The Kids – Page 18 – a hippie with a minivan

Car seat update…

I just thought I should update this issue…

Khéna is now 36 pounds and there is no seat that has been tested for his weight.. I went on the Car-seat forums… the place that will make you feel like dirt if you don’t keep your child RF until they are past the limits and will help you find any solution that will keep a child RF for the longest possible and really there is nothing to be done for now… so 2 weeks ago, with a very heavy heart I switched Khéna from RF in the Sunshine kids Radian (which is one of the strongest seats out there at the moment) to FF in the Evenflo Triumph which is just more comfortable and will be good for FF until he hits 40 pounds or outgrows it height wise.

So here is what they all look like now… (Colin and Xavier are in 5 point harnesses in the Radians)

Hallow'een and haircut…

Hallow’een was great this year…

Simon took the day off and we did stuff around the house and got the kids ready slowly… around lunch time I asked Colin if he would like me to cut his hair… he said yes so I ran with it… and I am pretty happy at the way that it turned out…

After lunch we got ready and left here at about 3:30 and headed to my friend’s house in Montreal… Traffic was crazy and we got to her house at about 5:30 instead of the planned 4:30… it started getting dark soon after the boys were antsy to get out and ToT… So we got them ready and put Khéna on Simon’s back and they headed out the door….

So the boys all went out and I stayed with Gen and a friend of hers and we answered the doorbell and ate a great supper that Gen made (black bean soup, stuffed squash and apple-plum crisp) and just talked… the boys came back with their load, ate a bit and then Xavier wanted to go out again with Eric (Gen’s boyfriend) So hey went out and then came back about 20 min later and then we headed home…

I had brought Gen her skirt which she tried on and fit great! and she gave me the things that I ordered from the co-op and scholastic… so we came back with a few boxes.. I love the books that we got!!

Khéna.. another action video…

Taken last night after supper…

I bought that toy for a dollar at a thrift store 5 years ago and it has helped all three boys start walking…

I just got back..

Just got home from the hospital and having left the boys with a babysitter for the first time…

The babysitting part went really well… I really like her and the kids had fun with her too….
I had asked how much she charges and she wanted 3$ an hour…. for both kids!!
I gave her 5$ an hour… I think that makes more sense…. and I think that I am going to enjoy having her around… I think that I might even ask her to come over one weekend soon and have her take the kids to the park or something so that we can get some deep cleaning and decluttering done…

As for the blood test… poor Khéna…
they couldn’t find a vein at all… and finally the nurse thought that she felt something after looking for about 5 min on both arms and hand… and then went in and searched… and then she hit a vein… she said that it was not because she was good… but it was by pure luck… they took 4 vials… The results will be sent to the Ped. here and then he will send them to the endocronologist in Montreal…

New bed…

Khéna outgrew the Amby and has been in our bed full time for a few weeks.. or really months now…

So we decided to put the Amby away and put a mattress on the floor in the boys room and make Khéna’s bed there… I have been starting him out in there most nights and we go get him when he wakes up…

and just for fun… here is a pic of him asleep in the couch…