catch and release...exactly

Lastnight Mike and I went on our "date". We went and saw "Catch and Release" and filled our faces with tapas. "Catch and Release" was rather enjoyable. The reviews were not that great though, but I read all the great reviews about Kevin Smith's role and acting ability, and I knew it couldn't be all that bad. Actually, Kevin Smith's performance made the person I was with rather teary eyed (it wasn't me, so you do the math). Anyway, we both enjoyed it, and enjoyed seeing bits of Vancouver scenery through out the movie.

Alright, so I saw the specialist yesterday, and there is nothing wrong with my colon. However, tests results show that I have a hyper thyroid. Therefore, I need to do more extensive tests to figure out what medical treatment I should endure. Secondly, I also have to get a small bowel xray, that can take up to 6 hours! Oh, I don't have ciliac disease! Thirdly, I have a consultation with a plastic surgeon! If he decides to do the surgery, the waiting list is up to a year, so I doubt I will have anything done before the wedding. Which sucks, but it's ok, at least it'll happen eventually.

I reserved the Suquoia Grill for our wedding. I also found my dream dress today. It's not a wedding dress, just a very pretty empire waist, yellow, strapless, satin dress. Very summery. It was about $400 which isn't too bad, and it comes in a size 16...thank you god. Now all I have to do is get my mum to come in with me and take a look, possibly try it on. Mike and I still have to hunt down a Justice of the Peace and a venue for the reception for the friends. Descisions, descisions.

It's exciting, Trenna's boyfriend, Mal, arrives from Australia next week. She's soo smitten, and no one can wait to meet him. Mike says he's ambivilant to the whole thing, I know he's just excited as the rest of us. Tomorrow we're heading over to their place for dinner and to celebrate Peter's birthday.

I'm exhausted actually. I didn't sleep well lastnight. I have too much on my plate these days. We have a realtor coming on Friday to help us find a house. Well, I should run. I'm starving and Heather has been asleep for awhile, and I need to wake that kid up...actually the garbage truck outside might be doing the job for me.

Love, Katie

it's a foggy day!

I had wanted to post pictures of the fog, but alas, Mike's digital camera is not working...again. It's gorgeous. We drove through Stanley Park last night when the fog had just started rolling through, and the park looked amazing, almost alive. However, with the fog, it highlighted all the devistation that Stanley Park endured. It's quite upsetting actually, but thank god that "hollow tree" still stands strong.

We went to my mum's birthday lastnight at the Sequia Grill at the Tea House in Stanley Park. It was soo lovely, that I think we might get married there. I mean, if there's only 12 people, we can go somewhere beautiful. Mike and I dressed up, and looked rather beautiful. It was a nice evening until I came home and felt rather ill. It was something I ate. Then to top it all off, I fell asleep with my eye makeup on, I would put a raccoon to shame. Anyway, it was a gorgeous meal, with gorgeous people in a gorgeous restaurant.

Hopefully Kim and I are doing something today. I've been bailed on so much over the last month, that I haven't really gotten out much. I think I am taking Heather with me today too. It'll be the first time that I've taken her out in her new carseat and stroller without Mike there.

It is so very cold in this apartment! I am freezing my ass off! If we keep the fire place on for too long the tv shots off, because everything over heats.

Other than all of that, things are pretty boring. I may go see an acupuncturist this week, and I see my doctor about all my test results. I've gained 5lbs, which I am having a huge problem getting rid of again! Yep, that's about it.

i heart katie!

Be strong little Moo

My poor little girl. She is definitly going through something. We took her to the doctor today, and physically she is perfect, but her personality has changed. She cries all the time, and just isn't her same cheerful self. It's really upsetting for us too. We keep hoping that she is teething, and that her teeth are taking their sweet time breaking through. Apparently babies can experience depression, maybe that is what is happening.

