Spring!

It's finally spring!

We are very excited that Spring is finally here. The boys are outside every day enjoying the warm weather, puddles, and mud. Thankfully everything is starting to dry up so I am doing a little less laundry, except that we started potty training this week, so there is more laundry again.
Luke is doing really well. He got a pee pal sticker for his birthday from his Aunties. It's a black circle that you stick on the bottom of the potty bowl. When he pees on it, a lady bug appears! It's very exciting. Noah has definitely been his biggest cheerleader. He is always standing beside him and yelling reports to me from down the hall, and then cheering loudly when Luke does his business. It's very sweet.

Luke and Noah playing with their Moon Sand outside on the deck.

I found a few pictures on the camera that I don't remember taking, so I think the boys were experimenting a bit on their own. This is Luke posing with his firetruck.

A still of the living room floor and library books.

Luke's 3rd Birthday!

We celebrated Luke's 3rd Birthday this weekend. It was pretty low key. I've been running on low energy for a few weeks now so we decided to cut back and have a family only party. I felt kinda bad for Luke because we went to so much more work for Noah's party but I don't think Luke had any less fun. I didn't even make the cake myself, which I also had to deal with mommy-guilt about. But I felt really good about it all after the party was over and we all had had a really good time.

Luke's actual birthday was on Saturday, so we celebrated by having cinnamon buns for breakfast, then off to Music Lessons and to the Libraray. We went to the Veggie Tales movie at the cheap theatre in the afternoon, but had to leave early because Noah found it too suspenseful.

Luke has been promising a few things to us that he would do "after his birthday", he told us he would use the potty and go to Mini God Zone (Sunday school). So Sunday we put him to the test. We talked up the Mini God Zone all morning, and he was sounding pretty positive, but when it came to Nath dropping him off, he caved and Nath had to stay with him. So we'll have to work on that one a bit more. As for the potty training , we'll see how far we get with that this week. I can't say I'm extremely excited to clean up potty training messes while feeling nauseous with morning sickness, but I sure would love a break from changing diapers. It's been 4 years and 3 weeks of changing diapers, and it would be great to have a break before it starts all over again.

Luke opening presents from Mommy and Daddy with Noah's help

We got him a doctor's set and a new wading pool.

Dr. Luke off to another emergency.

Luke and his cousins Caleb and Jack

The store bought birthday cake, note the finger mark in the middle.

Luke shoveling in the cake!

Luke opening presents, it was hard to get a shot of him though because the other boys (cousin and brother) were very intent on "helping" him. They all had lots of fun!

Coming Soon...A New Wiebe

So for those of you who haven't heard yet, we're having another baby. So here's the answers to all your questions:
Due beginning of November, yes it was planned, no I'm not hoping for a girl, I really don't care as long as it's healthy, but we would like to find out ahead of time. The boys will be 3-1/2 and 4-1/2 when baby comes. And I'm feeling really nauseous. I think that should cover the basics.

We had our first midwife appointment with Toni yesterday. It was so great to see her again. This is our third time with her. It was pretty low key, we spent a lot of time catching up, going over the paperwork and talking about the logistics. She is sending a referral to Genetics just to be on the safe side. Not that there is any concern, they just want to cover all the bases. So we'll probably have an early fetal assessment to make sure this baby is healthy. We'll also get Luke's cardiologist to do an ultrasound to double check the heart. Our chances of having another heart baby are very, very slim. It goes up from 1% chance to 2% chance, because we've had a heart baby before. So this baby will be very well investigated.

The boys are also excited about the baby. Luke has asked for a sister, and would like to just go pick it up from the store( if only it were that easy). While Noah has asked for a brother. So at least one of them will get what they want. They have been talking about where the baby's going to sleep and where the baby's going to sit in the car and which vegetables they are going to plant in the garden for the baby. It's all very sweet. I think they will be good helpers when the baby comes.

