2014 Year End :)

This past year has definitely been a good one for the Burdett Family. We started off the year in Cochrane and we are ending it in Orton. Lydia and Brigham have grown so much in the past twelve months. We saw Brigham get his first eye surgery done and found out he will need another. He and all things high are not friends. Haha. He falls off of something at least twice daily. I am hoping this next surgery will help him and his depth perception.

Lydia is just a little cutie. She has an amazing vocabulary (or at least I think so) and she is understanding a whole lot these days. She sings to herself and she has a great imagination. She love to play pretend. Brigham follows right along flapping his arms like a bird or roaring like a lion. Lydia has been learning a little bit of sign and can sign her name.

Brigham has just started to really babble and loves to say grandpa and bubbles and pee! He can copy most things we say now, but I think his favourite word to say these days is yummy! Everytime he sees candy or his favourite foods he repeats yummy and points his arm towards whatever it is he wants to eat. And boy, can that kid eat! He was off of all kinds of milk around 11 months old. It made his tummy upset and I was slightly overjoyed since I didn't want to have to wean him off of any kind of food or drink. He drinks water like a champ. If ever he is slightly unhappy, I just give him water and he is happy as can be.

Another thing Brigham loves are his stuffed animals. Or anything soft for that matter. He just snuggles right in. Lydia loves little babies. She is so kind and gentle whenever she sees ones and just likes to comment on how cute they are. Lydia is excellent at giving compliments as well. Anytime Kayla brings a friend over, she just has to comment on their earrings, shoes, hair, shirt, you name it! She also adores being with the girls. She likes to hang out in Kayla's room while they get ready for whatever the day holds. Lydia actually has invited me into her own room to talk at times. I think it makes her feel special and grown up. haha.

This Christmas we stayed over at my parents house in Lethbridge. My kids quite enjoyed that, and Lydia especially liked having Uncle Brad to play with. She was also pretty excited to talk to her Uncle Jeff on Skype, but when it came down to it, she was just a little too shy to even show her face.

Lydia is really enjoying her presents she got for Christmas including puzzles, a baby doll, chocolate and a play castle. The castle was also for Brigham too! He has mostly enjoyed the food of the season and reading his new books. Oh and he has loved loved loved his soft oversized stuffies. :) So cute.

One of my favourite parts of the Christmas holidays was getting to see our new little one at our ultrasound and finding out that we are having another little girl! We are due May 15th and if she follows suit and comes early, we should get to meet her sometime before Mothers day :)

Here I am at 21 weeks.

And here are some pictures of my cute kids :) Ignore the big scabs on their faces. haha

Way too excited for a stuffed animal. haha

Take a look

Catch up time! The past couple have months have been really busy for us, but I thought I should share some of what we have been up to. August led us to a wedding in Utah for one of Anthony's cousins. It was a lot of fun for us to go down and spend time with family. Lydia really loved seeing the temple. All she wanted to do was to go and see it. When we went for the family dinner at the Joseph Smith Memorial building, you could see the temple through the window. When they closed the curtains to show a slideshow Lydia had a little meltdown because she couldn't see the temple.  I hope she can carry that focus with her throughout her life.  

August also brought us to Orton where we are living now. We are in Anthony's parents old house and we are living in and fixing up it up. Orton is only 8-10 minutes from Fort Macleod and 25-30 minutes away from Lethbridge. Not too bad as far as location goes, but who knows where we will actually end up.

I know last time I blogged I gave the impression that Brighams eyes were completely fixed. They seemed to be for a while but since then they have moved. His left eye is still a little crossed at times but he has been learning how to control his eyes and how he has to look at me to see a clear image. I think his brain is starting to figure it out. We have another appointment in December to see if a secondary surgery will be necessary. So in pictures and in real life, the way you can tell if his eyes are straight is by looking at the light in his eyes. It should be in the exact same spot in both eyes when he is looking straight at you. Lots of times he will turn his head to make it easier for him to look straight. He hasn't been doing his patching because I just can't reason with a one year old. He can take them off and if it is on he will just cry, so it doesn't really help. Here are some pictures so you can see what I am talking about.

BP's for his first birthday!

At a joint birthday party for Brigham and Kadence

He loves all things food.

 Having all this space out here in Orton is awesome. We have developed a love for slingshot paintball. Because it is slingshot, getting hit doesn't hurt as much, but they also don't always break. And sometimes when you don't wear a full face mask, you get hit in the mouth. It tastes worse than it hurts. Trust me.

 Since we are a lot closer to family, Lydia and Brigham get to spend a lot more time with their cousins. So fun!

Lydia has started to fall asleep in strange places....

 ...and when she wakes up, she has the most lovely hair. 

I asked Anthony to put the kids in the bath tub the other day. this is what happened... haha

We also got to see the LCI vs Cardston football game this past weekend. It was an awesome game. 

  We have also done a lot of renovating but I will save those pictures for another post later on. Hopefully not too much later. :)

Update on the Burdett Family

The phone call I have been long awaiting has finally come! Brigham has a surgery date set for April 16th. Am I nervous? yes. Excited? yes. I am hoping that his eyes and his brain take to the surgery well so that he can see the way that we are all meant to see. I am grateful that he will be getting surgery a few weeks before Lindsey (my sister) gets married. He will be able to see how beautiful she is when she comes out of the temple a married woman. Lydia is so excited to go to the temple and see Auntie Lindsey in a beautiful white dress. Lydia tells me she wants to go inside the temple. I am truly blessed in this life I am living. 

Also in other news, we will be moving again come September. We will be moving to Orton to live in and fix up Anthony's parents house. Anthony is super excited to be able to live in the country again. Also he has become very interested (obsessed) with building an underground greenhouse. He will be able to build one when we go down there. 

Now, we as a family felt very inspired to move up here to Cochrane, but after spending a few months up here, we felt prompted this was not the place for us to stay. It is so beautiful up here and the ward is amazing. Leaving this place is not going to be as easy as I thought it might be when we first moved. When we first decided to move from Lethbridge, Brigham wasn't crossed eyed at all. Since we moved up here he has had many appointments with specialists in Calgary, just minutes away. If we were in Lethbridge, we would have had to drive up almost every other week. I know some people do it, but with a small baby it can be difficult...especially when you have to be on time. Haha.

This weekend we are going down to Cardston to be there with my sister as she goes to the temple to receive her endowment. I am so proud of her and the life she has lived so far. I hope I can be so fortunate as to see all my kids in the temple one day. :)

She is growing :)

Well it has been a while, but it hasn't been a year which is how long my sister guessed it would take me to post again. Haha. Life with a baby is great. A lot different than I ever expected. It is a strange thing to have to decipher what your baby wants when they can't speak. I can't believe it has almost been 5 months since she was born! Crazy! She has started to make squeaks and squawks that make me think she is actually trying to say something. It is much nicer than crying. :) I love that she is developing a personality now and can interact with others. She loves to play with her aunts and uncles and especially loves going to Grandma Pierson's house. I love having family so close because it means I have baby-sitters that I can count on when Anthony takes me out on dates :) We got to go to MIB III recently and I really enjoyed it!

We have taken Lydia to so many basketball and rugby games that she probably knows all the rules already and will be ready to play once she gets old enough. hehe :)

Here she is playing with Uncle Jeff's baby sized rugby ball that he won.

Having fun at Auntie Lindsey's basketball game.