Searching For ...

I started to get into a nesting type mode ... possibly because Corey's disorganization and my need to organize work usually so well together and lately he's been winning. Or it could be that I foresee a lack of energy in my latter months of pregnancy ... either way ... as I sort through boxes of things (not sure how I got boxes of things) I realized something. I need somewhere to put these things. I am most definitely not expecting a baby shower or anything of the sorts ... please don't think that way. I do know that a lot of people often have things sitting around at home and they don't know what to do with them! I happen to be a person searching for items sitting in your home collecting dust. Some of my family/friends are either trying to get rid of their baby things as well or might have something that I am contemplating buying that I could try out. So ... because I like lists ... I made a list :) Here ... is the link ! I will send updates as I find things or as I need to add ... if you think you might have something that I might not know I need ... send me an email haha!

Linfitt Wish List

There's the link :) thanks everyone!!

Good and Good

Today as we drove home from our prenatal appointment I realized something that I knew all along. A good prenatal appointment and a good prenatal caregiver makes you feel like you can do anything! I am pretty independent and have my own way of doing things and saying things. It's a fact and not a suggestion. I like to be in control of situations as much as possible and someone ... more than one someone told me that I could not control my pregnancy, my labor nor my delivery and I would like to tell you ... that nobody else does either. My body is in complete control of how this will work and the baby growing in my womb will tell my body what it needs to do. It's a miracle how well they will communicate and make things work out. I will eat healthy and exercise. I will stay away from negativity and surround myself with positivity and things that make me happy. I will try and stay as calm and peaceful as possible. And the most important thing I will do for myself is know that I will do what needs to be done to keep us both safe ... and that's that. Point Final. :)

24 weeks!

Only 16 weeks to go! I'm pretty pumped about it. Baby moves a lot more than Amélie did and I sure eat a lot more this time around. On a high note, my boobs are SUPER nice. WELL ... they ARE. I will edit this post after my next appointment next week, but for now here's a pictures of ME!

MORE INFO : Had a great appointment. Love Ros!! I weigh 122 lbs so doing fantastic. My placenta IS low about 2cm from my cervix so I will be going for another ultrasound in 5 weeks to see if it moved up. I'm praying that it does because the higher the better. It's also sitting towards my back. I've also had a lot of hip and pelvic joint pain which will soon be better after a visit with my chiropractor. Although lots of people get it, mine is crazy because I had a back injury a long time ago and my hip likes to do it's own thing. But all is well! I have amazing blood pressure and am measuring 24 cms ... so ... as usual ... perfect ;-) This baby does NOT like people touching it and doesn't really care for the doppler either. Heartrate is about 140's ... so lower than Amelie's and baby is head down ... or was head down at the time :) Any ... questions?



Also here is a link if you want to check out the other pics Pregnancy pics

Christmas 2009

Christmas Pictures

There is the link to some cutey pictures of Amélie I think most are Christmas pictures.

This year we hosted Christmas on the Linfitt side. It went great!! OTHER than the stove almost starting on fire ... and ... other than the smoke filling the house ... and ... other than supper taking longer to make than predicted ... oh ... and don't forget the 3 hour nap that I took by accident ... but other than THAT it went pretty good I think :) Amélie had a blast and had a great time with her cousins, especially her buddy Tyler ;-) She was pretty tuckered out by the end lol.

Christmas morning was pretty cool this year too. Amélie went through her gifts that Santa brought her in a big haste! Lol, but quickly found a few of her faves. LUCKILY, Memere Rachelle bought her a storage container for all the blocks we suddenly found ourselves with. PHEW.
Amélie also sat Santa at the mall and ADORED him. I will post a picture once I declog my cluttered office (That Patricia already cleaned once for me) oopsies ... We saw Grandma and Grandpa Gareau a few days after Christmas and had some Lasagne and played a hilarious PS3 game called Fairytale Fights. Seriously ... entertaining for all adults. Luckily the game allows you to have almost unlimited life LOL. PHHEW for that one hey dad??

Corey got a PSP for Christmas and I got 4 new tires! ANd some maternity clothes that I desperately needed, and a bluetooth thingie, and a USB thingie, and a TIM HORTONS card ... and some awesome mittens! ANNNNND the SANTA CLAUSE trilogy. Be jealous. It's okay. Corey also got a few games and accessories for his PSP, this adorable little bow and arrow that shoots these toy deer, A Christmas Story ... and .... I forget. Oh yes ... I also got the game Dark Cloud and some books that I was searching for. YAY Yvonne!!! I'm already addicted to the game again.

