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The countdown is on!

Can you believe it's already November?? I feel like I say this every month lately. My days don't seem to go by all that quickly, but the months sure do (and please, tell me how this makes ANY sense?!). Thanksgiving and Halloween have come and gone and the only thing between us and Christmas is Remembrance Day.

Oh.

And the birth of my next child!


I'm 34 weeks pregnant today and am getting super duper excited to meet this next little munchkin! That means only 40-ish days to go!! I can't wait to find out what she looks like and what her little personality is going to be. Will she look a lot like Abby or be a completely different combination of Wookey and VanRietschoten? Will she have blonde hair, brown hair, or red hair? It's so fun to imagine what she's like, but it will be even more fun to meet her for the first time!

I have my next prenatal appointment tomorrow so as of right now I have no more news as to how baby is growing/progressing. I will give you an update when I know more.


Also, as promised...here's a picture of a cute little kitty we found on Halloween.




We went to Grandma and Grandpa Wookey's house for trick-or-treating and it was a great time! Chad and Grandpa took her down the block to see the neighbours and she came back with a nice little stash of candy. Somehow I've had the willpower to not devour it all....I'm rather amazed! I will also admit that I'm excited for next Halloween already. We went to Walmart on November 1st and scored a cute fluffy bunny costume for baby #2 already....I couldn't say no to 75% off! We didn't buy anything for Abby though - I would rather her be an animal or a princess or something happy. All that was left in the bigger sizes were monsters and skeletons so we'll just pick something next year; she'll likely have more of an opinion by then anyways! We all know how toddlers like to exercise their independence....



Yesterday we had the privilege of going to the Vancouver aquarium! What an amazing place. Opa and Nana (my beautiful parents) are in the city right now so we met up with them for lunch and an outing to the aquarium. It was amazing. The vast array of sea creatures in this world is astounding! I would like to say that Abby enjoyed herself the most....but I think I felt comparable awe to hers - I just didn't squeal, jump up and down, and point with quite the same enthusiasm as she did. I would have loved to spend more time there, but it was getting late and a (almost) two year old has only so much attention and patience when she doesn't get her afternoon nap. 

I would highly recommend going if you ever get the chance.  


This week will be full of housework and Christmas shopping; I'm now on a mission to be prepared for Christmas nice and early! I know some of you are WAY ahead of me and almost done your Christmas shopping/prep already....my goal is to be mainly done by mid-November. Let's see how this week goes :)




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