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One of the wonderful things about summer is all of the fresh fruits. Check out these beauties that we picked from our garden. Just add a little of ice cream and you're good to go!- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

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So I have begun my summer once again. This year's level of parental wrangling of livestock includes a 7 year old daughter with a ferocious appetite for knowledge and understanding and a 2 year old boy with a ferocious appetite. The 2 year boy will become a 3 year old youngling at the end of the month and will likely result in refusing to use the potty for another year.To survive this summer my

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- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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Well it is that time again where we pull little envelopes out of a mailbox which lead into Christmas day! Day 1: Christmas jammy day. I celebrated the night with the kids and lighting a fire! Felt like Christmas for sure! This picture took about 5 minutes in between pulling hair and punching this shot was squeezed in. More to come!- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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Amanda turns six today! She has a marathon of parties and celebrations! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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We have updated our phones to iPhones and now should be able to blog more often! more often!- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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It is hard to believe that our beautiful baby girl turned 5! For some reason five seems like such a momentous number...maybe because it signifies such big changes, with Kindergarten (yikes!) coming up this fall.We have definitely seen such huge changes in Amanda this year. In the past twelve months, she has shot up in height (although her weight has stayed pretty much steady), and her hair had

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Summer - Day 4Originally uploaded by JenJeffBeing at home has really taught me to see the relationship between our kids in a more close manner. Usually when I get home from work they are tired and grouchy.I can't believe the circus we had today in the Mall. A simple walk in the mall which would normally take about 5 minutes turns into a 2 hour jamboree. We stop at every little ride on toy (which

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First Day of SummerOriginally uploaded by JenJeffMmmm $1.00 breakfast! Well actually more like $21 after all of the upgrades. Not the healthiest breakfast but sure is convenient! Not only do we get fed but we get to spend hundreds of dollars at Ikea!So the first "official" day of summer for us begins. This is "Dad" reporting. We have an extremely long list of things that need to get done in the

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Wow, once again it's been awhile since we've posted! Here's a quick update on Sam as he has just turned 10 months old (ack...where has the time gone?!?).We posted at 8 months that the big news was mobility...well multiply that by 10! By 9 months Sam was crawling very well and pulling himself up on almost anything (even a flat wall). Now at 10 months he seems very close to walking. He walks very

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I always have so many great ideas for things to do around Easter time, and somehow it sneaks up on me every year and I'm left scrambling at the last minute (hah...scrambling...Easter eggs...OK I'm pathetic). This year was no different. We did manage to fit in a few fun crafts in the days before Easter, but a lot of things - like dyeing Easter eggs - just didn't happen this year.Amanda and I did

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So we're a bit late...he's actually edging towards 9 months as I write this!At 8 months Sam was 17 lbs, 8 oz and 26" long. Still much smaller than Amanda at the same age (I have her down as 19 lbs, 1 oz and 27.75" long at 8 months). But he's catching up, and he's definitely come a long way in the last couple of months.The big news in month 8 was mobility! Sam was doing a lot of scootching,

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We took a short video of Amanda each evening, recounting the day's events...I'm going to try to post them here (even though it requires my editing the video, which I'm not very good at!).Day 1 video:

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Once again, our hopes for an earlier morning were dashed by our late night on Tuesday! It was about 9 am again by the time we got away from the hotel. But we knew we had a busy day planned so we were happy to let the kids sleep in a bit!We started Wednesday out back at Disneyland park. By this point we had realized we weren't going to see everything we wanted to see, so we relaxed a bit and

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On Tuesday we had high hopes of getting to the park early...as part of our park-hopper pass we had one "early morning" into the park. However, after our late night on Monday, we weren't nearly as early as we had hoped! We ended up getting away from the hotel at about 9 am. We headed over to Disneyland with the intention of getting on some of the bigger rides that usually have long line-ups later

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[Warning: lots of photos ahead! The full photoset of our our trip can be found here.]We slept in a bit on Monday to give everyone time to recover from our late arrival the night before. We grabbed a quick breakfast at the hotel then headed over to Disneyland! Amanda was beside herself and was dancing around while we waited in the line to get our passes transferred to tickets and get into the park

