Nya & Georgie's 2nd Birthday Party

My sister Maria and I decided to celebrate Nya and Georgie's birthdays together because it's often hard to get family members together, and besides, their birthdays are just 6 weeks apart. It ended up being so great because you share the cost of the food AND there's twice the people organizing, baking,  and cleaning up etc.  Perfect.  We had their party today at Maria and Kris' house.  I may have taken a lot of photos but the kids were having so much fun, the light was perfect, and I love all these little people.

Nya's actual birthday is on Thursday and I'll share the `official' 2 year old pictures I've taken of her then (and a whole bunch of mushy, sappy, emotional stuff I'm sure!).  For now, enjoy today's birthday girls!

I tried Martha Stewart's Chocolate Chip Cupcakes.  I decided they are not my favourite but the buttercream icing is always good!

Maria made the Dora cake (with the gooey geyser!).

A bubble machine is quite the party starter when you're 2!

I love these ones of Gary and Nya.  I finally gave Gary (and the boys) a haircut yesterday.  Look how smiley he is!  As a side note, Gary made some very tasty sandwiches for the party.  

The only way to get Jack in the photo...although I think Jan secretly wanted to be in there. So many kids.  So many blessings.  Next one joins us in July!

Kai showing off Nya's new skirt

It was such a great afternoon.  Yay for baby girls turning 2!  Yay for family!  Yay for no rain!

Love, Louise

Babies

Picture taken by my sister Maria.  We had our weekly playdate and rarely are all the 5 kids up at the same time:)  Aren't they cute? They were so confused as we were jumping around singing `If You're Happy And You Know It' so that Isaac and Hannah would be okay laying down.  The two oldest are crawling now and Jack is rolling.  It's going to get reeeeeeeaaaaally crazy soon:) 

I love having 5 babies around the same age.  I wish we could do it all over again.  Sort of:)

My Sister

I've been given permission to share that my sister Maria is back in the hospital. In her previous pregnancy, she had post partum hypertension which landed her in critical care 10 days after Kenzie was born. Due to that, she was closely monitored throughout this entire pregnancy. Unfortunately, 9 days after Georgia was born, Maria's blood pressure spiked and she was admitted on Monday. She is still there.

{One hour after Georgia was born}

She needs another person with her when she is there (on the maternity ward) because she is not able to take care of Georgia with the drugs that she is on. The nurses are not allowed to watch Georgia because it is Maria that is the patient. Maria wants Georgia there for bonding and also breastfeeding. Fortunately Kris is on paternity leave so he can take care of the 3 other kids. Family has been chipping in and helping out where they can. I would just ask that you please think of her in your thoughts/prayers as she really wants to get home to be with her family again.

Thanks!

Louise

Baby Georgia!

Phew, finally I can breathe a sigh of relief!!! Maria had her baby girl and she is here safe and sound. Yahoo! Maria was induced on Friday (due to pre-eclampsia last time) and baby was born on Saturday (day before her due date) at 6:30pm. I don' t think she'd want me to share many details but it did go well considering she was induced and then ended up having to use oxytocin as well. That brings her family to four beautiful girls aged 6 and under:)

We were all doing shifts taking care of the girls and so that was a good thing in the sense that I didn't worry about Maria so much while she was in labour...we were all too busy taking care of her kids and our own little babies. Thank goodness Gary was home to watch our boys and that little Miss Nya likes the bjorn.

So, here is little miss Georgia Maria. AND, this may sound familiar but Maria has had two 9.5lb babies and this one? 7lbs 11oz! However, all these babies seem to have big heads:) Another 37cm head, just like Jack and Nya. You should've seen the molding and overlapping of the plates in her skull to get out, pretty cool!

Here she is, just one hour old...

{Maria, Kris and midwives}