An update

Ethan's primary mode of transportation is now walking! He has gotten quite good at it in the past 2 days.

Here is a picture of Evelyn talking to her Nana on the phone. I can totally see her as a 14 year old. She loves to talk and is getting pretty good at conversation. Ryan and I love to see how thoughtful and considerate she will be toward others. She loves to hear how your day was and will offer us special treats "Because you woke up dry!". She is starting to do better on night time bed wetting again (by the way). She is dry 3-4 nights a week now.

Evelyn continues to impress me with her imagination. As this next clip shows, when she is pretending, the imagined objects are really there to her. She puts on her pretend oven mitts and passes out her pretend muffins. She is becoming my parrot and will repeat what I say seconds after the words leave my mouth.


We are getting ready for a visit from the Brand family. They will spend the night on Friday and will stay for supper on Saturday before driving home to Lloydminster (about 3 hrs away). We are going to let Juliana and Evelyn try having a sleep over in the Evelyn's room. I'll keep you posted on how that goes. Both the boys have started to walk in the past 2 weeks, so they'll be fun to watch too.

Both the kids are on the mend now. Their coughs persist, but they are back to their energetic selves. I suspect we all had Influenza A. It has been going around and laying people flat. No nausea or anything like that, but a bad chest cold, fever, aches, chills.... I got it very mildly, Ryan and the kids were pretty sick. I think I can thank my flu shot for reducing the severity of my illness. Ryan and the kids did not get one this year.

Here they all are cuddling on the chair. It's kind of like 'dog pile on Daddy'.

So, I am starting a week off work!!! Yah!!! I've been plugging away at Evelyn's baby scrapbook. I only have 2.5 spreads left to do (plus journaling) I hope to get all the layouts done this week. On Monday, we plan to spend the day and the night at the Sahota's. On Tuesday, we'll submit our passport applications in Edmonton. We may take the kids to the West Edmonton Mall. I think I'd like to ride the ferris wheel and carousel. Wednesday is off, then I work Thurs and Fri.

I'll keep you posted on our visits....but, only if I get some comments first ;-P