Christmas Photos

This year instead of a family Christmas picture card, I inserted photos of the kids into cards. This is Melissa's school photo and Brody had a photo session with the Canadian Baby Photographers who did all the cute (cheesy) staged photos below :)

Let me know which is your favorite of Brody!

Christmas Cookies

Melissa's Christmas School Performances

Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train

Waddly Atcha... a song I remember from my childhood!

The Gingerbread Man Rap

Jolly Jumper

So this video is from 2 weeks ago (Brody is 17 weeks). It is one of the first times he was in his Jolly Jumper. Nothing too exciting, but I imagine in a month or two the progress of his jumping skills will be substantial!

I have been meaning to blog more, but somehow it is one of the last things on my list... have to pick my priorities :P I'm sure in a few weeks we will have some cute Christmas pictures to share!

Found another video I uploaded a few weeks back when Brody was 16 weeks. This is him smiling and cooing. He has recently taken his cooing to a whole new level, we compare the sound to cats yelling (like when they are in a fight!). I'll have to get it on video too!

Melissa writes a book

The other night, awhile after tucking Melissa into bed, we could hear her making a bunch of noises in her room. Ken went check on her to discover that she was writing a book. I scanned it in for your reading pleasure... if you can decipher it!

Translation:

Day 1

This is Lilly. Lilly is bad. Lilly bites. Bad Lilly.

Day 2

This is Isabelle. Isabelle is very naughty. She kicks the garbage can.

Day 3

This is Lucy. She rolls in mud. Lucy does not like that.

Day 4

This is Starburst. Starburst is the biggest star in outer space.

Day 5

This is Lovely. Lovely makes people happier.

Day 6

These are my friends. Peace and Hearts and Circle-ys (not quite sure how to spell that so you can tell it is the word circle with ies on the end - circlies reads wrong)

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Just thought all the spelling was so cute! Reminds me how crazy our English language is ;)

Rub a dub dub

17 weeks

Trick-or-Treat

Brody in his Halloween day outfit...

Side profile!

Sitting with Nana who brought treats and a special festive bib for Brody...

Melissa out knocking on neighbor's doors...

Going through her loot after...

Handing out candy at our door...

Boo Shoot

On Halloween, I took the two kids to Revival Arts Studio to have their photos taken in their costumes. This year we had a Tinkerbell & a Tigger :)








14 weeks

Pumpkin Harvest

Last weekend we harvested the pumpkins that we planted at the beginning of summer at Papa & Nani's.

Melissa was drawn to the largest pumpkin in the patch...

and a cute white one...

and her & Lexi found the smallest pumpkin too!

When planting this year, I had in mind the fact that our little boy would be here when we came for harvesting. So I enjoyed holding Brody while watching the kids. About five more months until another baby comes into the family (my sister Darcie). We have lots to be thankful for this year :)

Washing them and divvying them up...

The kiddos

(Brody 2 months & Melissa 77 months)

Bedtime buddies

Last night, at bedtime, I asked Melissa if she would like to cuddle with Brody while I got myself ready for bed. I came back to check on them after washing my face and brushing my teeth, and they were both sound asleep :)

Show & Tell

Today Melissa's classroom had an Open House. So Brody and I went for a visit. Melissa was very pleased to show off her little brother :)