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I am very late in posting about our Disneyland trip, but it's a bit intimidating to actually try to summarize it and I keep putting it off! But I realize if I don't write something now, I will forget a ton!Bottom line: we had an AMAZING time. Amanda loved it just as much as we thought she would. We have a great video of her seeing Sleeping Beauty's castle for the first time...will have to try to

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A snapshot of Sam at 7 months (well, plus a bit)...Oh come on, how cute is that?!?In the last month he has become much more pleasant! I suspect that he just plain wasn't getting enough to eat before, and now he is (a post for another time, perhaps). It's like night and day. He is much more smiley and laughs more often, and the long crying jags in the middle of the day are pretty much over. Smiley

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Mmm...this was delicious! There's something about a big pot of super-healthy soup with lots of fresh colourful veggies that makes me happy! We had a nice 60% whole wheat baguette to go with it and it was perfect.This recipe is from one of my very favourite cookbooks – More Six O'Clock Solutions: Fast and Easy Dinner for Family and Friends by Ruth Phelan and Brenda Thompson (the first book, Six

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One of the biggest struggles I've had since becoming a mom is getting dinner on the table every night. This didn't use to be a problem for me at all - when Jeff and I were first married and for several years afterwards, I was an avid reader of Bon Appetit and other cooking magazines and used to try interesting new recipes and cooking techniques almost every night. Of course, I also had a lot more

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Amanda loves fruit of all kinds - so much that her Grandpa (who is also a big fruit lover) always brings her little treats of different kinds of fruit. Recently he's been bringing over the little honey mandarin oranges and she loves them! But for some bizarre reason, whenever she eats one, she has a very strange ritual.She peels the whole thing, then sticks her ring finger through the middle and

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So, unbeknownst to Amanda, we have booked tickets for the four of us to go to Disneyland over Spring Break. Yahoo! Jeff and I are beyond excited, and it is so hard to keep the secret from Amanda. But we decided a month's notice was a bit too much for her, so we will tell her a week or so in advance (or as long as we can keep the secret!). Amanda talks constantly about Disneyland - she has wanted

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This year Amanda is in her second year of the Music for Young Children program. She goes to classes one evening a week at a studio run by a great local teacher. This year she is in the Sunshine II class, and we're constantly amazed by what they learn! A big focus this year has been learning "bridges" - C/G, B/G, and C/A. They can play a C major scale with the appropriate bridges for each note ("

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It's hard to look back on Christmas 2008 without mentioning the huge amount of snow we had this year! It hardly ever snows in Vancouver, and having a white Christmas is even rarer. But this year we definitely had our fill (I was done with it before Christmas even started, but almost everyone had had enough by New Years!). There were big snowfalls the week before Christmas, and then again right

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The kids with their pile o' gifts on Christmas morning:With the manger at church (Amanda always has to visit the manger on Christmas morning to make sure Baby Jesus is there!):Amanda opening her big gift from Santa. I love this picture because the look on her face is the classic look of every kid opening up the gift they wanted most of all:(I can't say enough about this Tag system - Amanda

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This year for Christmas Eve dinner we had both sets of grandparents over for a simple evening. Since Christmas Eve is also my birthday, we used to spend the evening at my parents' house and have a small family birthday party. However, now that we have kids it's much easier to have Christmas Eve at home so we can still observe some of our favourite rituals, like putting out cookies and milk for

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I don't have any pictures of these, but it was a cute idea (also from Best Christmas Crafts Ever!) and worked pretty well.All we did was string small jingle bells onto sparkly pipe cleaners (both from the dollar store) and twist them into rings. Then we used them as napkin rings for our Christmas Eve dinner, when family was coming to visit. Easy, cute, and cheap!

