Trace is doing well and I am loving it! We have finally bought a house as well... signed the paperwork today. Our house sold in 3 days and ever since we have been looking down in the Edmonton area for our new one! I love it. We are going to do a little work on the kitchen but other than that and a little paint in the bedrooms it is perfect! BIG back yard, double car garage and over 2000 sq feet of living space! yipeeee to a lot more room!

We went down to Edmonton 3 weekends in a row and I have to say that I am excited to spend a weekend here... haven't done that since Trace's very first weekend. Last weekend was our long weekend being Canada day and we stayed with friends of ours and got to catch up with other friends and meet their little one as well! I posted some pics of the weekend. Well Trace is fussing so I should go but enjoy the pics!

More Pics!

So I don't have a lot of time for a post right now but I thought I would put up some new pics...K and I are heading back to Edmonton again this weekend (3rd weekend in a row) and I have been promised a house this weekend so here's hoping! I am tired of doing the 4 now 5 to 6 hour drive every weekend. Trace seems to love the car rides and enjoys his nice long naps while we are in the car. He is such an amazing baby and continues to amaze us daily. I feel so blessed!!! Whiskey babysitting Trace for us! haha
Now he loves his baths!

Our little happy camper!

Busy Busy......

Grampa and Trace having a nap.
Trace at 13 days old!

First family pic!

Mmmmm babies breath, love it!

Grampa and Trace at WestEd Mall

Grama and Trace cuddling time!

Ok so as expected life has been a little busy these last 2 weeks! Trace is home and healthy, and a wonderful baby. I only get up once during the night for a feeding and then I am up again around 8 am for his first morning feeding. I am spoiled and I know it but soo thankful for added rest! He is getting more and more alert during the day and I am loving just looking at him.

Grama came for a visit last week for a whole week... what a huge help! She even got up and kept me company during my 3am feedings. We were still working on the whole latching thing and things were getting very frustrating and painful at times and it was nice to have her there... even if I did lash out at her a couple of times. Although after talking with my dad about a few things I am looking at approaching difficult situations better and asking God for guidance to do so.

K and I have been looking at houses in Edmonton, last weekend we headed down and Grampa H flew in to meet up with us! It was amazing, to have both of my parents around for a weekend was such a huge help. Especially since we were looking at houses and constantly getting in and out of the car. Trace was a real trooper!

I have posted some updated pics as well, as instructed by Anns! lol! I promise I will try to keep them updated!

Trace Pictures

Trace all ready to go home!
In Granny Janny's going home outfit!

Just the cutest thing EVER!!!

That is one proud Daddy!!!

BLUE BOOTIES!!!

So I will go into more detail later but K and I want to welcome the arrival of Trace Gordon 8 pounds 9 ounces born on the 4th of June!!! We were sent home from the hospital 2 days later and found ourselves back there again last night as Trace was a little on the jaundice side. Lots of feedings later and 2 big pees and we were let go without light therapy!
Well maybe I will go into the detail of the birth... for those of you who are slightly squeemish please skip.
So thought I was getting contractions every 5 minutes on Tuesday night... go into labour and delivery and turns out they were false. AGAIN! Since my dr had already said she would induce me on Wednesday I stayed the night. I was 4 cm dilated and the baby was fully engaged. My dr broke my water around 930 am and I was told to go for an hour walk... umm yea 15 minutes later I was back upstairs with some intense contractions. Since my blood pressure was so high they decided to put me right on the epidural to bring it down. That only made it go higher. So by 230 that day I was ready to start pushing Trace out. Turns out he was face up... yuck... and did not want to turn. By the then the Epidural was not working as well... it was pretty bad. After 2 hours of pushing and 3 strong contractions while pushing and having the vacuum Trace was born. So awesome the feeling of finally having him out. Well after that I had a little trauma of my own, had a post pardom hemorrhage and had to go the OR as my placenta wasn't releasing. I lost quite a bit of blood and they were starting to talk about doing a transfusion. Luckily I didn't have to and am now on iron supplements to get my blood levels back up.
Well we are home and doing fine... feeding is a bit of a challenge but we will persevere! Thanks to everyone for your prayers I am just so happy to have met my little man after all this time!

Yea for the Long Weekend!!!

So this weekend is the long weekend... sooo excited as it is also our one year wedding anniversary! I have been promised a trip to the Keg for dinner mmmmm prime rib and crab legs!! And maybe a trip to Dawson Creek on Sunday for some White Spot. K is still out of town but returning tomorrow around 4ish and I am pretty excited about that to. This week has gone by pretty quickly as I had prayed it would and pretty uneventful. As in no trips to the L and D and the baby has stayed in! yipeee!!!!!
Wednesday I hung out with a good friend in the afternoon and it was so nice to get out of the house. I relaxed and chatted and as usual laughed my head off with her, it was such a nice way to pass the afternoon. In the evening there was America's Next Top Model of course so I went over to another friends house (who made an amazing blue cheese dip yum!) and watched the best girl win! Sooo happy that Whitney won ... cheers to the first full figured Top Model! Keeping busy really made the day fly by and being midweek gave me something to look forward to all week.
Today I had my going away lunch from my work, as tomorrow would have been my last day. It was a nice turnout! I really enjoyed myself and the food..although I always enjoy food! haha! They had a nice card that everyone signed and it was just nice to see their faces. I am really going to miss some of the people from work. Who woulda thought! lol.
So now I just have one more sleep until my hubby is home and we celebrate our anniversary... and one week until my bestest comes into town. So many things to look forward to. I know that these next few weeks will fly by and then I finally get to meet my bean!
Anyways that is all for now... I am heading back to my rocking chair and my cross stitching and magazines... oh what an exciting afternoon I have planned!!!

An Update... yea I know it has been a while!

Ok so I thought it had been a while since I posted pics... for those of you that don't know I have been taken off of work by my doctor because of my feet and the risk of toxemia. My blood pressure for now is fine so I am not too worried... just bored haha! K and I went to our prenatal class on Saturday and although it scared the living daylights out of me it also put me at ease. So many things that K and I had discussed and talked about and decided on were things that the nurse said we should talk about. There was a whole mix of people there all shapes sizes and ages so it was nice to see that as well.

So went into the L and D twice these last two weeks, first time was because of my discomfort and the second time was due to some really bad cramps in my stomach. Both times the baby was doing AWESOME, and it was nice to see layout of the L and D ward. Since my dr was out of town I had to go into her fill in dr on Friday to get a prescription (gotta love bladder infections) and he had an ultrasound machine in his office!!!! So I got a quick peek at the babe. He also (K WARNING TMI FOR SOME PEOPLE) did an internal and found out that the baby was completely dropped (I believe his words were "oh there is the babies head!!") and that I was 2 to 3 cm dilated. So of course I got excited as this is part that I don't have to go through later... and I can be like this for a month before I go into labour. It just means the baby is pretty much ready and raring to go! Anyways so I called my mom and of course freaked her out... oops... sorry mom! And then got an email from dad saying to hold onto the baby until after they go on vacation... so sorry dad! haha! Of course he was joking and it was nice to get a laugh.

So K is going to Minnesota this week Mon-Fri... so gotta hold onto this little one until after he gets back, then we celebrate our one year wedding anniversary yipeee!!!! Can't believe all that has happened in a year!

Ok will update more later but below are some new pics.

This is me at 35 weeks 3 days!!!!