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Tim’s Birthday

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We are having lovely warm weather in Yellowknife right now. -1 today. We took Edzea out on her sled which she promptly fell asleep on. Last night we had a few friends over for dinner to celebrate Tim’s birthday. How is it that Edzea can be exhausted at 10 pm when she finally goes to sleep and then STILL wake up at 6am? We are not going to put her to bed late anymore. This tactic isn’t working. She may as well go to bed at 7pm so at least we get our evenings back.

Here are some photos of Tim’s birthday:

Also, I’m torn. We have people around the neighbourhood who continually dump snow from their driveways on to our corner. We have the only curb on the cul-de-sac. I didn’t get a chance to call the city about it this week but I wanted to see what they could do about it. We have a HUGE mountain around our corner fence which turns into a lake in our yard in the spring.  We had loads of snow due to the warm weather last night and the main culprit across the street is now using his bobcat to clear our driveway. I’m sure this is a way to appease us. A. It’s worked so far B. I wish he would ask and then we could actually tell him how we feel. What to do?????!!!

Kindermusic Dance Video

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When Edzea and Mackenzie were at dance class the other day they were asked to free dance. They had just finished  another dance holding hands and Mackenzie thought they should continue together. They kept dancing and dancing and dancing like the highschool slow dance shuffle. Markham caught it on his cell phone video. Hope you can play it.

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Quiet Fall Weekend

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We spent a nice quiet weekend this weekend as a family. We had a babysitter (under supervision) come in and look after Edzea while we worked around  the house on Saturday/Sunday mornings. His name is Cole. Edzea loves him. He is the owners of SSI’s son and Edzea has known him for a while but this is the first time she’s had his undivided attention. He just finished his babysitting course and only lives a few blocks away and he was a great babysitter. She didn’t bug us at all while he was here playing with her. He brought a knapsack full of new fun toys for her to play with as well.

As you can see from the photos, she quite likes him. Notice the stamps on her face….well, Cole is still only 11 and he was painting with her and I brought out some scrapbooking stamps/ink and I wasn’t really thinking. The next thing I know she is stamped all over her face and arms the next time I see her. Luckily they all washed off easily even though they weren’t washable! They had fun anyways and he makes her laugh a lot.

On Saturday night, we went to Javaroma for a music night with Edzea and Tracey and Markham and Mackenzie. The girls danced all over the floor and were quite the favourites with the crowd. We kept them up past their bedtime as we are trying to get out and do something on the weekend and had heard this coffee music night was baby-friendly. They liked the music more than we did and were happy to be out.

We are gearing up for Betsy Jones visit tomorrow and our H1N1 shots. Edzea has her second gymnastics class tomorrow morning and we have Kindermusic in the afternoon.

We’ve decided that Edzea is not a Princess at all. She is a Queen. The boss. Each day it becomes more clear.

She is now reciting her ABC’s by repeating after us. I have an art history ABC book for her and we go through it daily. She loves her ABC puzzle and her numbers puzzle. She is no longer interested in simple puzzles. They are too easy. So, we keep trying to get things a little more complicated for her. It’s hard to know what is too difficult and what is appropriate. It’s a hit and miss game. I didn’t think she was ready for ABC’s and 123’s last week and this week…I was proven wrong. I need more simple reader books too. She loves the simple reader of the three little pigs and follows along with words.

The words/phrases are too many to count. Basically she will try to say any word you say and will usually use it again if it is interesting to her. Example: Money…she says this one a lot now.

  1. Banana
  2. Vegetables
  3. Queen
  4. Game
  5. Puzzle
  6. Mackenzie
  7. Work-Daddy Work
  8. Bed, Crib
  9. Rose
  10. Eggs
  11. Zoo

The list goes on….she recites every word in her alphabet book so at least 26 new words right there.

That’s all for now.

October 19th

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This is Edzèa hiding out from the Yellowknife Paparazzi aka Mommy. She decided that this is the outfit she wanted to go out in the rain the other day.

Today, we had our first gymnastics class. She is the only one under 2 1/2 in her class so she isn’t accomplishing much but she had fun and got her first stamp on her hand which she loved!

Kindermusic was this afternoon and she behaved like I would expect a 17 month old to for a change. It was a shock to me as she is usually so much better behaved and a good listener. Today, she had her own agenda and that was to get the balls that were visible out of a box and all of the other Kindermusic items out of boxes as well as to get the baby doll off a shelf it was hiding on. The instructor finally let her have it but then Mackenzie had a complete tantrum because Edzèa had it and not her. All in all…not that great a class.

Someone in class told me that their daughter had a doll that looked exactly like Edzèa and another woman kept commenting on how adorable she was. She wasn’t being that adorable to me today!

She also loves Halloween things. Anything scary and monster-ish, is of high interest. There is a demonic- looking Frankenstein doll at the coffee shop and she is always trying to hug and kiss it. Her taste in men already needs improvement! She can say Halloween too!