Tyson's visit...

It was great to have Tyson come by to visit for a few days even though I was sooooooo sick! Bascially the day after Tyson got here I started to feel all achy, and then had a non-stop fever for 4 days. On the plus side, Tyson was able to help out with taking care of Paige a lot as I lay in bed sleeping.


We managed to make it out for the family Thanksgiving dinner. I have made a slideshow of the images (even though this slideshow thing is ridiculously slow)

Ok seriously--no matter what I did I could not put my slideshow up on my blog. When I did, it was OTHER PEOPLES PHOTOS!! hahaha.

Anyway--here is a link to the website with the photos on it for now....
http://www.rockyou.com/show_my_gallery2.php?source=ppsl&instanceid=124799467

We even managed to make it out to Uncle Chris's Art show

Blog words....

I analyzed the last 2 months of my blog at www.wordle.net to see what are the words used most often. The biggest words are used the most. Some of the smaller words may be used only once or twice. I love how you can tell it's fall with "pumpkin", "patch", "mazes", "bales", "straw", etc. I also love how it takes words out of context so that they look totally random and weird. Since you can remove words from the final product I took out the words "funeral" and "disease" but forgot to take out "bladder". These were all refering to the fish that died of swim bladder disease.

A visit with Lisa

Lisa came to stay for a quick visit on the way home from a conference/school visit. We had time to catch up and also take Paige on an adventure to Niagara Falls. She really liked the rainforest cafe this time with its anamatronic gorillas and elephants, and fake thunderstorms.

A family morning at the park...

On Sunday morning we went to Spencer Smith Park. It was nice to walk along the boardwalk, and we didn't realize that the fancy restaurant had a cheap cafe under it. We had some fries, which was very uncharacteristic.

Paige recently...

I haven't posted recently because I'm trying to finish my blog book so I can actually order it.

The weather has drastically changed for the worse (or better, depending how you look at it). It is especially cold today with a high of 12 or something like that. This prompted me to go buy Paige a snowsuit this morning. I was really looking more so for a hat and mitts, but I found a great deal on a snowsuit from sears that came with a hat, gloves, and scarf as well, so we jumped on that deal! It makes me excited for when it actually snows and Paige can play in it for the first time! I'm excited as well since I quite like my snow suit and have only used it a couple times for skiing.

Since it is colder, it is nice that we have a couple of indoor activities that have started. We're enrolled in Water Explorers on Wednesday afternoons, and a new program called "Our Special Time" on Thursday mornings. Water Explorers is interesting as I notice a huge difference in Paige since the last time we were in swimming "lessons". She is excited to jump in the water now, and she constantly asks for the slide. Water Explorers is basically exactly the same as both Water Babies, and Water Toddlers, except there are just older kids in it (especially since we are combined with another class that goes up to age 3). OST is a class that is partially an open play class with smaller toys and crafts as well as time in a gymnasium with larger cars, houses and slides. There is also circle time and story time (both of which Paige has a hard time sitting through). I like the fact that she gets to interact with other kids, as well as get a chance to play with these huge toys that I am promising myself I'll never buy.

Paige is obsessed with brushes lately. While she likes using her own brush to brush her hair, she would rather use her plastic garden tools. It doesn't help that we have called them brushes, so now that is what she thinks they are. Today at lunch she was brushing her hair with her dirty fork. Lovely!

Her words have become more high-pitched lately. Anything ending in an E sound is especially bad. Abb-EEEEE (Abby), Dad-EEEEE (Daddy), are repeated loudly and often in a shrill little voice.

Oh--Paige has her own bank account now. She had some cheques for her RESP, so we opened her an account since there are no fees until she is much older.

Blog fall update

I quite like this new fall look for the blog...now if I actually had time to post something.....

Poor Daddy...

This mornng as Mike was going to work Paige and I were downstairs. Normally he is gone when we get down there. As he was leaving Paige frantically races around saying "jacket" (grabs her jacket), and then says "shoes" and grabs her shoes and sits on the step to try to put them on. She thought she could go with him. So sad.

We're starting a new program this morning. We'll see how it goes....

Good fall pictures...

We went to the cottage this weekend......

Poor Paige....this is right after she stumbled and fell into the lake while throwing rocks in the water.... :(

Missed the opportunity but right before this Paige and Amy were walking through the Second Cup holding hands
We then went to Paletta park for some running around fun...

(short) Overdue update....

Since Mike was going away i felt compelled to pack my days full of activities with Paige. Now that he is back home I am realizing that I was so busy I didn't blog anything.

This past week we resumed diaperfit after the summer hiatus, started in Water Explorers swimming lessons, set up our fish tank, and went to a farm.

Amy thought the tv stand that the fish tank is on was a great place to hide.

Poor fish. One of them came home sick. He immediately was swimming vertically, which apparently is "swim bladder disease". He made it about 72 hours, and then sadly, we had a fish funeral. The other fish are happy now that they are not trying to swim with him. They're all schooling fish so after this weekend we will buy a few more. We just wanted to see how these ones fared before adding any more to the tank.

On Wednesday we went to Springridge farms with Tara and her son Blake. They went through a few straw mazes, some hay bales, and this pumpkin patch.

Oh--we bought Paige's Halloween costume as well...she is going to be a flower. But you'll have to wait till Halloween for the pictures...

New words: Brush, balloon, slide, heart

New (random) tooth

So, I notice last night that Paige has a random tooth (not quite as random as Amy's molar that was up :)) We were so focused on waiting for her other middle top tooth to come out that we had been ignoring another one. Another top tooth has come out but it is a second incisor, rather than the other top middle one. She has woken up a couple of nights this week looking for her soother, so I think she has some tooth pain, but during the day she has been generally normal. Up next: Middle incisor, I would say. Doesn't look like any other bottom teeth are coming at all.