It’s the calm after the storm and a great day to see just how much snow has fallen…
I went out and played with the boys all morning… we went for a walk and they climbed and slid in the front yard and jumped from the hill on our front lawn..
I also moved the car so that the snow removal truck can come and do the rest of our driveway so that we could get the garbage bins out later…
Some more pics…
So… it snowed today…
I am so happy that I did my groceries yesterday because litterally we are pretty much snowed in and the roads are said to be very dangerous today…
So… We got about 2 1/2 feet…
it is a bit crazy… Simon is out shovelling as I write… and of course he had left the shovel next to the shed… and the other is buried in the front yard…
I tried to get some pics of how high the snow is but it is a bit hard because of the reflection and we can’t open the back door…
and here is the front yard…
just to compare… this is what it looks like with less snow…
and here is a pic of Xavier coming in from playing… it was about -25 with the wind…
On Monday I was sick… the whole stomach flu feel like you want to crawl under a rock and die… or at least sleep kind of sick….
Simon stayed home and took care of the kids which I am completely grateful for… I slept almost all day and the only parenting I did was to nurse… and by the next morning I was feeling better enough to be a parent again…
I was hoping so much that the boys wouldn’t get it…
well…
yesterday…
Xavier’s nose started to run…
Colin was complaining of a sore tummy and then both of them started to throw up yesterday… and now there are runny noses all around, fevers and icky tummies…
Last night was hard for me…
Colin wanted to nurse all night… Khéna too, but he was too stuffy so he cried alot because he wanted to nurse but couldn’t….
and now I have a stiff back and a stiff neck and I have no energy….
2 days left and then it is the weekend…
I have been neglecting the blog lately… not much to say… just life as usual…
Over the weekend we had friends over, played in the snow and made sushi… and then on Sunday we went To Simon’s work party for the kids… In the past years it was held at a School but this year it was at the “Just for Laughs” Museum… Which had the potential of being cool but the entrance was bottle necked so it was about a 30-40 min wait just to go upstairs… and then finally when we got up it was really unorganized and where we sat to eat lunch had a bar feel… dark and a bit dingy… really not what we expected…
The boys did seem to have fun though… I think Colin has a bit of the same anxiety as me when it comes to crowds though…
Being a X-mas party of course there was Santa Clause… as I have said before in the past, I don’t agree with trying to get the kids to believe in Santa… it doesn’t seem right to me…
The boys however, do believe in Santa… no matter what I say… and believe me, they know that I don’t believe that Santa exists…
Anyway… they were both excited to see him and sit on his lap…
After seeing Santa we headed home and put up the X-mas tree and had a great evening…
more pics on Flickr
So a year has passed that Khéna was born… it is amazing each time I think about it…
Khéna is an amazingly happy baby. He is always smiling, laughing or trying to make others laugh. He is walking but can’t get up without holding onto something yet. So often if he falls he just crawls right over to somewhere he can get up and then he walks again…
He says mama, dada and “thank you”… what cool first words… he also calls the cat “do do” because we always say “doux doux” (gentle gentle) when he pins the cat down.
Though we haven’t weighed him in 2-3 weeks, I think that his weight gain has stopped… hopefully he might even lose a few pounds… he wears size 2 or 3 but can only wear pyjama pants or jogging pants because his waist is just too big so he needs the stretch…
As far as teeth.. he had 6 for a few months now and just last week a seventh came out, so the other should not be in too long.
And eating… well, about 3 weeks ago he was just eating a few bites of puffed rice and would even gag on them… I would put things on his tray but he would just play with it and not put any in his mouth… then about 2 weeks ago something clicked and now he eats pretty much everything that we put infront of him… veggies, fruits, meats, crackers etc… and he loves to eat…
I was surprised by what the allergist said… to try any food, an allergy should present itself almost instantly if there is one… She also said that studies show that after 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding their bodies won’t change. So trying peanuts, egg whites etc is the same whether the child is 7 months of 4 years old.
Anyway, like I said… he loves to eat… and is probably eating as well as any child that started months before and we love that again we didn’t have to deal with the hassle of purees and spoon feeding…
He nursed quite a bit but won’t drink anything out of a cup, straw or sippy… but he does reach the water machine buttons and pours some and then sips it out of the tray…
he also gets into everything also… opens the fridge, drawers, cabinets, doors and everthing else he can… he pulls things out, bangs on pots and pans, puts things in drawers, pulls more stuff out… he pulled down my computer desk a few weeks ago and my laptop crashed down and it broke two USB ports….
the other two were not as much like this… he is so strong too and his hands are really big and when he grabs something it is really hard to get it away from him…
So, yes.. a year has passed… What an amazing little kid we got…