Daniel and I are going to be out-numbered!!

So I may be a little late on this one, but Daniel and I are going to be out-numbered early next fall! When we got to the time where we were ready to tell people we kinda forgot that everybody didn't know already and haven't really told a lot of people. And now everybody is finally finding out when we are almost half way already and I'm afraid this pregnancy is going to go by too fast! I am however thankful to be this far along as I am slowly starting to feel better and like I have some more energy again. Right off the bat we had decided to hold off telling Dexter for as long as possible because he's not even three yet and we figured he wouldn't really get it and it is still so far away, well I slipped up yeasterday! He asked me to spin him around outside and I was kinda tired and told him I couldn't cause there was a baby in me and it might make me feel sick! (bad excuse, I know!) Well he jumped on that right away, and this is kinda how our dialogue went,
D "Well let me see the baby"
M "you can't see it right now because its in my tummy"
D (lifting up my shirt) "ya, i wanna see it right under there"
M "the baby is going to be inside mommy for a long time because it needs to grow and get lots of sleep before it comes to play with you"
D "well, but I want to hold it right now!"
M "when the baby is ready you can hold it ok?"
D "ok"
630am the next morning as he crawls into our bed!
D "is that baby in your tummy?"
M "yup"
D "now can I hold it?"
M "no Dex, its still a long time away!"
at the breakfast table
D "did you go buy that baby in your tummy for me?"
M "not really"
D "oh, did daddy go buy it for me?"
and it goes on and on and on! See why we had decided to wait! here's hoping he moves back to the fishing trip quick!!

a long 3.5 months!

So last week we got word that Mom and Dad Derksen official were able to reserve campsites for the Jan Lake fishing trip! Yae! I never gerw up in a "fishing family," however, I have no question in my mind that our little family will be a "fishing family" through and through! When Daniel and I were dating, it became very apparent very early on his love for fishing, some of our first unofficial dates were catching perch out of Gardom Lake off the docks. When we had been dating about 9 months and Daniel was back in saskatchewan working he invited me out for the family Jan Lake fishing trip. Ovbiously I wanted to go because I hadn't seen Daniel in a while, but I was a little concerned about how 3 days of nothing but fishing would go!?! Well, I can honestly say I was very pleasantly surprised! This was real fishing! We caught fish left, right and center! I could have stayed longer catching fish and having a fish fry everyday on some random island in the middle of nowhere! It was a beautiful place, great company and tasty food! Since then we have been back once when Dexter was just about one and had an equally great time. Even at so young, Dexter LOVED the trip! He drove the boat with grandpa, ate grandma's pepperoni, said "fish" a lot, liked to look at the fish and even napped like a champ on the floor of the boat! And now we get to go again this year with two sets of grandparents, two great-grandpas, a great grandma, two uncles and an auntie! This fishing trip just happens to fall on Dexter's birthday weekend (which makes for easy birthday party planning!!) and "someone" told Dexter already that we are going fishing in sask for his birthday! Well, Dexter is so excited he can hardly stand it! I caught him laying in his boat the other day (which is actually the couch) hugging his pretend fish right up by his face. I asked "what are you doing Dex?" to which he replied "just thinkin about fishing!" Seriously!?! He is going to have such a blast on this trip - hopefully Lexi will enjoy it as much as Dex did when he was young too! So far he has done some fishing already this morning, but hasn't actually asked about the fishing birthday party, here's hoping he forgets, at least for a few months! I too can't believe we still have 3.5 months to wait! I can't wait for the first fish fry on some random island!

the savings fund!

his ice fishing hole,

"just thinkin' about fishing!"

Some sleepy babes!

This is Dexter at a recent dinner time. We had spent a lot of time outside that day and he complained at dinner that he was cold so we told him to go sit on the vent to warm up then come back to the table to finish eating......he didin't quite make it back!




This is Lexi after again being outside in the afternoon and her napping only 40mins before that!

Our kids don't need a lot of sleep, but when they do sleep, thesleep hard;)

What a Boy....and such a Girl!

I never get tired of seeing the differences that God has so ovbiously created between guys and girls, especially when it comes to our kids! Dexter is such a boy in so many ways that we could not have possible taught him! The other day we were driving out to my sister's place for our mom's bible study/book club when I went thru a big puddle which caused me to hydroplane a bit, no big deal, but you could feel the van move with it and Dexter's response in the back seat is "YAE MOMMY, FIST PUMP MOMMY, FIST PUMP MOMMY!" (Fist pumps are a pretty big deal in our house, you get them for really exciting things like finishing your supper or being extra nice to your sister;) If you just mention the word "fishing" around him, he instantly goes nuts and is looking for all the fishing stuff and heading to the door, on a recent ice fishing trip with his dad, he was playing with the fishing stuff and somehow got a hook stuck in his tongue??? Not sure if he was trying to be a fish or what but even that has not put a damper on his fishing spirits! He also is very proud of himself for being able to reach the toilet without a stool anymore, shooting and cutting up a bear, deer or moose and milking the cows and cleaning the barns. I'm sure as Lexi gets a bit older she may play some of these games with her brother, and though she can be a rowdy little girl, she already displays so many "girlie" personality traits. She can make anything a necklace from a scarf, or stuffed toy, to the handles on a gift bag. She also loves to carry her dolly around and pat its back.

