24 weeks Pregnant Photo

This is me now!
This was me pregnant with Camryn. With Janae I was barely showing at 24 weeks!!

Here's me at 24 weeks and 4 days, I chopped my head off cause it wasn't a good hair day. I have also posted the picture of me at 24 weeks when I was pregnant to compare. I think my belly is about the same but man was I smaller everywhere else. I was showing Janae pictures of me when I was just pregnant with Camryn and she's like "you are so skinny like Aunti Sonja" Now I have never been that skinny, but she was right I was so thin. However at the time I thought i was huge. I have a long way to go once this baby arrives to get my body back!!!! :(

It has been almost 2 years!!!

I don't know why I gave up blogging. I guess I felt that I am just not that great at writing. My sister has the gift of writing and has two blogs and people rant and rave about how well she writes. And then there is me, worst grammer, sentence structure and a bunch of babble all over the place!!

But today as I was reading other peoples blogs I thought I should start again for myself. To keep a journal of what is going on in our lives. There are some huge changes in our family and I think I want it documented, we'll see how long this lasts.

Ok so I am not going to go back two years so I will just start with the latest happenings in the Jefremow house to get you all up to speed!!

In April after a year and a half of trying we found out we were Pregnant with #3!! We were so excited that is finally happened. As far as the due date, that we weren't so thrilled about. We would be due December 25th!! For those of you who followed my blog in the past you will know that our 2nd child is a December 25th baby as well. We are hoping for a early baby but you just never know. I am 24 weeks at the moment and feel pretty tired, forgetful and miserable!! I have so much stomach and groin pain a simple walk kills me. I am pretty moody and have little to no patience with my girls. I am still taking decletin and still throw up randomly in the middle of the night. We have talked about a 4th but even I am not totally sold on that, I HATE being pregnant:) I have a feeling the next 4 months will feel like forever!!

Oh and I forgot to mention.... IT'S A BOY!!!! That in itself scares me, no idea what to do with boys!!

Yesterday Janae started KINDERGARTEN, can you believe it!!! It was only an hour long orientation time but the feeling I got there and same with Janae was that everything is going to be ok, she will adjust and like this new phase of her life!!! She goes for a 15minute one on one with her teacher and than next week does Monday/Tuesday afternoon and then Wednesday is full time already, 8:30-2:30pm!!! We'll see how these mornings go, hopefully not a lot of yelling:)

Janae is still a very independent, smart child. Probably to smart for her own good a lot of hte times. Most times we just laugh when she says things cause we just don't know what to do. It worries me what her teenage life is going to be like. We are both VERY much the SAME which will probably cause a lot problems in the future:)

Camryn went for her preschool orientation today. In summer we had a couple of weeks where I wasn't sure if Camryn was really ready for preschool as she was showing some signs of anxiety. But today she was super excited and was ready for us to leave! But we'll wait till next week for that:) Camryn has been very testy lately. She has discovered lying and they are not good lies. Things like telling us that water jumped out of the bath tub and got her wet, when really she peed her pants. Or saying she goes places with her aunts when I am sleeping. She also will lie about simple things I ask her. Gets pretty annoying at times thankfully she isn't good at it so we can usually tell right away. She isn't as easy going as she used to be. She likes staying at home which is hard cause Janae and I love to be out and about all the time. She sure is growing up and it makes me a little sad.

John is still busy working for Remple Brothers Concrete at the Langley plant. Last week a bunch of guys from his plant won 3.2 million! John was not part of the pool:( but it was still exciting to know the people that did win:)

This weekend is my nieces wedding. She is getting married up at Manning Park. The girls are the flower girls and John is playing guitar for the ceremony as well is the MC for the reception!! Looks like it will be a gorgeous weekend for a wedding.

Ok so there you have it a little update of what is happening. Will see how often I do posts but thought I would catch you up on the latest!

Happy 2nd Birthday Camryn!!

