| Goodbye Michael Jackson |
[Jun. 25th, 2009|10:29 pm] |
Michael Jackson, gone? It's inconceivable. I am watching Much Music, had CNN on for a while too and I just can't believe what I'm seeing. This is so sad.
June 25th has always been special to me because it is George Michael's birthday. But from now on, it will be a sad day. The day the music died.
Rest in peace. |
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| notes from the nursery |
[Jun. 13th, 2009|11:57 am] |
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You haven't lived until you have dodged exploding baby poop.
Up until yesterday, up to my elbows in poop would have been a figure of speech. |
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| Meet our Little Duckies!!! |
[May. 12th, 2009|11:41 pm] |
Meet our Litte Duckies! Taken May 12, 2009 - exactly one week old today. Born May 5, 2009.
We're leaving the hospital tomorrow, we've finally been discharged!
Emilie and Gwen. I think Emilie is on the left in this picture. She is bigger, Gwen had less baby fat and a smaller head. Otherwise, they look identical, so far!
Born a minute apart, Emilie at 8:28 am and her sister at 8:29 am.
Emilie: 5 lbs. 11 oz.
Gwen: 5 lbs. 6 oz.
---Thanks for the well-wishes, visits, cards, everything... Mommy and Daddy Duck are very exhausted and we will need all the help we can get at home with these two duckies.
Don't know when I will be back online, could be a month. Having twins is harder than I ever imagined.
*loves* hugs to my friends. |
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| Writer's Block: Gamer's Choice |
[Apr. 13th, 2009|10:05 pm] |
Coleco-Vision's Mr. Do!!!
This game was the 1st one I really got addicted to. I couldn't stop playing. I can still hear the music in my head! I just played this one non-stop when I was a kid.
I also loved the Coleco Vision Smurfs game and played a lot of QBert too. After that, I was hooked on my little tabletop Pac-Man game for the longest time, then moved on to Marios Bros. on Nintendo which I also became addicted to and played to death. Ahh, the good ole days! |
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| Only one month left! |
[Apr. 5th, 2009|02:39 pm] |
Sorry to those who already saw this on facebook.
I was 32 weeks pregnant when this was taken. This is Baby A and that is apparently her fingers on the right next to her mouth... and if you click on the thumbnail below, you'll see a clearer picture that even shows Baby B's foot on the lower left (you can see the toes and the bottom of the foot, to the heel). The twins each have their own placenta but in the ultrasounds it looks like they are practically glued to one another, their little bodies all tangled up together.
This is extra baby clothes that we are storing at my parents' house. We simply don't have room in our little nursery for anything else. We were lucky and got most of this from second-hand stores and gifts. The twins will be well-dressed! Though we do need more matching outfits as well as more smaller outfits for newborns.
Only one month to the day until the twins are born! They are actually due later, end of May, but are scheduled to come out a month from today instead. Let's hope the girls take after me and aren't EARLY for anything!! We don't want them to try and be early birds with this.
This weekend was Devin's 28th birthday (Friday) and his two brothers came down for a visit, which is awesome. Friday evening was most likely our last date, or night out together for a very looooong time. I surprised him and made reservations at a fancy restaurant called The Austrian Inn in Yarmouth, where they serve German-type food. To our surprise, it was buffet night! We had a great time. It was so delicious. It was an appropriate place for him to open his gifts since I got him 2 German cookbooks! I had to give him his other gift at home because it is pretty big - it's the Samurai Umbrella (he calls it the Sword-brella), that I saw on Udolpho's LJ when she bought it for herself. It is so cool! I kinda wanted him to see that even though he is a dad now, he can still be 'cool', hehe.
Well, I'm finally at 145 lbs. OMG! and the little kickboxers are at a good weight: 4 lbs. for one baby, and 3 lbs. 12 ounces for the other one. My feet are now 2 whole sizes bigger due to swelling. Had to get a few pairs of new shoes. Going into the hospital to stay real soon, I'll keep you posted.
I need a nap. |
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| Thanks for showing me what not to do with my kids. |
[Mar. 20th, 2009|03:39 pm] |
Please let me be a better parent to my twins than mine are to me.
