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Elsa made a little nest in one of our grocery store crates then she climbed in and quickly fell asleep.

Liam and Mr. Bingley relaxing on the couch together.

Elsa being cute as always :)

Liam and Elsa riding dinosaurs while on a shopping trip with mummy and daddy

Elsa all bundled up and trying out the slide in Victoria Park for the very first time!

Oliver and Elsa at Victoria Park down the street from our house

My sweet happy little boy Liam

Family yoga session. Elsa and Liam decided to join in all on their own. This photo wasn't staged a bit which is what makes it SO darned cute! I use the Nintendo Wii to do my yoga.

 

Mr. Bingley getting some morning loving from Elsa

Elsa, Boo and Mr. Bingley. This is the last photo I took of Boo before she passed away.

 

Family Photos

Here are some fairly recent shots I've taken around the house of the kiddos, the dogs and myself using my iPhone and Instagram. If you follow me on facebook you may have already seen these.

Liam has quite the time trying to look like a normal child in photos! I sure do love my little clown!

Elsa all dressed up for the outdoors. Elsa's aunt Monika made her that fabu hat! Can't believe I just typed "fabu"!

Yes.... I really am THAT weird! And here I am showing off my supreme weirdness. Funny story, I once made this same face except with my tongue sticking out to the side in a family picture. A family picture that consisted of most of my mother's family, many of the aunts uncles and so on and so forth! I obviously was a kid then but I think if I were in that same photo now I'd do it all over again! You only live once and if you don't have humour what do you have?!

Liam hard at work on his first collage! My little bug is quite the artist!

Elsa playing in Liam's room.

Elsa and myself

Liam and I being silly!

 
My little girl sound asleep in my bed.

Boo enjoying the comforts of my bed. I woke up to find this silly dog in exactly this position on top of my covers :)

Mr. Bingley looking pretty.

 
He's always beautiful!

A little sleepy

Heading out for a walk! OH the excitement!

 
Bundled!

He fell asleep on the couch with an apple slice in his hand :)

Devouring her daddy's fruit veggie smoothie and NOT sharing!

Me :)

Elsa wearing the pajamas given to her by our Super cool friends in BC :)

At the grocery store

Even little bunnies need to go to the grocery store every once in a while!

Elsa sleeping in her daddy's arms.

Oliver and Elsa all tuckered out!

She loves to sit in the toy basket like a little doll :)

This little monkey stole my heart almost five years ago and no matter what sort of mischief he gets into I just love him more and more every day!

How Liam eats a donut! He bites the icing off the top all the way around and leaves the rest lol!

Elsa's First Birthday

Photo taken by my dad

I am SO slow in blogging about Elsa's first birthday! The (not so) big event took place on November 28th although we had our festivities on the 26th to take advantage of Oliver's not having to work since the 26th was a Saturday.  My parents came out from Nova Scotia and spent the weekend with us.  Below are some pictures of our lovely weekend, enjoy!

The kids, Mr. Bingley and myself. Liam is blowing out the candle on Elsa's cupcake :) Photo taken by my dad.

Elsa's first cupcake experience! Oliver made the cupcakes and they were VERY yummy but Elsa was not impressed and after tasting the icing she wanted nothing to do with her treat and began to fuss! Photo taken by my dad.

Liam had a ball opening Elsa's gifts! I'm still unsure if he really understood that they were for Elsa and not for him!

We did buy Liam a little something to help make him feel special too. Liam loves the Nintendo Mario characters so we gave him a little set of Mario figurines.

My mum and the kids (and Boo) playing with one of Elsa's birthday gifts.


My mum, dad, Boo and Elsa. Elsa didn't smile in any of my pictures, she was feeling a wee bit sleepy.

Liam and my mum playing with Elsa's new dollhouse. Don't you just LOVE our floors?! Ah the joys of living in a state of constant renovation! Photo taken by my dad.

My beautiful sweet little boy :) Photo taken by my dad.

My mum and Elsa. I love this photo! Elsa's expression is adorable! Photo taken by my dad.

The kids playing together. Well, that's not completely true, this is Liam playing with Elsa's new toy, Elsa trying to play with Elsa's new toy and mummy in the background probably telling Liam to share Elsa's new toy with Elsa. Photo taken by my dad.

A Walk to the Park

 
Victoria Park in Downtown Charlottetown

Today was a really nice day.  It started out with cleaning, one of my favorite activities! I cleaned the bathroom, oh joy!  Then I worked on some papier mache.  I'm attempting my first papier mache project, a rabbit for Liam.  Then later in the day because it wasn't raining yet but the sky was threatening it, we went for a nice walk to Victoria Park.  Liam enjoyed playing on the jungle gym, Elsa had her first swing experience and I took plenty of pictures.  All in all it was quite nice!

 
Liam

 
Elsa enjoying her first swing ride

Another Elsa Picture Just Because :) 

 
Liam loves the playground!

BALD!

