The alphabet, or rather the ability to form words from letters has become of great interest to Sam and he loves to sit at my laptop and type his own name, over and over and over again. Ess Ay Em. Sam! Ess Ay Em. Sam ( Read more... )

Bea is on the loose and proving to be just as challenging as her brother. Perhaps moreso as she looks all cute and sweet and innocent, but she is sneaky, very fast and up to no good. She's trouble and as she's such a darling I overlook this often ( Read more... )

Today as we were on our way home from a very nice playdate at Dori's house Sam got angry and told me "I don't like Mummy. I don't like Daddy. I don't like Baby Bea!" This little outburst came out of nowhere and I don't think he's ever told me that he doesn't like me before. Baby Bea and Daddy, sure. Not me though ( Read more... )

At a quarter to six my alarm chirped. I was already awake waiting for it. The first thing I did was reach over to my sleeping laptop and check the race website. After a miserable and very rainy end to the week I wasn't feeling too hopeful about the trails being open, but "The Race Is ON!" in big red letters greeted me, and so with relief and ( Read more... )

Baby Sam gets naked, does a big poop in his cot and he has a great time painting the walls with his new found art supplies. I am alerted by happy giggles and squeals ( Read more... )

Sam managed to move a chair down the hallway without either one of us hearing, take it into Bea's bedroom, and climb into the cot to play with her. Then, Sam got undressed. Then Sam undressed Bea. The first we knew about what had been going on was when naked Sam climbed into the bed between Bill and I ( Read more... )

Sam has suddenly started coming out with names for many of his toys, and Bea's. I'm finding it really quite fascinating as he seems to have absolutely no problem creating sounds to give to objects. I think it started when Bea received a rocking horse for Christmas. Sam decided that it needed a name and just like that he christened it "Gheekeya ( Read more... )

All plans for heading out to the Whitewater Centre bright and early for a long 8 mile run went out the window this morning when I woke feeling terrible ( Read more... )

Thank you to Granma\Mom\Fran who commented on my journal the other day. Your lovely comment reminded me of a photo I've been meaning to post from this Christmas, so I hope you don't mind if I just quote you for this entry ( Read more... )

Sam's first dental visit didn't go terribly smoothly and we ended up just using it as an introductory ease in office visit and deciding to come back and try again in six months time. Six months was marked today and the difference in Sam's attitude was astounding ( Read more... )