I’ve uploaded the photos from the wedding, with the “costumes” that everyone has been asking to see. I’m not sure if people believe Brad wore pink pants… well here is the proof! Enjoy.
We all arrived in style to the wedding…However we did get alot of looks when walking through the hotel to the taxi!
Nice pants Brad…nice gloves too!
Trent and Maya
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Well Shawn is in China for work, and Carter and Holden have gone to visit Grandma and Grandpa Willett for a few days while I work and do some stuff around the house. It is trying to be a “single mom” for almost 2 weeks so it is nice to have a break in the middle. Mind you it is very lonley to be here completely alone so I am looking forward to going to Bracebridge this weekend to pick up Carter and Holden. The lack of kaos druing the day I expected with Carter (and Shawn) gone, but it is strangely quiet at night without the dog to follow me around. I was going to keep Holden but when Brad and Shirley loaded Carter in the car, Holden gets very anxious about being left behind on a road trip and takes all measures to get in and stay in the car… so I let him go as well.
So wtih all my “boys” gone, I work like a maniac around the house. I was going to surprise Shawn with having the “grand foyer” painted but he knows I got a paint quote… and that I usually move forward when I become determined. So I am madly painting baseboards, ceiling and prepping the walls because we still are do-it-yourselfers but don’t want to fall off a ladder tying to pain the gigantic 2 storey wall up the stairs.
All for now.
I”ve uploaded some photos on flckr:
Well we took Carter to his first tailgate party this weekend. Weather is great here so it was nice to sit outside grill sausages & have some drinks with crazy football fans. Carter & I skipped the game, but Shawn went with some of our friends — he was 8 rows in, & said it was pretty impressive (he said he could see the cheerleaders really well).
Had mom’s night out last night. Went to a place called “Super suppers”. Great idea, a group of us went to preassemble a bunch of dinners to put in our freezers. They supply all ingredients, recepies, & clean up; plus they put out appetizers & wine… now that’s cooking!! Was a great time, plus I came home with six dinners.
American Thanksgiving this weekend. Grandma & grandpa D, great-grandpa(Opa), Tom, his girlfriend, & a friend all arrive on Friday.. to see Carter, oh yeah & Holden, then maybee Shawn & I. Should be fun. I am looking forward to having a babysitter so we can go to a happy hour or two. Shawn is looking forward to all the cooking I will be doing. It will be a busy week.
Carter at the Zoo
1st Tailgate party
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Carter & I went to a halloween party yesterday for my mothers group. It was very cute to see all the kids dressed up… the things we do to our kids! I wore my geisha costume from last year & Carter was a monkey. I posted a few photos from the party on flkr.
I have all the halloween lights up & now I am waiting for the kids. Did I mention that I love halloween. Chocolate & costumes, whats not to love. I even have Holden dressed up since he loves halloween too. Holden likes answering the door, & is very good to let all the kids pet him, so yes he loves halloween too!
Superdog & his sidekick, the monkey
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Ok, here is the usual Carter update. He’s doing great with the rice cereal & carrots. I have learnt that carrots stain everything!! Poor guy, he’s stripped to his diaper, or is double bibbed & has a dish cloth over his lap when he eats to avoid carrot stains. He’s actually pretty clean in the picture below because he is distracted by learning how to bang the toy on the highchair. Usually his hand is in his mouth, so his hands & arms are food covered.
Carter has also managed to figure out how to roll back to front. He was stuck on his arm for a while but is now able to rock it free & pull it out from underneath him. He has not put it all together yet though, but I think he will soon figure out how to roll himself across the room.
Carter welcomed a new little buddy to the world this month. My cousin Lori, had Austin on October 12th. What a cutie!
Baby Austin
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We decided to feed Carter solid food today. We were going to wait another month but he’s been breastfeeding like a madman, including getting up 2-3 times a night again to eat (he was up only once or sleeping through). He did pretty good. He took a few good mouthfuls, had a few laughs, but then he got distracted by the fact that he was confined to his highchair. I thought it wasn’t too bad for a first attempt.
1st (semi) solid meal
Grandma D loves video, so I’ve taped some more. The first video is “fun with daddy”… we have no shame in this video, so enjoy. The second video is Carter discovering a new sound, he did this for about 15minutes (long enough for us to have good laugh & think, he we should tape this).
