Life These Days

How sweet life is these days. We have seriously lucked out in that Madi is the most perfect third baby. Craig and I often find ourselves asking the other what we did to deserve these three beautiful, happy & healthy children. Life is certainly busy and we are learning to go along with the ebbs and flows.
Brynlee is in full time school and after a little hiccup, she is really enjoying grade 1. She has some new little girlfriends and is beginning to learn to read. Jessie is still our sweet wild child who loves hard and gives the most adorable hugs. She is adapting to school life but is honestly such a home body that she comes home utterly exhausted. & our little Mads. She is honestly just here for the ride. Being hauled to all the girls’ activities and school drop offs. She just smiles from her bucket and is loved beyond measure by all people who meet her.

Halloween 2021

This year Brynlee decided she wanted to be Hermione from Harry Potter for Halloween. So in true Jess fashion, Jessie chose to be Hermione’s cat, Crookshanks. Madi dressed up in the same ladybug costume that both girls wore for their first Halloweens. It was a little tight.

Craig and I talked after the girls went to bed & he said that this was the first time that he genuinely missed our old house. I had a lot of feelings about leaving Normandeau since it was the first house I moved out into. It was the place that we brought all three of our babies home to and there are just so many meaningful memories there.
Anyways we got maybe 40-50 trick or treaters when we’re used to having 200-300. Craig took the girls to our old street after ours died down and he said that Normandeau was still suuper busy. I guess you can’t have it all.

Little J & Pre K

This little lady finally got her school debut. Her first day went a little like this.

She whispered in Craig’s ear as he was doing up her car seat to go that she was excited for her first day. All while telling us this past week that she didn’t want to.

She quietly sat colouring in her classroom and said ‘that’s alright’ when we told her it was time for us to leave.

At home time she bounded out the front doors with a huge smile on her face and hugged us so tight. ‘I made two new friends today!’ she exclaimed.

It was a good day.

Height: 43 in Weight: 45 lb Shoe size: 10 Clothing size: 4/5T

Favourites

Book: Little Blue Truck and Green Sheep

Song: This Little Light of Mine

Food: pancakes

Treat: chocolate… mini mint aeros

Animal: zebra, doggy and kitty

Places to go: Vancouver and the dinosaur fossil place (Drumheller)

Things to wear: my jammies

Colour: baby blue

I want to be a veterinarian to care for Brynlee’s horse and a horse trainer

Grade One

Brynlee started full day school this year and I FREAKING miss her. She is such a light in this house and it is much quieter without her here.

But. I know that she is where she belongs. She is smart, bubbly and excited to make new friends. A lover of horses, winking & new adventures.

Height: 49¼ in Weight: 58 lbs Shoe size: 1 Clothing size: Small/Medium

Favourites

Book: I have lots of favourite books. But if I had to choose I would pick The Three Unicorns and the Big Bad Dragon. And also Harry Potter

Song: My Lighthouse by Rend Collective (my friend Reece is so good at singing it)

Food: pancakes, pizza and marshmallows

Treat: s’mores

Animal: horses

Places to go: Claire’s, Costco and home

Things to wear: t shirts and shorts. Not dresses. But sometimes sweaters

Colour: rainbow, silver and gold

I want to be a horseback rider when I grow up

2 Week Check Up

Madi had her first doctor’s visit on April 5th. Dr. Fairgrieve Park was super impressed with her weight gain. She weighed 7lb 10oz and had grown ½ an inch in length. Her physical assessment checked out perfectly as she squirmed and squeaked her way through the appointment.

Madison Lola

Madison Lola Hunt joined our family on March 18th, 2021 at 10:04am. Weighing 6lb 12oz and measuring 19 inches in length, she is (by far) our smallest babe. She was born via scheduled c section at 38 weeks and 1 day and her big sisters are totally smitten with her.

It’s been a busy first few weeks as we’ve celebrated the majority of our families’ birthdays PLUS Easter. But this little girlie is fitting in just fine amongst all the noise and the chaos. We are all glad she is finally here, safe & sound.

Adding One More

One more Hunt baby due to arrive March. 31, 2021

I’m not going to lie, this pregnancy has been rough. We told family and close friends early on because I was so sick. I finally found some reprieve by attending the IV clinic for hydration and medications every couple of days. Craig took over most of the household duties and caring for the girls while I was sleeping up to 20 hours a day.

At around the 14 week mark, I was finally able to drink enough to no longer require hydration therapy. My nausea began to dissipate and I could keep food down. Now we are hoping that there won’t be any more bumps in the road and baby remains happy and healthy.

*fingers crossed!*

B Starts Kindergarten

This year, despite all the weird and wacky things going on in the world, Brynlee started kindergarten. When asked what she was most excited about she said making and playing with friends.

Height: 46 ½ in Weight: 52.3 lbs Shoe size: 12 Clothing size: Small

Favourites

Book: anything with animals – National Geographic books

Song: Tomorrow from the Annie soundtrack

Food: cheese pizza

Treat: caramel drumsticks (of course)

Animal: alicorns, unicorns, pegasus, and horses

Places to go: Elsa’s castle (The Ice Castles) and the zoo

Thing to wear: my pink unicorn dress from Lola

Colour: rainbow, gold, silver and pink

I want to be a dolphin trainer and horse rider when I grow up!

Floyd turns 7

This year Floyd turns 7 which makes him 47 in dog years!! We celebrated with balloons, party hats and cupcakes. Our neighbours were SO CONFUSED. They know when all our birthdays are so we had to admit that all this was for Mr. Floyd. The girls were disappointed when they couldn’t give him a cupcake but each enjoyed one on his behalf.