My mother just stood there in front of me, shouting angrily and declared that it's all my fault. I've been causing them problems ever since I was born. I cost them x-amount of money, put them in debt, and most of all I ruined their lives and drove my father sick with stress.
His behaviour towards me, whether it was when he was drunk back then or sober today, is ALL my fault. It's all me, it's something in my "way", my personality. I asked how it could have been my fault when I was just a 2-year old child but she said it was. It's just the way I am, she said.
I did this to them and have no right to complain. How dare I complain if he verbally abuses me, because it's all my fault anyway. I made him this way. I caused him to be this stressed out. I suppose I drove him to drink back then.
He would treat me better and be nicer if I were a better daughter, she told me.
And I just don't have the right to be upset. How dare I be upset after "everything he's done for me"?
I was never an innocent child. It was always my fault, I always brought this on myself.
My mother stood there and told me this with a lot of conviction today. I've heard it before. It's hard to believe she still believes it. I thought we made progress. And I didn't think she would throw this in my face now that I am almost 8 months pregnant with twins and am not supposed to have any stress!
She was mad that I told her how upset I was after my father verbally abused me today. Mad because she couldn't imagine I would perceive it that way... I was an ungrateful child in her eyes, and to blame for everything - he wasn't mean to me today, she said, he was just under stress, and it was all my fault like it always is. Mad because after "everything he's done for me" I should just love him and accept whatever he throws my way - especially since any kind of stress he is under is all MY fault to start with.
Gee, thanks for defending me. Thanks for believeing in me.
Most of all, thanks for showing me what NOT to do with my own kids.
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So please, don't let me treat MY kids the way my parents treat me.
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Edit: Of course I know her harsh words are probably just a result of her years living with my father. It is hard to tell myself that though, after hearing the horrible things she told me. It's not easy to remind myself that these words don't really come from her, that she is more intelligent and caring than that deep down - that she is just like this because of my father.
But I know she must have been different once upon a time & probably has no idea what she's saying or what it means. I know in my head that this is all just a result of life in an alcoholic family. It's not really her fault. But it's hard to accept that in my heart sometimes, especially after the awful things she said to me today.
I mean, what planet does she live on? how can an intelligent, caring woman actually blame an innocent child, her own daughter? and continue to blame her daughter all the way through life? |
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| Does anyone need a free couch? |
[Mar. 1st, 2009|10:33 pm] |
Turns out we don't have any room for my couch at the new house, as much as I love it - I have to part with it. I bought it at a used furniture sale in Wolfville when I lived there and I'd like to see it go to a good home. As you can see in the picture, this is a couch that has been loved by kitties! So yes, there are scratches. This couch comes "pre-loved". LOL.
It is long, you can sleep on it but it doesn't fold out. There are matching pillows too. We could maybe deliver it at the same time we deliver the bed that Devin is giving his brother in Halifax (which also doesn't fit in our house).
Just let me know if anyone needs a couch and doesn't mind a few kitty scratches. It's in great shape apart from that.
Taken exactly one month before we lost Raphael to illness. Here he is curled up next to Teaa, his buddy.
*sniff sniff* we all miss him. He was a good kitty, a good friend. |
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| LadyMisty needs an iPod! |
[Mar. 1st, 2009|02:36 pm] |
Yes, as unbelievable as it might be, I have never owned an MP3 Player or an iPod. I'm an 80s girl and held on to my cassette-playing Walkman for as long as I could. I don't even know how these new things even work.
But I think it's time I had one. I don't even know the difference between an MP3 Player and an iPod, do they do the same thing? Which is most like a Walkman? It would come in handy when I get admitted to the hospital for my twins in May, and for other things in the meantime. Using my regular CD-player is getting very inconvenient because if I want to change a CD, change the volume or skip a song, I have to get up. Not easy when you're pregnant with twins. I'll still use it though, since I'm trying to play an hour of music for the twins every day.
So is there anything I should know before I buy one? |
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| We don't have to be just sheep! |
[Feb. 20th, 2009|02:38 am] |
Just finished watching Bill Maher's new movie, "Religulous". I loved it! I bought the DVD on the way to Halifax the other day.
