What we've been up to lately...

Declan wearing Lilah's hat she made at mom's group.

Happy boy!

Ready for Farrah's bday party!

The other night we were invited to the Russenburger farm for dinner. The kids all had a blast! Here's Farrah taking Lilah for a ride on the quad:)

Lilah loved the baby cows! When one of the workers asked Lilah if she wanted to give one of the calves some milk from a bottle her response was "but I don't have a boobie?!" So adorable:)

Lilah taking Woody for a ride!

Lilah's bedroom with the beautiful sunset the other night!

For Aaron's 27th birthday this year we took a trip out to Vancouver Island to visit Katie and Ian and their son Aaron! Here we are picnicing in a beautiful park at the Gorge Waterway.

Cuddles with daddy:)

Aaron sucking on Decs' hand.

Lilah and Moses! This is my friend Missy's dog, who came for a visit awhile back. I love how it looks like the dog has two piggy tails like Lilah!

Bathtime. He's getting so big already:(

Decs enjoying his crib and mobile. Its currently set up in Lilah's bedroom which will soon be his bedroom.

Lilah and Declan this morning. She can almost always make her brother smile:)

Here's some pictures of the addition. This is Lilah's pink bedroom. Its so nice the ceilings are 9 1/2 feet tall.

This is where her bed will go and thats her closet to the right.

Not a great pic but it shows where the bathroom is and the colors.

More rec room. There are 2 nice windows! The walls are all painted thanks to my cousin Curtis. He's so fast and efficient and did a way better job than I could ever do! Now we need to find someone who can install the carpet. You can see it through the doorway there ready to go. That door leads to the store so when I watch the store its easy for me to get to.

Big smiles:)

Me and the Easter bunny decorating easter eggs.

We got the kids dedicated at church the other sunday!

Lilah and dad's new dog Rev.

Concentrating very hard, actually he's taking a poop:)

Almost ready for the bumbo!

Declan was 2 months old yesterday! And he's still such a good baby:) He sure has changed since he was born, getting cuter by the day! We've been trying to soak up as much sun as possible, when it decides to come out. Yesterday we went for lunch at Auntie Julie's. We walked to the park and let the kids play. Declan of course slept the whole time. I can't wait til summer and warm days and just being able to let Lilah play outside as much as she wants. Right now if its raining she gets really upset and still wants to go outside but of course I don't want to! Today I'm sure we'll take Lilah to a park, its so beautiful outside. Waking up to sunshine just makes my day:)

I don't think it will be too much longer before our addition is done. Lilah's bedroom is painted and ready for carpet, which we just purchased on craigslist! Wonderful thing I tell you! We also bought her a chandelier from Home Depot, and Aaron got $40 off! That was half the price of the light, and such a good deal!

On another note we are probably going the the Island for Aaron's birthday weekend coming up! It will be so fun to see little Aaron again (and Ian and Katie too of course;) We will not be bringing Lilah along so it may actually feel like a little vacation for me! Anyways gotta go.

Goings On...

This is the Moby Wrap Katie gave me. Declan really likes it!

My sleeping babies:) The music must have lulled them to sleep.

Kisses for her baby brother.

Uncle Tim! There are definitely some similarities between the two of them!

Relaxing with Auntie.

Well, what to write? Things are going really well around here. The recroom/Lilah's bedroom addition is coming along slowly. Dad's in there mudding today! Soon I'll be able to start painting. Lilah's had some good days and bad. A tantrum here and there but for the most part she is very good for me. Declan on the other hand is a little angel:0) He is just so happy and content. He's giving us lots of smiles now:) The last 5 nights he's been sleeping from 9:45pm til around 3:30am, has a feeding and than sleeps til 7:30amish! Sometimes even later! Its so nice too because I sleep solidly in those 5 hours, its wonderful. We have our final midwife appt next monday:( Its always sad saying goodbye to them. At least my family doctor is in the same office so when I see him I'll probably see the midwives as well:)

Hide and Seek

The other day during Lilah's not so "quiet play time" I went in her room to check on her and found this. Do you see what I see? Scroll down.

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Oh there she is! It took me like 15 seconds before I realized where she was. What a sweetie:) When I asked her later on what she was doing and showed her the pictures on the camera she said she was putting her baby to sleep. Than she said she was hiding from the tiger! Such an imagination, I love it!

On Friday Colleen and Julie (sis-in-law) threw me and Declan a shower! I had so much fun and didn't get home until 11:30pm. That's pretty late for me. Aaron even called over there to see where I was! Lots of babies showed up, Decs has lots of friends already.

Here they all are! The oldest is 8 months and Declan is the youngest at 5 weeks. Oh they are soo cute!

Enjoying the food and company!

1 Month Old!

Declan was a month old yesterday. Wow what a month it has been! No wonder its gone by so fast! Decs is still a wonderful baby. He hardly ever cries, unless he is hungry than its "feed me and feed me NOW"! He is a grunter and he's noisy about it. Gets kind of annoying at 5 in the morning. His nose has cleared up for the most part finally. Lilah still loves him, thankfully. The other day she took him out of his swing and carried him up onto the couch with her. I was in my bedroom for like 2 minutes and came out and there they were on the couch together! Extra long timeout for Lilah and a GOOD scolding, as my grandma would put it! She hasn't attempted that since but now I'm extra careful. We go see the midwife again on Thurs. Interesting to see how much he weighs now. At 2 1/2 weeks he was 9lbs.2oz. He has changed so much. He is completely bald on the top of his head:( Kinda looks like a little old man. Lovely! We still love him!

