Another Day in the Life..

It's been 20 days since I last posted anything and well, it seems like just yesterday.. Time has just flown! It's a blustery winter day outside, the traffic is bedlam and the wind is cold. It's a good day to watch TV and bake cookies - which I'll get to in a minute...

On the kid front, Kyra is firmly entrenched in being the moodswing that she's become in these past few months. For the most part she's a giggly, inquisitive toddler. It's now difficult to watch movies or read stories now without a running questionnaire of "Who's that?", "Where's the other guy?", "Why's that there?". And Hide & Seek is the big activity of the day - which is hard to keep up when the hiding places include under the glass coffee table (plain sight), head under a cushion (butt in plain sight), head in the exersaucer (again, butt in plain sight) - you get the picture.

Noelle is on the move, officially. Today she's Commando-crawling with a bit of a crab-like leg - but it's a forward motion and well, that's as close to REAL crawling as we've seen in these parts! Hoorah!

Toddleristic or OCD??

It's funny, but I don't ever recall in all my minutes of babysitting experience just how weird a toddler can really be. I guess their little heads are learning/absorbing things at mind-numbing speed & capacity - so I suppose LOGIC is just another mind-numbing experience that they file away for better use later in life (some of us just completely file it..period). All this 'oddness' that I'm thinking about today pretty much began around the age of 2 with painstakingly lining up of all her Fisher-Price Little People on the foot of her bed. Tiny little queues of plastic smiling people. It reminded me of those looks into "Weird Homes" that a show took from a few years back on TV. Thankfully, Kyra outgrew this phase and has since moved on to lining up crayons, pillows and finally - cutlery! At least here's a skill that I can see useful for a future as an OR nurse or surgeon... At least she appears proud of her work -

All Hallow's Eve

So, Kyra's first REAL Halloween came & went. And as a newbie mom (I consider Newbie as someone that hasn't got a child in University..) I daftly figured that she wouldn't want to do the 'trick-or-treat' ritual that goes along with the spooky and sugar laden day. HA! She was so into going to strangers' doors that she was rather pouty for at least 15 minutes when I told her we weren't going until Grandpa offered her a chocolate and allowed her (well, she was bullying him anyway) to answer the trick-or-treating of other little ghouls, witches & fuzzy animals that paraded to the door. I did let her timidly call out to a few doors in her ballerina tu-tu until she got cold - thankfully not a flake of snow graced the sidewalks this year.. But let me tell you, we're ready for next year - I'm already planning the giant spiderweb, thunder sound-system and spotlights. Watch out! Halloween will become as celebrated as Christmas..Did I mention that there're about 54 days until that joyous occasion (I'm all a-tingle!)...