Baby # 2 - 20 weeks

Had a prenatal appointment today. Baby's heart rate is in the 130's, blood pressure is great. Uterus is at the right spot. Baby is sitting on my bladder most of the time. Everything is looking good. YAY! Soooooooooooooo yeah ... I didn't get weighed ... not sure why, but it seems pretty normal. As you can see ... I'm roundish, but not overly. Feeling pretty good, mostly tired but luckily hunting season is now over. PHEW.

Cheer up, it's CHRISTMAS

Sigh. How many days left? It seems like it's SO far away. This year we got the AWESOMEST tree (picked it out myself from the top of the river side) Corey keeps saying he saw it ... but trust me ... I kept yelling at him to go and get it. It's so beautiful! I love fresh, real trees. Mmmm. The only bad thing is our house is so dry I have to water the darned thing at LEAST 2 times a day and with my memory these days ... seriously ... lol. I can't wait until Christmas. Amelie is the perfect age to ... have no clue what's up, stay out of the presents ... but still be SUPER PUMPED that there's a GIANT tree in the HOUSE lol. We did have to tie the tree to the wall, but technically we always have to tie it to the wall.

Baby # 2 - 15 weeks 3 days

I know. I slacked off. Shame on me! Let's see how much I can remember. I weighed ... 107 lbs, blood pressure was awesome as usual. Heartbeat was in the 150's yup. Baby is low. I'm tired, but not sick. HOORAY!!

Christmas is coming soon!

I've decided to begin Christmas shopping because I want to. That's all. I've started browsing gifts for Amélie and have decided to get her a big kitchen set. A lot of people have been asking what she wants or needs. Sooooooooo I created a blog where I will be putting what she needs or wants. I will also post up ideas for Corey and myself for people who've chosen our names :-) I LOVE LOVE Christmas!!!

Pregnant !! - 11weeks

Okay it's official now. We are expecting a little bundle of joy ... again ... around April 30th 2010. For the record ... I think it's a boy. But I reserve the right to change my mind as we go along haha. Our PCG (Prenatal Caregiver) from Saskatoon took the time to find the heartbeat to calm our concerns. And she FOUND it. We could barely hear it because the baby kept hiding behind my own heartbeat sounds, but we could definitely hear it. She figured about 150-160. Exciting I know!! It was pretty cool. Amelie got to hold the doppler and was very amazed by all this. I weigh 106.2 lbs already and I feel pretty good :-) Amélie weighs 28 lbs ... she weighed herself also. What else ... what else ... cravings come and go ... lots of watery cravings (watermelon and cucumbers) so I upped my water intake and that seemed to go away. Of course now I'm hooked on lemon water lol. I'm already showing a tiny, teeny bit and we will be posting a picture in the next week. Yay!

Smells - 10 weeks

Although I haven't actually thrown up yet throughout this pregnancy (knock on wood) I find that smells entice my gag reflex. Sometimes it's so surprising that I can't help but laugh as I vacate the area or look around for a calming smell. Sometimes ... it's not surprising and I see it coming ... such as Corey coming back from hunting. Argh. Strangely enough Amélie's diapers don't phase me at all. I have had the odd morning of feeling not so wonderful, but usually a tame breakfast or a glass of water will help alleviate that. It's been mostly afternoons ... and I get so tired ... too tired to snack sometimes. ahhh ... I'm counting down the days :-) Also, I've had to clean my house ... and keep it smelling very clean ... ahahahaha there is an upside to nausea after all ...

9 weeks

Today we went to Saskatoon to listen in and get some information. Since we are so unhappy with the maternity care we previously endured ... we decided to venture out and look for new options. Well, it wasn't anything new, in fact it was exactly what we were looking for. You'll hear more about it as we go along, after all I don't want to recommend something I'm just trying out! Anyways, it took a lot less time to actually find the building, yay for Corey, but ... quite a bit of time figuring out the parking meter. (FYI Parking meters are stupid; why have a sticker that says turn the lever ... and then NOT have a lever) I saw an old friend there and was quite happy to see her :-) but I hadn't seen her in person for a long time and barely recognized her, she didn't recognize me, but I have no hurt feelings. The following session was boring and Corey and I spent a lot of time doodling ... and ... I accidentally may have walked out with private property ... oopsies ... :-s. BUT don't worry, I'll bring it back!! lol Once that was done we went to Costco's (insert heaven music here) wow. It deserves it's own post. Which you will probably read before you read this, but this will be posted before that, but you won't see it until I undraft it. MUAHAHAHAHAHA.


On the baby side, been feeling sick, lots. In fact I feel like I have to eat 24/7 to keep it away. That and my pants are getting tight and my shirts looser because I have to wear shirts that don't stick to my stomach. I wonder if anyone is noticing ... oh well. Anyways, more later.

You should be grateful ...

