10.31.11

Happy Halloween from our little ladybug and Elmo! After all the tears and tantrums with his firefighter costume, Josh didn't think there was any point in trying to dress Wyatt up. Wyatt still had it in his head that he wanted to go trick or treating, but he wanted to be a monster truck, or Cookie Monster. We went to Walmart this afternoon, and it was so picked over. Superstore had a few more options, and I lucked out with Elmo. It took a little cajoling to get Wyatt into the costume, and a little more to get him to go trick or treating, but once he figured out what happens when you say "trick or treat", he was all for it. :) Josh and Paige went back home, and we hit up about 10 houses. I only brought with a small paper lunch bag for Wyatt, thinking he wouldn't want to be out for very long, but even after his bag was jam-packed, he wanted to keep going! I'm glad he enjoyed it. :)

10.29.11

I call this "The Reluctant Firefighter." He wanted to be a firefighter for Halloween, so I found a costume for him. Then he didn't want to wear the hat or the jacket. I bribed him with Smarties and took a picture because dammit, he looked cute.

10.28.11

This isn't exactly what I had in mind for Paige's Halloween costume! After her nap this afernoon, she was just so incredibly fussy. Then I noticed her eye was getting red, and tearing up even if she wasn't crying. By the time Josh came home from work at 3, it was starting to get swollen too. I quickly brought her into the walk-in, and the doctor swabbed her eye (!) and then put drops in to see if there was a scratch. Sure enough, right across her pupil and iris. So now I have to give her eyedrops (sooooo easy to do on a baby), and she is supposed to wear an eyepatch to keep her from blinking and irritating it further. She's really thrown off by it, and honestly just sad. After we left the clinic she just rested her head on my shoulder and didn't move - and anyone who knows her knows that is not like her at all. Hopefully after a few days it'll be good as new, but we do have to go to the optomestrist for a 2nd look on Monday.

10.27.11

Wyatt loves to make wrinkles in his nose now, and asks me to do it all the time too. I'm just waiting for him to point out the ones I have that I don't have to try to make, ha ha. :P

10.26.11

Sorry kiddo, I don't know how that happened either.

10.25.11

I just realized I never posted this yesterday. I was certain I had....go figure. Anyway, we decided to try a little cereal yesterday, and Paige hoggered it back like she's been eating solids her whole life.
Oh yeah, and it's our anniversary today. We celebrated it by taking turns dealing with an insufferably whiny toddler (daycare days turn him into a little monster by supper) and a teething baby. Wheeeeeeee.

10.23.11

Happy 5 months Paige! :)

I haven't posted much over the past few days - I had a rough couple of days, and then Josh and I were in the city to celebrate our anniversary (early) by shopping for other people. :P I am almost done Christmas shopping though! And today I spent almost the entire day work on jewellery orders - the Christmas rush has begun!

Not a lot of pictures of Wyatt, either. He's potty training, and therefore running around nekkid from the waist down most of the time. Not really blog-friendly pictures. He's doing good though, so long as he doesn't have any sort of clothing on. :S Suggestions?

10.19.11

Well, look who found her feet! :)

10.18.11

My little chimpmunk. :) She really did have something in her cheek this time, a Baby Mum-Mum cracker. She loved it, and made a ridiculous mess.

10.17.11

Working away on a computer a little more suited to his needs (read = can handle him slamming the screen shut and hammering away on the keyboard).

10.16.11

Love.

10.14.11

Here you go mom, Wyatt wanted to write you a letter. The rest of it consisted of "dhdhxsslnbdmkejldhaddnka" and I think he somehow worked a Wingding in there too.

10.13.11

Nom nom nom...

10.12.11

Look at that! She's actually getting really good at balancing all of sudden, it's awesome. Wyatt looked a little startled when he saw her sitting on her own, I can't imagine what he's going to think when she starts crawling after him. :D

10.11.11

Paige had her 4 month check up (even though she's almost 5 months....) today, and just as I suspected, she's one tall kid! 27" already, in the 100th percentile. We had to wait quite a while at the clinic, thankfully since I work there, I could just stroll around and visit. Paige was quite obliging, and even let some of my co-workers hold her! Afterwards we had to run a few errands, and she was handing out smiles left, right and centre then too. And yet, grandparents from either side try to interact with her, and they get The Lip. Go figure!

10.10.11

As forced as this photo looks, I swear it was Wyatt's own doing to put Josh's slippers on. After trying to shuffle around for a few seconds, he took them off and declared that they were "too big and too stinky" to wear. I can't disagree.

10.9.11

Thanks for the cute picture of Wyatt, mom! He does love that wagon. :)

10.8.11

Josh spent the day today out in Vita, helping patrol the area and fighting the wildfires that have totally taken over there.
This is the view from inside the truck when Josh and the other guys showed up.

This is called a backburn. They were lighting a bunch of these, heading towards the wildfires. The logic behind this is that if the land is already burnt, it can't catch fire, and these backburn will help control the path of fire.

A small snapshot of the wildfires. This looks pretty far off, but they were about a mile away. It sounds like things are somewhat controlled now (this picture was taken in the morning, Josh left the area around 7pm), hopefully the winds die down and we get some rain.

10.7.11

I had some "help" making pumpkin pie. I took this picture right after Wyatt stuck his finger into the dough(which he thought was hilarious), and I love the way Paige is looking at the dough. :P

10.6.11

Seriously. She's like a cartoon character! I cannot wait to see what her personality will be.

10.5.11

Wyatt's handi-work. He recently found the fingerpaints we bought to take his footprints and handprints when he was a newborn (although I was CERTAIN I had thrown them out), and had been asking for quite a while to paint. He thought this idea was hilarious. :)

10.4.11

Our smiley girl is back. :) I think we've all finally kicked the cold, although Paige is still sleeping like garbage. Today she was hanging out in her chair when Wyatt walked over, and just held her hand. To be honest, I kept expecting him to squeeze it really hard or try to bed it back (fun big brother stuff like that), but he didn't. It made Paige so happy that she started doing this wheeze/laugh/gasp thing, which prompted me to say, "Awwwwww!", which prompted Wyatt to quickly drop her hand and run away. :P

10.3.11

At some point, he will stop making that face when I bring out the camera, right? Because it seems to be getting worse. :P
Today we made pumpkin spice cupcakes, banana bread and pumpkin spice cookies. We still have pumpkin pie to do, and maybe another batch of the cupcakes. Last year I bought about 7 cans of pumpkin (WHY????), so I have a lot to get through (thankfully I pawned off a few cans onto my mother...).

10.2.11

Like mother, like son.

10.1.11

Apparently Paige can't believe it's October already either! This is her lovely post-bath hair. :)
But seriously, where did September go? Next weekend is Thanksgiving, and then it might as well be Christmas after that.