It was really good to watch. I've been trying to be more tolerant to religion but I think that's a slippery slope to enabling and turning a blind eye. I've been a hypocrite. I still want to be tolerant, especially since many people I care about are religious. But I have to be more true to myself.
The truth is, I still believe religion is evil. That the world would be a better place without it. I think the only way we could possibly save the world from annihilation is if there was no religion - which won't happen, so I don't have much hope for the planet.
Yes, there is solace and some good to be found in religion, but I agree with what Bill Maher says at the end of the movie - that those things come at a VERY very high price. And personally, I don't think it's worth it. I really don't.
He ends by saying that those of us who are anti-religion should be less timid, speak out more... and it's true - how will there be any change for the better if we are too afraid to speak our mind? I used to speak my mind a lot on this subject and then lately, had become a lot more passive about it, more "tolerant" as I would call it. Unfortunately, there is not much difference between being tolerant and being an enabler, ie. being part of the problem.
It's like he said at the end of the movie. If you were a member of a social club or any kind of non-religious group that was responsible for so many horrible things that you didn't agree with, you would resign from the group! Yet religious people constantly make excuses and find reasons to stay within their religion no matter what. This is the same point I always make, which is would you attend a KKK barbeque just because the food was good? I think not. It is passively enabling the wrong to continue. It is saying that it is okay. It is evil.
I am not going to let my children grow up in that evilnesss and I want them to grow up to be critical thinkers. To have doubt, and a lot of it.
I want them to be good without God. To be good for goodness' sake. To be moral, just and compassionate because they want to and they know it's the right thing to do, not because some book told them to. And not because they are trying to be good so they will get into Heaven, that is not a good reason!
Someone in the movie says that without God telling us what is right and wrong, we wouldn't know how to be good - that humans need God or else they would be evil. Yes I agree that humans are evil, but that is exactly why religion is so dangerous! Religion puts power in the hands of humans, it allows humans to act as if they had power over others, and this leads to awful things. We are also able to think, and do good. We are able to conduct ourselves without having to say 'oh, I am doing this because God wants me to'. So long as there is religion, we will never have equality. It just angers me so much. It has to stop. I know it won't, but I really wish it would and I won't have any part of it. It is just wrong, plain and simple.
And like Bill Maher, I don't understand how smart people can believe in these things. Whether it's mormons, scientology, jews, christians, muslims, and yes wiccans and every other religion. It just boggles my mind. Why isn't it obvious that these are man-made religions, built around fantasies and age-old stories repeated with a change of venue or change of characters? it's us trying to put the unknown into something we can understand. Fine. But it should end there. There should be no organized religion.
I went to an agnostic mass once with Thelemic magicians and it was just so blatantly wrong - the division of power was tangible. Those who lead the ceremony have all the power while the rest sit out in the cold, as it were, and observe on the sidelines while they wait their turn to have a little experience of the power the leader has. It was disgusting. Look, we are ALL 'God', we are all the same! But what does religion do? makes it so that only special people have access to 'God', and gee aren't we lucky if we can somehow gain access to that be it through prayer or communion... it creates the haves and the havenots. I think this is inherently corrupt and can only lead to bad things. We buy into it, believe all sorts of ridiculous stories and let ourselves get brainwashed.
I just don't get why intelligent people continue being religious. Religion is very dangerous. It is wrong, it is evil. The world would be a better place without it. |
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| Some pictures and me trying not to talk about babies :-P |
[Feb. 15th, 2009|08:51 pm] |
Well, it happened. I never thought I'd be guilty of this! But I just read over my previous entries and noticed that they are ALL about babies. I never thought that would happen to me! I'm so sorry, it must be a colossal bore for some people. I didn't even know I was doing it. It's true that for the past few months, my whole life has revolved around the pregnancy. I don't really do anything else except "be pregnant" so it's hard not to talk about babies.