Noah's Excavator Party

Here's just a few pictures from Noah's final Birthday Bash.
This was his Excavator party with all his friends.
Unfortunately I didn't take a lot of pictures. I got most of it on the video camera, which I don't know how to hook up to the computer.

This is the excavator cake I made. The body was quite easy, just 2-9X13's cut up, it was the arm and scoop that had me stumped for the longest time. I ended up using rolled up cardboard for the arm and covering it with icing, and the scoop was made out of chocolate that I tinted orange. I made one out of paper and then poured a couple of layers of melted chocolate over it. I was happy with the results.

This was the cake after 12 adults and 11 kids (all 4 and under) got at it.

Here are the boys after the party putting together Noah's first Lego set.

Luke's prayer

Last night when I was putting the boys to sleep, Luke insisted that he had to pray first before anyone else. This was his prayer. " Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord wake me with the morning light... Dear God, please help me and brother to stay awake! Amen!"

Skating and Parties

This was the view out our front door the morning of my birthday

Noah after his skating lesson

Noah and Luke at skating Lessons

Chocolate Sour Cream Glazed Cake I made for the Party

My Nephew Jack opening his present from Noah and Luke

Noah opening his present from Gramma and Grampa

Noah reading his new favorite book from Uncle Joel and Auntie Tannis

More of the boys

Sorry, I pushed Enter when I shouldn't have and the previous post posted before the video was uploaded. On a brighter note, I think I'm setting my own personal best record for highest number of blogger posts in one day. I really have done a lot of other stuff today too. I was at church all morning with Moms group, we made a trip to Dollarama, we cleaned up the kitchen, drove downtown to pick up Nath, had an estimate for a new furnace, made supper, did a webcam with Rach after opening the packages, ate supper and now putting up a quick post before heading to skating lessons. Sorry I'm just waiting for the upload to finish....

The Hockey Jerseys- For Rachie and Eeky

The Boys have been waiting for two very special packages from Uncle Eric and Auntie Rachie
They finally arrived today!
(Noah was a lot more excited than he's portraying in the picture)

This is the video of the opening of the packages

Florida, Part Two

Here'a few more pictures from Florida:

This is The Hulk roller coaster
The ride only lasts for about 90sec.

This is the entrance to the Dueling Dragons Roller coaster.
There are two cars that run simultaneously, one red and one blue, and it's the kind where your feet just hang. Well when the two roller coasters cross paths it's so close that you feel that you have to tuck in your feet in to prevent losing them!


Random palm tree


This is inside the condo we stayed at

Sea Monster made of lego
At Lego land at Main Street Disney

The boys reminscing about the Lego they had as kids.
It took them a long time to get out of that store.

These next pictures are from Noah and Luke's holiday in Winkler. Including the first of three of Noah's birthday parties this year. The first was at Nath's parents place in Winkler, the next one will be a joint party with cousin Jack and the third is at our place on his actual birthday with a bunch of friends.

This is at Frank and Helen's (Eric parent's) feeding the baby cow.

Noah with his cake.
Do you think he liked it?

Noah is wearing his new McQueen hoodie from Eric and Rach
and holding the McQueen from the cake.
You can never have too much of McQueen!

Florida, Pt One

Nath and I recently had an opportunity to travel to Orlando with our good friend Al and Rach. So our parents graciously offered to watch our boys for us and we spent 4 nights in Florida. We had a wonderful time. Highlights included golfing for the boys, Islands of Adventure at Universal Studios and walking Main Street Disney, where we saw the Cirque du Soleil show "La Nouba".

At the entrance to Universal Studios
just before we went into Islands of Adventure

Me, Rach and Nath going down Rip Saw falls

This is how drenched we were after going down twice
fortunately this was the last ride of the day
but we did still have a very soggy walk back to the car

The Back Seat Drivers

Al and I on "The Hulk"

Our Travel Companions Al and Rach with the Wolverine
(Al's the one with the glasses)

Nath and I in Jurassic Park

More photos to follow, once I find them....

Belated Christmas Post

Here are a few pictures and videos from our Christmas. Hope you enjoy!!