I will attach pictures when i get a chance!
Wow have these past two years flown by, i really feel like Camryn should be turning 3! I think about last year and it seems wierd to think that last Christmas Camryn wasn't even walking!! crazy. This year Camryn has learned so much. She has mastered talking!! Putting words together and creating sentences to telling stories. She melts our hearts with her kindness and love. I LOVE putting her to sleep and as i close the door to her room she says, "Love you MAMA!!" LOVE IT!!! She is quick to say sorry if she feels she has done something to someone, this is completely opposite of Janae:) She loves playing with otehre kids and engaging in play and understands instructios well. She loves to color and read books, her favorite are Dora the Explorer. She loves anything Dora including the movies. We listen to DOra books on cd in the car which is kind of annoying to the rest of us but she loves it and knows them off by heart! She loves to sing!! It is amazing at how quickly they pick up the words in the car. She adores her big sister and the two of them can be the best of friends and the worst enemy sometimes. But for the most part they play well with each other and love to cuddle with each otehr. Just yesterday I came into the living room and Janae was half laying on Camryn and Camryn was givingi Janae "nice nice" it was so sweet. She is a very caring and nurturing child.
Camryn got rid of the bottle just over a month ago when she battled a really bad cold so she stopped taking it during that time and never asked for it again. We still need to work on the soother though, she has a little bit too often for my liking especially because it interferes with her talking!! We'll fight that battle in the new year. Camryn has started potty training, i have not started so it only happens when she initiates it, this is how janae was potty trained as well we let her make the move! Camryn has gone # 2 many times already. She sits on the potty and whispers, "shhh pooh's coming!" cute, well at least its cute when a two year old says it.
Camryn would love to be in preschool already and she is totally ready for it. She gets to come with me when I am the mommy helper at Janae's school and she loves it!
Camryn is a monkey when it comes to playgrounds she loves climbing and is really good at it. she follows Janae everywhere on the structures and masters it wihtout our help. Thankfully she is not nearly as clumsy as her dear sister:)
Camryn makes everyone smile with her big smile and closed eyes as her smile is just too big!
We love her so much and can not wait to see what is instore for thsi year in her life.
HAPPY 2nd Birthday CAMRYN!!!

Apple Daze

Saturday was a mixture of weather, so we decided to hit up the MCC sale at Tradex in the morning and then in the afternoon when the sun came out we headed to Willowview farms in abbotsford to pick some apples, the petting zoo, hayride and play area. The girls had a blast and we had a great afternoon. Here are some pics of our day.

First day of Preschool

AHh preschool. We thought we would wait til Janae was four to start school but when i read in a local paper about a 1 day a week preschool class i thought this was a great idea or Janae. I signed her up and brought her to school on her first day to realize that the teacher was a drop out from the college i graduated from while doing my ece. She wasn't a licensed staff and her supervision of the children was rediculous. Needless to say i was totally disappointed and ticked off a little as i was never told it was an unlicensed center. I thought all preschools had to be but apparently not, should have done more research. Anyways after her first day at this preschool and I wanted her out of there as I really didn't feel safe leaving her there in their care. So i phoned around as I new Janae would be devasted if i she coulnd't go to school at all. Thankfully when i phone MEI they had just had a child drop out of the morning class, exactly what i needed. So i registered her and we went to see the teachers. Janae had gone to one class for an hour and half and then the next week we had hand foot and mouth disease here. This disease only shows systems 7 days after being infected. Camryn had it the worst. There were blisters throughout her mouth(more then 15) and her hands feet and bum were covered as well. The only treatment is tylenol with codeine. My sisters girl got it is as well. So Janae missed preschool last week and now with her broken arm she will miss this week as well and maybe next week as well. she is very sad about this as she LOVES school. She loves her teachers and loves that she gets to be on her own like a big girl. They just grow up way to fast.

First Trip to the OR

So these pics are of Janae had home sporting her new sling. Picture of me dressed up as a "nurse" to bring janae into the OR. Janae and me right before she went in for surgery and Janae in her big bed.




So as most of you know Janae broke her right arm this week and so i thought i would post a the few pics we took(John forgot to bring the camera) with John's phone and give you the detailed story of what happened that led to a trip to the ER and later the OR.

