Mason's first haircut. There goes his beautiful but untamable wings!
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Mason and Grandpa Wager
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A proud big brother.
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We're Home

We came home yesterday from the hospital. I had a great stay, so much better than when I had Mason. The nurses were Excellent. They took Eve away at night and brought her back to feed so I could get some sleep.
Eve is a great baby. So calm. She sleeps and gets up to have some snack, and than goes back to sleep. Lastnight, I got a total of about 5 hrs of sleep. Unheard of with a newborn :)
Breastfeeding is coming along. She's a vigourous sucker, I'm really sore.
She has taken to breastfeeding really well.
Grants parents came down yesterday to see us. We all had a nice visit.
Mason just loves his sister.

Eve's pictures (finally)

Ok, I finally got around to bringing the camera home from the hospital. Here's some pics of Eve. She weighed in at 7 lb, 7 ounces when born, and she's 20 inches long. Mom and baby are both doing very well, and they come home tomorrow (Saturday).

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a344/Yggdrasil_Tree_/Eve/Evesleep5.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a344/Yggdrasil_Tree_/Eve/Evesleep4.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a344/Yggdrasil_Tree_/Eve/Evesleep3.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a344/Yggdrasil_Tree_/Eve/Evesleep2.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a344/Yggdrasil_Tree_/Eve/Evesleep1.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a344/Yggdrasil_Tree_/Eve/Eveawake1.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a344/Yggdrasil_Tree_/Eve/EveandDaddy.jpg

Doctors appointment

I'm booked for a biophysical on Thursday, to check the level of fluid and how the baby is doing. Than I go back to my doctor's on Friday and we'll pick a date for inducement the following week if everything is fine with the ultrasound. She is hinting around the 27th which is my mothers birthday.
But, my doctor thinks that I'll go before Thursday. I've been showing signs of labour!
So, lol, it can be from now until Monday!! Come on baby, lets get going!!

Maybe soon???

Well, I think I may be in the early stages of labour. I've been getting cramps..and i've definilty "dropped".. so......................I might be having the baby within 24 hrs? LOL.
I do see my doctor tomorrow at 2pm..

Baby not here yet

Well I'm overdue :) Somewhat glad not to have the baby on Mason's birthday.
I just pray I'll go this time and not have to be induced.
So... lets play a game. When do you think I'll go , and how big will the girl be?
Mason was 8.2lbs and 21 inches. He went 6 days late.
I don't go see my doctor until this Monday, when she'll do a check and make sure things are all right. If things are, I think I"ll go a few more days until they do an inducement (If I need it)
The courier guy at work said I'd go on Thursday or Friday :) He was off 45 mins the last time he had to guess.

Happy Birthday Mason

Mason turns 2 today. We're not doing much. I'll take him over to the library, he just loves going there! We will also have a little birthday cake for him tonight, with a couple of Grant's friends coming over. Mason likes Grant's friends.
And No baby today, well so far anyways.

Only 6 more....

I'm due on March 14th..6 more days left. I think I'll go over though.
I've been pretty sore these days, I can't walk very long :)
My last day of work is this Friday. Looking foward to that.

Mason's going to be two in 6 more days too! He's not a baby anymore. We aren't going to have a big party for him, just family. I think we'll celebrate it when the baby is born too, so we can have 1 get together.

We're very excited that Mason is getting a full head of hair, even though it is wild and crazy!
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Mason's all cammed up
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Update

Well, I haven't updated lately.
We're doing well here. Mason doesn't seem to have his nasty ear infection anymore. I do have to make an appointment with the doctor just to make sure it's all gone. Grant had bronchitis and it's going away too.
I'm doing well! My official last day of work is March 10th. My company (PBB Global Logistics) is now owned by Livingston International, the biggest customs broker. It kinda just happened quickly. There are many differences on how each company runs, so it will be neat to see how they come together. I'm not worried, I'll be on maternity leave once they actually start to merge.
I'm going to try to go through this labour without any pain meds. I've been researching up on some of the methods to take your mind off the contractions. I've decided to try to use a birthing ball, and to walk a lot. I do not want to spend a lot of time in the bed.
Well, I guess that's it.
Oh, we were going to use the name AVA, but decided against it because it is #10 on the 2005 most popular names.

Another ear infection....

Well, Mason is SICK again with an ear infection. We took him into the doctors about 3 weeks ago and he was prescribed Amoxicil (sp) I guess that didn't work, or it might have killed off one of the bacterias, and he had more in there. On Tuesday night, Mason woke up after 30 mins of sleeping just crying and crying. I thought it was a nightmare, but I had him calmed down 1 hr after. He than woke up 20 mins later with a fever and from than on, he kept on waking up crying. At around 4am, he fell asleep until 830am. So the Wager household had about 4 hrs sleep. We took him into the doctors and she prescribed a different type of medicine. We've been taking him into the walk in clinics because he seems to need to see a doctor on the weekends when his doctor isn't open. The walk in clinics haven't been sending Mason's file to his doctor, so she wasn't aware of anything going on.
Mason is definilty not his normal self. He actually lets us hold him on the couch without trying to get away and run and play. He hasn't been eating much either and I'm starting to get worried about it. Grant is home with Mason while I work the 2-10 shift. I have off tomorrow, so Grant is going to have a full day of much needed time ALONE.

Jedi Mason
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Look. Mason has hair!!!
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Masons appt

We've got a speech therapist appointment for Mason. He isn't hitting the milestones for his age in speech. He does say little words, but for example, he won't finish the word "bottle". He will say "bot" He's great at understanding what we say.
I'm not too worried about it. I just want to see if there is anything I can do to help Mason. Plus, Grant didn't speak until 3, Mason might be following in his footsteps.

PMQ's are definilty not long term housing.

We've lived here in Kingston for 1 year and 2 months. We are going to be the
senior tenants on the street tomorrow. The family that is leaving tomorrow are heading to BC. Three other families have moved from our street in the course of a year!

We're getting a new car!

Finally, I won't have to scramble in the back seat to put Mason in the carseat!
We saw Mitsubishi Outlanders on the net, and than went to the dealer. We thought maybe a 2005 would be good for us. The 2006's were out of our price range. The dealer said that there wasn't any 2005 automatic transmissions left in Canada! They had a stick shift on lot but neither Grant nor I can drive a stick.
We did see a 2004 for a good deal. It rides great! So smooth compared to our car.
Well, we should be getting the new vehicle sometime this week. They're putting new tires on it and some other things.
The colour is green, a little darker than our car colour now.

Grant went out as an 80 hair band member. No, he really went out as Gimli from Lord Of The Rings.
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