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Years ago, a company I used to work for would have a family Christmas party each year, organized by the employees at someone's house. I only made it to one, as they stopped having them after Amanda's first Christmas. But this year (almost 3 years since I left the company!) they decided to hold one again and invited several "alumni" to attend as well. It was great catching up with old friends and

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I got this idea from a craft book I took out from the library: Best Christmas Crafts Ever! by Kathy Ross. I'd actually like to get this book for our own library - lots of easy ideas, especially for kids slightly older than Amanda (early school-age). This was fun and pretty easy. We did cut the facial circles a bit big, which made our Santa look like a muppet, but he was cute anyway!(Amanda is

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Simple activity, but I just like this photo:That is all.

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Usually we really do make fancy hot chocolate for this activity, but this year we were running short on time and decided to pick up treats from Starbucks instead. Yum!

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I had an appointment to go to, so my Mom took Amanda for the afternoon and they had a great time together doing lots of baking! They made gingerbread cookies, some no-cook chocolate balls, and a gingerbread house. The balls especially were very delicious!I love this photo of their creations:

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...yes, we've fallen so far behind again...the craziness of the holidays really got to us this year and we weren't able to keep up with posting regularly! It's such a bad cycle; I always want to wait until I can get caught up on things when I post, but then it takes so much time and meanwhile more things are happening and it gets impossible to catch up. So I'm going to post a few highlights from

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Send your own ElfYourself eCards

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The best part of Christmas holidays is hanging with Amanda and watching TV in front of the fire. Amanda has been asking some really good questions lately. We're often fielding a barrage of questions. We also want to give her real answers and try not to defer a real answer later when she isn't as interested.Today's question came when we were watching a commercial for hair removal. She asked why

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(Totally adorable Nativity Set by Little People - we also have the Little Drummer Boy and Little Shepherds sets.)This is one of favourite crafts, and we've been doing it for the past three years. I'm proud to say I thought this one up on my own! Not that it's terribly original, and I've since seen it elsewhere, but the idea came off the top of my head. I love that this is quick, easy, very

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Yes, as you can see the plan was also to attend the Rogers Santa Claus Parade downtown. However, the night before, we realized that last year's parade didn't wrap up until almost 4 pm, and we needed to be back in Coquitlam for Amanda's preschool party by 4:30 pm. So reluctantly we decided to skip the parade this year. Hopefully we can make it next year, as we have enjoyed it in the past! It felt

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On Saturday we headed out to Art Knapps to pick up a Christmas tree! As I've said before, we are definitely a "real tree" family even though they can be a huge pain in the you-know-what. We used to buy our tree from a grocery store, but the past few years we've been spending a few extra bucks to buy them from Art Knapps and they have been very nice trees.Checking out the trees:Amanda posing with

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Jeff had his work Christmas party on Friday evening. Even though we weren't sure how Sam would do if we left him for the whole evening, we figured it was worth a try...it would sure be nice to get out occasionally, just the two of us! So we planned an activity for Amanda that she could do with Grandma & Grandpa when they came to babysit.When we opened up the envelope in the morning, she chose to

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Several weeks back, my Mom had told me about a Christmas event at the Shadbolt Centre at Deer Lake Park in Burnaby. I took a note and thought we might try to attend, but then I found out that one of Amanda's very favourite singing groups, Bobs & Lolo, were going to be performing! So of course we had to check it out. I was quite impressed with the event - there were tons of activities and it

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You will have to take my word for this one because I can't figure out what I did with the envelope so there's no picture. We've been doing breakfast for dinner as one of our activities since Year 1, and it's always a fun break in the middle of the week. Usually we cook waffles at home, but Jeff was in the mood for dinner out so we headed over to IHOP. For those of you who are interested in a

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And, here's where I admit...that we still haven't done this. We forgot in our planning that Jeff would be out at a meeting that night, and I really need him to help since he's the tech guy (and we will likely do the recording on his new Mac, which was with him at the time!). We keep meaning to get to it, but it hasn't happened yet.Last year, Amanda sang Away in a Manger on the machine. It was