What else can I talk about though? Devin called today and he will be home in 2 weeks. It's so cute, he went to a bookstore & bought 3 books in French for the twins so we can read them bedtime stories. He's in Quebec City so all the books there are in French. He found the translation of the classic Robert Munsch book, Love You Forever (Je t'aimerai toujours), and then a book about a young knight and another one about a girl who is a pirate! I can't wait to see that! And I had a nice talk on the phone today with Elenderel too, who now has me all curious about the Song of Solomon (huh?!) and wanting to see Slumdog Millionaire when it comes out on video.
These are pictures taken at my baby shower. One of me sitting in my rocking chair, and one of me and Devin. I like these pics because I don't look as sick as I feel in them - and plus we look really cute together!
Edit: After I posted this entry, mom's friend Blanche came over to visit and she brought me more baby gifts. She said she was shopping at a second-hand store and saw these two cute little baby outfits, and had to get them for my twins. They're adorable. I can't get over how generous she is! The other day, she came by to drop off 2 matching pairs of cute little baby socks she saw at the Dollar Store. I'm touched - to think that someone is thinking of me and the twins when they're out shopping like this. It's really nice. Having babies has really shown me the generosity in people. Maybe I shouldn't be so cynical all the time.
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| Another *headdesk* moment |
[Feb. 12th, 2009|12:40 pm] |
*grumble grumble*
Okay. Here is something else I've come across while pregnant that just makes me wanna scream: the idea that breast-feeding is just like any other kind of eating and should be allowed in public.
*SCREAM!*
There was a "nurse-in" at the IWK Hospital in Halifax this morning, the hospital where I'll be having my babies. I agree with what they did, the protest, but I only agree because it's a hospital. Basically, someone told a pregnant woman to cover up when she was nursing her baby. And of course, the woman and a bunch of other people are outraged. This is a hospital after all, and part of it is the maternity ward, and it claims to be breast-feeding friendly too. The woman who told her to cover up was probably in the wrong (unless it was in a very public place like say just at the main entrance doors or something).
But what gets me is some of the comments from those protesting this. Someone said, for example, they should go to the Tim Horton's and put something over people's head, to cover them up when they eat.
Ok. You know what? Eating at Tim Horton's and nursing on a mother's breast are not the same thing. Breasts are also a sexual part of the body, and plus breastfeeding is disgusting and we shouldn't have to see you do it. Not everyone thinks it's beautiful. When I go to eat at a restaurant or watch a movie, the last thing I want to see next to me is some woman sticking out her boob whether it's sexual or nursing a baby. There are PRIVATE places she could do it. It's a bonding moment between mom and baby, involving body parts that are normally covered in our society - and even if they weren't, it's still a private thing. How dare anyone compare that to the simple act of eating? it is not the same damn thing. ARGH.
When I sit down to eat a meal, I don't whip out my boobs. Men don't take off their pants. So noooooo it is not the same thing!
For fuck's sake, it is not the same thing - get a private booth, use a cover-up, have some decency for the people around you. That is my opinion, end of story. |
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| You have got to be kidding me. |
[Feb. 9th, 2009|11:50 am] |
!Short rant warning! Remember, I am very opinionated about this Green stuff, don't take it personally if you do some of these things. I'm very non-Green, but I can tolerate or understand some things - but this one is too much for me.
In today's paper there is an article on a new trend for people who really want to cut down on their 'carbon footprint': living without a FRIDGE!!!
Give me a fucking break!
Unplugging your fridge, for good.
Uhm, what the hell is wrong with people? Someone should do research on this mass mentality, this strange hive mind in the Green movement that is sweeping across the world and making people do crazy things. There does seem to be a strange, brainwashing effect going on.
I never did like the colour Green.
Changing all your light bulbs to those damn fluorescent ones is one thing (hello, the first word should be a clue that maybe it is not such a good idea!); stocking your kitchen with weird things made of soy and unpronounceable expensive organic foods is one thing; keeping garbage in your freezer until you have room to put it in the compost is one thing (fucking nuts and gross too); but getting rid of your fridge? Come on! If that isn't crossing the line into going overboard then I don't know what is! Please!!!
Things like this just make me wanna scream! AAARRRRGGGHHH!!!
