Trick or Treat!!

Who's ready to Trick-or-Treat??

Wren's in the mood with her skull sweater and spooky socks! (Okay she actually has no clue what we are doing tonight and will only be convinced to do this whole walking around in the cold thing if we tell her there are treats to be had.)

We were so on the ball this year that we actually got a pumpkin for the front step! We didn't get around to carving it though. Maybe next year...

Off to the neighbour's house for our first treats of the night. As we left the house, Wren noticed her newly acquired Smarties and had to dig in before we moved an inch onwards.

Raarrr!

In a mere 45 minutes we managed to get to a grand total of 8 houses (more or less) and get a small haul. Mom and Wren go through the treats to see what we got...

"I can't wait for next year!"- Wren.

Corny update.

I am eating a scone with jam, drinking some milk, Wren is asleep, and Kenton is painting the spare room (aka. old computer room) white. I am sitting on Etsy looking at cute children's wall art- not art kids made..but art for Wren and the new baby's room. For some reason I keep having these bursts of inspiration for the new baby room, all pertaining to if the baby is a boy. A sign perhaps? 

A volunteer I worked with in the past came by the main office today and we had a nice chat. When I was pregnant with Wren, he told me I would have a girl. Today, he said this one will be a boy. He's a quirky old guy, and he won't be the first to guess at what the baby's gender will be I'm sure!

I will wait to show you my ideas for the baby's room when we know what we are having and I really know what direction I want to take the room. Wren's room will stay the same, red and turquoise with all the things she had in it before for the most part. She is moving into the spare room and the baby will stay with the crib in her old one. The new one is slightly bigger, which will accommodate her big girl bed better. I definitely don't have the stamina or budget to decorate two rooms!

That brings me to the bathroom, which is still on it's way to being finished and I don't want to show you yet. It's all those little things left that are just impossible to make time for once you have a working toilet. What else matters I ask?

We are hoping sickness has left our house for at least one month...I'm just being optimistic here. Last weekend I came down with the stomach flu and together we all watched about 6 hours of Anne of Green Gables, and all of the Sequels and Continuing Stories.. as Kenton's boss put it, "That's a lot of Megan Follows." You know it.

I planned on updating you on more, but it is coming close to 8:30pm and I am plum tuckered out and ready to hit the hay. 

I leave you with the most focused little corn-eating face...

Tv watching face

It's cute to just...watch. :)

Parks and Rec.

We like being outside...

Going for walks...

Watching Wren make hilarious faces...(this one is called the "dirty look")

And hearing her have the best time ever...

Please note that I have joined the hipster glasses club. The shadows don't help in the photo, but the new glasses are here.

Wren walking with her "Gamma". 

And Wren with her "Ah-tee". Wren was having one of her days yesterday and demanded that only Aunty push her in the stroller. Something similar happened earlier that day when Kenton and I took Wrennie grocery shopping and she would only let Kenton push the cart, hold the list, and also take her in and out of the car. It was a lesson in choosing your battles, really.

Playing catch up

Well, I have completely dropped the ball when it comes to blogging. It's official. We work, come home, have supper, bath Wren and put her to bed, watch a show, and then go to bed. 

Repeat.

I'm feeling slightly better these days, I have a better handle on my nausea (ie. Eat every half hour or so!) 

The only problem are the smells at work...as in my coworkers reheated lunches which somehow always smell like curry dinner from the night before. It's the worst when they heat it up, take it to their office and the whole place stinks. And the window in my office is broken so there is no way to get fresh air. These are my big problems in life right now.

But Wrennie has been enjoying her time with grandparents, her nanny and her one day with Dad at home. It can be a lot to juggle, but I'd rather have to juggle those people than a daycare. Just a personal preference, I'm not knocking that method. I'm just saying we are lucky we can go this route right now.

Wrennie talks non-stop all day long. 20% we understand, 80% is total jibberish. But she seems to know what she's talking about. 

Some of our favourite phrases from her right now:

"Cue me!" - (excuse me)

"Hep MEE!!"- (help me)

"Mo-ee!"- (movie- and it better be Shrek. This actually isn't a favourite phrase, just an annoying one she always says to request to watch a movie 243 times a day)

"Joo, pee"- (juice please)

"Oh bee-bee! Wah wah" (Referring to a baby crying. In Wren's world, all babies cry. It's their sound, just like a duck would say 'quack'.)

"Tory!" (Unrelated to politics, she just wants to read a story)

She is showing you her squirrel jammies...

We are starting the process of moving Wren's room over. I don't even want to think about the fun ahead of teaching her to sleep in a big girl bed. I'm still trying to figure out how to start potty training her...suggestions are welcome via email.

We do have one triumph to report though, we have totally eliminated the bubba- aka. Bottle. It took one night. As we read stories for bed, we offered her a sippy cup with milk instead. She was miffed about that, refused. Then 2 minutes later, realizing there was no bubba, she reluctantly sipped from the cup instead, and it was done.

To be fair, we still give her a soother, and that is our third goal to accomplish before this next baby arrives: soother elimination.

Wren has a new friend next door. Her little pal Mason welcomed his new little sister to the world last week, Avery. She is pretty pumped to have 2 friends living next door now!

I don't know about everyone else, but Wrennie is loving the leaves outside right now. I am excited for the snow...only to see Wren play in it. Last year all I could really do was plunk her in a snow bank and watch her eat the snow. I had considered buying a pair of adult snow pants, but I don't think they make maternity ones :)

Wren has already picked out her Halloween costume. We are taking her around our street to trick or treat this year with our neighbours- two little monsters toddling around asking for candy-hopefully we really bring a big bag back! Last year we only had 2 kids come to the door! Sad. 

Hope you all had a nice weekend too, at least with some of it spent outside while you can!