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!)...

Shots!

Today marked Noelle's 6 month immunizations, hooray! We don't have to return to the health clinic for another 6 months..She did very well, remembering to breathe between screamings. Kyra was oblivious to all the goings on (as all caring sisters should be) and concentrated on colouring a halloween picture the nurse gave her. She's quite into colouring and drawing and painting lately - it's like a little artistic switch has just been thrown. And as any proud parent can say, we see some talent! ha ha. She does do a mean (and fairly recognizable) rendering of a happy face with lots of spiky hair. We're so impressed! Noelle's drawings aren't so impressive, as she merely attempts to chew the crayon at this stage. Which reminds me that her third tooth is making its way through her gumline. At this rate she'll be completely dentured by her first birthday! I guess I'd better introduce her to a toothbrush.. and a big steak!

A week of firsts!

It's been a fairly eventful month here at the Brown house! We saw Kyra spend a few fun-filled days with her Grandparents out in the mountains (her first time away from Mom & Dad!) and Noelle got her first succulent nosh of solid food AND her first 2 teeth in one week.. Pretty exciting stuff on the Mom-scale! Yesterday we did a trip to Heritage Park for Railway Days and we all enjoyed the 2 steam engines they had to ride on and all the model railways on display - including an entire LEGO city complete with Lego Calgary Tower and High Speed Lego Trains! Ah, it's nice to see that some people have time for their hobbies..

..From the home of the plague..

Today isn't a really good day to do this - I'm sick like a dog and fairly ornery, so I'll make it short! I can finally get both girls to sit still for some Kodak-y moments so there will undoubtedly be many more in the days to come.. That is, if I haven't sold Kyra to some gypsies by then. Sigh. I also have a few words on potty-training - pthththththththt! and BLAH! Any questions?

Time is Fly-ing!

It seems that it's taking me longer and longer to get to the blog page..possibly because we're getting busier! Phew! This week we've got a visitor from Germany, a camping trip to prepare for, a catering to do and a potentially ill toddler. What next right? Well, I get a call from Ernie (and calls during work always make me cringe) saying that he's on his way to the hospital to get some stitches (eight!!) in his pinky finger. ugh. Running screaming from the house is always an option.. But life goes on and everyone is okay.