Excuse me while I go get a nice cold Coca-Cola out of my fridge, I hope the planet forgives me. |
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| A sneak peek at the babies' nursery - a work in progress |
[Feb. 5th, 2009|02:51 am] |
The beautfiful Winnie The Pooh and His Hunny Pots border, crib bedding and matching lamp were all baby shower gifts from my friend, Lorelle, who was also the shower hostess. The Winnie The Pooh blanket on the rocking chair was also a gift from her, as well as the crib on the left. :-) We were lucky enough to find a similar crib in the Sears catalogue to match the one she gave us.
We don't have much money so we can't buy much new funiture. The night stand between the cribs is an old bookcase, and the one at the foot of the 1st crib is an old bookcase that I had in my room that served as my altar for the longest time. The changing table was a shower gift from Devin's parents. I love our nursery. What do you think? Have a look:
 
In the next picture, you can see where we ran out of Winnie The Pooh border! It was part of a baby shower gift from Lorelle. I've ordered some more on the internet. And you can clearly see the white chair rail we had the carpenter put on the wall for a border, and the two different shades of pink we chose for the walls. Some things aren't finished yet, like the door for example still needs to be painted white and the carpenter is putting in another plug (to the left of the change table) so we can plug in a nightlight:
This last picture is older. We hadn't put the Pooh border on yet or really decided where to put the cribs. The new French
doors going into the kitchen weren't finished yet. They are now, got varnished yesterday. The room would be a good size for one baby but it is very cramped for two! It's quite an improvement though - the walls used to be a disgusting brown colour and there were no doors between the room and the kitchen, just a huge gap or 'archway' in the wall.
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| 25 things about me meme |
[Jan. 28th, 2009|04:26 am] |
4:30 am and I have insomnia again. Maybe spending time on the computer will help me get tired... here are some things about me.
1. I have written a book .
2. When I was 16, I was almost killed in a Paris subway tunnel.
3. I have seen George Michael in concert 16 times.
4. When I was younger, I was going to become a fashion designer (except that I can't sew).
5. I lived and worked in France for a year teaching ESL at Universite de Poitiers.
6. English is my second language. At home and in the community where I grew up, we speak Acadian French.
7. I don't have higher than Grade 10 Math. I am not sure if I ever passed Grade 10 math actually. Numbers are not my friend.
8. I have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, though I have learned to live with it. It is always there and flares up wosre on occasion.
9. I absolutely, positively hate country music.
10. I have had 3 spinal fusions, including one at the Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore.
11. I collect stamps.
12. I have a decent collection of old Mad magazines.
13. One of my life goals is to learn Spanish.
14. My dream car is a Lamborghini Countach.
15. I wish I was rich and famous.
16. I am spiritual but am against religion.
17. I have 4 tattoos.
18. I am a dog person. My favorite breed is Border Collie.
19. I can trace my ancestors back to the 1600s on both my mother and father's side (both go back to France).
20. Long ago, I was co-owner of a nice little coffee shop. The Front Street Cafe. But it burned down. I would love to own a cafe again.
21. I tend to believe that humans are not inherently good, and are most likely inherently evil. The world is an ugly place. I prefer the company of cats and dogs most of the time.
22. I do not compost nor will I teach my kids to do it. I recycle at a very minimal level. I think the Green movement goes too far.
23. I am against the use of those spirally energy-saving light bulbs. I won't allow them in my house.
24. I am pro-choice.
25. If I ever get married, it will be a civil ceremony outside, preferably in view of the ocean. |
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| Cute alert! Move along if not interested in uber cute baby stuff from our Halifax shopping excursion |
[Jan. 26th, 2009|09:10 pm] |
Well that's it! I can't help myself. I have to share. We bought the cutest baby stuff on our little shopping excursion last week and I just have to show you... this was our first "mommy, daddy" shopping trip and I love the things we got for our girls.