I saw this photo on a website (fan page) that I currently like to follow. It's called the Unnecesarean. http://www.theunnecesarean.com/. It's a site where women go after they've had a c-section and grieve their lost birth experience. I followed the link (http://birthlove.cyclzone.com/pages/gretchen/grateful.html) and I read the story there. I know you're all wondering what the heck I'm doing at a site like that, but I wanted to get a little insight on c-sections. It upset me and made me feel better at the same time. It's more of a letter of a lost birth experience. I beg you all to read it and hope it touches you as it did me. I am so tired of being told this exact phrase, and I didn't even have a c-section. I am a woman. I can adapt. Why can't the doctors? Nurses? Other hospital caregivers? Why are we women always the ones who must adapt? The entire birth experience and baby's health should be treated as one entire event. It's sacred and transitional if you ask me (I know you didn't haha) ... How can we get a healthy baby and a healthy birth experience? So many people tell me that their birth went the way it was supposed to ... If we all REALLY looked at our birth experiences ... what would we change? I challenge all of you who've had babies ... to dig deep and tell me ONE thing (or more if you want) you would change in your birth experiences. What would have helped you? Whether you had a good experience or a bad experience ... Perfect birth is rare ... let's share our stories and heal together. This is not to advocate homebirths, but for safebirths (which I will blog about on another day :-)

Salt in the Wound

I have to vent. I have to absolutely, vent. In case you are not aware, recently I lost my job to a teacher from out of province. I was given a new job as a teacher's assistant. Okay. Grrrr. That whole situation was a load of crap in the first place. Okay ... i'll start at the beginning

In June 2009 I was informed that they wanted to hire a teacher to teach preschool and phys. ed in elementary. I was confused. We have a preschool teacher and a phys. ed. teacher. Were there complaints? No. Glowing praise. I was so bewildered I actually tried to see the positive of the situation immediately ... then I began to think about it. I went and saw a few people I knew would give me good points of view ... and they confirmed my suspicions. It was a load of crap.

I had recently started taking Early childhood Education classes ... and had been greatly praised for this and encouraged. I was asked if I planned on making this a career. I was asked if I was planning on staying at the school. To which I replied of COURSE ... and then in June I'm told too bad so sad. Why the HELL wasn't I told EARLIER that there was even a remote possibility that this could happen. My boss KNEW this could happen. He KNEW it was going to happen and did not tell me. AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! (I learned this a bit later though)

So numerous meetings and ventings later, I'm sorta told they might not find anyone and would I be willing to take the job. I said ... yes. I'm an idiot. I know. I was led on by a job I ADORE and CHERISH. It's not my fault!! Then a week (ish) before we go back to work they decide to call me and tell me they found someone. From _______!!! OMG. So I'm thinking, this person is qualified and amazing. I'm hurt beyond belief that the bearer of bad news sounded so cheery about it and insulted beyond belief that I was on f-ing speakerphone (pardon my ... french) I decided I was going to do the best I could do at animation culturelle and being a new teacher's assistant. I would just accept it. Get over it.

I get to work on monday and I'm met by my co-workers. Lots of fun and stories. Fast forward a bit to where I meet the new teacher. She's like I'm so happy to meet you. and i'm thinking .... maybe she won't be so bad. Maybe I'll even help her a bit. Onward with the meeting, which was long and disorganized and I'm still confused about it. anyone??

THE NEXT DAY

I go with mom to pick up Eveline for lunch (Patricia and Maddie and Gayle too) I get into the school and mom is chatting away with Helene (the new principal) They are having a good time figuring out the alarms. LADY (she who can not be named) taps my shoulder. I turn around, surprised and a bit taken aback. She's like 2 inches from my face. She has the nerve to begin asking me where I've been. I'm a little amused and tell her I'm not working today. She tells me I'm supposed to help her. That she was told I would help her plan her year and classroom. THIS Lady is supposed to be QUALIFIED and capable to teach preschool Why the FFFF would she need my help??? How DARE they (SHE) expect me to help her!! THEN she had the nerve to insult my work ethics and asked me ,... : So you only work on days you get paid for?? OMG YES. I worked my ASS off for two years prepping that class. It got thrown out when I went for mat leave and then in June I'm told it was pointless to do it over again. She took my job right out of my hands and then I find out she has NO experience. She used to teach COLLEGE biology. OMG OMG OMG ... AND at the end of this insulting tirade, I found the costumes for her and she had the nerve to be INSULTED and MAD ... as if I'd HIDDEN them in the BOX marked COSTUMES. ARRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

So ... that is the story minus a few more details that I may add later as I decompress from this situation.