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I wanted to stick with something easy for Day 1, so we made paper snowflakes. This was my first time trying this with Amanda, and it was probably a bit too hard...maybe it would be better in another year or two. I hadn't thought ahead to realize that she wouldn't be able to cut through the folded paper safely, so I ended up doing all the cutting. She drew patterns on each snowflake for me to cut,

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I have been very neglectful of this blog lately...it seems that December has gotten away from me somehow! I'm going to try to get some posts up tonight and maybe tomorrow as well with details of our "24 Days of Christmas" activities.I must admit that somehow I'm not really feeling the Christmas spirit yet, despite being more organized for Christmas than ever before. For the first time ever, I was

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Once again we are doing our "24 days of Christmas" tradition, but I have to get organized and write some blog posts about it (maybe tomorrow??). In the meantime, you can check out what we did two years ago here.In other news, I've been searching for a way to add a list of my read and currently-being-read books to this blog for awhile. I've been updating my list through Facebook, but decided to

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Not the greatest birthday portrait, but seeing as how it was already 2 days late, I didn't want to wait any longer! I didn't weigh Sam for his birthday, but I did it about 10 days before he turned 4 months and he was 13 lbs, 10 oz and 24" long. Much smaller than Amanda at this age (she was 16 lbs, 1 oz and 26" long at 4 months). Not that I'm complaining!A snapshot of Sam at 4 months: His

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-47603733007722996152008-11-30T22:21:00.000-08:002008-11-30T22:22:28.404-08:00

Doodle by Lee. The code for this doodle and other doodles you can use on your blog can be found at Doodles.(And sadly, we didn't get Sam's 4-month photo today due to scheduling problems - but will be sure to take it tomorrow!)

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Newly acquired by Jen & Jeff: almost $300 worth of paint and paint accessories. Now we will really need to get moving on painting our kitchen and upstairs! Ack! (I should note that we will get 30% of the paint cost back, since Home Depot had a mail-in rebate...but we probably won't get it for 6 - 8 weeks). I hate buying paint - how does anyone ever know that what they're buying will work?? It

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-36761111117783002012008-11-28T22:39:00.003-08:002008-11-28T22:52:58.823-08:00

Today when we were leaving Amanda's preschool, she said something funny while we were walking to the car and I told her that she cracks me up."Hey," she said, "I have a shirt that says that!". (She had a shirt from Old Navy two Easters ago that was really cute, and that she wore for quite awhile.)She suggested that maybe Sam would be able to wear it when he got bigger. I tried to explain that

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-75292506486499946422008-11-27T22:29:00.003-08:002008-11-27T22:37:46.537-08:00

I am happy to say that we seem to have turned a corner with Sam! For the past three days he has been much more pleasant and I'm wondering if his grouchiness over the past couple of weeks has been due to the cold he's had. It didn't seem like too bad of a cold until the last bit, when the cough got really bad, but I know I had the same thing and my throat was quite sore. So maybe he just couldn't

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-1865955306924781442008-11-27T22:10:00.005-08:002008-11-27T22:41:07.665-08:00

Yesterday we decided to take advantage of what was predicted to be the last reasonably sunny day, at least for the rest of the week, and we headed over to Rocky Point for a walk. Rocky Point is on the Burrard Inlet in Port Moody, which means there is ocean right next to the forest. There is a great splash park and playground there, and a section of the Trans Canada Trail which is great for

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-67400657741167335302008-11-25T22:52:00.001-08:002008-11-25T22:53:34.787-08:00

Here is a short video of Amanda reading from her Bob Books. Unfortunately I can't remember how to make the videos last longer than 30 seconds, but you get the idea!

