playdate with gabe

diedre usually plays with david while his little brother watches. but gabe is sitting up now (9 months old) and david was napping this hot summery day.


all set to play


here's gabe





one very cute pose


and another


hiiii


diedre loves chairs


being a little daring


diedre loves trucks


brrrrmm brrrrmmm

one last hoorah

our last visit with baby elliot. she officially left the west coast last night at 11pm. diedre was very interested in her.


diedre checking out elliot


gently rocking the baby (getting some practice here to be a big sister :)


waking up to, what soon was to be discovered, as a very wet diaper


the proud momma


the proud daddy


close up of the little squirt (waiting to be changed probably accounts for the cute expression)


miles must have known his cousin and fun uncle derek were over. and his uncle rick and aunt danielle for one last visit before heading to Nova Scotia cuz he insisted on getting out of bed to play.

we are gonna miss those carabins so much. it will be nice to see pictures on their blog from time to time. they are moving to start a job/ministry working to build a camp. they are really excited and will be close to rick's family in Cape Breton. i was thinking of their family this morning, how excited the grandma and grandpa must be today and rick's siblings who haven't met little elliot yet. (little and elliot have many similar letters, exchange a "t" for an "o" in little, and its the same...weird). xo to you guys, thanks for one last visit.

park play date

afternoon at the park


look what i found!!! junkfood (she only had one little bite then gave it too me. she chowed down on Ritz Scubas courtesy of a new friend Karley from playgroup.


diedre is cool. she now has the concept of just how cool she is. Grammy, she loves sunglasses, i guess she's old enough for some now (i remember you wanted to get her a pair last summer :) hee hee


she can fetch! diedre crawled away with this bucket, then started to crawl back without it. i said "no diedre, get the bucket." and she turned around, fetched it, and headed back over!

6 years married

it is our anniversary. we've been married 6 years now, together for 7.

we celebrated saturday night and it was really nice.

happy anniversary derek! you are an awesome husband and father and i'm so glad to share my life with you and have a family :)

xoxoxo

amanda

ouchless elastics make for cute hairstyles

model pose (sorry about the stringy drool). i just bought some ouchless elastics (which i'm not too confident are truly ouchless) and started trying to do diedre's hair. i like it!


still my sweet baby.

fine print

i made up this shirt for derek's 30th birthday party back on march 11, 2006. it took our friends a second to see the fine print. i actually made the iron-on transfer backwards, so i decided to try again on the back of the shirt. so the front of the shirt had the information written backwards, and the back of the shirt had the information written properly...so i did a little crafting and cut off the collar, put on a ribbon belt and wore the shirt with the proper writing on the front, over my belly. anyway, this is a pretty silly picture with my super big over-smile, but i will share it anyway.

so, people are starting to notice (thats what happens with second pregnancies i guess!) so i figure i'd let it out on the blog now.

salmon baby
nov 15 2006

i have had much more all-day sickness with this one than with diedre. probably because when i worked at the office, i would have a more scheduled day and scheduled eating, now things are so flexible and sometimes i wait too long to eat which will bring on the nausea.

derek and i are very excited and are slowly trying to adjust to how tired i am these days...and i expect i will be getting more energetic soon as i enter the second trimester. diedre will be 21 months when the baby comes. i am very excited to see her transition to becoming a big sister.

dinner at the carabins

dinner at the carabins, our old farm house. danielle was busy recording memories. we decided to go over there in the evening so derek could help rick get lumber for building a shipping crate.


rick, derek, josiah, danielle, elliot, naomi, diedre


pretty girls


papa cuddling the little one


diedre is excitedly pointing to the big tree


the daddies are up there!


our pretty girl


from above. diedre loves to play with her booster seat. at home i can ask her to sit in it when its on the floor and she will. its really cute.


sweetheart


so cute on the swing


it took some time but i finally got diedre to sleep at the carabins on the futon.


cute little bum up in the air

quick visit from the carabins, a blog connection and cousin

rick, giselle & kent (they have super cute pics of elliot on their blog too). we have only "known" kent & giselle from the blog so it was really cool to finally meet them before they headed home to calgary. they drove so well and made it in 9.5 hours! awesome. they are "old" friends of rick & danielle.


giselle & elliot


her eyes are open!


the carabins. they're leaving on friday for nova scotia. they will live there indefinitely. we are sad to see them go...and they had a girl, only other girl in our older group of friends. snif


rick & the babe


cuuuute! makes me want another one ;)


here's our cute girl chasing josiah (danielle's cousin's son) around our house!

easter gifts

easter gifts


pretty dress


i like it! thanks grammy & grampa


pretty ribbons

a visit with elliot

diedre reading in her toybox this morning before heading out to the hospital to visit elliot and her parents of course :)


cute little arms!
i'm really liking little Elliot. she is such a sweet girl. she is very fun to look at and very snuggly. i took lots of fun pictures that i posted on the carabin blog for them.


diedre's first popsicle (the nurse at peace arch was so nice, carrot cake yesterday, popsicles today, wow!)


cold popsicle. of course, my girl is still so sweet and cute. it was precious to look at her asleep in the car and see how she is still so much a baby. warms a mothers heart :)

a girl, of course!

diedre and i checking out the carabin's new baby girl!

she's getting mobile

diedre really wanted to climb into her old toy box (we got a new one from andrew & heather for my birthday). she really wanted all these animals in there too!


trying out new things with her legs, squats, lunges, walking...


here is the side of the new toybox. its really nice, dark and woven with a lid. diedre will stand holding onto it, pull something out and then play with it without leaning against anything. we are very excited for her as she takes more risks in the direction of walking/standing alone.