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jeudi, septembre 28, 2006

last night we all slept over at granmmy and gramp's place. I will post a photo and explanation later. Let me just say it was an adventure caused by my foolish forgetfulness. Any guesses?

and we are all sick now. please pray for us -- especially the babies, they're having a rough/fussy/stuffy time. I guess you should pray for me too, since I have to be with these lovely but grumpy babes all day and night. Lance is feeling worse today than yesterday - so please pray for him too. thanks.

Aimee

posted by Aimee at 2:50 p.m. - 5 comments

mardi, septembre 26, 2006

stuffy noses

3 out of four of us have stuffy noses. this morning i tricked eva into thinking that having snot sucked out of her nose with the aspirator is fun - she was actually smiling. elijah would not be fooled and let me know he hated it. i haven't tried it on lance...and so far i'm healthy.

the days fly by and are full. each day contains some beautiful peaceful moments where i am overcome with love for each of my children. each day also has moments where i am overwhelmed by two babies screaming at the same time and breasts that don't want anyone near them for an hour please!

here are a bunch of photos for you.

i got outside with the camera and without the kids for a couple minutes. the light was lovely on the trees in front of our house.

elijah is wearing a vintage hand-me-down shirt i love and eva is wearing cousin sarah's sweater.

Elijah looks up at Lance while Lance tries to make Eva smile for the next photo.

Hi Papa!

We call her our buzz cut princess.

Another hand-me-down. I like this one too. :)

My guys hanging out.

"I KNOW it's a turtleneck, my mom bought it and makes me wear it"

I bought two shirts for Elijah at our thrift store -- one had tiny race cars and one had tiny space ships, they were in good condition, cheap and long sleeved for fall. I took them to the counter and as I was buying them realized they were turtlenecks -- I thought they were regular t-shirts with a couple snaps in the front - turns out those snaps go in the back. Now turtlenecks aren't the coolest but I bought the shirts anyways. I told Lance and he affectionately called Elijah our little nerd.

Oops. Someone didn't operate the fingernail clippers very well. I don't think this photo does it justice. I cut a chunk out of Elijah's thumb. His hand got all bloody, but before I could document it for the blog he had sucked it clean. Yuck. This was one week ago today and he is healing well. He forgave me almost immediately -- that could be because I have the milk. :)

We are heading to BC on Oct 6, we'll be there for a week. Maybe we'll see some of you blogger friends.

Lance has been invited to be a part of a music and reading night at Pacific theatre. He will be playing three nights - the thursday, friday and saturday after thanksgiving - I think this is oct 12,13,14. He will be playing the most on the thursday and less on the other nights. Check out pacific theatre's website for tickets and details.

he will also be playing two house shows and at house of James -- lots of chances to get your "Lance fix". See the hoj website for details -- sorry I don't have info about the house shows.

Okay that's all for now.

Aimee

ps. I'm enjoying reading the blogs - don't comment much - typing and nursing can be a little tedious.

posted by Aimee at 3:21 p.m. - 9 comments

mardi, septembre 05, 2006

yes, we are still all alive

Hi folks, if there are any folks out there. this will be quick, eva is waking up, elijah is wiggling around on the floor beside me, I'm eating lunch while typing.

wanted to post a couple of photos and announce that Eva and Elijah have websites -- Lance is doing some practicing cause part of his new job is web design.

I may or may not get to adding links today, so in the mean time you can cut and paste this:

http://web.mac.com/clbipics/iWeb/Elijah/Welcome%20.html

and

http://web.mac.com/clbipics/iWeb/Eva/Welcome.html

a few details:

both Eva and Elijah are smiling lots. Elijah makes lots of squealing sounds when he smiles and sometimes Eva will tilt her head and give a coy squinty eyed smile. We can't get enough of their smiles. Smiles aren't all we get -- my my can Eva Grace cry, quite the high pitched wail she has. Elijah has been having gas/burping issues for awhile now -- not as bad as in the early days, but difficult nonetheless. I took a 3 week sabbatical from dairy products, but it didn't seem to make a difference, so I'm happily eating cheese again.

I've been getting out more with the twins. Loving not being stuck in the house so much. got away just me the other day. who knew grocery shopping would be such a treat! enjoyed a starbucks tea while shopping too. Lance and I had a twinless date a couple weeks ago -- what a treat, thanks to grammy and gramps. marriage definitely takes a back seat when there are two babies taking pretty much all my energy and fulltime work and two babies taking Lance's. we plan to get into a weekly date routine, and hopefully we can get eva and elijah to go to bed earlier, leaving Lance and i with more time together. we have been enjoying some prairie sunset drives (with sleeping twins in the back), but gas isn't exactly cheap right now.

i just finished reading "christ the lord" by anne rice, a fictional account of Jesus' childhood. i really enjoyed it. rice did a lot of research so the setting is quite accurate - the rest is of course speculation, but i think she handles the mystery of all God, all man (boy) quite well.

rest. hmmm. nights have been getting better though the last two have left something to be desired. days can be tough as eva doesn't like to sleep much, and not often do she and elijah sleep at the same time. i try to catch naps, or atleast rest here and there.

movies -- should've heeded the heads up from marsha and ron about the movie broken flowers. not much reason to root for main character (bill murray) and no pay off in the ending. a flop. a much more enjoyable movie experience was the very quirky story of a young Jew's journey to the ukraine in search of family history. it is called everything is illuminated. very quirky, but i loved it. i'm out of creativity to describe, if you think you might like it check out an online review or read the box. :)

the lack of capitals in this post is brought to you by elijah odegard who decided he would like to nurse -- again. eva has been in and out of sleep for quite awhile -- thanks to the swing.

prayer -- please pray that i will depend on God for strength, energy and wisdom to live each day, and night, well. if you think of us in th evening, from 9pm-1am alberta time please pray, these tend to be our roughest hours. pray too that i would get better at asking for help. pray for lance as he is up often at night andthen works all day. he is also working super hard right now on three school publications that need to be done tommorrow as he leaves on the school canoe trip on thursday. he is also recovering from a horrible battle with the flu or food poisoning -- 6 or so hours of being violently ill - that was sunday night, he is doing a lot better now.

okay , that's all for now.

aimee

ps i do read the comments, if there were any that required a response please write them again and i will try to answer thistime.

posted by Aimee at 2:37 p.m. - 13 comments

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