Fun with Daddy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EiY5_B4cWo
Talk, Talk, Talk:
I hosted a playdate at my house this week for seven moms & seven babies. All the babies were boys, ranging in age from 2.5months to 6months. Shawn helped me move the furniture in the living room to make floor space, & then I moved in all my baby equiptment (swing, jumperoo, bumbo, bouncer seats). Babies spend alot of time in the baby equipment or on the floor. It was alot of fun & I think I will likely host a playdate a month. Plus, I am now an assistant organizer for the Cave Creek mom’s group (Shawn laughs at me), so I do some emailing & party planning.
Carter is doing good. Bedtime is going much better now that we have a routine & are putting him to bed earlier. We are working on the bottle & he is getting better (he was refusing to eat from the bottle). He now gets a bottle once a day. Little bugger is perfectly capable to eat from the bottle just stubborn, & tries to hold off in hopes of getting a little boobie. We are also trying to get him used to the high chair but he has no interest in sitting in anything that doesn’t allow him to kick his legs or grab his feet.
Carter has started to laugh lately. He likes to babble so it is hard to distinguish his laugh from general babble, but he’s got a very cute little chuckle. Tonight he laughed when Shawn was helping him ride Holden.
Anyway here is a little picture of Carter & one of his buddies Xander. I’ve posted a few new photos on flkr too.
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I have a request for more video (Apparently my mom watches the latest video every night before bed). So I have taped some more video for Grandma D. Carters latest obession is his feet. He loves his feet. Spends most of the day playing with them, so much that you have detach his hands from his feet to change his diaper. So this is a video of Carter grabbing hold of his feet (such concentration), only to be distracted every once and a while by the duvet cover. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYXFP6gZRrk
Carter is getting alot stonger lately & is very squirmy. We now have to keep him strapped into all his little chairs because he has proven he can wiggle himself right out of his bouncer seat, and even his car seat when not strapped in. We set up the jumperoo since he loves to kick his feet — he’s already getting the hang of jumping around in it.
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I have had a few run-ins with snakes this week, actually the car has run them over. On Tuesday, I thought I may have run over something small when backing out but didn’t think anything of it until I went to get the mail… and there was a very flat dead snake in the road at the end of the driveway!! Then today, I ran over a very large snake a few blocks form the house!! Have to say, gave me the creeps to be that close to a large snake, even though I was in the car.
To top off my animal stories, there is also a bobcat in our neighbourhood. No joke!! This is not something I heard through the grapevine, a friend saw it walking along her block wall one morning. They are building a new grocery store north of us & it seems to have disturbed the animals.
I joined the stay at home moms group, & have to say its fun, fun, fun!! I went to a 0-6month babies play date, there were 10 moms & 12 babies (only 3 babies were girls). Such a good time that I am hosting a playdate in October. I have also started to go to the library up the street for “baby time” — its too cute to watch the babies & moms sing & dance to nursery rhymes!!
Anyway, I did get to try out the “bumbo” at the playdate, & I admit I went out & bought one. The bumbo is a rubber chair, where baby sits upright & is so stable you can put it on any surface. Shawn had a good laugh when I plunked Carter in the bumbo on the coffee table in front of him!
The bumbo.
Here is some very cute video of Carter, enjoy!
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Well Shawn got back from India on Thursday night. Rather uneventful trip, except he said the food was very good. He noticed in 2weeks of being away that Carter did look bigger — particularly his belly & his head (he’s still the cutest ever… but we are a little bias). Shawn says if you search google for “cute baby”, you’ll get our website… just kidding!
This past Sunday was mommy’s big day out. For the first time since Carter has been born, I spent the entire day out. Spa day!! Every so often I go to the spa with one of my friends. Some of you may recall that my last spa day was cancelled… I was giving birth. So on Sunday, I went to the spa and then shopping with some friends. While I missed Carter, it was very nice to have a day all to myself.
Carters schedule appears to be changing again. Previously I would feed him around 10 or 11pm and he’d be up once around 4 or 5am then back to bed until somewhere between 6:30 to 8 am. Now he’s up around midnight for a night feeding & then sleeps until about 6:30… but wants to get up for the day. I am not a morning person, so I am trying to adjust. The last two days we have taken Holden to the park, I figure if I’m up we might as well take advantage of it being cool outside. Holden has missed playing with his dogie friends every morning since my dad has left, so this has been a real treat for him.
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