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Dec.16th Family Centre Christmas Party

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Today was the Family Centre Christmas party both Edzea and Rohan enjoyed themselves thoroughly. Rohan won’t leave poor Desiree alone. He actually left a love bite on her shoulder when I was babysitting her the other day. He mauls her. He chases her and hugs and kisses her continually. We had to pull him off her repeatedly at the party. She did look really cute. He doesn’t do this with anyone else. It’s very odd.

He also won’t sit still during anything anymore. I think I spent more time chasing him during circle time/Santa time until finally Mary took him and sat him on her lap. He just kept going for the tree ornaments. He gets very mad when you intervene!

Anyways, Santa did turn up and I didn’t warn Edzea but she was fine with him at the Family Centre. He brought books for all of the kids. She wouldn’t go near him but she quite enjoyed watching him from a distance.

Snack time was filled with Christmas treats which you will see that Edzea loaded up on her plate. I thought she was going to get sick but she didn’t eat it all thank goodness.

This is probably the last post until after we return from holidays so Happy Holidays and enjoy the Family Centre pics.

Notice from the pics how long Edzea’s friends hair is compared to hers. When is it going to fill in???

SSI Kids Christmas Party & Desiree’s 1st Birthday Party

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Busy day. SSI Christmas party for the kids which was great. Pancake brunch spread, magicians, Christmas crafts and a visit from ol’ St.Nick. Rohan sat with Santa no problem. Unfortunately our batteries died and we didn’t get a picture of it. Looks like there won’t be any photos on Santa’s knee for Edzea this year. She ran screaming from him this year. When I had her out of the party room, the first question she asked was, “Where’s his sleigh Mommy?” So, we went back in to ask Daddy and Daddy said, ” On the roof of course.” “I want to see it,” says Edzea. We told her it was too cold out. She watched Santa from a safe distance on Daddy’s knee and then her babysitter, big boy friend, Cole, retrieved her gift from Santa for her. She received a Curious George book and her first real board game, Candyland. Santa had a little help with the gifts as Amanda and I were asked to “help” Santa with some elf duties earlier in the week.

Rohan received some little fisher price cars and a puppet board book on Goldfish. He LOVES cars. He has a little garage that I picked up for Edzea ages ago and he likes to play with it with his cars. He even makes the engine sounds. No one taught him this. It must be an innate boy thing. Rohan was played with by all of the teenage girls at the party. In fact he was with our other babysitter, Megan, for most of the morning. We haven’t actually had a babysitter since Rohan was born but she’s in line for it for sure as he likes her alot too although he’s pretty easy with everyone. Gina looks after him once a week right now and I look after Owen. We do a trade and Owen cries on and off the whole time he’s here while Rohan just has a great time at Gina’s house. He doesn’t even notice I’m gone!

Anyhow, the day went well. We went to Tracey & Markham’s for Desiree’s first birthday party. They had a ton of food and it was very Christmasssy! Edzea and Georgia and Mackenzie are a threesome.

I had Mackenzie over the other day and during the course of the playdate, Edzea told Mackenzie, “No, Mackenzie, don’t do that it hurts my feelings.” They were yelling about each other’s siblings and talking about hair cuts…it’s too complicated to write down.

Also, when I was super busy the other day getting ready for our brunch last week. I guess I was telling her to get out of my hair and get out of the kitchen. She sat down with her blankie, looked up at me and said, “Mommy, that’s not very nice to me. It’s mean.” So, I played a Bingo game with her and gave her a cookie because I felt so bad!

Holiday Brunch Dec.5

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We had our holiday brunch at our house this morning. Because Tim was slated to cook waffles and do various other things, our friends, Maria and Yose, offered to come early and help. This was great as it would have been impossible for me to get things underway on time without them.

There are pics from the craft activities the kids did to the present opening. The kids opened their personalized painted placemats that Edzea and I made for them.

My friend from CJBS who just moved back into town, Linsey and her son, Trent came as well.

A few of our really good friends couldn’t make it for a variety of reasons but we had a great core group and lots of fun.

Brief

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Here are some pics of the kids playing with megablocks on Sunday morning. Edzea wasn’t too impressed with Rohan’s “help”. But she eventually let him kiss and hug her. He’s a very affectionate little fellow.

Tonight I saw him in the bath for the first time in a long time without Edzea. He was on his tummy splashing and getting his face in. Tim says, “Here’s your waterbaby right here.” Tim says he constantly puts his face in, splashes, and just loves the water. Interesting.

Lost Voice

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Here are some lost pics from October from my Iphone. Not good quality but at least I have some when my camera battery dies.

These are mainly pics from Maddy’s first birthday/Halloween party potluck at SSI on Sunday. Note our daughter NEVER wanted me to take any pics so they are ones where I’m hiding the camera from her. See, how front and centre she is at the cake. Also, Rohan refused to wear his pirate hat. I picked up my laryngitis there too. Fun.

Also there is a typical pic of Daddy & Son. Many people took this pic thinking it was unusual ha ha! It’s just a day in the life of Rohan & his Daddy.

Rohan’s Sign Language

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Rohan very definitely signed milk to me today. He also copied me over and over again when I signed yes. We were both very excited that we understood each other. He is 7 1/2 months old now. He also loves Edzea’s kindermusic class.

I’ve been feeding him much more solid food now. At the Family Centre yesterday he ate cut up cukes, apple and whole crackers. I’ve been giving him rice cakes all week so we are well on our way to having him eat normal food. He has had pasta now too! His Daddy fed him some spaghetti bolognese at SSI the other day at lunch-Tim went AWOL without Mommy approval. Besides the fact Rohan hasn’t had a bowel movement for 3 days…he seems ok!

Sleep training has also been successful. There was one night of misery and now we have him in the crib all night and he last for about 4/5 sometimes 7 hours stretches between feeds. And as suspected, he likes to sleep in. He usually lasts until 7:30 or 8am if he isn’t awakened by his sister! who still wakes up between 5:30 and 6am. We are going to try putting her to bed later in the evening this weekend to see if that makes a difference.

Miscellaneous October

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It’s been a whirlwind month. Here are a variety of pics from this month.

Mom & Bruce visited for Thanksgiving. Unfortunately for them, they came to a sick household and left for Vancouver with colds. It was a challenging week with the kids as Edzea and Rohan both had the stomach flu and then I got it and then Tim and Mom picked up a nasty cold. The weather was nice though. No snow and Bruce was able to watch Tim get out and play soccer until the sickness struck. It’s amazing that we were able to pull off Thanksgiving dinner despite all of this.

Mom brought us lots of yummy baking that we are just now enjoying.

Edzea is going to be a frog for Halloween but Mom introduced her to witches while she was here so here she is in her witch outfit. She couldn’t figure out her broom to begin with. She had it backwards and then when she did get it right she said, “Mommy it doesn’t work!”

This is just brief I will try to write more when I get more time. Here are the pics:

Also, when I was away in Calgary with Rohan, Edzea learned to open doors so Daddy promptly went out and child-proofed the doors. Rohan has 3 teeth now. He cut his right eye tooth two weeks ago. He is moving around a bit on the floor now. Not crawling yet but he certainly tries to rock himself forward and around.