R and I decided to ice cookies today. Daddy had made spectacular cookies last week and the day for us to ice had finally come. We had a good time!
Month: December 2009
Cookies
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Drool
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I’ve noticed that today J seems to be drooling. That is a new thing. I’ve never seen him do that before.
New thing
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Today was a first for little J. He playing on this play mat today. He seemed to really like it, especially looking at himself in the mirror. He seems to be his own best friend. QUite often in the morning he lies on the counter (on a towel) looking at himself in the mirror while we get ready for the day.
Another thing, J really doesn’t like his car seat. The trouble is, he is quite unpredictable, and we never know exactly when he will start screaming. Here for example. We brought him in from the car and he slept, shortly later on he was screaming…
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Christmas
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Christmas. Things were different this year with a new baby in the house. We had a quiet Christmas morning staying at home and opening gifts by ourselves, then had Oma & Opa, plus Uncle B and Auntie V, and cousin Z over for the afternoon and evening. I attempted to cook a roast beef for supper. It was ok, except that it wasn’t done soon enough, so we cut it up and put it in the over in pieces. This sped things up. It was a nice holiday season. Here are some of the pictures.
R opening J’s gifts
J looking his new bear in the eye
Uncle B, Auntie V and Z reading a book
Oma opening her gifts
Opa and J peaking around the corner. Opa thought it was great fun to peak from behind the wall with J.
R and Zoya are in front of our tree here. Unfortunately my daughter was in a bad mood and she decided to let me know that in the picture! Doesn’t she look miserable!?!?
And here is our most precious gift this year.
My kids
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My kids. I love saying that. These are my kids. I am so proud to be the mummy to 2 lovely children.
Snowsuits
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Snowsuits on little kids are very funny. Especially babies. There is nothing worse than trying to stuff a squirming baby into a snowsuit, then having to cram them into a carseat as well. This is a picture of J, in a 0-3 month snow suit. It is a hand-me-down from our neighbour, and as she gave it to me she said “this is the snow suit that made our son cry”. Well, it didn’t make J cry until today. And that makes me say it is officially too small. So what did I do? I pried the little baby out of the red snow suit that makes babies cry, and put him in the next hand-me-down, the big puffy white suit. It reminds me so very very much of the Michelin Man. ( if you don’t know what a “michelin man” is, type it into google, you’ll get a picture.
Anyways. This is what J looked like in the new suit, and done up in the car seat.
Nice isn’t it!! Poor litte guy!
Smiles…
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You know, the other day i was holding J while he slept. (He really only cat naps, so you might as well sit down for a bit when he falls asleep in your arms, as it won’t be long before he wakes up). He slept, and I could tell he was dreaming, as he had fleeting smiles, and lots of sucking motions. It was so sweet when he woke up, as i was looking at him, and he slowly opened hie eyes, and started smiling at me, so sweetly. He usually starts with a smile on one side of his mouth, then it progresses to a whole mouth smile. It is simply delicious.
Oh, and I have to brag a bit about how great my boy is, as he has been sleeping through the night since about Dec 3rd. He goes down between 8 and 9pm, and sleeps usually until about 8am. It’s amazing really. But, don’t hate me too much, as the older girl still doesn’t sleep through, and we are pretty much always awakened at least once by her!
School concert
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Today was R’s school concert. It made me laugh. They sang this song called “I am a pretzel” and it was how they were all contorted, but then the chorus was but don’t eat me, I’m imaginary! Ok, it rhymed, but it was still hilarious. I think R had a good time showing off at school. J slept through the whole thing.
R says
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It’s been a while since I posted a “R says” post. She makes me laugh all the time, but I always forget it! This happened with Daddy. We had company over, so I asked daddy to give R the 10 minutes until bedtime warning. He goes downstairs and tells R “You have 10 minutes until bed”. She argues that she doesn’t need to go to bed, so daddy proceeds to explain that her friend E has to go to bed, her friend C has to go to bed….and she interrupts with “Daddy, you are wasting my time”…! She finally clued in that she was missing preciouse play time with too much talking!
Snow
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Today was the first day it actually snowed here. We had snow on the ground this morning, big thick heavy stuff. The kind that is just saturated with water in every shovel full. Then in the afternoon the temperature climbed above freezing, and once darkness hit, everything froze again, and now there is blowing snow. What a day. J’s first snow fall!! He didn’t mind being out with me in the afternoon, I had him in the sling, and walked around a bit outside.
Ok, I know I brag a lot about my kids, they are the best of course (:-)). I am however going to take a moment to brag about a contest I recently WON. Yes WON. Ok, I came in second place, but i got an actual PRIZE!! Check this out. It is for sun protective swim wear, and I must say I have turned a lot of family members on to them. I love the picture I submitted, I used it for R’s birthday invitation last year to her b-day party. It was taken on vacation in Mexico. Here is the site showing all the pictures.
