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!

Trick or Treat!

This is the first year that the boys have really known what's going on at Halloween. Noah has been asking for days "Is today Halloween?" When I could finally answer yes he replied with squeals of joy.

After supper we asked the boys if they were ready to going trick or treating and Noah said we had to wait til "Halloween night" . We told him it was, but he said "No it has to be dark outside." Luckily we didn't have to wait too long before it got dark outside. So we headed out. We went to the neighbors that we know, and thought that would probablly be it, but I guess the boys caught on to benefits of going to more houses because they said, "just one more house." So we went to a few more, I was surprised at Noah, he actually yelled "trick or treat" at the door. Luke had a little more perserverance than Noah so I took him all the way around the bay, but didn't stop at every house.

Here is our little duck heading out the door.
Yes it might look like a chicken, but Noah said he was a duck.

Here's the duck's brother, the monkey.

Duck and Monkey sitting on the new porch.

Mommy with her Monkey

So we have a bit of candy now, they did have a some yesterday, lollipops are their favorites, and I still need to find a spot to put away the rest. But it wasn't a crazy amount. It was fun going to the houses and everyone got a kick out of their cute costumes, especially because it's mostly seniors on our bay. So I think our first trick or treating outing was a success and the boys had a lot of fun.

The Front Porch and the Sleepy Boys

We did a little project this weekend. A new front porch.
I've been wanting one for years, so we finally did it.
My parents came in on Saturday and Dad and Nath worked away at it.
Nath finished up the railing on Monday. Now we are ready for all the trick or treaters tomorrow!

"BEFORE"

"AFTER!!"

And here are our sleepy boys. Noah who fell asleep on the couch one afternoon, and a little video of Luke at the supper table one night last week. Felt so sorry for the little guy but it was so funny too.

Leaves and Corn and Pumpkins

We had some fun this weekend being outside. I love Fall! I love the colors, the temperature, the crispness in the air. It makes me wish we could have Fall all year long, but I guess it wouldn't be so special if we had it all year long.

The birch tree in our front yard is always the first to change. It turns a brillant yellow and looks as if it's illuminated from within. But it is also the first to loose it's leaves and quickly. It only took one windy day and all the leaves were on the ground. Now it looks naked surronded by all the green trees on our yard. When it started to turn yellow Noah was a little sad. I was trying to convince him that it's so pretty when all the trees turn different colors but all he said was " I like it when the trees are green, I don't want them to be other colors." But I think he's starting to change his mind because he wants to be outside constantly raking the leaves.

On a side note, we had Luke's yearly cardiology check up last Wednesday, and everything looks great. They did an EKG, and echocardiogram and checked his BP too. Everything looked good. I love watching the echo, it's an ultrasound of his heart. It's so amazing to see his heart beating and watching the valves open and close, knowing what his little heart has been through. It was especially cool watching it in the same room, and on the same screen, that we were in while I was pregnant with him, when the cardiologist confirmed his heart condition, 2 1/2 years ago. I'm still amazed at how far he's come.

Nath and the boys in the leaves

Noah: "Just let me at those leaves!"

These next picture are Noah's
He wanted to take some on his own.
I think he has some talent. Maybe he'll take over for Opa!

This is Noah's picture of our sick tree.
He's very interested in this tree and likes to look inspect it often.
It has some fungal disease, but we've had it checked out and apparently it's ok.

Noah's pic of Daddy.
(I did some cropping)

Noah's pic of us

Luke didn't want Noah to take his picture

We went to the corn maze on Sunday with nath's family.
Noah and Luke got their own pumpkins there.

Luke and the pumpkins.

Luke and Oma on top of the bale pyramid.

Oma, Rach with Luke, Noah and Nath

Noah in the petting Zoo at the Corn maze. He LOVES Bunnies. They were his favorite over horses, a calf, goats, and everything else. They are also his favorite in the pet store.

The corn maze was pretty good but the bales, petting zoo and pumpkins were a lot more exciting for the boys. Thankfully they were included in the price of admission! We did try the corn maze for a bit but got tired of walking in circles. And all the corn looks the same to the boys, (and the adults) so we took a few illegal shortcuts and left early.