Anybody out there?

So, I'm not sure if anyone actually reads my blog. That's ok. It's nice to have a place to write stuff and then in the future take a look back at what I wrote. I go back to work exactly one week from today. I'm amazed at how fast the last 13 months went. My little baby is 11 months old today and will soon be a toddler!! She's still so small and baby-like it's hard to believe she's not really a baby any more. We have to do a couple more visits at daycare this week to make sure she feels comfortable there. I really hope she doesn't get upset and cry all day!! Jake was much easier to start at daycare. He never went through any separation anxiety. Amy seems to have that a little. She cries whenever anyone other than a handful of people hold her. I'll have to start looking for a daycare here in our community. It will be much easier to drop them off close to home and have someone walk Jake to school instead of driving 10 minutes each way. There should be a lot of stay-at-home moms in the neighborhood that can take the kids. I don't like change.......

Something Funny

I was reading Jake a book earlier and on each page there was a different animal and a caption that said "Run, said the Elephant" or "Run, said the Gorilla". It's supposed to help him learn the word "run" and "said" etc...well he decided that he wanted to read it to me instead, so I let him go through each page. He gets to the page with the Cheetah on it and he yells "Run, Cheeto run!". I couldn't stop laughing!!! Then he couldn't stop laughing..he really didn't realize what he said. It was too funny. Maybe in the back of his mind he knew that if a Cheeto laid around too long, I would eat it!! Ha ha ha...

Cutting Hair

Does anyone else cut their kids hair at home? It seems to be a major battle every time we try this. I've always found it easier to cut Jake's hair myself. We just shave it and it's neat and tidy and easy to do. That is, if he lets us do it!! He practically has a meltdown at the mention of the words "let's go cut your hair". Early on I discovered that part of his fear was that he though his ears were going to get cut off. After I told him he could hold his ears down so they wouldn't get in the way, he was ok with it. Then he started saying that it was hurting him. Little did I know that the shaver I was using was actually pulling on his hair (although daddy uses it and it doesn't pull his hair...hmmmm). So we bought a new trimmer for him for Christmas thinking he would be excited about it being new and not pulling at his hair, but no. Still freaks out at the thought of it. I've bribed him with popsicles, candy, suckers, extra long baths and even let him have the whole bag of mini marshmallows while I was cutting and still...he cries and screams. I wouldn't mind his hair getting long except that it seems to be very thick and it gets super bushy looking. His face appears smaller and smaller as the weeks go by....well sort of...ha ha ha. I don't really want to start taking him to a barber because I figure he'll do the same thing there. Maybe I'll give it a try and see what happens! I guess we have to pick our battles wisely and this one just isn't really worth fighting!! Maybe when he starts to look like a girl, he'll be a little more willing.

Valentine's Day

Here's daddy with his valentine's day present. Jake decorated it and wrote daddy's name....


Opening the present....




Hooray...a metal sign for the garage!!

Five months, an Olympic Torch and a New Wardrobe!

So, here I am again after almost five months of no posts! We moved in and got settled, had a visit from Gran and Grandpa, had Thanksgiving dinner at Mom's, Trick-or-treated through the new neighborhood, spent Christmas with Jennifer and her family (and a lovely flu bug) and now here we are on Valentines' Day smack dab in the middle of the 2010 Winter Olympic games! Since it would take a ridiculous amount of time to go back and write about everything that's happened in the last five months, I've decided to start fresh!

The Olympic Torch passed through Abbotsford on Friday! We went and stood along Old Yale Road and watched it pass by. Jake was pretty excited. We took a few pictures at least, drove around for a bit and followed it through town and went home. Jake drew a picture of the torch for me after. It was very sweet. Bentley has tickets for an olympic hockey game on Tuesday. He'll go to that game and then we'll all go back into the city another day to see what sort of festivities are happening! Bentley was there on Friday already checking things out on opening night and it was pretty busy. It'll be neat to see what's going on there. This doesn't happen very often so we want to try and experience a little of it while we can!

I've been dreading what's going to happen in two weeks. BACK TO WORK. Ugggggghhhhh. I've been getting quite comfortable being a temporary stay-at-home mom. Although I find it hard to be a fun sort of mom and keep Jake busy with activity, I'm slightly looking forward to going back. I'm sure that feeling will pass after a couple of days back at my desk! I had to go and get myself some new clothes for the occasion. It really is the only thing that makes me excited to go back to work. I've practically been living in a red hoody that Bentley bought me for Christmas, so it will be nice to have to look presentable. I really hope Amy is ok at daycare. We did a "test visit" last week and will again this week to see how it goes. Crossing my fingers!