 

So over the weekend Oliver thought it would be such an ingeniouss idea to chop Liam's sideburns off without first checking with me.  I was not impressed. I was purposely leaving them be because I loved them and suddenly they were gone! Without the sideburns he looked like he had a huge poof on top of his head like some strange sort of hat!  This morning I decided to de-poof my little boy.  Unfortunately he had no intention of sitting still for the de-poofing and after much frustration I finally turned on the electric clipper and buzzzzzzzzz, off went ALL of his hair! It had to be done, the sideburns were removed in such a choppy manner and with his wiggling and fussing the de-poofing was even choppier so I really had no choice.  I don't mind it though, I think he looks cute, like he's trying to look like his daddy :)

 
Elsa is riding around in a similar boat.  She no longer has the full head of hair she once had but for completely different reasons.  Poor little Elsa had a mild case of cradle cap and most of her hair just went and fell right off of her sweet little head!  At first I thought it was just a case of bad dandruff but after noticing that her hair was thinning and my mum suggesting that it might be cradle cap I decided to do some research.  I came to the conclusion after much reading and staring at picture after picture on the internet that she did indeed have cradle cap.  I treated it myself without the help of a doctor who would have been of no help since cradle cap is pretty easy to deal with in the first place.  She is now ick free but she's also a wee bit hair free as well, lol!  Thankfully it's already starting to grow back and even with less hair she's still an adorable little hobbit :)

She's My Last

 

Wow!  Elsa is growing SO fast!  I feel like I need to soak up every moment, every smile, every laugh, EVERYTHING!! Elsa is my last baby, yes I'm sure, I had a tubal ligation when I had my C-section.  I love my kids but two is a good number and pregnancy was just too hard on my body so Oliver and I decided that we were done adding to our family.  Because of this I really feel the need to pay attention to every second of her existence.  Liam grew to the age of four in what seemed like the blink of an eye.  My baby is gone, in his place is a little boy.  Now I have a baby girl and next thing you know it I'll no longer have a baby but a little girl instead.  Everyone warns new parents that their babies will grow up so fast but until they've done so it's impossible to comprehend just how fast fast is.

 
She's already sitting up!

 
She's showing interest in toys now.

 
 
I'll soak up every second and Winnie the Pooh will soak up all the drool!

I'm a Mummy Again! (Long Post)

Our new little bundle of joy arrived! Early! Her due date was Dec.9, my C-Section was scheduled for Dec.6 and the baby decided to make an escape on November 28th. We are now the proud parents of a baby girl! Her name is Elsa Jane Naumann and she is perfect! Born nine pounds two ounces, with beautiful dark strawberry red hair and dark blue eyes. She is the spitting image of her older brother Liam when he was a new little one. Liam was born nine pounds three ounces. In fact, Elsa not only looks like her brother but so far she also seems to have his personality too. I feel like I have another Liam they are SO similar!

2:30 Sunday morning I was up and on the computer looking at pictures of artwork when I started feeling pains that I couldn't explain. I had completely forgotten what being in labor felt like and just kept doing what I was doing. Then after a while I got up for a drink of water and upon my return to the living room I doubled over in terrible pain and let out a cry which sent Oliver running down the stairs to my rescue. We spent the next little while timing contractions and trying to determine if I was indeed in labor or if it was something else. Once we were certain it was in fact the big event Oliver packed my bag (yes, I had not done that yet), woke Liam, and shoveled the snow from the driveway to get the car out safely. My first instinct when I realized I was in labor was to go take a shower. You don't get to shower for a couple of days after having a C-section and I was determined to arrive at the hospital nice and clean. Once we were all ready to go we got in the car and drove the ten minutes it takes to get to the hospital. We went inside and the (not so much) fun began! I had a C-section as planned. They gave me a spinal which left me completely awake but numb and unable to move from the chest down. When the doctors said we had a new baby girl I started to cry. Not because I was happy or sad but because I was completely shocked. I didn't know how to feel since I was certain Elsa was going to be a boy. Anyway, I was in the hospital for three boring days before my doctor saved me and gave the okay to send me home. C-section patients are usually in for four days but I couldn't take it any more. I missed Oliver and Liam terribly! While I was away my mum stayed at our house to watch Liam so that Oliver could continue going to work till the weekend. Liam loved playing with my mum and I think he gave her quite the workout! She seems to play with him in the same manner as I do and did before I was pregnant and he loved that!

Now my mum has returned home to Nova Scotia and Oliver is staying home for a weeks time. Oliver is Mr. Mom and is a real expert when it comes to babies. I couldn't have better help! I took my pain medication for the first little while but decided to discontinue use since it's supposed to cause constipation and I really don't need that right now! I'm sore and achy but I still went shopping on both Saturday and Sunday! I'm stubborn and you just can't keep me down! While I now have new pains from surgery I'm definitely enjoying the slightly smaller tummy, lack of sore feet and the ability to put my own socks on, LOL!

Elsa is a wonderful baby, she's healthy, happy and so very quiet. Liam seems to like his new baby sister and has been SO helpful to me. He isn't jealous in any way which is such a relief! He really enjoys sitting close to her and touching her hands and hair and has even given her kisses on her forehead without being asked to. I'm a lucky mum :)