Month of June

(I wrote all of this before putting the pictures on but then we had a serious problem with our camera. To make a long story short, a bunch of the pictures got corrupted and won't work. So I'm just going to leave the words and put in what pictures I can. This blog isn't as exciting as it was supposed to be. Sorry.)

Well, it has been a complete month since we've posted but we believe we have a better excuse than Jay and KJ for taking so long (actually 4 good reasons and they all keep us very busy). We have had a very busy month. We celebrated two birthdays, Eva finished grade one and we finally sold our van and got our last shipment of things from BC. We also have been adjusting to having 4 kids. Reina has been doing really well. For those of you who don't know we had some problems in the beginning and she was losing too much weight. We eventually had to put her on formula because she just had to be like her sisters. She began to gain weight right away and gained 9.5 oz in 2 1/2 days. We went for her 1 month check up and she weighed 8 lbs 3 oz which was a relief after the big scare. The kids all adore her (although Enoch does get jealous that mommy doesn't hold him quite as much)

It was Paul's birthday on the 9th and Enoch's on the 15th. We didn't do a whole lot for Paul's birthday but for Enoch's birthday I did make him a Spiderman cake. He LOVES Spiderman!! Paul has tried not to influence his likes but he was bound to get into Spiderman anyway. To celebrate his 2nd birthday Enoch threw away his soother. (Well, he actually only got rid of it this last week but close enough) I am especially celebrating this acheivement. I went to put him down for a nap and noticed that his soother had a large crack/hole in it. since this is dangerous I told him it was broken and that he had to be a big boy like his sisters and daddy and not have a soother anymore. I told him he needed to put it in the garbage and he did. When I finally got him in his bed he was talking about how it was broken and in the garbage. He still does everytime he goes for a nap or at night time but we haven't had too much of a problem getting him down. Potty training next!!


Enoch got a tool set for his birthday and enjoyed "fixing" things in our house. He especially enjoyed hammering our bookshelf. (All of Enoch's birthday pictures got corrupted which made us very upset. They were so cute too!!!)



Reina has begun to smile at us. The kids think this is great especially the girls and they enjoy trying to get her to smile. (I will try to get some new ones of Reina smiling soon.)


(All the pictures of Reina in this blog are at least three weeks old. She has grown quite a bit since then.)

Oooooh the saliors life's for me!

(This was a blog we started but never finished, thought you would like to see it.)

We had fun on Saturday. Paul decided to take the kids to Halifax to give Heather a break. We were lucky beacause the Argintine sailing Ship the "Libertad" was visiting for this weekend only. We also walked down the boardwalk and bit and had a ride on the ferry (an activity the kids have been looking forward to.)

On the boardwalk there was a cement wave and a kind of modern art display out of ship parts. The kids enjoyed climbing all over it all.