This is what the girls got up to when they were together today. We did some body painting! in diapers and smocks. They went promptly from here to the bath after this. We also had a good hour outside in the snow today. The weather is mild and the snow is light and fluffy. The camera batteries were dead when we were outside.
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!
Playing tea party, play dough, puzzles and painting. This is her first time vegetable printing. She knows how to stamp. This was how we spent our day with Uncle Bruce today.
Well, we survived. The pictures I took were random and not staged or great so forgive me. It was kind of crazy with 6 toddlers running around and 17 adults trying to keep track of them in our round-a-bout house. The kids had a great time. We set up two long tables in the dining room to accommodate all 17 adults for a sit-down-ish dinner. It worked well. There was LOTS of food but we still didn’t end up with much in the way of leftovers. Everyone brought their signature Thanksgiving side dish and we had 6 desserts in the end. I made the ham in the slow cooker as I didn’t have room in the stove and lucky I did. We had a 17 lb turkey that completely went and the half of the large ham. All in all, a fun night and here are some pics. I will post a video when Tim wakes up. Here it is, unfortunately I grabbed my camera after they had been doing this for a while so this part is less interesting but there is another one to follow of Edzea dancing this morning:
Today, we’re taking Bruce for a drive out along the Ingraham Trail to Cameron Falls and doing a tour around Yellowknife.
Here are some pics of Uncle Bruce and his niece this morning.
One guess who’s the boss in this relationship????!!!This girl wants MORE paint!!!
Edzèa’s latest favourite thing is painting. She remembers that her Bumpa paints so when she paints she says “Bumpa paint” as a statement to acknowledge her wonderful memory…like we need to be reminded…she doesn’t seem to forget much! When she sees a tractor she says “Bumpa tractor”. Both of her Bumpa’s have/do interesting things. She also knows that Bumpa has a boat so whenever she sees a boat she says “Bumpa Boat”. She hasn’t categorized Grandma yet but supposedly Nana is the swimmer! I have a video of Edzèa swimming at Mabel Lake and Nana is in the video so she’s decided that she and Nana are the swimmers!
Anyways, I digress. We’ve all been sick with a cold since Wednesday so we really haven’t left the house. Tim was the last to be attacked and the first to get over it so he took Friday morning off to look after Edzèa so I could rest. I’m still the worst of the three but I am improving so hopefully we’ll be back to Kindermusic on Monday or Daddy will have to take her.
It looks like we may have found new tenants for the downstairs which we are happy about. We were having a harder time this time around. October is not the ideal month to start a tenancy. Everyone is looking for September.
New words keep flowing from our daughter daily. I don’t know if I’ll be able to recall them all:
There are probably more but I can’t remember them all. She will try any word you ask her to repeat and some she pronounces better than others. It’s happening really quickly.
P.S. Here is a link that I was just given for Karen Morrow’s (my cousin) Jewellery Blog
http://karenmorrow.blogspot.com/
The new word of the day is “Old Macdonald”. This is what our daughter asked for this morning and continued to impress us with it throughout the day. I couldn’t believe it when she repeated it after me. She loves the one video that I have for her; Baby Einstein’s Old Macdonald’s Farm. She asks to see it repeatedly. It’s as popular as her wagon. So when she asks for it by name and with such clarity, it’s hard to turn her down. It gives you 45 minutes of baby-free time to do chores around the house. It’s amazing. I can see why people give in to the tv thing although that isn’t in my plans.
Yesterday, we attended our second series of Kindermusic classes with a new instructor. It was 100 times better than with the last instructor and Edzea can actually follow along with some of the actions now. She loves to pretend to swim like a fish during the fish songs. She loves to pretend swim so as soon as the pool re-opens we’ll be back in the water.
We had our welcome back morning to the family centre today. It was a nice change. Edzea enjoyed herself as usual. She especially likes the kitchen area with the dolls/babies and the water play area. I had a hard time moving her from the water station once she discovered it. She needs a chair to boost herself to participate in it but it doesn’t deter her.
We have the family centre for the rest of the week and also gymnastics free play which should be interesting as she seems to like to climb things now.
Also, the minute that we pick up Daddy from work now the first and only word out of her mouth to him is “wagon” over and over and over again. So, the new ritual is that Daddy takes her for a wagon ride as soon as he gets home. This girl NEVER forgets that her wagon is around even though it is hidden in the garage.
Bye for now.
Edzèa helps Mommy with the housecleaning now. She is much more particular than her Mommy. She also gets upset when clothes are left on the floor and hats aren’t put into the deacon’s bench.
Here are some pics from the past week in Yellowknife. We had a miserable cold/wet Long weekend and then this weekend has been +20 which is HIGHLY irregular for this time of year. We were out for a bbq at Long Lake with Gina, Stuart, Georgia, Gillian and Dylan tonight as the weather was so good.
The family centre re-opens next week YAY!! and we are signed up for Kindermusic beginning on Monday. On Friday afternoon I went to a Mommy’s group at my Chinese friend, Ying’s house where we were treated to freshly made sushi and chinese dumplings. I was also introduced to another stay-at-home Mom who is looking to babysit so I may send Edzea there once a week for half a day as Tracey will be busy with a new baby soon and our trading will become non-existent.
We bought the last wagon in Yellowknife on sale at Walmart this week and Edzea helped Daddy put it together. The favourite word of the week is ” Wa-G-ON” She pronounces it perfectly with ane mphasis on the hard “G”.
Here are some additional pictures from our sailing outing with Tracey, Markham & Mackenzie today-Sunday, August 9th. Edzea loves the water and boats but the winds were over 25 knots so Markham took the sails down because it was too rough with babies on board. Tim was out getting injured at a Finals Soccer game where he was attacked and can’t use one of his hands very well and it looks like his foot is broken but he isn’t going to go to Emergency for it yet although it is completely blue/purple…
Sorry for the infrequent posts lately. In-laws visiting, flu and general business. Today is the first day or past few hours that I feel ok. Tim looked after Edzèa all weekend as I wasn’t well. Tracey looked after her on Friday. I’m hoping to take Edzèa out to do something fun tomorrow after her having a boring week with Mommy at home this week.
We are off to Calgary on August 10th and then back to Mabel Lake on Aug.17th. We are looking forward to this.
We had some delicious Great Slave Lake trout that Markham gave us tonight. Uncle Allan came over and we had a good night.
Here are some cute videos of Edzèa. That’s all for now.