day and then -15/-20 and snow the next!! Brrr......
We had a great Halloween this year. Colby had a lot of fun being a dragon and Jenna didn't mind her butterfly costume at all :) Seemed very fitting that she was a butterfly this year, as she was a caterpillar last year! Both kids love coloring, so we did a few pumpkin crafts for Halloween!
Sadly, sickness has hit our house... and hard too! I had a cold for about a week, which turned into a sinus infection.
Surprise, surprise! Jenna has had a cold now for about a week too, but I'm hoping it doesn't turn into yet another ear infection. Colby has been hit the hardest of us all though. Last Wednesday at the dayhome, he napped (which he never does anymor
e!). When we came home, all he wanted to do was lie on the couch and nearly fell asleep at the dinner table. By 5:30, he had a fever of 39.1 degrees, was pale as a ghost, and had bright red ears. :( Poor guy... I took him up to the Stony Hospital to get him checked out at the walk-in clinic. Turns out it was 'just a virus' that hit him hard and fast... no infection. So just need to wait it out. I stayed home on Thursday with the kids and Gerry stayed home on Friday because his fever was back on Friday morning. Poor little man... his nose is like a fountain and looks so sore! Hopefully it gets better very soon!!!
Some exciting things from November so far:
- Jenna is walking... everywhere!! She is rarely crawling anymore and seems to be enjoying exploring her world in a whole new way! :)
- Our niece, Kendra, turned 2! We enjoyed her party on the 14th at Jody and Mike's house. She sure enjoyed her Dora party and yummy cake!
- We have a new member of the Cameron Family!!! Reese Peyton Anne Cameron was born on November 19th at 11:38 pm to loving parents, Cal and Tracy Cameron, and siblings, Blake and Emerson. Congratulations!! Can't wait to meet her tomorrow!!!
- Colby can't wait for his 'Happy Birthday Party'. He LOVES Toy Story these days, so we are having a Buzz Lightyear/Toy Story Party! Should be lots of fun :) He knows when his
birthday is and is excited to have his party in two weeks!
- Gerry and I booked our trip for Spring Break... to HAWAII!!! We are very excited for a great getaway with just the two of us! We really contemplated taking the kids, but they are too young to remember and truly enjoy the experience right now. I'm sure we're going to love it, so we'll have to go back later when the kids are older and experience Hawaii again!
- I'm continuing to enjoy my 0.8 FTE at work and can see myself staying part-time for a couple more years....??? It doesn't free up a whole lot of time, but enough for me to stay on top of things and best of all, get home a bit earlier (and not go back to school in the evenings!)
Some news with the kids:
- Colby is doing great... still enjoying the dayhome and playing with other kids really well. He loves learning new things and can identify more letters and their sounds now. He loves to count everything too :) He counts in sequence to 13, but then skips to 18, 17, 19, etc. Colby is very interested in Christmas coming! We went to the (very cold!) Christmas light-up event in downtown Stony Plain this week and he enjoyed seeing the huge Christmas tree and all of the decorations being lit up. Everywhere we go, he wants to look for lights and points out houses that are lit up. He keeps bugging his dad as to when ours will get hung..... As we say every year,
should've done it before the snow came!!
- Jenna is doing really well too... I love this age and seeing her learn and explore things every day. It's a lot of fun to see her walking everywhere now. She was quite unbalanced for a few weeks, but has now taken off and has great balance. She is also able to understand and follow one or two step commands, which is neat. I will ask her to give something to Colby or put something in her toy box and she will :) She still loves saying 'Hi' and talking on anything that resembles a phone. Yes... she's very much like her mommy!
I look forward to what the next few months have in store for us. One of the best parts of the Christmas season for me is seeing the magic of Christmas through the eyes of a child. I absolutely love seeing their pure excitement and joy!
