SOMEONE IS ONE!!!

Crazy this day has come and gone. How is our baby already one year's old. It's been on crazy amazing year with this girl and we have just loved having this little girl in our life and home.

Kansas so far

-Like all my kids is a champion sleeper. Goes to bed between 7 and 8PM and wakes up every morning between 7 and 8 AM.

- She is one good eater and eats pretty much anything we give her. She especially loves Cheese, Yogurt drinks, Sweet Potatoes, Butternut Squash, Puffs, and all kinds of fruit.

- She is a crawling machine and loves walking all over the house as long as she has someone to hold her hand or her walker. It won't be long before she is walking by herself.

- She loves playing with any kind of toys and especially loves Balls, and toys that make noise. We just recently brought up Macie's Kitchen and her new favourite thing to do is go and play with the kitchen, opening and closing the doors and picking up the pots and pans.

- She is so in love with all of her Family, but has a special love for her Daddy. Daddy is pretty smitten with her as well. 

- Her health has been pretty good so far, the Ptosis in her eye does not happen as much as it use to, but we are still waiting to see a Neurologist to discuss the possibility of her having Myasthenia Gravis. 

- She is still such a tiny little bug and weighs around 18 lbs with not a lot of fat rolls. 

- She definitely can be stubborn though when she wants something, and likes to be difficult when trying to comfort her, she hates being cuddled and you have to just put her down and walk away and let her sooth or calm herself down. She also hates teething and can get pretty miserable when a tooth is coming in, and of course with being a little stubborn she won't ever take the chew toys we give her to help, she has to find some random thing around the house to chew on that is not good for her to be putting in her mouth. 

- She loves sucking her thumb and the minute you lay her down in her bed she grabs one of her favourite blankets and puts her thumb in her mouth and rubs her blanket with her hands. It is so stinking adorable, and even though it is probably not the best thing for her teeth, she is so cute when she does it. 

- A couple months ago she learned to wave, give high fives, and clap her hands.

- Her Laugh, Smile, Giggle are so ridiculously cute, they just brighten your day. 

- What else to say, she is one pretty awesome kid and we all just Love her so much. So excited to start to see her next milestones. Walking, Talking, Playing more with toys. 

We celebrated her Birthday today with some yummy supper, then some Chocolate Cupcakes Dad made with Ice Cream. She loved the cupcake and almost devoured the whole thing. Then she did a fabulous job unwrapping a couple presents we got for her. We kept it pretty low key as we already have some many toys from Macie and Wade. Just a couple fun shaped balls and a little toy that plays music. She seemed pretty happy with it all. 

JUST LIKE DAD

I came outside from just having put Kansas down for a nap and saw this adorable guy trying to be just like his Dad. It was so stinking cute, I hope he watches his Dad lots and tries hard to be like him always. His Dad is one pretty amazing guy and if Wade can turn out to be just like him, I'd be a pretty Happy Mom!

20 KM's

Last year we challenged this girl to do a 20 KM bike ride (to Kinisoo Beach and back) She didn't quit have the endurance yet but did do a 14 KM bike ride, still impressive for a 5 year old. This year we challenged her again to try and bike to the Beach and back with us, and she did it. Barely even phased her actually. She rocked it and probably could have gone farther. This little girls endurance is incredible. She is now so confident and strong on her bike it is so awesome going for bike rides and not having to worry if she is going to be able to handle it.  We are looking forward for many long family bike rides in the future. 

MISS CASSANDRA

Macie had two years of Jazz with her amazing teacher Miss Cassandra. She started teaching Macie  her final year of grade 12 and then this year as she took one year off before heading to school to Dance herself  and make some extra money teaching. She is one of the sweetest girls I've meet and such a good dance teacher. Macie learned so much and had a blast learning how to dance. On the last night of Dance Recital I took Macie to watch Miss Cassandra dance, she was an amazing Dancer, Macie was watching her the whole time and couldn't take her eyes off of her. It makes me so grateful as a Mom that others are willing to share there talents with my children to help them succeed and go farther in life.

PHOTO BOMB!!!

