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I know some people whom I know online know that I was expecting a baby and that we were excited to hear what we were having at our 20 week ultrasound appointment last Thursday. I deleted my last post about that topic.

Instead of finding out the sex of the baby, we found out the baby had died. We had a perfectly normal ultrasound at 14 weeks which showed an active, normal baby with a normal heartbeat and now we have nothing.

I had a D&E on Friday because baby had been dead inside of me for about 5 weeks, spend Friday night at the hospital, and am now home, not knowing what to do with myself or what to really even think.

Erika

Arthur's Revenge (and Hockey) and "Pie"

Tonight, thanks to a friend of ours, Rob and I went to the Canucks game! Now, the ending wasn't great, but we saw some friends there and had a really nice time.

Jess and Susan fed Loic dinner and put him to bed, then my Dad came over to take over the Loic-sitting duties! Thanks to all three of you :)

We took Arthur with us in the car (which he is very used to and likes) and left in the secure underground in his crate so that no one could see him or try to steal him. Although, good luck to you if you want to try to steal that dog!! We took him with us because he won't stop barking at my dad. Ever. Dad called me once while Arthur sitting to say that it had been 1.5 hours and he couldn't get Arthur to stop barking...but I digress.

While we were at the game, Arthur decided to have a random poop-fest in his crate. The car smelled so badly when we got in, and Arthur got hosed off and bathed when we finally got home. On the plus side, no poop managed to find its way out of the crate and onto my car, which was nice. We will deal with the crate tomorrow, which should be just awesome.

I will leave you with a picture of what happens when you give a 21 month old a chocolate ice cream bar that he ate with gusto. Grandpa gave it to him, isn't that what grandpa's are for?! We all think so. So cute!! Thanks for the photo Dad :)

Yummmmm- pie. Loic calls most sweet things "Pie"

E

Arthur fell into a hole, back yard, dinner

We had a nice long weekend. Rob worked on our new fence (lovely like the last one) so that we can sit in the yard and Loic can't fall onto the patio or crawl under the deck. This is an important addition to the yard and means that on sunny days, we can sit on our awesome hammocks while Loic plays with his toys on the lawn :) All we need to do now is teach Jody not to fall out of her hammock while yelling at my mother on the deck. Best. Moment. Ever. My only wish is that we had it on video.

Our back deck is also awesome and has a gate at the top of the stairs so if we want shade, we can sit on the deck and Loic can play. Equally perfect, we really like our back yard.

Garden update: this weekend I planted peas, some more lettuce and transplanted some perennials into my front garden. Next weekend - more potatoes in my front garden and Ryan's peas and more radishes in the back garden. Ryan, I planted some of your millet, chickpeas and lentils in large pots that will sit on my deck, looking forward to seeing these plants, thanks for the interesting seeds!

Loic loving my mom's berry sauce :)

Now onto the fun part - here are some photos of Arthur, who fell into a fence post hole while Rob and I were eating lunch in the house. Arthur was fine, so I took the time to call Rob outside to look while I took photos of Artie in his hole :)

Here you go!

Poor Arthur! It must have been some kind of payback for his evil ways... :)

On a side note, I made an incredibly healthy and incredibly tasty dinner tonight - ground turkey lettuce wraps. I have made them before but this batch was the best: spicy, tasty and full of veggies. Yum.

Garden notes

I am going to try to write down what I plant and when so that I can remember what works and what doesn't in this new garden.

Last weekend, Rob finished my garden fence (which is lovely and nicer than the chicken wire fence I asked for, you were right Rob) and I finished sifting and spreading the excess soil. Then, I moved a few strawberry plants around and planted some kale and parsley.

Today, I did some work on my front perennial garden, mowed the back lawn for the first time this year and planted some radish seeds, lettuce seeds and some red onion sets. I also moved my raspberries (sorry plants) and moved some more strawberry plants around. I hope they aren't too upset about the moving, this is it plants! Oh, and I put in two rhubarb plants by my compost bin, they have room to spread out and it is a good spot for them.