Pictures August 2009

Here is the link to some more pictures and I posted a couple to peek at !! :-)

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=132206&id=543155419&l=3602dca114

Pulling a temper tantrum because daddy's outside with the Quad and Amélie is ... not

Pépère Rodger


Helping to clean the beans for canning

Hahahaha I climbed up here!!

4 weeks pregnant

Yeah!! I took the test this morning and at first I saw the first negative line and I thought, okay now I know. Right? But just when I was going to set it down, I saw another line appearing and I thought ... how dark does it have to be. So I actually had to go and get the instructions LMAO. Seriously. Who does that??!! I can't tell you how cautiously excited I am!! I hope it goes great. Of course you won't be reading this until I hear the heartbeat in a couple months, but it's still caution :-) It's going to be hard hiding it haha! This gives us an EDD of April 27th for baby # 2. Let's hope it goes good everyone!!

Knives

We recently were visited by a young man (23 years old) named Cody. Very cute, very friendly and outgoing ... all good things to be when you're trying to sell something. WAIT. The story begins with a phone call from one of Corey's pals, Bob. No really his name is Bob. He was talking about this knife and he kept talking about it to Corey and we agreed to see Cody. I was so annoyed hahahaha. ARGH. Cody agreed to come and see us at the lake, which I told Corey was dumb because what happens if we get rained out (which we did). At 10 am we left the site and decided (completely randomly) to stop and get some juice. Cody pulled in for gas. Lo and Behold Corey discovered he was the Cutco guy. So weird. Corey invited Cody to our home, apologizing for the terrible inconvenience. Cody said. SURE! Hm. I was intrigued. He wasn't pissed off, but in my defense, I thought it was dumb to come to a campsite to show off knives, so ... there. We sent him to Gayle's house first, knowing she would be interested in a couple knives. By the time we got home, we thought he'd beat us there. But he didn't! He was still at Gayle's and they were having fun with the knives. Now I was realllly intrigued.
By the time he made it to our house, it was 3:30 pm. I actually watched him drive right by the house the first time, but he made it back. It was loads of fun! We did end up buying some impressive knives. I am very impressed by the peeler and ice cream scoop (it MELTS ice cubes) and you don't have to heat it up or ANYTHING! I was able to scoop out some rock hard ice cream easily without beating the crap out of anything or heating up my scooper. So cool. We got a few other things as well, which we tested on everything we could find. Literally I went outside and tried cutting a tree lol. A DEAD tree that was soggy never mind LMAO. It was pruning shears so I figured it should work. It did! Then I pruned some of my flowers. Midas right? Corey got a hunting knife and a fishing knife and after Christmas we are getting a whole new pots and pan set. We'd seen similar ones to these and had been impressed, but didn't want them or need them at the time. It's now time to refit the kitchen! If anyone is interested in this stuff let me know. I'll send Cody to you! You don't have to buy at ALL you can just test out all the knives lol. It's tons of fun!! You can check out this website ... www.cutco.ca if you want. Cody's tons of fun and he'll come visit you wherever! :-) The site is pretty cool too.

Schooling Update

I am SO proud of myself. I recently completed 4 assignments in less than 3 weeks!! Okay so I kinda procrastinated, but still!! I had asked to have them checked over to make sure I was on the right track and 3 of them were kept as final copies! Yay!! 1 of them (my first one) I was just getting back into the groove so ... I'll take that lol! I'm SUPERBLY proud and all I have left for this class is an interview. I hope that goes well!!! Then it's ... whatever class they send me next LOL.

Amelie - July 2009

Here are a few recent pictures of Amélie. Below is a link to more of them :-)

Dr. Amélie Linfit???

Our little Vegetarian

Ah crap. Busted standing on the coffee table

Handcuffed to keep out of trouble

Here is the link to Amelie's pictures!! I've updated them so just in case you lost the link :-)

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=132206&id=543155419&l=3602dca114

Gabriel the Ox

Rodger and Gabriel at the Wakaw parade on August 1, 2009

Krystal, Gabriel, Rodger and Rachelle (mom)

Considering it was Gabriel's first ever parade and he's very young ... 2 years ... he did spectacularly well! Madison on the other hand was a wimp and had to be put in the wagon lol. Below is a link to more pictures from the parade! And more random pictures including mom and I quadding. Gabriel is a very docile ox, very sweet and he was super great. August 3rd he is going to be in the Rosthern parade. Let's hope he does well there too!!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=18932&id=543155419&l=c528bd6ef2

Camping

We have a camper. It's new to us and it's great! All that really matters is that the furnace and the fridge works and nothing falls off while we're driving. :-D Below is a link to see some of our great camping pictures!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=136232&id=543155419&l=b518d68a91

Amélie adores camping!! Like a lot!! She loves, loves camping. Whew! I guess it DID make a difference that we took her camping when she was 3 1/2 months old.