from April 29
m: mama wear bandaid on finger.... dada wear bandaid on nose! Yeah.
I believe referring to the breath-right strips Daddy wears at night, but how he equated that to a bandaid, I'm not sure!
m: Hi MOMMY, Hi DADDY!
what? no more mama and dada??? I'm really sad! Well, I still get mama once and a while, but all of a sudden it's now maaaaaa-meeeeee!!!
April 30 at approx. 5:02 a.m.
m: Mama make fench toast for Maffew, now!!!
I think that is the current record for most words put together in a sentence!!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Straight from the (almost) 2 Year Old
April 28, 2009
Matthew does NOT want his diaper on after his bath.... he does NOT want his pjamas on after his bath... Mommy tries everything she can think of and finally says
M: Matthew if you don't put your jammies on, Mommy will be sad.
Matthew looks at Mommy and thinks for a minute....
m: Uncle Bian Sad.......
M: Pardon Matthew? Why is Uncle Brian sad?
m: Mama happy......
m: Gama happy...... yeah...
m: Uncle Bian Sad..... fames lost....
He's probably right. Uncle Brian probably is sad that his flames lost.
April 29: Update:
m: Uncle Bian happy! Not Sad....
guess he got over the Flames quickly...
Matthew does NOT want his diaper on after his bath.... he does NOT want his pjamas on after his bath... Mommy tries everything she can think of and finally says
M: Matthew if you don't put your jammies on, Mommy will be sad.
Matthew looks at Mommy and thinks for a minute....
m: Uncle Bian Sad.......
M: Pardon Matthew? Why is Uncle Brian sad?
m: Mama happy......
m: Gama happy...... yeah...
m: Uncle Bian Sad..... fames lost....
He's probably right. Uncle Brian probably is sad that his flames lost.
April 29: Update:
m: Uncle Bian happy! Not Sad....
guess he got over the Flames quickly...
Sunday, April 19, 2009
We have some catching up to do.....
It's been a while, I know. So, we have some catching up to do! (and I must apologize for the quality of the pictures I've put up here lately. My good camera's battery died and we have to get it replaced... soon hopefully..)
It will hopefully be spring for good.... soon. We are supposed to get snow again this week, but the nice thing is snow at this time of year doesn't usually stay too long! Here is Matthew a while back, enjoying one of the first nice days of spring (when it wasn't quite warm enough for a hat yet, so we mofified his toque!
just doing a little sightseeing around the neighbourhood!
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Matthew has been going to "school" (as he calls it), or a toddler group, (as we call it), every Saturday morning since February. He has loved it! It has been a good mix of singing and dancing and playing with other kids and his favourite part... painting!
Each Saturday there was a different theme. On one of the Saturdays, the theme was fairytales and so all the kids got to dress-up as we sang their songs. First they dressed as knights, and then as kings, and then as.....
Fairies!! Yep, thank goodness I had my camera that day because I am betting that I may never see Matthew in a fairy costume again! Considering the class was about 75% boys, we all had quite a chuckle at the little "fairies" dancing around with their magic wands and wings!
As much as he looked forward to the "painting" portion of the class each week, he wasn't too impressed with the fairy wand that was the craft for the day. It didn't see any magical action once we got home.
But who can resist shaking sprinkles on anything!
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We enjoyed a short trip to Edmonton over Easter weekend. Edmonton has always been one of our favourite places to go and Matthew just loves staying in a hotel and playing in new playgrounds!
When we returned, we tried our hands at dying Easter Eggs for the first time! You should have seen Matthew's face when the first egg came out of the dye. He thought eggs should be colored all of the time!
There's nothing better than a bowl full of chocolate!
It will hopefully be spring for good.... soon. We are supposed to get snow again this week, but the nice thing is snow at this time of year doesn't usually stay too long! Here is Matthew a while back, enjoying one of the first nice days of spring (when it wasn't quite warm enough for a hat yet, so we mofified his toque!
just doing a little sightseeing around the neighbourhood!
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Matthew has been going to "school" (as he calls it), or a toddler group, (as we call it), every Saturday morning since February. He has loved it! It has been a good mix of singing and dancing and playing with other kids and his favourite part... painting!
Each Saturday there was a different theme. On one of the Saturdays, the theme was fairytales and so all the kids got to dress-up as we sang their songs. First they dressed as knights, and then as kings, and then as.....
Fairies!! Yep, thank goodness I had my camera that day because I am betting that I may never see Matthew in a fairy costume again! Considering the class was about 75% boys, we all had quite a chuckle at the little "fairies" dancing around with their magic wands and wings!
As much as he looked forward to the "painting" portion of the class each week, he wasn't too impressed with the fairy wand that was the craft for the day. It didn't see any magical action once we got home.
But who can resist shaking sprinkles on anything!