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We had an interesting night last night. Since Amanda never took the bottle, we were determined that Sam would need to learn so we could get an occasional night out. We tried him with the bottle and expressed milk a couple of months ago and it was a big success - he didn't even bat an eyelash, just drank down the bottle (and a bunch more frozen bags full, too!) without a second thought. "Great,"

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I feel compelled to write a few words about Sam since he was woefully neglected in those last few posts. Things are going all right with Sam, but it's getting very frustrating as he is so grouchy during the day. He is turning into his sister - flat-out refusing to nap during the day - and as a result, he gets more and more ornery as the day progresses. He also has quite a nasty cold at the moment

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-4632089390067738202008-11-22T23:07:00.004-08:002008-11-22T23:38:12.156-08:00

Over the past week or two I've visited with several friends who have recently undergone renovations to their houses, and finally I've been inspired to start some of the jobs that so desperately need doing around the house. It seems that since we moved in 5 years ago there's always been a long list of reasons/excuses why nothing gets done: lack of time, lack of money, and difficulty in

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-89131818642768103162008-11-22T21:45:00.003-08:002008-11-22T23:06:59.549-08:00

One afternoon this past week was especially awful. Amanda and Sam both fell asleep in the car on the way home from somewhere, and this was a good thing as they both desperately needed naps. We parked in the driveway and all 3 of us napped for a good couple of hours. However, when Amanda woke up she was completely miserable - she always hates napping and figures she's been tricked if she falls

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-20725549318405080732008-11-17T21:32:00.009-08:002008-11-17T22:51:30.198-08:00

It seems that the pre-holiday rush has already begun! This weekend was full with all kinds of activities. Even though it's nice to have lots to do, it never seems like we get a chance to relax!On Saturday morning, Amanda's favourite musical group, Bobs & Lolo, was appearing at Coquitlam Centre as part of their celebration to welcome Santa to the mall. Yes, Santa actually arrived this weekend...it

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-3859384537636784912008-11-13T22:23:00.006-08:002008-11-13T22:39:33.627-08:00

Don't you love it when you get free stuff in the mail??A couple of weeks ago I entered a contest on the blog for Urban Baby & Toddler magazine. Last week I found out that I won a pair of See Kai Run shoes (9 to 12 months) for Sam!! These are uber-trendy and retail for around $40 here. So, yay! I was so excited to receive them in the mail today in their cute little package:

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So, good news: for 2 nights of the past 3, Sam has slept for an 8 hour stretch (+/- 30 minutes) at night. Of course, between those 2 nights he had a night where he was up every 1-3 hours, so who knows.The bad news: he is totally miserable during the day. Not sure what's going on, but ever since he hit his 12 week growth spurt 3 weeks ago, he's been way more fussy and clingy during the day. He

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-88326193287040536672008-11-11T22:05:00.006-08:002008-11-13T22:46:10.494-08:00

We've been working with Amanda for quite awhile on reading, but it's never been a huge thing - we wanted her to come to it on her own, rather than forcing it down her throat. She has known her letters and the sounds they make for a long time, and she was starting to read simple things well before her fourth birthday. We also bought some Bob Books, which are great first readers, and would practice

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-24338410627309028282008-11-11T21:44:00.000-08:002008-11-11T21:45:15.598-08:00

Doodle by Lee. The code for this doodle and other doodles you can use on your blog can be found at Doodles.

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1111081139.jpgOriginally uploaded by JenJeffWet, Rainy.. and a day off... Sometimes we forget to thank those who gave their lives so that we can live the way that we do.Amanda and I were able to head down to the local cenotaph and place a poppy onto a wreath. There was a pipe band and a marching band as well. The highlight of the day was the WWI cannon.I think that the day is special to us as

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Phew, we've been busy this weekend! Every year it seems the Christmas rush gets earlier and earlier...well, I guess it's not technically a Christmas rush since it's not really Christmas-related stuff, but it feels like the busyness of the holidays moves up every year. If that makes any sense (probably not).On Saturday morning Amanda had a birthday party to attend for one of her friends from her

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-77175268068175315752008-11-07T21:32:00.004-08:002008-11-07T21:43:17.275-08:00

So, today was kind of a lousy day. Amanda has been fighting a cold and was home from preschool on Wednesday. I was pretty sure she'd be OK to go to school today, so I got myself up at 6:45 am as usual and got ready to go, then got her up at around 7:30. But while we were eating breakfast I realized she really wasn't well enough for school...she would have been fine but all the other parents would