Kansas is just smitten with Wade and follows him everywhere

loving the nice weather 

loving our rental car we had for a couple days while our Traverse got its AC fixed

Mesquitos and Kansas don't go well together

love that smile

love these three kiddos of mine

last day of Roots of Empathy

loving her Chocolate Cupcake

looking extra cute for church

She is in love with the Beach

These two are such good buddies

two fisting it

she loves her YOPS

Watching Living Scriptures Together

KINDERGARTEN GRADUATION!

That year went buy so fast, I can't believe she is already done Kindergarten and is moving onto Grade  1. Macie had such an amazing year and did so well learning french. Her Kindergarten teacher Mme Valerie was amazing, definitely a Mom's dream come true. She made lots of friends and mastered her Alphabet, numbers, shapes and made huge improvements with her drawing. Everything she does is in French, she learns no English at school. It was incredible when we went to her Graduation party and they had all the kids singing all these songs, and poems in French. Macie has full conversations in French with her teachers and when we are at a park and someone is there speaking french she will start having conversations with them. It is so impressive and I am so glad we put her in the French Program. She was given the "Stellar Storytellar Award" at her graduation party and the teacher talked about how impressed she was with this little girl and how everyday she comes in telling a story, and near the end of the year she would come in telling her stories in french. Because they don't learn any English at school we take the time at home to teach Macie how to read in English. She has been doing amazing, sometimes she gets a little confused sounding out her vowels cause she is mixing them up with french vowels, but she is doing awesome and giving me such a positive attitude, I am so proud of her. She is definitely gonna miss Mme Valerie, but is getting excited to be in Grade 1.

PRESCHOOL GRADUATION

Wade had such an amazing year at Pre-school. He had such a positive attitude, he was such a leader in his classroom, and he learned so much. We had another amazing year with Ms Patty, and this year the Teachers Ad Ms Brenda just adored Wade. Wade loved both his teachers and had some pretty amazing friends with him. Deklan Hamilton, Malcolm Burgess, Maja Pinch. He made some new friends Mia, Grayson, Osric, and Hannah. Buy the end of the year he knew all his upper case and lower case letters, and is even starting to read from some easy reading books. So excited for him to take the next step in his learning and go into Kindergarten this September.

first day of school

last day of school

Mrs Patty

ANKLE SURGERY!!

Friday July 6th I went into the Cold Lake Hospital to have my crappy ankle hopefully and finally fixed. A little history, In Grade 10 I tore every ligament in my ankle at Volleyball practice, and then again when I was about 22 I jumped off a platform and landed on loose rocks tarrying the ligaments in my ankle again. Then these past 4 years I have been having endless issues with it. If i hit even a little bit of an uneven surface my ankle will Pop out of its socket and then I have to pop it back in myself. Sometimes it hurts for an hour, and sometimes if hurts for a couple of days. I knew I had to go see a Doctor about it but when your a Mom to little kids and a hubby that works away from home all your stuff gets put on the back burner. About 4 months ago though I was holding Kansas while pushing Macie on the swing and when I put my leg back I landed on a bit of uneven snow and it popped out hard. I fell to the ground and dropped Kansas face first into the snow. She was bleeding everywhere and got all these tiny micro cuts on her face. My Ankle was swollen this time and even bruised a little and I couldn't walk hard on it for a week. It was finally time to get this thing looked at. I had an ultrasound done on it and they sent me to an Orthopaedic Surgeon. The Ortho Doctor sent me the for X-Rays to confirm what kind of surgery he wanted to do. He put a rush on the surgery when he saw how bad the Ultrasound looked, I had one ligament that was completely torn and another that was halfway. The booking office called me the next day and they booked the surgery in three weeks (July 6). My work was so good at rearranging my schedule (oh yeah buy the way I am back at work) and my wonderful Mom took some time off of her work and from her life to come up and help me out when Mark is away at work. It's gonna suck being in a cast for 3 weeks and then an Air Cast after that for a month or two, especially over Summer, but if it fixes this ankle of mine it is worth it. 

My last long hard walk the night before my surgery

waiting for the spinal to wear off so I can go home