Today Mike and I decided that we're just going to have a very small wedding. I think there are going to be 16 people in total. However, we are going to have a reception with all of our friends, maybe the next weekend or something. The large wedding was causing problems and a lot of angst between family members. We haven't really looked into anything yet, we just decided who is coming and that we're having my aunt make us a carrot cake as the wedding cake. It would be nice to have a big wedding, but I would rather put the money towards other things...such as a house. We're just going to have a lot of expenses this year. My mum is going on two trips, we're going to move, hopefully I'll have my surgery, the honeymoon...just a lot of expenses.

Well, I'm tired. We just put Heather to bed. We went for a nice walk tonight too. I think we all just needed to get out of the house for a moment. Oh, everyone should try the new Berryblossom White tea from Starbucks. It's delicious!

Love, Katie

PS...I think we're going to go to this story telling festival in early February. It's exciting to be able to go to kids events. We are totally looking forward to the latern festival this summer too. To bad Lou won't be able to join us.

Here are the pictures like I promised!

She's a rolling machine!

Just a Heather McPoopy-Bum update! This girl is a rolling machine! In 20 minutes she has rolled over 7 times, and even rolled all the way around. You should see her expression when she does it, just the sense of accomplishment is written all over her face. We are soo proud of this kid. She'll be 5 months on the 29th! That is all. I can't wait until she can actually eat food. She is actually so interested in food already (which frightens me a little bit), but I know it's just curiousity. We're going to Danielle and Chris's for chilli tonight. The poor kid is going to be made to roll over, I just know it. I think once she starts eating, she'll be put on this special infact cereal, that is somewhat like oatmeal. I am being forced to make her baby food, so that it is all natural and better for her. Not only do I spend every waking moment making bottles, I will also be making baby food. Pureed carrots here I come! Speaking of bottles, they're calling my name.

YKatie

Just an update!

Well, today I sucked it up, and got over my fear of the Vancouver weather. Heather and I went for a nice long walk in the rain, allover Lonsdale. When we arrived home Mike had started cleaning our carpets (FINALLY!!!). We borrowed the carpet cleaner from his friend. We then met the same friend for dinner at the Quay. When we arrived home I decided to put on a dance show for Heather (who's mood swings are getting the better part of me, and sometimes cannot handle) since the apartment was sans furniture.

Since I had some time to think today, I was pondering the fact that Mike is the smallest man (in weight) that I've date (granted, we're not dating anymore, I think it's a little past that). Then I started looking at all the actors I find attractive--Jack Black, Kevin Smith, that guy that's in those Best Buy ads and they're all big guys. My "first" boyfriend (after my little stint of only being with women) was far from small, but he had this amazing personality, and was full over humor, which is quite similar to Kevin Smith and Jack Black. I wonder why they bigger you are the funnier you are, or is it something that is just expected?? See, this is why I should not be allowed to have alone time. However with all that said and done, my lover now is not a big man yet he has an amazing personality, a great sense of humor and he's dead sexy. Haha, I'm weird.

I have yet to see my gastroentronologist, but I am going to bring up a couple of things with him. 1. I think I am allergic to soy products and I need an allergy test. 2. I think I might have an incisional hernia, which would explain all the pain where my incision is. That's about it, really, more may come up in time. I have until the 29th.

So my mum took me dress shopping...not for a wedding dress, just a dress to wear to all of the weddings I am attending this year. I found one! It's silk, black on taupe geometric art-deco pattern. The style of it is rather 1970's disco era though. Very cool. She also bought be a plaid jumper (black, grey, pink and white) which is very England 1960-1970. I was surprised when she bought me this summer dress from old navy which looks like a potato sac with some light embroidery and silk screening. As soon as this damn weather lets up and it becomes warm and sunny that potato sac dress is going to be seen! YES! All the shopping was also a post pregnancy free for all. I bought shoes too!

Well that is all. The carpets are still wet, and there is random heavy things still on my bed. Mike has taken over the futon, so I don't know what to do?? Maybe I'll sleep on the deck. I also have to finish the bottles...I know I know, same ol' story.

