As of lately......

The last couple of weeks have been rather eventful and then not so much at the same time. It seems that we will have 1 or 2 days of craziness and then nothing for a while.

On Friday April 11, 2008 we woke up to find that the car we have been borrowing from one of Kal's co-workers had been stolen. Our car parked right behind it was not touched...of course. Kal made the usual phone calls to the police and then to

Lisa(the co worker). We felt awful, especially as we were taking the car back right away because now we have our van. Also that day I had to take the van in to get the throttle sensor replaced ( not sure if that is exactly what it was, but that is how I understood it to be). So Kal took the Malibu into work and I was going to relax the with the boys the rest of the day. Well Walker apparently had other plans. He was playing on the kitchen chairs yet again and tipped one over and caught his middle finger in between the floor and the chair and split it open. So now with a screaming baby and blood all over the place I call Kal and ask him to come and get us so that we could go to the hospital for stitches and to see if he broke it as well. Kal of course freaks out just a little and asked me if I should call an ambulance and I reassured him that no, Walker would be ok and just to come home. I am sure Kal made it home in record time and took us to the hospital and took Jackson with him to work as my two boys in the ER are not a good combination at all, one was hard enough! Fortunately his finger was not broken and they were able to glue his cut together and so after only 2 hours were able to go home...not so bad for a Friday and a fairly minor injury. It tried to take a picture of Walker's finger but he would not cooperate and so I gave up. But is was smooshed and rather ugly looking. It is healing great, though it is still rather sensitive and when he bangs it he definitely lets you know. This was Walker's second time to the ER in a year.....he is starting to take after my Father...which is rather scary!

The police did find our friends car the next day, it was totally trashed and was a complete right off. Lisa and Russ (the owners) were actually happy since they were going to sell it and they probably got more for it than if they had sold it privately. We still feel terrible about the whole thing, but we are glad it has worked out.

So other than that we are now onto not much happening again. I have posted some pictures of my ultra sound and the boy's. I am now almost 23 weeks pregnant and feeling great, except for my sciatic nerves and hips, but I am not throwing up so I try not to complain too much.

Baby Bartel @ 20 weeks gestation

Jackson found the dress up box in the garage and had a great time dressing like his favourite characters. He is moving away from Batman and into Ben 10, who is a cartoon character who changes into aliens..... Your guess is as good as mine.

Here he is dressed as Buzz Lightyear.

Walker is to wearing "layers" lately. In this picture all though quite mad at me, he is wearing 2 of Jackson's shirts and half of his jammies.