The 1st item I bought for my girls is a teething toy called Sophie The Giraffe. I love giraffes and just melted when I saw this in a Bedford mall, at a store called Bib'N'Tucker, a fancy baby store. Since then, I've seen it at Babies'R'Us and other places, it turns out it's a very popular toy. It's made of non-toxic paint and squeak when babies squeeze it. Apparently, it's been one of the top-selling baby toys in France for over 40 years! I ask you, have you EVER seen anything even remotely as cute as this?! I think not!! Has anyone else heard of Sophie? This is the first I ever hear of her. I'm in love. And if Devin decides to go with his alternate baby name choice, it will be perfect - one of his alternate choices for a name is Sophie! But there is nothing wrong with Gwen either... anyway, here she is, the cutest baby toy ever (yes, I bought them each one!)... it is now my favourite baby toy ever.
Now, this item I had seen on the Babies'R'Us website but only in blue, and it was over 30$. But as we walked into the store, what do I see gleaming in a bin right at the entrance? PINK Winnie The Pooh tubs, on sale! Only 10$ with purchase over 75$. *beam* This is one of my favourite baby items so far. It comes with a few extras like a little plastic pour cup shaped like a honey pot and another shaped like a bee. It is just soooo cute. Check it out!!
At Babies'R'Us, we also found a cute pink Fisher-Price ring stacker. I wanted it because I've never seen this classic baby toy in pink before. We really should have bought 2, they are inexpensive and each baby should have her own to play with.
I don't have pictures, but Devin bought HIS first real baby purchase. When he saw this he couldn't leave it there: he got them each a matching duck-themed pyjama outfit. It's really cute, comes with matching duck socks and bib.
We were basically making purchases with our baby shower money. Good thing we didn't spend much of it cuz I needed it tonight for 2 crib mattresses, a change table pad and a Diaper Genie (mom went baby-shopping in Yarmouth tonight). One of our gifts at the shower was a 25$ gift card from Wal-Mart and with that, mom bought us the change table padding.
There is one large item we bought at Babies'R'Us - I was in the wheelchair and ready to pass out, but I wasn't leaving without this!!! It is a baby playmat, a Fisher-Price RAINFOREST playmat. :-) I always see cute "Rainforest" toys but we can't afford them, and we can't afford these playmats either. But here they had one left at 40% off... so there was no way we were leaving without it. It lights up, plays music and rainforest sounds, and is just too cute for words! the twins will looooove this. Maybe one of the reasons I got so sick at the mall was that I got too excited at Babies'R'Us? LOL. Oh, and notice the cute giraffe on the mat!! I love it.
 
Devin bought the twins each a pair of pink socks and at Bib'N'Tucker, he also got them a pair of duckie socks on sale that even have a little puffy yellow tail on the back. We got back to our motel in Bedford in time for me to watch the awesome LOST season premiere (WTF?! I guess now there is no question that it's a sci-fi show, eh?) while Devin got to hang out with his brother. I hope you forgive me for tonight's attack of cuteness!
-- Tonight's cuteness attack brought to you by Baby A and Baby B. -- |
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| Frenchy's do's and dont's! |
[Jan. 26th, 2009|08:36 pm] |
Well, it was bound to happen. We find a lot of good baby things at Frenchy's, but we usually check them online to compare prices and find out more about the product. Devin mentioned to me before that we should also be checking to see if any of them were recalled by the manufacturer too. So far, I haven't seen any that were, until tonight. The woman who works at Frenchy's called mom tonight to say that there was a change table in and would she like to go see it - so when my parents came back from there with a beautiful wooden change table, they also brought a Graco Converta-Cradle rocker. By the way, I just found the change table online and in Sears. It's a "Jenny Lind" Stork Craft table.
The rocker looked old and smelled musty, so I wanted to check it out online first. Sure enough, it was recalled and is very unsafe for babies. We'll try and return it tomorrow. I think she only paid 10$ for it. Frenchy's can't keep track of everything I guess but it is a shame they sell recalled baby items like that! Buyer Beware!! It woke me up to the dangers and to baby safety issues.