*Katie xxoo

PS...Heather is an amazing dancer. One day we'll see her performing infront of millions (ballet, not stripping). Oh, also, there will be pictures posted soon, hopefully.

I survived!

Well for all those who were worried about me, my procedure went as planned, and I was really brave. The specialist didn't see anything out of the ordinary, but he did do a biopsy. It's good that he didn't find anything, but at the same time, what the hell is wrong with me?? I did end up eating McDonalds, and it was delicious. I also had two arrowroot cookies at the hospital. It was sweet. Well I am off to bed...I already did bottles for tomorrow! Woo!
*Katie

South Park Super Friends! More to follow...

J-E-L-L-BARF!

I am freeeeeezing today! Actually, I've been experiencing the chills for days now, and I've been rather tired. I don't think it's a cold, maybe I'm anemic again. Today is the day where I eat loads of jell-o and purge myself of every toxin in my body! The jell-o is making me feel rather ill though. I am shoving my face full of liquids too, because after midnight tonight, I don't get anything until tomorrow evening. I have had this procedure done before, but I still find it frightening. Mike's coming with me so I won't be as scared. He's a good comforter.
We bundled Moo up today and went for a little walk. It's amazing, I can't find a tuqoue with ear flaps anywhere, and it's still cold here so we need them! I know there is this cool store on main street that sells amazing ones. I know by the time I get my butt there they won't have any either. Speaking of shopping, I need to go dress shopping for all the weddings we're attending this year. I have no dresses that are attractive on me. Nothing fits me anymore!
I have seen so many mothers walking around today, with their little ones. The sad thing is, they all seem much older than I am. I haven't really seen any young mothers around here. The only young mother I know is Candice, and she's in England for a month.
Well I should go. I think I am going to take a bath, and ease my cold cold bones. We also have a lot of cleaning to do, because my mum is coming to watch Heather while I get my colon inspected! YAY!
*Katie

Enjoy the snow!

Tonight it is supposed to snow a lot in BC. Vancouver is apparently supposed to expect 10cm, with nice ice rain included! This weather is amazing, horrible and rather frightening. If I had stuck with my dreams of being a meteorologist (I was in a series of Tornadoes as a child. I find them fascinating) I would really know what was going on. It's no hard to see that our weather is changing, and that Global Warming is taking it's toll. Damn you Al Gore for being right!

The three of us ventured out today. We went to Babies 'r' Us and bought Heather her new car seat! That kid has grown out of her carrier already, and she's not even 5 months! The car seat however is quite huge, and I am not 100% certain it will fit in the car. Oh, my poor Jetta! We haven't really been able to go out due to the freezing weather. I worry about taking Heather out. She's been coughing a lot lately, but I think that might have to do with teething, but what do I know?? I'm a first time mum!

So Louis is in England, Gillian is in France and Melinda is in Vienna! I have soo many friends in Europe! Mike and I might be heading that way in September...if we get our butt in gear. We've putt off wedding planning for right now. It was causing some issues, so we've decided to have two days of no wedding talk. I personally don't care what we do, just as long as Mike is there and I am there...that's all that matters really. I'm mainly doing it for our families. It's not like our relationship is exactly normal, why should we start with a wedding?

Yet again, the weather has hindered all my plans. I had made plans with Jordan to hang out at her place and watch some horror movies, but alas the damned snow has crushed that plan along with my heart. I hopefully will get to see her this Sunday, and I may go over the border with my mum, Michael and Jordan. Probably not though, i don't like leaving Mike with Heather for extremely long periods of time.
I have my procedure on Thursday. I am nervous about it. I've had other things done, but this is a new one. Thank god I reread the instructions and realized I can't eat for 36hours...actually longer than that. I will beg Mike for McDonalds afterwards. I will most likely feel like eating a 20 piece chicken mcnuggets and a supersized fries--I've never done that, I never will. Ewww, that's just too much mcdonalds.

