Emily's Big Girl Room!

The mess in the hallway after emptying out Emily's room and the guestroom/Al's room. The stress of dealing with this for a week while we painted etc.. almost put me into early labour!

moving the freshly painted furniture into her room, Jason did a great job!

Her new bed with her new quilt and bed rails!

the bookshelf daddy built her, Lily has one too, they're great!

we finally let the girls in to see and they went right to jumping on the bed like monkeys!

Emily didn't have a very goo first night in her new bed. It was big and she was scared. We had to go in several times to comfort her. Eventually she fell asleep and slept on and off until 8am. The next night, and every night after have been much better, she's now sleeping from 8pm (with a small bottle at midnight) to 7-8am straight... thank God!

7am the morning after her first night, sleeping like an angel

34 weeks

Yep, anytime now little guy...

This is what happens when we skip our nap...

... we fall asleep while mommy is making dinner

Emily decorates the nursery

Daddy started taping the walls and then Lily came in to help. Guess which part she taped? I swear, If I don't do things myself they don't get done right!

First we take off the switch plate covers and cold air return vents daddy!

then you cut, see how I'm doing this?

next we roll

Was this wall not sanded already? Do I have to do EVERYTHING?

no one pays attention to detail anymore!

Cuddly cartoon watching

early morning sisterly love

Pregnancy cravings

31 weeks

Feeling ready!

This is by far my most challenging pregnancy. It's hard keeping up with 2 kids with a belly like this. Poor Emily misses my lap!

The Goetz's Go to the Zoo (where they belong!)

no zoom here, we were maybe 10 feet away from these rhinos

zebra!

Lily playing on the big tree trunk

mama and baby monkey

the giraffes were shy, stayed far away

ugh, damn you Jason

mommy gorilla with her baby, she was very protective and got upset when too many pictures with flashes were taken

Lily's favourite, the otters

parrott

leopard

poor Emily was confined to the stroller all day cause 5 minutes into the park she lost a shoe, luckily they had it at lost and found on our way out

wolves, Jason took like 30 pictures of them, he's obsessed

the polar bears, poor things, it was a hot day!

this one needed a bath desperately

Dorie!

jelly fish

wallaby's

getting to know a komodo dragon

kangaroos, by far the best exhibit cause you could go on a walkabout right through their enclosure!

Alice the camel has 2 humps!

Lily and the "wild" horses

It was a great trip. We stayed at the Delta Hotel and the girls loved it. Between the elevator and the huge pool with kid's slide I don't think they ever wanted to leave! (quite frankly I didn't either!) The only downside was that our room wasn't a suite so after we put the kids to bed at 8pm we were forced to do this:

yes, we're sitting on the bathroom floor watching a movie on the girls' portable DVD system. Very uncomfortable for the pregnant lady!