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-61414616206568219872008-11-06T22:36:00.004-08:002008-11-06T22:49:22.348-08:00

So yes, it's been so long that we haven't even posted anything about our new baby! Samuel Jeffrey was born on July 31st (6 days early) at 3:02 pm after a very interesting labour experience. We wanted to attempt a VBAC, but with my past history and pelvic shape we had very low expectations that it would be a success. But much to our surprise, it actually worked! Labour was very different from our

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We've been inspired to start posting to the blog again...just because we just have so much extra time on our hands these days (that, folks, is what's known as sarcasm). We've realized how much of Amanda's babyhood we remember because we wrote it down, and how much of Sam's we will probably forget if we don't! So we're going to try to get back into a regular habit of writing, but it might be

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Playing on the DeckOriginally uploaded by JenJeffIt has been awhile since I've posted (Jeff). I just thought that I'd share this story.We were at a friend's cabin a few weeks back and Amanda had left her colouring stuff outside on the grass the previous night. The next morning, we asked her to go out and get it and told her that it might be a little wet. She asked the usual "why?". We tried to

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I had the most frustrating ultrasound experience ever this week! Our ultrasound was supposed to be on Monday morning, so I dutifully got up 2 hours ahead of the appointment time and drank a full litre of water. You know you're in trouble when you haven't even finished drinking the water yet and you already have to go to the bathroom! By the time I left for the appointment I was totally miserable.

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WOW, it's been a really long time since we've updated our blog! I guess life has really been catching up with us. Between working long hours, chasing around after a 3.5 year old, and attempting (hah!) to keep up with the house, it's been tough to update as well.Oh, and there's this...(Yes, that's a very faintly positive pregnancy test...that's what you get on day 14!!). So yes, we're having a

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As predicted, a snowstorm hit Vancouver last night and we woke up to a couple of centimetres of snow on the ground. Of course Amanda was extremely excited...on the monitor the first thing I heard out of her was "Huh? What's going on?" and then thump thump thump thump down the hall, followed by her jumping into bed with us and saying "Did you see the snow?!". Um, yes, pretty excited.After

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Last weekend we headed downtown to once again brave the crowds at the Santa Claus Parade. (Here is last year's post about the parade.)The biggest difference between this year and last was that it was FREEZING!! Jeff really felt he needed to be at church (why oh why does the parade always have to be on Christ the King Sunday?!?) so Amanda and I headed out a bit early and took the skytrain downtown

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Although I've tried my best to stay away from the deluge of Disney Princess merchandise available for preschoolers, Amanda is completely obsessed with them, especially Ariel. She loves to play Ariel (to the point that the other girls at the daycare now often refuse to play it with her because they're sick of it!) and at home she's always telling us that she's Ariel and we can be Ariel's mom and

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-90832306346658842102007-12-01T23:35:00.000-08:002007-12-01T23:41:04.859-08:00

A few weeks ago, Jeff had to be somewhere on Saturday so Amanda and I headed out to Como Lake for a couple of hours. It was a gorgeous fall day and the colours were amazing! We had fun playing in the playground and taking a walk around the lake. There were several great photos from this day (complete set on Flickr) but here are a few favourites:

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-49114308950522182932007-10-27T21:40:00.001-07:002007-10-27T22:08:06.793-07:00

Yes, it's been almost three months since we posted anything...but we're beyond being embarrassed about it. It's tough to keep up with stuff with two working parents and a busy 3-year-old. However, we are kind of sad that we've neglected to capture some of the hilarious and ee-diculous things coming out of Amanda's mouth these days. Some of her current favourites:"This is ee-diculous!!""Well"...