Well I've got get a bottle ready for Heather, and finish the other bottles. Mike has been cooking amazing dinners lately, which makes my cooking look like crap. Oh well. I'm the "homemaker" he's not. Haha.

Enjoy the snow!

*Katie

bbbbuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Today (so far) has been a great day. Heather slept through the night, again! So I was able to get up at 930am with little interruption during the night! Yes! At around 10am, we met my mum for breakfast at Moodyvilles and had a good chat. I ofcourse had my 3 cups of coffee and played with Heather. I'll tell you though, today is soo cold. I met up with Candice for coffee and walk (I just got back). We walked around English Bay, and because of the cold my ears are still burning! Also, I think I got a chill...I blame myself though, I'm an idiot for wearing cotton cargos. Then for this evening, I rented a movie (I won't tell you which one, because you'll all just knod your head in disgust) and Mike has been preparing this amazing dinner all day. Seriously when I woke up he was sitting there cutting carrots and had been for awhile. I can't wait to try his Jambalaya. Ohhhh, and then tomorrow morning Mike's family is coming for breakfast! Finally I have plans on a weekend! Well, I should run, Heather is mooing and I think I need some tea.

**Katie

PS...Louis, Heather has been playing with pink bunny so much, that I've already had to do surgery on him!

Heather news, and other stuff

First of all I am very proud of Heather today. She is one step closer to actually rolling over by herself. Trust me, it's exciting. Also, she sits up now, with my help ofcourse. I bought her some awesome overalls from Old Navy that are supposed to be 6-12 months, but ofcourse they fit her now. That kid just grows and grows. I've been making sure to give her a lot of "tummy time" just so that she can kick, roll around and get her arms/neck strong enough for when she starts crawling. I do (unfortunately) think her eyes will be brown, they don't look as blue and sometimes look brown in certain light. NOOOOO!! At least people say she looks like me now. It's hard when you have a child that doesn't look like you, some parents say it's even hard to bond when there are no facial similarities. I can't believe she'll be 5 months at the end of this month. CRAZY!!! By Adam and Sarah's wedding she'll be 7 months! Where is my little girl going?? Ok, that's enough of that "crazy mother syndrome".
Mike is over at his friends place right now. I'm still in my pj's. Granted I did get out by myself this morning for a walk, while Mike looked after Moo. It is soo cold here, I can hardly believe it. We're meeting my mum for some Indian food tonight. THANK GOD! The only time I've been out this week is to take Heather to the Dr. and to see my mum for a couple of hours to discuss the wedding. I just feel like I have no social life anymore. Once Mike goes back to work I'll have to get myself into some mum and tots class at the community center. Granted, once the weather is better I'll be more willing to take Heather out for walks and do more exciting things.
I've been trying to eat better these days. I'm so down on myself right now for gaining so much weight during the pregnancy, and not being able to get it all off. It is soo frustrating having to deal with all this weight gain, when I had lost a lot of it before. However, trying to lose it this time was not as easy as last time because I no longer smoke.
Anyway, I should do some house cleaning while Heather is having her nap.
*Katie

First Snow of 2007

It's cold outside!

