I can't believe it's not baby!

He's a toddler that is! I can hardly believe my little baby is a one year old. It makes me happy and sad at the same time, if you know what I mean. He's been cruising around all the furniture for a while now and yesterday he even stood all by himself, no hands. He'll be walking any day now. To celebrate Jonah's 1st Birthday we had a little gathering of family and friends. We had a really nice time with everyone and Jonah got tonnes of fun new toys and some cute new outfits too. He's been having a blast with all of them. Well here are some pictures from the big event.

This is the cake I made

Here he is enjoying (wallowing in) it

And here Jonah is getting the hang of this present opening thing :-)

I was so busy getting ready for his birthday that I haven't even done a post about our amazing trip to California and I've neglected Halloween as well. Jonah is hungry though so they'll have to wait until later.

Summer fun

We've been enjoying summer at the Gordon houshold. It's so nice to be able to take Jonah out of the house without having to bundle him up. I'll appreciate it while it lasts. Too bad it's been such a wet summer. We had hoped to have lots of evening walks with daddy but even on the nice days it seems to rain in the evenings so we haven't had as many family walks as we would like.

Jonah and I got to go out to the Shuswap for 2 1/2 weeks this year! (The benefit of not having a paying job) Sadly Kevin was only able to join us over the August long weekend as he started a new job a few months ago and didn't want to ask for time off this summer since we will be going to Disneyland in the fall!

Here's a sweet picture of my water baby. He loved his little boat so much and looked totally cute cruising around in it. It's hard to believe he's already 9 months old! Where has the time gone?

Even though Kev couldn't be there for most of it we really enjoyed spending time out there with so much of my family. Jonah got totally spoiled my all the constant attention from Granparents, Great grandparents, his Aunt and Uncles and several of my cousins. I'm sure all the fresh air and swimming were good for us both not to mention how well fed we were! The weather was amazing; +30 something most days and drove us into the water basically every day. We even got a little inflatable pool for him to splash in and keep cool when we weren't actually IN the lake. He just loved it!

Jonah has arrived (6 months ago...)

Obviously I haven't done too well updating this in the last 6 months. My only excuse is that my hands have been full (of baby) and I've rarely had a full night of sleep.

On November 8th we welcomed our sweet baby Jonah into our family. He's such a happy, good-natured little fellow and we love being his parents. Here are a few pictures to update you on our little guys' progress.

One day old!

Blessing Day

Christmas

Cute little elf

New Years Baby

Enjoying his chair

Little man

I have more recent pictures but they are still on my camera. Further Updates to come!

p.s. Yesturday was Kevin's Birthday :-) Happy 27th Honey!

The Waiting Game

Well I haven't been very good at keeping up this blog lately. I'll chalk it up to being just a tad preoccupied waiting for the arrival of our first baby. I'm due in just 2 days! I bet I'll go a few days over though, which is fine with me since I think I've had a really easy pregnancy compared to so many people. I just don't want to be induced!

We have the hospital bags packed and ready in the car, and the car seat is installed and ready for action. The camera is in the house, since I don't want the battery to freeze and die on us. I'll be really miffed if we forget it in the excitement though!

My Dr. said she's not concerned about anything so we have not had any other ultrasound since the 20 week one. As a result we still aren't entirely sure if we're having a little boy or a little girl. As long as he or she is a healthy little munchkin I don't really care either way, it just means we have at least one outfit on hand that will not be used for this baby. I'll try to hold off on scaring my child for life for at least a little bit. No little boys in pink floral onsies in this house!

Today is one of the few days since I started maternity leave on the 16th that I have not had to go anywhere for any reason. It's been really nice, and to be honest I've spent most of the day curled up with a book I won at ladies night at the bookstore. It's called "The Mother in Me" and I've been crying over it most of the morning. Perhaps it doesn't take much to make a 9 months pregnant woman cry, but it's really good and I recommend it to anyone who's ever been or will ever be a mom. I bet you'll cry too!

