10.17.12

COME ON!  Look at my tiny little hipster!  He's so funny - he loooooves wearing his "skinny pants" and it drives Josh batty.  To be fair, they have a nice roomy waist, and they are made from the softest fabric ever.
I've been training for a new position at work.  The training itself is going fine, I feel like I have a pretty good grip on what's going on.  The issue is that I'm still needed in my current position pretty much 8 hours a day, so I am getting a little overwhelmed trying to make sure I cover all the bases and don't leave anyone hanging.
Our anniversary is coming up next week (9 years!), so we're heading to Grand Forks for a little cross-border shopping to celebrate (totally Josh's idea).  We'll spend our actual anniversary at an appreciation dinner at the fire hall (totally my idea).

10.14.12

So, in my quest to have perfect photos of my children, I thought I'd attempt some of my own because the kids didn't really co-operate the first time.  Although the one I posted earlier was cute, neither of them was smiling.
Well.
See this photo up here?  Where they are both kind of smiling?  It was the first AND ONLY smiling photo I got out of...oh, I'm not even going to admit how many I tried.  Wyatt was cranky, but would entertain me and give me a few smiles.  After this photo, Paige screamed the whole time.  We tried up by the old boat launch at the beach, on the boardwalk, at Maple Leaf School and the Land Titles Office (why so many places?  Clearly I am a sucker for punishment).  She just did not want to stay still.  I guess we'll just try again next May and hope that when she's 2, she'll be easily bribed to stay in one spot.

10.12.12

Our 2012 family pics.  Not too bad for trying to get a 1 year old and 4 year old to look at the camera at the same time. :)

10.10.12

Helping Josh finish the basement bathroom.

10.09.12

I have been a terrible blogger.  Time seems to be slipping away so quickly these days.  I don't suspect it will slow down any time soon.
The kids are sick again.  Wyatt's got bronchitis, Paige likely has it too.  Did you know that bronchitis is a viral infection, and therefore not really affected by antibiotics?  Fun times.
Wyatt's been doing really well at preschool - although the one week they had a fire drill and he was pretty terrified by that.  He comes home with cute little crafts or drawings each week.  He has made a new friend, "Aiden", whom I have yet to actually meet.  He's actually also taken to imaginary friends lately too.  That's quite interesting.
Paige has been doing a LOT of mimicking lately.  She will "meow" like a cat and "woof" like a dog.  She likes to copy Wyatt which sometimes drives him nuts.  She also loves dancing along to just about any kind of music - theme songs, ringtones, Song Pop - she'll bob up and down and shake her head.
Josh has a firefighter conference coming up this weekend in Brandon.  The kids and I will join him this time!  Not sure exactly what we'll do - they have a splash pool which Paige will love, we'll see if Wyatt might be okay with it if it's not deep.  Josh will become certified in Ground Search and Rescue, which is very exciting for him.

9.30.12

We picked up a Chutes and Ladders game last Christmas, and finally got around to opening it.  Wyatt did a pretty good job of following the rules, but he constantly wanted to go down the slides. :P
Josh left (very) early Saturday morning for a fishing trip.  Wyatt told me this morning that he missed him a lot, but he would pretend daddy was here so he didn't miss him so much. :)
I had to take Wyatt to Winnipeg for a dental consultation, we were told by his dentist out here that he had three cavities.  When we got there, they didn't seem to know why we were there, which was frustrating.  The dentist that checked Wyatt was very patient, made him a balloon animal (!) and he told us Wyatt had NO cavities.  We were there for maybe half an hour.  Seemed like a waste of time, and I'm not sure who to believe.  Neither dentist would have had a good look, because he wasn't co-operating well for either of them.  So, we'll continue to brush and floss for now.

9.16.12

We let Paige do some finger painting today - I have a painting that Wyatt did when he was about the same age, so I figured I should make it a set. :)  She had a blast, and not only covered the canvas, but the table and her torso as well.  What I really should have taken a picture of was the after effects of letting your 16 month old finger paint.  She didn't try to eat any of it, so there's that...