Summer had a party but these ones were the best ones cuz I could focus on her :) Before you judge us or throw a fit for Summer cutting her cake, she wanted to cut it. Adam was holding onto her hand while cutting it but let go for the split second that it took to take a photo.

Bens first birthday was spent with just a couple friends. Nothing big, it was perfect. We found out he doesn't really like cake.. just icing LOL! Which still made for cute photos. But overall, these were my favourites. The monkey cupcakes were for Summer & daddy. they very much enjoyed them lol

For Summers third birthday she invited her closest friends. All which can be seen in the middle photo. ( trust me, this is the best photo I have of the 4 of them LOL!). Anyways, it was them, plus Ben, and a bunch of adults. It was pretty fun. They played with balloons big and small, played on the ride on toys and then sat down for some cake! Obviously the party was princess theme, and Grayson came dressed up a prince <3 thanks for being a good sport bud! haha

I believe this brings my photos up to date as I promised a while back but never seemed to do :P hehe! Stay tuned for more fun photos and updates :D

Time for a MUCH needed update.

Considering my last post was OVER a year ago, it's time for an update!!


Summer turned THREE 2 months ago.. I cannot believe she's already 3. There's so many updates I need to fill everyone in on with her.. She been paci free since 2.5 years old, and was fully potty trained about a month before her third birthday :) Shes growing so much, her speech is coming along a lot better now. She knows most of her shapes and colours, and can count to 10. For those who don't know, I noticed a couple red flags back in October with her that led me to believe she had hearing loss.. We had her tested for this, and sure enough, I was right. She was acting as if she never heard us while playing with her toys, at playgroup, she was kind of shy, wouldn't sit down for circle time (it can sometimes be noisy)... Which all got explained to me as she likely couldn't hear what I was trying to say to her due to all the background noise... She would also yell "mommy, where are you" and if I was upstairs she couldn't find me... So more tests showed her hearing loss was in the cochlea. But only in one ear thankfully. They said she might be able to go unaided, which is my hope. But it might be hard for her come school time when it comes to learning when the room might have a few noises and she might not be able to hear what teachers are saying...
She is also in speech therapy. They said she seems to have quite the vocabulary, and shes coming along better now. She used to have problems with B's. She could say Boat, but not bunny/benjamin (she would say dunny/denanin (or den for ben)). She explained that at this stage, its common to get B's & D's mixed up, which made me feel better. We've worked with her and she now can say both words just fine :) Right now, we are waiting to hear from the hospital when her MRI will take place. They're trying to figure out the cause of the hearing loss... But the optometrist say her eyes look great, so that eliminated ONE of the potential causes :) She's a perfect little girl, with the sass of a 5 year old :) lol!

Ben is now 18 months old (almost 19m). He's your typical boy.. Walking, running, spinning in circles, walking backwards, walking up and DOWN stairs (hello heart attack) and crawling anywhere that he possibly can! He loves to pick on his big sister, but in the end, they always hug it out. He loves dinosaurs, his cars, airplanes, anything boyish! He also has a mouthful of teeth since about 15 months old! Just waiting on the 2 year molars which I believe he is currently working on.. He's chewing on everything and crying :( Poor guy! He can be a pretty chilled boy most days, and he's generally smiling. But other days, hes pretty tempermental lol!!! He's generally ALWAYS on the move. (go figure :P) lol . His words are coming along. He always says thank you (which is AWESOME that he picked that  phrase up so soon!) And he loves to sing his rendition of twinkle twinkle little star to us hehe! Growing up so fast, I cannot believe it!!!

Together, they are partners in crime. Where ever one goes, the other is usually not far behind. I love how close they are <3

Stay tuned for more exciting news and updates to come!

Almost 5 months & 2 years!

Hello February! I don't seem to get on here often enough to update.. But these kiddies have my life pretty busy! I love it though.