Cute Video for your Viewing Pleasure:)

11 days old

Great Gramma, Fifi and Decs:)

All the cousins together for the first time!

Declan's 2nd bath, and he likes it!

1 week and 9 weeks:)

Declan is now 11 days old and such a sweet baby! I couldn't have asked for a better boy! Since he was 3 days old he was feeding on a 2 1/2-3 hour schedule and going around 4 hours at night. I'm a big fan of the baby wise method:) And Declan is doing so well on this schedule. He is so content and really only cries when he wakes up from his nap and is hungry. I'm finding it so much easier the 2ND time around. I had so much anxiety when Lilah was a newborn, was she hungry? tired? I don't have any of that with Declan. Experience is a good thing when it comes to newborns. He does have quite a plugged little nose, poor guy, but the saline drops seem to be helping. And he still nurses well and sleeps well at night. Lilah is very infatuated and possessive of her baby brother. She does tend to smother him a bit, but loves to hold him and sing and talk to him. Aaron only went back to work yesterday. It was very nice having him around as Mr. mom:)

This past weekend was really fun! It was my niece Cali's 1st birthday on Thurs and we celebrated on Sat. Aaron's sister Katie and Ian and their son Aaron came over from the Island for the weekend. So good to spend time with them.

He's Here!!!

Declan Timothy Trickett has finally arrived! He was born at 11:59pm on Valentine's Day! Weighing 8 lbs. Here's a little bit about his birth story. Saturday was a really long day for me, not because I was in labour all day but because I was a little depressed about being 1 day overdue, and having nothing to do on V. day :( I went for a good long walk with mom and Lilah in the morning, and tried to keep busy cleaning the house, like vacuuming. I was having cramping and maybe a contraction every half hour to one hour, but definitely not the real thing. At 9:30 pm I went to bed, had 2 more braxton hicks-like contractions and fell asleep. At 10:30pm I woke up having a very strong contraction the strongest yet and felt a pop. Sure enough my water had broken! Hallelujah:) Aaron was still awake and pretty excited when I told him. He went upstairs right away and told mom and dad. Mom came down and started timing my contractions for me. 2-3 min. apart so I paged the midwife. This was at around 11:10pm. Dad and Aaron got busy filling up the birthing pool which was already blown up in my bedroom and ready to go, it just needed water. The midwife arrived at 11:45pm and right around that time I had to start pushing! I was stuck on my bed on my side and there was no moving me to the pool! At a home birth there has to be two midwives present, one for mom and one for baby, well that 2ND one didn't make it in time. Declan was born at 12 midnight. Later the midwife checked her watch with her GPS satellite time and was a minute fast so he was born at 11:59pm! Can't argue with that:) I did need a few stitches, but am doing great! He's nursing beautifully and I couldn't have asked for a better baby. The first 2 nights have been hard but I was expecting that this time round so it was no surprise that he wanted to nurse for like 5 hours straight. I loved being at home and having my baby, and would highly recommend it. I don't think I would have even made it to the hospital if I had wanted to! Declan's nose was very crooked just like Lilah's but its getting much better! We are so in love already:0)

40 Weeks Today!

Actually I shouldn't put an exclamation point after that cause I'm not too happy about it. Darn false labour is sooo annoying! I didn't have much of that with Lilah at all, my water just broke and I had her 9 hours later. Really wish that would happen with this one. I can't say I really want a Valentine's baby but at this point I'll take tomorrow! The waiting and anticipation is very hard but I know it will all be worth it when I'm holding my baby in my arms:) I saw my midwife again on wed. and had another sweep. I was a good 3-4cm dilated and very thinned compared to the previous week. Since than I've had tons of contractions obviously not the real thing but I'm sure its helping. I don't know how my sister-in-law Katie went 9 days overdue without absolutely going crazy?! I think its worse with the second because you sort of know what to expect. I guess that's all for now. Soon I'll be posting a picture of my boy!

39 weeks today...

I saw my midwife again on Wednesday and everything is looking good. I'm probably a pretty boring client because I never really have any questions. My belly measured 35cm and I've now gained a whopping 27.5lbs. I'd say that's pretty good:) I also had my membranes swept and I'm 2-3cm dilated! The baby is definitely off to one side so the midwife suggested spending some time on my hand and knees to get the baby to move. I don't think its been very successful yet though. I'm getting all my kicks on the top left side of my belly button. Yesterday evening my back was killing me and I think it was because I went on a good long walk that morning. Today was better but I've been having a lot more braxton hicks contractions lately. Everything to prepare my body for the real thing! Oh joy:\ I had Lilah at 39 weeks and 5 days so I'm hoping its sooner with this one. Anyway, Aaron just brought home a movie and a booster juice for me, what a guy! Gotta go. I'll try and keep you posted.

37 Week Photo Shoot by Auntie Holly!