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We are way behind on blog posting again...ack! This summer just seems to be disappearing before we know it!We will try to catch the blog up soon, but in the meantime I had to post something that happened in the car today. We were driving and listening to some of Amanda's music on my iPod. When the song Evermore by Alison Kraus came on, I immediately said to Jeff "Oh no, this song always makes me

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-91016063841883969102007-06-18T17:10:00.000-07:002007-06-18T17:25:09.235-07:00

The wedding we came down to San Jose to participate in is over! Rosalie and Miguel were married in a beautiful ceremony on Saturday evening. Amanda was the perfect flower girl - she is such a pro now, with this being her 3rd wedding as a flower girl! She walked down the aisle at just the right speed, throwing her rose petals as she went (this was a new twist - she'd never had to do the rose petal

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-66337918554892968342007-06-14T22:56:00.000-07:002007-06-16T08:15:34.923-07:00

Yes, we're in San Jose! (Well, technically we're in Santa Clara, which is where our hotel is, but everything is very close together down here.)On Tuesday evening (yes, Amanda's birthday) we drove down from Vancouver to Seattle. It was a bit of a marathon trip - we didn't get away until almost 7 pm, then we stopped for dinner in Bellingham so Amanda would at least have something reasonable to eat

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-41362686270746199542007-06-12T14:54:00.000-07:002007-06-12T15:03:58.870-07:00

Just had to get a quick post in to capture this story...So today is Amanda's 3rd birthday. Yay Amanda! At church on Sunday, our priest Father Joseph asked us to come over to the rectory and gave Amanda a couple of beautiful art puzzles - one Noah's Ark, and the other David & Goliath. It was very nice of him, and Amanda was very good about saying her thank you's, etc.Last night, we spent some time

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Here are the portraits we had done for Amanda's 3rd birthday (we cheated and got them done several weeks ago so they'd be ready for her birthday):And, just for fun, here is another photo we had done a few weeks ago at Ikea! Bopomo Pictures did a special promotion where you could get free pictures done for Mothers' Day. I decided to have both of us in the picture since there are so few photos of

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-57766098907474172382007-06-10T23:52:00.000-07:002007-06-18T17:27:33.942-07:00

Another month, another lack of blog posts...sigh. Oh well, here's our month in a nutshell. Although we're always busy, this month has been perhaps even crazier than usual - I started a new job! The company I started working for only last February basically ran out of money (yes, the joys of working in biotech) and laid off their entire staff. Did you know you can be "temporarily" laid off with no

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-74424939770685269962007-05-09T22:48:00.000-07:002007-05-10T00:19:24.572-07:00

Yesterday, it was such a beautiful day that I walked Amanda home by the river and we stopped at the local playground to play for awhile. This was all lovely...except that when Jeff picked her up today, she was insistent that she wanted to walk "under the trees" (like the river path) and go to the same park. When I got home we decided to take her to the park, but since I had to go to the library

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-39266054349549569182007-05-07T23:03:00.000-07:002007-05-07T23:29:27.019-07:00

Once again, here we are woefully behind in posting. Such bad bloggers we are! (Why did I just get a mental "Yoda" image?!?). Will try to keep up better, really, we will!Amanda has been quite the little monkey lately. She's going through a definite phase that I've been reading and hearing a lot about. Apparently lots of kids, like her, competely skip over the "terrible 2s", deluding their parents

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106851433885998357noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-76543273944201974972007-04-07T12:47:00.001-07:002007-05-07T23:40:41.790-07:00

Daddy is home! Originally uploaded by JenJeff. I was away on a trip with 43 students that took us through London, Paris, Lucern, Florence, Venice and Rome. The two week trip was grueling and not exactly a vacation. Although it was fun going through these cities being responsible for 43 students and their safety is a big responsibility. In the end we did have a good time.This was my 2nd

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Last weekend we took Amanda to Science World (oops, sorry, Telus World of Science) for the first time. I'd heard that they had a good toddler section and we figured Amanda might enjoy it. The weather was lousy and it was also Chinese New Year, so the crowds were a little thinner than usual - perfect!!She had a great time running around and keeping us on our toes! We could hardly keep up with her,

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It's been awhile since we've posted...life's been crazy as always! I had to post about a cool idea Jeff came up with last weekend. Amanda has seemed very interested in fishing recently (her daycare must have some kind of fishing set)...she's always hanging off the back of the couch pretending to fish. Jeff looked at some fishing sets in the stores, but they weren't too great. So he figured out

jenandjeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18237411511364082624noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-13210601951701537852007-02-15T22:46:00.001-08:002007-02-15T22:46:30.905-08:00

good day for a swim Originally uploaded by dro!d. Killer Jellyfish!!