Ben at his last check up (4 months) was 18lbs 2oz... and 26" long. Yep, big boy. But its awesome. Hes such a happy baby. Always smiling and cooing away. I love it. OH! and he had 2 teeth before he turned 4 months.. O.o

Summer will be 2 on the 18th. I sit here with a tear in my eye as I write this wondering where the heck time has gone. Seriously!! My itty bitty Summer is no longer a baby!!! an infant... Nope. a full blown Toddler. Shes talking a lot more. And learning more and more everyday. We have her saying please and thank you. AWESOME! haha. Next step... Potty Training. Now THIS is going to be fun!

I will post pictures later of her birthday :) For now, enjoy the pic I posted :P

Almost 2 months

I can't believe it's been so long since I've posted on here! So lets play catch up. :)

Ben decided to go overdue. 4 days :P He decided to come on the day my dads flight was booked. So unfortunately my dad never got to meet him face to face. The labour went fairly well. I went in because I got sick twice within 10 minutes and I just couldn't lay down. My contractions were at 7 minutes apart when I went in and I was 2cm. They gave me some gravol along with morphine because I was so nauseous. I slept from 11pm-about 5am. The nurse checked me at 5 and I was about 4-5cms. My doctor came in at 9am and checked me and I was 5cm. My water was still in tact so they broke it. At 11 something they checked me again and I was 9.5cms.. The nurse asked me to try and go pee to empty my bladder so I tried. Leaving the room she said "I'm going to call your doctor now. at least you don't have the urge to push".. wrong lol. I stood up and instantly had to push. I screamed for Adam to get the nurse now. so he did. They came in running (4 of them) and 4 pushes later Benjamin was here. One push I had to stop cuz part of the cord came out..  Ben didnt even wait for my doctor to arrive lol. He wasn't breathing when he came out apparently. They had to manually give him oxygen. :( and a shot to counteract the fentynol they had given me. then he was good.

He had some bilirubin level issues as well which had him under the lights for 24 hours. That was the longest 24 hours of my life. Not being able to snuggle him.. It sucked.

So Benjamin Owen Matchett was born on Sept 27th 2011 at 11:37am. He was 8lbs 9oz and 22.5inches. He is SUCH a mama's boy, and is now almost TWO months old and 14lbs!!! He sure is growing.

Summer is LOVING being a big sister. And she too, is growing a lot. Starting to talk, and can hum along (tune wise) to songs on tv and toys. Hard to believe almost two months have passed! Its been so hectic but amazing all at once. <3 On Tuesday we go to get our family photos done, I'm really excited :) Summer and Ben have CUTE outfits. Now I just need to find something that fits me haha

30 Weeks and growing!

Over the last 5 weeks, we have been up to lots! My brother and Steph have been here for about 2 weeks. It's been so much fun. Summer loves having her aunty and uncle around. I don't know how she will handle them leaving. It's funny, shes never good with goodbyes. Always is in a funk afterwards. We've gone to Campbell River, Miracle Beach, Airport park, out and about in Courtenay, watched the Canada Day Parade, and went to Nanaimo. All fun stuff for sure :)
I also, a while back, decided to put my creativity to good use :) I started making and selling baby things. I've made carseat covers, cart covers, frame bow/clippie holders, butterfly bow/clippie holders, blankets, swaddle blankets, door signs for rooms.. the list goes on :P I'm enjoying it very much! This is what I've done: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.250339968325879.83253.140274195999124#!/pages/Made-With-Love-creations-by-Heather/112504642173396  :) I'm looking forward to it taking off moreso!

In regards to our family.. Adam just finished having two weeks off to spend with Scott and Steph. I think he had a lot of fun as well :) Summer's growing like crazy, learning words, looks, all that fun stuff haha. Shes also learning to like water better. We took her swimming last weekend and will do that again tomorrow :D As far as how I'm doing... Good :) Fell down the stairs a few weeks back, and my back is still sore. But doc says its prob just pregnancy induced.. I don't think that's the case as I was fine before I fell :P and I've yet to get better.. maybe I pulled something.. who knows. I was also measuring 3 weeks ahead with Baby B. As of last week, I'm only measuring one week ahead now :P I still stand by the fact he will come earlier than his due date :P Baby B is growing well, my stomachs getting larger.. It doesn't feel like he has much room in there.. He likes to kick alot.. and elbow.. My ribs are taking a beating recently. I also get Braxton Hicks contractions a lot.. lovely lol. Sometimes they're painful, other time I don't feel them.