Loic came outside and "helped" by carrying around various garden tools, his truck and by splashing in any water he could find. He is so funny, every time he sees something new or interesting he says "Oooohhhhh!!" so cute.

Next time I get out to the garden I am going to put in some peas, my brother sent me some neat seeds and his peas plus some I got at the garden store are going in, and I will plant some flower seeds he gave me.

E

Diaper Rash drama

So, it happened. After about 20 months, Loic has a nasty case of diaper rash. After trying in vain to treat it ourselves, we went to the Dr. a week and a half ago for help. It was diagnosed as a yeast infection, so we got a prescription and away we went. We stopped using wipes and switched to water and clothes and it got better. We also used some yeast infection cream but now, now it is back. I have no idea what happened! It was looking so nice and then yesterday, back to square one.

So, faithful readers, anyone have any tips?! Nothing has changed, he hasn't been on any antibiotics, hasn't been sick, I think he is getting some molars.

Thoughts?! He is sore and it is upsetting us. I will head back to Dr. this week if it doesn't improve.

Oh, we tried no diaper this evening to air out his bum and that did not go well. At all. He peed and then sobbed because it stung and after fixing that, had a number two which went worse...

Arghhh! I want him to feel better. Poor bug.

Erika

No no!

A bit of back story, the day before Rob took this video, Loic and Tyler were playing with some sticks at the park and Tyler took a stick from Loic that he did not want taken. It caused a bit of drama, no idea why that particular stick was so important, but it certainly was! The next day, Loic was at the park with Rob while I made dinner (without Tyler) and Rob asked him if Ty-ty could have his stick, here is what he said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL0rclzEQuU

Ha ha! He is starting to have a mind of his own that boy!! He is still very good natured and funny, funny funny. And Tyler, Tyler is so soft and nice and kind with him, makes me so happy to watch the two of them. Loic understand absolutely everything you ask/tell him.

Loic rode Jeffree today and had a blast! He sat up there on his own, grinning from ear to ear and when we took him off, he kept saying "Up! Up! Up!" and pointing at Jeffree. That is a nice horse!

I am feeling much better this week, no more awful nausea, but am still tired. Rob built me a fence around my veggie garden and I did a lot of prep work today to start planting veggies! I still need to move some raspberry canes and figure out where to put some rhubarb, then it is pea, lettuce, kale and onion time!

E

20 months (Lolo) and 12 weeks...

Hi all, long time no post! Erin, as promised here are some lolo photos!!

Riding the train at the mall, oh my gosh he loves trains!!

We learned he likes chocolate and bananas together. A lot.

Shockingly cute!

Cheeky little monkey :)

So, big news at our house. On January 23rd, I peed on a stick and saw this:

Yup, pregnant! And 12 weeks about today, with a due date of October 3rd-ish. Other than being extremely ill this pregnancy, things appear to be going well. For not having been sick a day with Loic, this baby is making up for lost time. I have been sick sick sick since week #4, here is hoping that this is the turning point. As long as baby is healthy, we will be happy and Rob has been a rock star these past 8 weeks. I often have to lie down after work and he and Lolo play trains and eat dinner without me these nights. So nice.

Speaking of Loic, he is almost 20 months old now!! And is a funny, chatting machine. I was planning on nursing him until 2 years old, but have been so ill that something had to give and last week was the last time he nursed. I have had to go home a lot at lunch to lie down and once I cut out his lunchtime nursing (I went to the nanny's house every lunch to nurse him on work days) my milk supply just gave out. I am sad, but he seems A-Ok so that is something at least. And I feel prepared for nursing baby #2 now, I learned a lot at the beginning with Loic and learned that nursing past one is just wonderful.

Work is going well, the dogs are well (will post a video of a smart smart black lab soon!) and the house is great too. Artie has had a few seizures in the past few weeks and we are keeping an eye on them but he is his same old self for now.

Will post ultrasound pics in two weeks!

E