Monday morning I dropped of Josh(the boy I watch) off at school and went to walmart. Around 9 we were driving around and trying to figure out what we wanted to do. I just didn't want to go home and clean my house! So Janae asked to go to the Mill Lake park which i never take her too because i hate that park and think it is unsafe(I always have found this park not super safe, more for camryn then Janae). Anyways i figured there wouldn't be many kids there so i would go. Off we went.
Janae was running around on the play structure and had already slipped on the bridge part. I was talking a to friend and I had just finished telling her that i was going to maybe go for a walk cause i thought the play structure was to slippery. (it was covered in dew). Janae went to the corkscrew fire pole and put one foot and hand on to realize that it was too wet and attempted to go back on the play structure when her foot slipped and she fell down, all the way from the top of the structure. Her right arm was out and so she fell on it. She was screaming and i ran across the playgroung knowing that the way she was screaming that something was really wrong. I had to take her jacket off to see the arm and realize that around her elbow it was scrapped and swollen and lopsided looking. So off we went to the Emergency. Everything went pretty quick in emerge thankfully. She was screaming pretty good the entire time. She had x rays done and within 20 minutes the pedeatric ortho surgeon came to tell us that they would be operating on her arm at 3pm. she had fractured her arm and twisted it. I was bawling at this point trying to hold myself together for Janae but thoes of you who know me, i cry pretty quickly. They admitted Janae. John took camryn home for a nap and Janae and i waited in our room on the peds floor for her surgery. John came back to the hospital at 3 after my mom went to my house to watch camryn. Janae was taken to the OR at 3:30pm and I didn't take her to the operating table til 5:00pm. It was the worst feeling ever. John and i tried hard to keep ourselves together but both of us had tears flowing. I took janae and was there til she closed her eyes and was out. She was in recovery within an hour. They reset her arm and have put two pins in her arm. I didn't get a chance at the hosptial to find out details so i hope to get some more clear answers next week. She woke up and was pretty groggy and continued to open her eyes and then fall back asleep. She has a 3/4 cast on so it almost covers her whole are and starts at her wrist and goes up to her shoulder. She will be in this for three weeks. At 3 weeks she will have the pins removed while awake and then another cast for three weeks.
It was such a nice stay at the hospital. We had a private room and visitors were allowed to visit at anytime during the day or night. John was even allowed to stay if her wanted to!
We were discharged at 4pm on Tuesday. Janae was really afraid to use her arm at first or move period but after a few times moving and seeing that it doesn't hurt like it did the day before when it was broken she has gotten quite comforatble moving aroun.
Janae slept ok last night. today she was doing puzzels, writing with her left hand(maybe she will switch and become a lefty) and helped me bake apple pie.
She is super thankful for all of you who prayed for her during this time and for the many visitors. She is sad that she has to miss preschool and can't play at the park. The minute we arrived home from the hospital she asked to put on her princess play shoes!! are you kidding me.:)
These next 6 weeks will probably be torturouse for all of us. Janae was already asking today at dinner when we were going to get out of the house!! Oh dear she has turned into me:)
So that is the story. Our next doc appointment is with teh surgeon who operated on her DR.Wikkham where she will have more x rays done.

Walk for Autism

Hey, for thoes of you who do not know I take care of a 13 year old boy with Autism. He is a high functioning autistic child and is pretty independent. If you go to their website www.walknowforautism.org and click the donate button and search Joshua French or Fraser Falcons.I had him full time in August and now he is in school so i only have him for a bit before school and then for a couple of hours after school. He is such an amazing child, super polite, well mannered, amazing with little kids and affectionate. He is such a joy to have in my home. It is a little louder in my house these days but it's fun.

I want to post a link for the Walk for Autism that Josh is participating in at the end of the month. He is trying to raise $1000.00. If you feel like you want to donate and help children with autism you can donate your money by going to their website www.walknowforautism.org and click the donate button and search Joshua French or Fraser Falcons.

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