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Welcome to our home town! Originally uploaded by roly poly fish heads. Just because I've been sitting here for the last 10 minutes laughing until I'm crying at the Stick Figures in Peril pool on Flickr...I sure hope Diane & Richard don't encounter any of these signs on their Hawaiian trip...

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This was the first Valentine's Day that Amanda really seemed to "get"...they did a lot of special crafts and activities at daycare, and she was pretty excited by the time the big day finally arrived. Of course, the day before, she learned it was "only one more sleep"...when I got her up the next morning and said "Happy Valentine's Day", she told me it wasn't "Ballentine's Day" yet, that there was

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32 Months Originally uploaded by JenJeff. I can't believe I missed one, but I did! Somehow I completely neglected to take Amanda's 31 month picture. I didn't even forget - it just never seemed to happen. Every evening she'd be wearing something weird, or she'd spill all over herself at dinner and be covered in stains, or she'd be grouchy and not in the mood for photos. Ah well, just one

jenandjeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18237411511364082624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704849.post-2232646574331710062007-02-15T22:12:00.000-08:002007-06-18T17:30:40.700-07:00

We went to a beautiful wedding on Saturday - Diane, one of the members of our church choir, married Richard. They are such a lovely couple and it was a beautiful day. Since Diane & Richard are both dedicated choir members in their respective parishes, a joint choir from both churches came together to sing at the wedding. We managed to fit almost 40 people into our tiny "choir loft"! Everything

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The baby shower for Cristina & Tristan on Sunday went very well! We had more than a full house, but at least it was February so it didn't get too sweltering in the house! The food turned out well and everyone seemed to have a good time. Plus, Cristina got lots of lovely gifts to take home...that kid is going to be very well-dressed!The cake:Amanda's face after eating the cake:

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One of Amanda's new favourite games is "I'll be the mommy and you be the kid, OK?". Except that kid comes out like "tid". And then she proceeds to boss me around for the next many minutes, calling me nothing but tid. "Come over here, tid," she'll say. Or, "Hey tid, let's read a book". If I dare object, she says "No, I'M the mommy!". Geez, you'd her real mommy was some kind of tyrant or something,

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i got pwned by a 2 year old Originally uploaded by JenJeff. Maybe a little bit of explaining is in order. "PWNED" is a gamer term that is pronounced "OWNED". It is derived from a common typo since the O and the P on the keyboard are located next to each other. Amanda has taken a liking to my Xbox 360 controller and likes to turn on my console by pushing the big button on the

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When Amanda was a baby, we discovered a Canadian album called Lullaby Berceuse which was a lifesaver for us. Jeff thinks it's cheesy, and OK, yes it is. But the music is very soothing, and it really helped Amanda get to sleep in those first many months. It was the music we nursed to at night, and I think we listened to the first four songs every single night for about six or eight months. I can

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We're having a baby shower for Cristina and Tristan on Sunday (not a surprise, so don't worry - I'm not giving anything away here!). I mentioned to Amanda the other day that we would be going to a special party on Sunday for Cristina and Baby Tristan, and that it was a funny party because only girls would be there. "No boys?!?" she asked incredulously. We then had to go through a whole succession

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...or, at least, some potty action.This is such a common site in our home these days that Jeff thinks we should install a couch in the bathroom. We're both getting really tired of standing, and/or sitting on the bathroom floor!

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Tonight we had dinner at my parents' house, along with Mike, Cristina, and Baby Tristan. He is doing great and is getting cuter by the day! He seems amazingly awake for such a small baby. Apparently he is actually giving Mike & Cristina some decent stretches of sleep (well, at least decent by 1-month old baby standards) and they seem very calm about the whole parenthood thing. Amanda is very cute

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