Its weird to think that in 10 weeks our son will be here.. I'm excited and scared as anyone would be haha

25 weeks.

So I sit here writing another update (since I haven't updated in a while). Last night it hit me.. 'I'll be 25 weeks tomorrow!' I thought to myself. Times flying! Every week passes like it's nothing. And there's a couple things coming up soon to look forward to. So that will make time fly moreso.  It seems like in no time at all, our little guy will be coming into this world and joining our little family :) While I can't wait to meet him, I kinda can. I'm so excited about having a boy and girl for children. But at the same time, I look at Summer, and how fast SHE has grown, and it makes me wonder how fast time will fly with another child in the picture. Time flies when you have children, this is no understatement. Someone should have told me to hold on tight cuz time seems to be flying at warp speed beyond my control. It seems like not that long ago I was in the hospital wondering how I would break the news to Adam that I never wanted to give birth again.. But then, after having our daughter, and seeing HOW much she changed our lives for the better, I knew the temporary pains and discomforts of pregnancy, child birth (mostly this part :P), and healing, was truely worth the lifetime of happiness we would get from having children. It's so worth it and you never really know until you have experienced it.

So, I am now 25 weeks pregnant.. Our little guy LOVES being active which is a HUGE change from Summer, she was always content just being chill with the odd kick or poke here and there. Her thing was having hiccups. Poor baby, seemed like everyday she had them :P.  Speaking of Summer, she now has 12 teeth. 4 molars, 4 out front on the top, and 4 on the bottom at the front. Poor girl seems to always be teething, but shes SUCH a trooper. And shes been walking for a couple months now, and dancing like crazy. She can say hi, bye, ouh yeah, bebe, and babble on like crazy. She will copy words and sounds..

And what else is new humm..well, my 23rd birthday is tomorrow :) Looking forward to that. Well the dinner out :P Adam works during the day so theres no day plans except to chill with Summer, so maybe we will do a fun photo shoot for Summers 16 month photos (she will be 16 months the week after my birthday) :).. Also, my brother and my sister-in-law are coming out to visit at the end of this month for a few weeks. That's pretty cool :) It should be fun!

We're home.

Now that everything has had a chance to settle down a bit, its time for another update. We went to California for my brothers wedding. It was amazing. We all had a blast visiting a bunch of attractions, relaxing by the ocean, even playing in it! (Yes we're crazy, it was cold, but awesome). We also found out Summer is not a fan of sand. I think I will have to work with her on that. :P

While in California, we decided to have a 3d ultrasound done to determine the gender of our second bundle of joy. With my family by our side, we found out Summer was going to be a big sister to a little brother! We're so excited to welcome our son into this world. Dad is happy, but says he won't be over the moon about it until our son comes into this world (as ultrasound have and can be wrong). We ended up going shopping for him and Summer while in the States and got some wickid deals on clothing!

So, we then attended my brothers wedding in Oceanside (the picture at the top was taken from the condo). It was beautiful and amazing. I was lucky enough to be able to do the photography for their wedding :) I'm happy about that. Unfortunately, Summer didn't get to be the flower girl that they had anticipated. Once her feet hit the sand she curled up into a ball and started to cry :(

Also on our way home I got to meet my good friend Laurie, her husband Adam, and her son Aaron. Unfortunately it was only for a few hours over night.. But at least we got to meet them which was great!

And now we're home. Our house is a mess, but I'm slowly catching up on everything. Summer also popped her first molar sometime this week (I noticed last night). Which explains why shes been keeping us up at night :P And I go for my "18 week ultrasound" tomorrow.  A little late due to Easter weekend and our holidays ahah.