This is at Noah and Luke's Music Lessons. They go every Saturday morning. It took until this mid November before they actually started participating in the class. Now they really enjoy it. Here Cathy is telling them the Gingerbread Man story. Whenever there is walking or running they have to bang on their drums.

The read stick are tapped in time with the music, on the floor over their heads, on their knees, etc.

This is Noah playing the xylophone. Luke you'll see wasn't quite ready to perform yet, as there were parents and grandparents in the classroom watching this day. He did participate later. As shown in the next video.

This is Luke dancing with Cathy, Noah chooses not to participate in the dancing , but the rest of them love it. I think this is what the girls look forward to every week they are so cute. Luke really enjoys it too, he will sometimes even practice it at home during the week.

This was Noah's debut in the Christmas Pagent. He was the cutest sheep there!

Here's Noah enjoying an after show snack with his favorite angel, Julianna.


Here are Noah and Luke on our Christmas morning.
They were thrilled to see Santa had enjoyed their cookies and that he left a few crumbs for them to snack on in the morning!


Noah and Luke got a camera for Christmas. So they were snapping pictures.
Here's one of Grandpa Bill being silly.
(Nath's grandpa)


Here's Noah, Caleb and Luke in their Christmas PJ's

Noah and Luke helping Oma make Waffle batter.

Our camera batteries went dead after this so we didn't get pictures of our other gathering. But we had a great time with everyone. Now I guess we start planning birthdays! I'm turning the big 3-0 this year and Noah's 4th Birthday is just a week later. Then Luke's about 6 weeks after that. Noah has requested an excavator cake. So we'll see how that goes.

Music lessons continue til June, and Noah is going to be starting Skating Lessons with Nath this week, which he is so excited about. We got his little skates and helmet all ready to go. Though I'm not sure how much we want to encourage the hockey thing. That equipment is so expensive. I think soccer or basketball or something that only requires a pair of shoes might be nicer. But I guess that's not up to us.

Wiebe Elves!

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A New Look and a New Post!!

Well I know it's been awhile, but better late than never. Right? I've been meaning to update for awhile but it's been so busy here lately.

I wanted to let you all know about Luke's appointment this morning. We all trekked down to Dr. Shukett's office first thing this morning for another opthalmology check up. The first plus was that the underground parkade, or "park-cave" as Noah calls it, had room so we could park indoors and not have to walk from the William street Parkade.

Secondly, Dr. Shukett was in a pretty good mood which was a pleasant surprise, maybe because his regular secretary was back from mat leave, or the impending Christmas Holidays, I don't know.

And Thirdly, ... he put different sizes of pictures on the screen and asked Luke what they were, this is instead of the regular eye charts that we adults are used to. He said Luke's vision had improved and he is now about 20/80 with both eyes. This is a huge improvement from the 20/200 we were originally told. I asked what the normal acuities are for this age and he said that 20/40 would be average for a 2.5 year old. He is still very quick to call Luke "visually handicapped" but I guess that's better than the "legally blind" we got before. He said that a year from now we'll have a better picture of what his vision will be like as an adult.

So all in all a pretty good appointment. We topped that off with breakfast and cinnamon buns at Stella's on Osborne which is always a treat. So we had a pretty good morning.

My only concern is that I hope we don't lose our OT from CNIB because his vision is better. Angie is coming tomorrow morning and I guess we'll talk about it then. She is such a great resource now and I think she would be especially great for once Luke starts school.

While we are on the topic of Angie, we went to the CNIB Christmas Party this weekend. The boys had a lot of fun making crafts and playing games. They even saw Santa and his guide-dog. They did keep their distance from Santa but did very-briefly pat the dog.

Well I guess that's all for now. Sorry there's no pictures, I'll get some up soon. The boys have their Music Lessons Christmas Open house this Saturday and Noah has his first Church Christmas Program this Sunday. So I'm sure there'll be plenty of pictures to post from those events. Maybe even a video if I get ambitious!