Wren's First Halloween

This is Wrennie's first Halloween! And she ate it up..

We spent the weekend in Jasper, and got home Sunday afternoon, just in time to party!

Very realistic..

We had the grandparents and aunties and uncles over, and took a break for some supper. Here, Wrennie is doing "The Hulk" with Uncle Jordan. This means she shakes her faces, widens her eyes and well, flexes her muscles?

She shares a Halloween cupcake with Nana. Our neighbour had extras from their baby Halloween party. Her friend Mason next door was a dragon!

She decides to give the camera a cheesy smile all on her own now..

On the way into the city, we stopped quickly at Costco to grab some candy for our trick-or-treaters. We had a whopping 2 kids show up to the door! You read it right...2. And two teenagers with backpacks dressed up as school kids...right. Wow.

Nice chubby giraffe tummy...

Oh, and here is her stuffy bear dressed up as a duck!

What a fun first Halloween!

11 Months

For 11 whole months, myself, friends, family and whoever else reads this blog have watched our Wren-Wren grow up. I don't think anyone can believe that she is already 11 months old either!

I wasn't quite sure I could believe anyone when they told me that it just keeps getting better. Really? This seems pretty great right now. But it's true. I mean, look at that face...she is hilarious!

This cheesy, hamming it up face is her newest one. She saw the camera when she turned around and put her best teeth forward...

She learned how to clap this month, "brush" her teeth, go "up!", say "all done" in sign, fake laugh when others are laughing, blow raspberries, throw things out of the grocery cart to see where they go, lean in for a kiss on the mouth, attempt to stand without holding onto anything, and who knows what else I can't even keep track anymore. And she discovered one of these...

Okay not that exact one, but a baby bike sort of like that. And all I can say is, try to get her off of it. Yeah, good luck.

It's going to be her second Christmas this year. Weird! Second Christmas...last year she looked sorta out of it...and Kenton and I felt really out of it.

It's like she knows it's coming...

Yep, still chewing on books. She thought I might not see her if she laid down...

She is now 24 lbs 13 oz and 31 inches long. So tall! We thought she probably grew a bunch again when she could reach things off of the table...

Apparently she discovered her tongue in the past few days. She licks her lips and touches it all day long, sticking it out and being silly.

Um no...she is not sleeping through the night yet, just in case you were wondering.

This past month she has seemed to change so much, her little personality has really come through all of a sudden! 

Right now we are busy thinking about a good birthday and Christmas gift for her this year...I may need to find one of those bike things...

Sick baby weekend

It has been one of those...weekends. Actually, it hasn't been that bad, but Wrennie is sick again, only with the flu this time. 3 days in a row she has ralfed up her lunch. I mean, it hit areas of the kitchen that shocked me. Poor little thing, being sick is the worst. But it also sucks for the parents.

This is how tonight went for her:
1) Eat a small, plain dinner.
2) Barf up small, plain dinner.
3) Go into the bath immediately.
4) While in bath, play with the running water. Dad accidentally turns off the cold before the hot and hurts her hand and feels so bad.
5) Put her to bed at 7, only to have her repeatedly wake up and now it's 8:30pm and she is sitting in the rocker with Dad eating a cracker.
6) We are hoping she will sleep okay tonight.


Why am I saying all of this? Because sometimes life isn't as easy, fun and happy-go-lucky as it seems on a blog. Sometimes you have really boring days staying inside with your sicky baby helping her get better and she refuses to let you put her down and is needy all day for you...for 3 days straight. Sigh.
However, Kenton and I did manage to still go on our double date with Cam & Jill on Saturday night. We stuffed ourselves with Famoso...literally. 4 people. 4 whole pizzas...maybe one banana and nutella dessert pizza on top of that. It. Was. Epic.

Then, 2 sets of parents went to go see a movie about people becoming parents. Life As We Know It.
It was really good. Jill and I cried...a lot! I definitely didn't expect it to be that sad.
As Wrennie's hand got briefly caught under the hot water and she cried, I instantly thought of the part in the movie where the friends caring for the orphaned baby in the movie always had a visit paid by the social worker in their worst moments. You should see it, it is also pretty funny!
I also want to know where all of Josh Duhamel's clothing from the movie was from, because it was awesome and Kenton would look great in all of it...Even though the actor is about as big as a professional basketball player and his shirts probably cost a small fortune.

The movie may have also made a joke about how the main female character (Katherine Heigl) is lame and probably just "reads and blogs". Hey now.

So anyway. Today I visited both Costco and Superstore, and as a result needed to come home and take an Advil. And then we rented The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which we have now given up watching because Wrennie just keeps crying in her room every 20 minutes because of some unknown reason to us. Burp? Hunger? Feeling like crap with the flu? All of the above?
I think we will turn in early...it's already 8:36! ;)



Wrennie eating an apple in healthier days...

Wren and her dad

Wrennie loves her Dad.

She waves bye-bye to him out the front window when he leaves for work.

Aww...

Christmas

Last night I went to the Nokomis Trunk Show, featuring some great Canadian designers. One of them was called Toodlebunny, and they were selling some of the most beautiful jewellery. I bought myself a pair of earrings- something I never do. Ever. I never buy earrings. The last pair I obtained came from Kenton's work. One of his boss's makes wooden jewellery on the side. So I didn't even buy them, they were given to me.

But this jewellery was impossible to pass up last night. Why am I mentioning this, where are the pictures of Wren, you are saying!
I bring it up because Christmas is around the corner, and whoever drew my name should know that I love Nokomis. And after being in the store last night and seeing all the beautiful clothes and jewellery they have this winter, above anything else, even Anthropologie, I want Nokomis. Or at least something in it. And if you have never stepped foot in there, you really need to. They have more than clothes, but baby gifts, tea towels and tea cozies, calendars, slippers, shoes, mittens, it goes on.

This is the link to the Nokomis blog.

Here is a page from the Toodlebunny website showing their new earrings. Mine aren't there, but another pair I loved are. Bottom right, the circles. Aren't they sweet?

Sigh.