The change table is very pretty, might just need a paint job and we will have to throw out the musty, torn up change pads. We found the EXACT same table in a recent Sears catalogue! Imagine! It sells for almost 130$ plus tax and mom got it for only 25$. It's a real treasure of a find! She will save it to use when the babies are here at her house. We got a change table as a shower gift from Devin's parents actually. Which he spent many hours painstakingly assembling 2 nights ago (a rite of fatherhood, no doubt!!). We need that one more though, because it has drawers and a cupboard for storage whereas the one mom got at Frenchy's is an open-concept with no drawers or anything (but it is nice, painted white and has an old-fashioned style). With our tiny little nursery, we need all the storage space we can get! Plus I'm very fond of the pink flowers on the one from Devin's parents, matches the nursery walls. :-)
My shopping trips are over though. Last Wednesday (yes, before the LOST premiere), we went shopping in Dartmouth & Bedford the night before our IWK and UC Baby ultrasounds. We had been planning this shopping trip for months - a trip to the baby shops in 2 of the Bedford malls and to the only Toys'R'Us store in the province which also is of course the only Babies'R'Us in NS too. We even came across a Disney store. The last stop was Toys'R'Us, but by then my back was aching. I had felt it ache off and on all evening but thought nothing of it. I hadn't done much, just walked around malls, but oh my god suddenly I couldn't even walk. I felt like my tummy weighed a ton and like my back was seizing up. I had to sit down in Babies'R'Us while Devin found me a wheelchair! I couldn't walk anymore. Thank goodness it was all fine the next day.
So that was the last of my shopping for a while! until the girls are born. The doctors always ask me if my back hurts and are surprised when I tell them no - well, now I know what they were talking about! I guess I didn't realize it could hurt because I am at home, resting a lot. Who knew that walking around the mall could lead to that though, wow. |
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| Baby Pictures! |
[Jan. 23rd, 2009|03:27 am] |
Today we had a big day. Now I am sooo tired. We had an ultrasound at the IWK in Halifax this morning, then we went for a 3D one at UC Baby. We got pictures and even a video of our girls on DVD at UC Baby.
It was awesome to see their little faces for the 1st time. We had seen the babies in ultrasounds before, but this is the 1st time we had a 3D one done. Regular ultrasounds at the hospital are just black and white, and it's hard to make out any facial features - you just see sort of a skeletal silhouette and squiggly lines. So with this 3D ultrasound at UC Baby, we were able to see them in a lot more detail. It's worth the money.
Here they are...
Baby A:
... and here is Baby B:
The dark spot on her head is just a SHADOW or something like that - IT ISN'T really a spot on her head! Baby B is clasping her hands together up in the air in front of her face - it's so cute!
Both babies look perfectly fine! They each weigh a little over 1 pound now and they move around a lot. Neither baby seems to have opened their eyes yet, but soon! Today, we saw them opening their mouths a few times, which was really cool. |
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| Freedom and Change |
[Jan. 20th, 2009|11:37 pm] |
Never thought I'd see a black man as president of the United States in MY lifetime. Wow This is AWESOME!
Today, me and Devin sat curled up together on our couch and watched Obama's inauguration. With our twins... :-) When they are older, we can tell them about it. I am glad they will be born in these times. They will never say it was something they 'never thought would happen in their lifetime' because by the time they are born, it already will have happened. They'll be born in a world where a black man is the president of the United States and I'm very happy about that!
It was really beautiful. I loved his speech. I thought his wife looked great and was dressed very tastefully. If I wasn't pregnant, I would have found a way to be in Washington, D.C. today. I wouldn't have missed this for anything. Would have been there in person for this historic event.
But it's okay, I will remember how I was snuggled up with Devin and had the babies kicking in my stomach as we watched it live on TV.
It was very moving, maybe moreso because I'm pregnant? but I was crying. I was so happy and overwhelmed by it all. It feels like he is the world's new hope, not just of the USA but of the whole world.
What a difference from Bush, the way he talked... talking about tolerance and peace. I love what he said about the muslim world and his message was one of tolerance, not violence, and of peace - not war. And he held everyone accountable - Devin said Obama must be the only person who could stand there and "blame" the country and still get applause and cheer for it, hehe.
So I was very satifised today and felt like it was a very historic day. I don't know what the experts are saying about this yet but I for one feel like today was a way to heal the wounds of 9-11, finally, like it was something that the US and so many people desperately NEEDED.
Congratulations my American friends!!!!!
*waves little US flag*... |
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