newborn // brodie bernard

4 days young

and o so sweet!

it has been so fun to be pregnant alongside my good friend kerri!

we were both expecting little boys

and now i can hardly wait for my little bundle to get here!

she was due 3 weeks before me

and 4 days after this little guy was born, i got to take his newborn pics :)

congrats on a perfect little boy kyle and kerri!!!

and thanks so much for letting me capture that o so sweet newborn stage :)

iphone pics from the year so far

excuse the quality of the following pics

neither dave nor i are so hot at taking pics w/ the phone lol

some people's iphone pics are amazing

don't know how they do it

but ours sure aren't!

nonetheless, our phone has captured a few moments over this past year that i want to share :)

dave and i back in january when we found out we were pregnant w/ baby #2!

Bump and her lovely bag of stinky diapers lol

crazy morning hair

somebody tried to drink dad's coffee lol

ready for church

blowing snot bubbles

too cool for school w/ dad's safety glasses

1st ever happy meal

mmmmmm.....strawberries!

evening at the park

daddy and his little girly

Costa Rica w/ Bump #1 and Bump #2

little ears just a hurtin' from the changing air pressure

airplane ride @ Norseman Days in Red Lake

Brighton loved the rides at the fair this year

taking a family picture in the ferris wheel

we have this amazing tradition that we started this summer

every sunday morning we go on a family walk up to Tim Horton's for breakfast

i think dave and i would both say it's one of our favorite parts of the week

relaxing, refreshing, fun, and yummy!

and just this week Dave officially became a Canadian citizen!!!

my 2 Canadians :)

end of pregnancy musings

at the end of this month Bump will be 21 months old

and at the end of this month

or at the beginning of next month

she will be able to kiss her baby brother's belly instead of my belly ;)

she's been fun w/ this new baby thing

she knows his name

she holds things up to my belly for him such as her soother, food, etc.

several times throughout the day she asks to give kisses and hugs to the baby

i'm curious if she'll connect the dots when he actually arrives

this pregnancy has been different than the last one

this pregnancy i was able to keep active for the first 2 trimesters but the 3rd trimester has been a bit tougher. 

i'm tired. 

my back and belly have started hurting. 

and pushing a stroller up hills w/ a 24 lb. toddler about does me in!

my last pregnancy i didn't do a whole lot for the first 2 trimesters

but was able to go to the gym several times a week during the last trimester

"running" on an elliptical and doing the stationary bikes were perfect exercise those last couple of months.

now that i have a toddler, the gym isn't really an option

and just getting out is a lot more work than it use to be! 

right around 27 weeks i started having ligament pain in my lower abdomen so i had to stop running

crazy that 10 weeks ago i ran 21 km and now i can't even run 1!

the plus side is that i'm not nearly as hungry as i was the first 2 trimesters

and i'm enjoying just taking a break and just letting my body rest for a while

another difference this pregnancy is that i've been having braxton hicks

they sure are annoying!

the other day i had them most of the evening and i was starting to wonder if i was going into labor

thankfully i wasn't

i'm pretty sure at 4 weeks early they would have choppered me out to another hospital

i also feel like i've been more hungry this pregnancy

and my craving unfortunately is SUGAR!!!

i could probably eat cinnamon toast crunch all day long lol

so far i've put on 6 more lbs. than i did w/ Bump

kind of a bummer...but such is life

i feel like it's just been a bit harder to be disciplined this pregnancy

mostly because my days revolve around Brighton and not just myself

it's much easier to just get out and go when you don't have a little one in tow!

who knows what will happen when i have 2 little boogers to chase around and not just 1!

this baby is carrying bigger and lower than Brighton did

i'm sure some of that has to do w/ the fact that my stomach muscles are already stretched out now

Brighton was so tight in my belly that her leg bones were super bowed for the first year of her life

she also kicked me in the ribs ALOT

super painful!

this little guy is being much kinder :)

this Friday i will be 37 weeks along

so he could come anytime!

but i'm not counting on it lol

Brighton was 4 days overdue

i've always found this stage in pregnancy to be a bit weird

basically you have a whole month where the baby could come anytime

3 weeks "early"

2 weeks "late"

who knows :)

i think they mostly just come whenever they're ready

and some just need to incubate a bit longer than others :)

my little girl had a seizure

last Thursday i had a fussy little girl

it happens

some days are just happier than others in toddlerville 

(well, i guess that's true in adultland as well!)

i probably should have realized that she was getting sick

but i didn't

until that evening when she started feeling extremely warm

i took her temperature and it was a little over 102F

we gave her some tylenol and put her to bed for the night

the next morning she was still burning up

so she got more meds, 

and i was looking forward to a relaxing morning at home w/ a sleepy, cuddly little girl

Brighton is not a cuddler

too much energy

so sometimes it's kind of nice for me when she's not feeling the best because then she lets me hold her a snuggle :)

so that's what we were doing friday morning

i was loving it

and she fell asleep in my arms

so a carried her into our bedroom and laid down on the bed w/ her

we had just been laying there for a couple of minutes when the seizure happened

all of a sudden her little body went stiff and started seizing 

her head arched back

her eyes rolled back

i couldn't tell if she was breathing

i picked her up, ran out to the kitchen, grabbed the phone, and took her back to the bedroom where i called 911

i was so scared, and had no idea what to do

for all i knew, she was dying 

i now know that she wasn't, and that febrile seizures are actually rather common in young children, and that they are pretty much harmless

but i didn't know that then

it was the scariest couple minutes of my life

the paramedics arrived about 5 minutes after i called 911

by then the seizure was over and she was breathing semi-normally again

we went in the ambulance to the ER where we spent the remainder of the morning while they did some tests to make sure everything was ok

it turns out she had an ear infection which led to the fever which led to the seizure

today i am thankful for a healthy, beautiful little girl

(who is currently trying my patience w/ her whiney attitude this morning!)

her fever broke sometime friday night praise the Lord!

exhausted and waiting in the ER

and she's back!!!

:) :) :) crazy as ever :) :) :) 

 (all pictures taken w/ my less than stellar camera phone)