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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:

1. Goose
2. Light (Ight)-she hasn’t cracked the “l” sound quite yet
3. Daddy
4. Pat (as in pat Sadie)
5. Nice
6. Cracker
7. Wheat
8. Cheese
9. Jacket
10. Bed
11. Turtle
12. Painting
13. Wallet

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.

Sweeping

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”.

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