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We enjoyed a short trip to Edmonton over Easter weekend. Edmonton has always been one of our favourite places to go and Matthew just loves staying in a hotel and playing in new playgrounds!
When we returned, we tried our hands at dying Easter Eggs for the first time! You should have seen Matthew's face when the first egg came out of the dye. He thought eggs should be colored all of the time!
There's nothing better than a bowl full of chocolate!
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Happy Easter!
The Easter Bunny made his very first visit to our house last night! That silly bunny, he left little Chocolate Easter eggs all over Matthew's Bedroom and down the stairs and around the living room! Matthew thought this was the best thing in the world! The Easter Bunny even left Matthew an Easter basket filled with some fun toys and things... but Matthew didn't even care, he just wanted the chocolate! It is now 8pm as I type this and I believe, for the record, that Matthew has eaten more chocolate today than he has in his entire life. For real.
just waking up. Found first chocolate egg. A little perplexed that Mom is letting him eat chocolate before Breakast.
just waking up. Found first chocolate egg. A little perplexed that Mom is letting him eat chocolate before Breakast.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Cuddles and Stories
I have agonized over the bedtime routine for the past few months now. Should I be making him go to bed on his own? Is it okay that I lay with him until he falls asleep, or will it create a child that can't go to bed on his own later in life? So many questions and it seems everyone has an answer for you, yet what is right for you, is only something you know.
Before we put Matthew into a bed, we got him to the point, where he was able to go to bed by himself. Now that he's in a big boy bed, we reverted back to having someone lay with Matthew.
It's a catch 22 for me. On one hand, I feel like laying with Matthew is some of the best quality time that I get to spend with him. He talks so much right now! Tonight, he told me how Grandma lives in Saskatoon, How Grandpa says "goin' on", that Big Grandpa wears a hat, that Grandma and Grandpa brought a suitcase to our house, that Daddy takes Nana home, that Miss Ann (his Saturday teacher) does painting and on and on... his little mind must just be spinning!
On the other hand, some nights, it's 9:30 before I get him to fall asleep. By that time, my evening is done too. I don't feel like finishing the dishes, I don't even feel like blogging most nights. That disappoints me, because my blogs are almost like an online journal for me, and often times I have so much to say at night, but no energy to say it.
So, I've come to a compromise now. We have our normal bedtime routine, which consists of warm milk in bed while we read stories, then tooth brushing and lights out. Mommy, and sometimes Daddy lay with Matthew for a little while, while Matthew rolls around and talks to us and plays with our hair and everything else under the sun. Then Mommy pretends that she is going to sleep for a few minutes, while she listens to Matthew talk to himself (my favourite part)... and then if he doesn't fall asleep, I have to tell him it's time for Mommy to go to her own bed. (not my favourite part).
For some reason, it's no big deal for Daddy to go to his own bed, but when I say it's time for me to go, the big sobs come out. So, I go anyway, stand at the top of the stairs and feel like crap while he cries, usually for exactly 30 seconds. Then he's quite and usually falls asleep within minutes.
So slowly, he's learning to go to bed on his own, yet, I don't have to let go of the bedtime cuddle routine just yet. It works for me.
Before we put Matthew into a bed, we got him to the point, where he was able to go to bed by himself. Now that he's in a big boy bed, we reverted back to having someone lay with Matthew.
It's a catch 22 for me. On one hand, I feel like laying with Matthew is some of the best quality time that I get to spend with him. He talks so much right now! Tonight, he told me how Grandma lives in Saskatoon, How Grandpa says "goin' on", that Big Grandpa wears a hat, that Grandma and Grandpa brought a suitcase to our house, that Daddy takes Nana home, that Miss Ann (his Saturday teacher) does painting and on and on... his little mind must just be spinning!
On the other hand, some nights, it's 9:30 before I get him to fall asleep. By that time, my evening is done too. I don't feel like finishing the dishes, I don't even feel like blogging most nights. That disappoints me, because my blogs are almost like an online journal for me, and often times I have so much to say at night, but no energy to say it.
So, I've come to a compromise now. We have our normal bedtime routine, which consists of warm milk in bed while we read stories, then tooth brushing and lights out. Mommy, and sometimes Daddy lay with Matthew for a little while, while Matthew rolls around and talks to us and plays with our hair and everything else under the sun. Then Mommy pretends that she is going to sleep for a few minutes, while she listens to Matthew talk to himself (my favourite part)... and then if he doesn't fall asleep, I have to tell him it's time for Mommy to go to her own bed. (not my favourite part).
For some reason, it's no big deal for Daddy to go to his own bed, but when I say it's time for me to go, the big sobs come out. So, I go anyway, stand at the top of the stairs and feel like crap while he cries, usually for exactly 30 seconds. Then he's quite and usually falls asleep within minutes.
So slowly, he's learning to go to bed on his own, yet, I don't have to let go of the bedtime cuddle routine just yet. It works for me.
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