The picture above is labeled "Moo Art" and Mike did it this morning. He's such a clever man, and she's so photogenic. We have to put this kid in pictures! Also, we're totally remodelling my blog. I decided to have gnomes, because I am quite gnome like.
Well today it is snowing and very cold again. We took Heather out all bundled up to experience the snow. The poor kid fell asleep and didn't experience anything. The three of us were going to venture out to Langley to visit the grandparents and I was possibly going to see a movie with Trenna, but alas the damned snow "aborted" that mission. I feel like the weather is conspiring against me. Maybe some other time.
Heather had her vaccinations and she was so brave! Mike and I are so proud of her, she is absolutely amazing! She is also very smart. Her favorite game is to pull her soother out, look at it, then pop it back in her mouth. She also likes to lick everything, and turn herself completely around in her crib during the night. She's a smart and cute little girl.
My mum and I started looking at food prices for the wedding. We're only going to have 100 people, and that is about $6, 700 (that's only for food!!). My mum is amazing though, she said that she would buy me my dress on top of the wedding money. I was originally going to wear a dress I have at home, but she wouldn't allow it. I just worry that finding a wedding dress will be very trying because I am between a 14 and 16 (which is frustrating because before I became pregnant I was a 12...the smallest I've ever been!!!!). My mum and I might go to Seattle to do some dress hunting later in the year. I am so excited though, it should be amazing.
Our apartment is freezing rightnow! When I woke up this morning there was snow everywhere, now it is off the roads but it is attacking roof tops. I am not as paranoid as I was the last snowfall. Poor Vancouver, especially Stanley Park. To my BC friends abroad, you would not believe what has happened to Stanley Park, part of it looks completely clear cut, it's very sad actually. It reminds me of the central park in Halifax, that was completely destroyed by hurricane Juan (which I experienced while living there). If you haven't seen "An Inconvient Truth" by Al Gore, you should, it explains everything.
Well, I should get going. I need to put on a sweater. Good times, good times.
**Katie**

old paradise lost, new paradise found

I won't lie, I am completely exhausted and if this post doesn't make sense then now you know the reason.
Candice, Wayne and Kalvin came over for dinner tonight. For the first time since Heather was born I felt normal. Most of my friends haven't been around babies, so it's akward and honestly contact with certain friends isn't the same at all...don't get me wrong, some of you are amazing in regards to Heather. Kim is actually great. Eventhough she doesn't quite know what to do, she is so eager to see Heather to hold her. Her parents are the only ones that I took the time to go visit with Heather and Mike...that was actually alot of fun, and Kim's mum fell in love with Heather. Anyway, it's just nice to talk to a couple that has a child, and that is young...we were the youngest couple (not to mention the only unmarried couple) in our prenatal classes, so meeting mothers my own age is difficult. I will definitly make more of an effort to meet people when Mike goes back to work, and Heather is older. I am also happy that I contacted Candice again. I missed her a lot actually...especially her love for horror movies! Other than Jordan and Trenna, she is the only one that will watch horror movies with me, Mike even won't. I just feel like I don't have any friends these days...except for Mike, Heather, Kim and Candice. Also, Kalvin is the cutest kid! You just want to eat him up. I think Heather is making Candice want another baby. Heather is only 4 months, and I am starting to get that itch again (for another baby, not a rash).
Miss Heather has to get her shots tomorrow! I hate it when she gets her vaccinations. Her little face, it makes you want to cry. I swear, it's worse on the parents than it is on the children.
Nothing is really new here. Mike has a dentist appointment on Tuesday, and I have a Colonoscopy on the 18th...something I am not looking forward to. Since Heather's birth, my Crohns has gotten worse. It's more painful than anything. I had a c-section to bypass any complications brought on by Heather's birth.
Well I should get going. I am beat. Chowda!
*Katie

I love you Moo!

New Year's partying woo!

I am very exhausted right now, so hopefully this will be short. Our New Year's was fun. I got to drink finally and got pretty toasted. Don't worry, I didn't replay the events of Halloween 2005. Apparently I just talked a mile a minute. A girl came (our host, Cam's, friend) with a "stripper pole" because she does pole dancing for exercise. She was amazing! Eventually other people tried doing tricks on the pole, I didn't, I used the whole "I just had a baby" excuse. Anyway, it was a great night, and I would love to do that again. I think this Saturday we have another party to go to, but I won't be drinking. I am not really feeling another party though, I would rather hang out with Heather, and have Mike go by himself...unless a certain person shall be there, then I may have to rethink this whole plan. Candice and family are coming on Sunday for dinner. Kalvin's birthday was actually pretty fun, and not to mention extremely cute. We went to Mike's parents place tonight for chinese food. It was fun. I really enjoy spending time with his family, and I am happy to see that his mum is comfortable with me.

Well I am off to bed. All I can say, I hope what Mike and I did this morning, will become a tradition.

*Katie