As far as what everyone is up to these days, Dexter's new favorite response is "no problem dad" and "are you kidding me?" He continues to LOVE having friends over to play and being outside. He had his first movie theatre experience on the weekend with all the older cousins and was a champ, although a bit shell shocked, he pretty much just stared at the big screen and didn't react to much of the movie, but he did thoroughly enjoy a giant sucker from his auntie! We brought out his toy fishing rod again (which has been put away for a while) and he cannot get enough of it! He will make the couch his boat and fish off that, he has a little tent with a hole on top that he makes his ice fishing hole, and he loves to teach anybody who is interested how to "reel" in a fish. He is going to be well prepared for the family jan lake trip!

Lexi is the fastest knee walker around, and continues to babble more and more. She has some pretty distinct phrases like "spank da belly" and has more understandable words all the time. She has "accidently" taken up 6 steps here and there, but still refuses to attempt to walk when you try to encourage her to. When she does decide to walk she is going to think its so easy compareds to her knee walking! She loves to bath with Dex as he gets her laughing so hard, and she is slowly getting into a better sleeping routine. All in all life is "normal" around here, we are anxiously awaiting spring as i am looking forward to not having to find a spot to hang wet snow gear, but we have enjoyed winter so far.

I will lave you with a couple pics!

Dexter's first time skating!

Skating night!

Lexi's one year pics!

Lexi "enjoying" her macaroni!

an awkward conversation!

So the other night, we were enjoying a nice sit down dinner with our family and another family who is a few stages of life ahead of us (they had teenagers) While the conversation around the table was mostly based on our kids because they were entertaining everybody and slightly misbehaving, when the dad of the other family asks me "so Renee, do you miss nursing?" and I'm thinking, hum kinda weird that you ask, but answer, "well when i was finished I was ready to be done, but once I was actually done I do miss it a bit, but she was getting so hard to nurse I had to realize that I was just holding on for me and not for her," as I am finishing that statement I realize everybody is staring at me blankly, to which I finally catch on , "oh, you meant nursing, not BREASTFEEDING!!" talk about AWKWARD!!needless to say we all laughed so hard we started the ugly laugh, which carried on into tears, sweatng for some and Dexter becoming quite concerned about why everybody was crying!

re-entering the blogging world....OUR BABY DOLL IS 1!!

Time fies when you're having fun! I cannot believe how fast this year has gone by! One year ago our Beautiful "perfect 10" entered the world sunny-side up and 10lbs looking briht eyed and bushy-tailed at the world before her. Since that day she continues to be bright eyed and bushy tailed as she can light up the room with her beautiful smile, melt your heart with her adoring eyes and make you feel so loved with her tight hugs and wet kisses! Lexi had her one year check-up today, (shocked i got her in on time? me too!) first time in 6 months that she has been to the doctor so i was excited to see what she weighed! Just as Dexter did, she hated every minute of it! And me, still claiming baby-brain, took off her diaper to weigh her and promptly threw it in the garbage only to have left my diaper bag at home!
Lexi has met every milestone fearlessly! She refused baby food from the get go and went straight to table food cut a little smaller because she could tell that's what everybody else was eating. Her favorite breakfast is shreddies, favorite lunch...leftover and her favorite supper would be the same as her brother and dad good ole spaghetti! She started army crawling at five months and graduated into the full on hands and knees at seven monts. Also at seven months she began furnature walking and standing alongside her brother at the coffee table to play farm! She FINALLY started sleeping thru the night at just over eleven months, which was much appreciated (even if was only once a week at the time!) she now sleeps thru about as often as she doesn't, but is usually pretty quick to get back to sleep when she does wake up. She has a few words (which probably only we can get) She says "fish, dear and bear" (are you surprised??) "mama, dada, kitty, ya......" well I geuss she will actually try a lot of words, but after a while they start to sound the same! As for walking, she has no desire to do it on her own! I have always said I would never be in a hurry for any of my kids to walk, but I will admit, this girl is getting heavy!! Like i said, she has been furnature walking for five months already, can walk between furnature when she thinks you're not looking, but if you try to get her to do it on her own, she just lifts her legs, or refuses to come! Inspite of not walking on her feet, she will however walk all around the house on her knees! I don't mean just crawling, she will go right up on her knees and walk like that! it is pretty cute and impressive, it must take a lot of balance and strength to walk around like that! Her favorite things to play with are dolls (she just likes to hug them!) cars, her new kitchen (from some of the cousins!) and farm alongside her brother. Lexi is so beautiful inside and out and I am excited to see more of her personality unfold!! (if you know her at all, you'll know she has a ton of personality allready and I can only magine how much more is yet to come!)

p.s. more pics to come when i get them off my camera;)

can anybody relate??

you may need more sleep when you are in the shower and can't remember if you washed your hair yet or not!

you may have a rambuntious boy when you go into the nursary at church and he has ripped off his shirt and is tackling one of the nursary workers!

you may need to re-evaluate your speech when your toddlers most common response is "are you kidding me?"

you may be the wife/mom to a redneck when you go downstairs to see they have set up a hunting zone in the basement complete with deer antlers and moose slippers hidden throughout and are shooting them with a vaccum cleaner piece one by one!

you may be a little emotional when the happy ending to monters inc. makes you tear up!

and to top it off.....Dexter has his finger up his nose
Me: dex stop picking your nose
Dex: I not!
Me: please take your finger out of your nose!
Dex: oh, i just buggin' you mom!