The big bed...

Aidan is now on his fourth night in the the big bed. He had been asking us for a couple weeks to sleep in it so we finally decided, why not.

Naps have been great for him and he has made a little "nest" to sleep in. He is still not sure that he likes not having a bottle before bed any more (cost of the big bed is no bottle). All in all he seems to be dealing pretty well with it.

It will be be nice when we can take the crib down for a few months until the new baby arrives- all being well- and we'll move it somewhere else.

So big!

Talkin' away

Aidan has been trying out new words for a few months now, but has pretty much stayed to using just one word at a time. He has well over 50 words - I've lost count because he will now parrot words that you say.

Today we came down for breakfast and got all settled in eating oatmeal and the usual breakfast fare when he says, "Morning Lilly, morning Mommy, morning, Daddy." He is looking at each of us directly, smiles, and continues eating. How cool is that? We were so proud.

What is funny though is that he cant say "L" yet so Lilly comes out as "yee-yee".

Before this the longest bunch of words strung together was, "put in bowl!" But that was a while ago.

Our little boy is growing up!

Adendum to the Remembrance Day post

I forgot to mention this when I posted the Remembrance Day pictures earlier. I do think it's important to get the kids exposed to the meaning of Remembrance Day so I had tried to prep Lilly before we went by simply explaining what it was about.

I told her that we go to this ceremony to remember all the people who fought in a really big war a long time ago. I also told her that lots of people died in the war and some people didnt. I explained that there would be a parade of flags and lots of people in uniform. She took all this in and simply asked me, " Mommy are there going to be people in the parade who aren't dead?"

I said there sure would be... and I stopped there. (out of the mouths of babes!)

Our little Architect!

I came upstairs to find Lilly making her track designs. She didnt have enough piers so she went to the Tupperware drawer and figured out how to make her own! Here she is testing it out. Note she also used left over tracks to hold up the other side. I was amazed at her ingenuity!

Look at that!

Here is an aerial view of the track in progress. She also used the bridge in her design. No help from Mommy on this project. See the strategic use of buffers as well in the project. We cannot have the trains running off the end of the track. :)

More testing of the tracks to see if the trains run smoothly. I wasnt sure a year ago when we started to buying this Thomas stuff what would come of it, but this is well worth it!

Mr. Strong and Sensitive

All I could say was, "awwwwwww"...

Snow snow and snow...

There doesnt seem to be a shortage of this stuff this year....

Events in November 2008... yah I have been busy :)

I took the kids to Remebrance Day at the cenotaph this year. It is really important they know about this. Above is part of the parade of flags and below Lilly is wearing a photo of my Grandfather who served in WWII. He passed away this year.


This is what happens when you mix 2 kids who watch Bob the Builder, and Daddy not being fast enough putting the groceries away... Palisade of Pop