To conclude this post I'll add perhaps the last preggo picture I'll get around to putting on here. People keep telling me I'm "so tiny". That may be so, but it's the biggest I've ever been!

Our Crazy Summer

Well we got possession of our own home on June 30th and moved in on July 1st. We love our home so much and have been enjoying setting things up. There is still a lot to organize since many things were just kind of thrown into a closet in no particular order just to get them out of the way, but things are really comming together. I HAD to get the main floor whipped into shape since I hosted a bridal shower for Cathy on Saturday. We had a blast even though there weren't many of us since everyone is away on vacation. 'Tis the season!

It has been a really busy summer for us this year with the move, starting to get things ready for the baby, and helping Cathy organize her wedding. I'm looking forward to a little down time at the cabin just relaxing with family. After that things pick up again though. We'll be camping for a few days with Kevin's parents, painting the nursery, Kevin has to go to fort Mac for school for a few days, and then I'm in Cathy's wedding party which is the same weekend that nearly everyone I know is getting married including my cousin. It's a busy time, that's for sure, and it's going so fast. I feel like I'm running out of time to prepare for the baby. Once all the craziness in August is over, we'll only have about 2 months to get everything ready! Where did the time go?

Here is my latest belly shot, taken a couple of days after we moved in. I'm getting a bit bigger and finally had to break down and buy some more maternity clothing. Baby has gotten very wiggly, which I find extremely entertaining :-)

The 20 Week Ultrasound

This morning we got up nice and early so I could drink a bunch of water and we could drive in to Calgary for our Ultrasound appointment at 7:45 am. It's interesting that they scheduled the appointment for then considering they don't actually open until 8 am... At least I only had to drink 2 cups this time which was a lot more bearable than the 5 I had to drink for the dating ultrasound. Anyway, we were very happy to see that our little one is doing just fine with a nice strong hearbeat at 150bpm and all the limbs and organs a baby should have. Unfortunately we couldn't get a good look down below and the ultrasound tech had a terrible time trying to get a picture of the tailbone area because our stubborn little munchkin was settled right down in my pelvis and was far too comfy to be bothered to move. Eventually the perinatologist was able to get the last couple of pictures they needed. The tech said her educated guess was that we are having a baby boy but she's only 75% sure. I think she must have been basing this on the way the hips and pelvis are since the baby didn't seem to want to give us a show. So based on that we will have to work a bit harder on figuring out a boy name or two, but I'm not running out to buy a bunch of little boy clothes. If my doctor decides to send me for another ultrasound after 30 weeks they might be able to get a better look, but if not, we will have a slight mystery until the baby actually arrives. Here are some of my favourite pictures from this morning's event:

We bought a house :-)

I'm very pleased to report that we have bought our first home! I'd post a picture but they took it off MLS before I thought to save one. I guess we'll have to take our own pictures once we move in. We are staying in Airdrie and even get to stay in the same ward. We did consider moving back to Calgary but, for the price we paid, we would have had to settle for something at least 30 years old (needing lots of work) with huge condo fees and not in any neighborhoods we like. The one we found will be just perfect for us and we could happily fit two or three munchkins (when we DO decide to have more kids) without feeling imprisoned in our home. I love the fact that it's only 2 years old, has a nice big kitchen (to store tupperware in, of course) and backs onto a nice soccar field instead of a road. Plus we'll be SOOOOOOOOO excited to set up a room for the baby, whom my brother has named "Guillermo". I told him there's no way the baby will keep that name once he or she is born, especially if it's a girl, but for now it IS kind of cute.

Speaking of baby, I'm starting to have a little preggo tummy! Here's a picture Kevin took of me at the beginning of May:

I'm a bit bigger now, but you get the picture. I'm 17.5 weeks along now and I can hardly wait until we go for the ultrasound in mid June. Hopefully we'll be able to get some cute pictures from that one!