Jade E.'s Two!
Note: Thought I'd add these on the birthday post, because they seem to fit for some reason...scroll down, there's another added at the bottom of the post!Friday I used my professional day to take the kids to the Aquarium. Lots of rain, lots of people, but I think the three of us had a great time. Quentin tried the sour cream and onion cricket, and immediately spat it out, but we all tried the cheesey mealworm. (They had bugs for people to try as part of their Halloween theme...in case you hadn't guessed.) Both kids like the mealworm...I thought it was hollow and nothing worth eating.
If you ask Jade how old she is, she'll respond that she's five years old. If you didn't know her very well, you might almost believe that. She's got an expansive vocabulary like her brother. She's supposed to be starting to string together three word sentences...that was shortly after her first birthday, I think, because the sentences she has now are much larger than three words. Her favourite gifts so far are the Dora bed (thank you Granny), giant Dora colouring book, large pink unicorn and the old-style Fisher Price cash register. You remember it, it has three different sized coins, a cash drawer and the change slot out the side. Actually, both kids love it. And, to be fair, she squealed "Mermaid" quite loudly and happily when she opened the Little Mermaid DVD. LOL, okay, she really didn't get much more than that-a couple more movies and a soft dragon puppet that she also likes, so I guess my point is that we chose well this year! :)
Ran into trouble with all three camera options this morning (memory card messing up, dead battery in the film camera, and full memory on the camera phone), but somehow did manage to get some good pics, so I'll post those sometime soon. I'm actually working this week so I don't have oodles of time. I know, I'm shocked too.
Jade's sleeping in Quentin's room now. They've been excited about the prospect of sharing a room for quite some time, and now we have a bed we don't have to worry about her rolling out of so we're trying it out. Jade adores her big brother, and Quentin hates to be alone. We'll see how long it lasts.
Take care all.
Jade in May. She's changed a little, still adorable though!
Happy Turkey Day
Thankful for...great friends and their families; a wonderful, large family; beautiful, smart, healthy, active, inquisitive, loving children; a home; God; a billion little things that make life easier for us than many people in the world; that there are those who help make things brighter for those less fortunate (Nancy in Africa, the school in Sierra Leone my old school helped build, my friend Jon who volunteered as a doctor in Africa for a year...) and that I have the privilege of calling these people my friends; our education; can one ever list everything they are thankful for?
A busy weekend for the family. Saturday Tyler worked, and I took Jade and Quentin to music class. Oddly enough, they fought over my lap less than when Daddy is there! They shared me quite nicely. After Daddy came home, we went on a quick shopping trip to find a present for Caspian, our friends' David and Genevieve's son as we were heading to his baptism Sunday morning.
And, oddly enough, we went to the baptism. It was at a different church, and Quentin was excited to go to Sunday school. Unfortunately, Jade wanted to go too. At this church, however, they only take children from age 3+ in their sunday school. I tried to tell Jade that only big kids went at this church, and she started sobbing and tapping her chest "But I'm a big kid, I want to go, I'm a big kid!" Broke my heart. The nursery wasn't quite the same, although it mollified her. The person in charge of the nursery didn't believe someone Jade's age was capable of taking part. Um, yeah.
After the baptism, we went over to Caspian's home for a lovely potluck lunch. It was quite yummy, and I do need to get the recipe for the great squash soup Genevieve made. Then, straight from there out to Richmond for a Thanksgiving dinner. My mom and her husband hosted. Katie and her family, Mike, Terri and her family, Katya (my cousin), Aunt Sheila and Wally, and my grandfather were all there as well. A lot of good food, and it was nice to spend time with my family. It's not often we gather, unlike Tyler's family/extended family. I think we actually spend more time with Tyler's family that moved to Airdrie than my family around here.
I'm not working much yet. It's a slow year for TOC's...they might actually have hired enough this year to last the district more than a month or two. The mat-leave position I was going to get was taken by someone on the call-back lists, so it's sporadic for me. I've gotten a lot of cleaning done around the house, and a lot of canning. Who knows, if it stays this sparse for awhile longer, I may even finish the bathroom trim.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Note: Thought I'd add these on the birthday post, because they seem to fit for some reason...scroll down, there's another added at the bottom of the post!
