They Grow up TOO SOON!

Happy 3rd Birthday Janae!!

Janae Elizabeth Grace arrived at 9:23am March 22. She was two weeks early and weighed 8pounds 4oz. I had told my cousins earlier that day at lunch that i was going to have my baby that night and they said there is no way as first time moms never go early!!

First family picture. I think i look pretty good for having been up all night and pushing for three solid hours.

Oh my word time flies!! My little baby is turning 3 tomorrow and it makes me sad. It has been a fun, exciting and challenging year with Janae. She is her own special little person. She is strong willed, determined and incredibly smart which equals TROUBLE!! Of course there were many days this year i wanted to rip my hair out of my head and scream but they are over shadowed by the sincere, caring and kind littel girl that is in there but only appears at random times. She has grown huge physically and I think is now the tallest of her friends. She speaks like a grown up most of the time and has learned how to negotiate. She also has learned how to buckle herself into her carseat, unlock the front door, climb in and out of the bathtub, lock and unlock the bathroom door, and her first stitches!. She also recieved an early birthday gift and has learned how to ride her new bike. She has become MORE attached to me then before. And i mean attached, she wakes up each morning asking if i am staying with her all day. If i am going somewhere it is talked about all day and when I do leave she cries and panics. It feels good that she wants me but I need to get out here and there so I can regroup and refocus. Janae basically potty trained her self this year as well as gave up her soother all on her own. We are slowly working on wearing panties for bed! Janae loves to sing and love going ons tage with her dad to worship even if i tell her to come down! She is just a very outgoing energetic child who has goals and a strong determination and I hope and pray that as she gets older she uses these gifts to become whatever she wants to be. She is a great sister to Camryn for most of the time and is learning how to say things in a nice manner and "teach" camryn rather then boss her.

Janae, you are a beautiful little girl that God gave to Daddy and I three years ago. We could not have asked for a better daughter. We are excited to see what you will learn this year and what you will experience. We wish you a very happy birthday and love you very much.

What a relief!!

Well we can breath a little easier financially now as we have found renters for our suite April 1!!! We are totally excited to fill our suite with a young couple just starting out. Of course the money is what gets us really going as things are tight with John going down to four days and a bunch of major bills coming our way (house insurance, property tax, van and car insurance!!) so this is so nice to have the extra income. I have been feeling pretty quilty lately feeling like i should bring in some income somehow to help us get ahead but just can't get past the thougth of leaving the girls to go to work. So with teh suite being filled it's like i have a job! Praise the Lord. The tenants signed a six month contract but plan on being here LONG term but just didn't want to be bonded for a longer period of time which is totally understandable.
We were so afraid posting out add in the Abbotsford paper but we got amazign feed back and had a good handful of people to chose from and there was only one person we said right away "NO" the rest were all potential renters. We chose this young couple as they want long term and some of the other couples didn't. We hope we dont' have to do this process over again. But when we do we will definetely have an application for them to fill out at the time of viewing cause John was getting pretty confused with numbers and people as he was taking the calls on his cell at work and wasnt' paying attention to the details!! Oh well we got renters now and that is all there is to it and we are so thankful.

On another note my toes is slowly healing . For those of you who have run into the corner of the couch or corner of wall know the pain that follows. Normally when i have done this in the past it hurts for a little bit and that is about it. Well over a week ago i RAN into the corner of our couch downstairs and broke my pinky toe!! Seriously the worst pain in the world and there is absolutely nothing doctors can do about it. It is still pretty painful to wear shoes or walk in general and the colors it changes every day is amazing. Its pretty annoying having it constantly ache all the time. ANd i am on pins and needles when the kids are around me. Camryn has fully stepped on it and i almost hit the floor in tears! They say it can take several weeks to heal. My mom did this when we were young and it took her 3 months to heal!yikes. I havne't been able to go to the gym this past week becasue of it but i will attempt to try on my fitted gym shoes and see if i can at least ride bike. I NEED to lose this weight before summer starts and i have to wear a bathing suit or shorts!!

Gotta Be Kiddin'!!

Yeah!! a picture of me and the girls...finally!!! I got John to take this picture for my mom as she made all of our sweater vests in this picture!

Janae going for a bike ride, she is doing really good.

Janae and I went to the Gotta Be Kiddin thing at Ag Rec yesterday, she had fun for the first 20minutes til the mascots started walking around and then she started screaming and shaking and wanting to go home. She is terrified of people dressed up.

Getting her face painted, last year there would have been no way she would have let anyone paint on her face.

She wasn't afraid of the princess's because she can see there face.

Janae's Pretend Birthday!!

Princess chocolates that look so pretty in the box that they will stay in there a while as we have learned that chocolate+Janae= horrible behavior

Princess balloon from Uncle John. Probably her favorite uncle cause he plays with her the entire time we are together.Here she is after she has opened her bike. She was so exciting, after the picture was taken she was running around cheeringOpening the gift, the pictures are in the wrong order again

So like I said in my previous post we celebrated Janae's 3rd birthday with the Jefremow's yesterday as John's parents left for 6 weeks to paraguay this morning. Janae kept asking if it was her birthday and we told her it was her early birthday party but her birthday was on March 22nd. And she responded, "so this is my pretend birthday!!!" yep sure. I took Janae in yesterday morning to have her stitches looked at because the cut still looked pretty raw and she was complaing it was really hurt and so I thought that maybe it was infected. But it wasn't thank goodness. Once we were in the car Janae said, " does this mean i still have my ouie for my party?!!" She is suppose to get them out tomorrow and i am a little worried about the tears. She was pretty freaked out yesterday and the doctor didn't even go close to her. We'll see what happens but I am sure a bribe will be thrown into it!!

So I had John's whole family her which is 13 people altogether including Janae and camryn. I made sweet and sour meatballs and mushroom sauce and meatballs with rice and salad. Everything turned out great and I thought dinner tasted good too! Janae got spoiled. John's parents bought her a purple princess bike and wind breaker jacket and Aunti Hilary and Uncle John bought her a helmut and when John showed up late cause he was working he came with a princess balloon. From Uncle Walt and Aunti Angie she got a kids Bible, ratatouille magnetic book and a bug sticker book. So she has been busy learning how to ride her bike and is doing awesome. I wish we had a nice drive for her to ride on but we don't and our street isn't the best either so i am sure we will be going to mill lake often. Well when i can get help til Janae doesn't need help riding cause i can't help her and push camryn!!! Here are some pictures of our day yesterday.