Fun at home...

Paige really liked this "diaper hat".....

Mike made a fort for her to play in......

New things....

A few new things.....

1. No more nap time bottle, she seems to be able to fall asleep with just a few book readings.


2. As for playtime, likes looking at books and magazines 80% of the time. Other toys the other 20%.


3. Hardly any "baby talk" anymore....pretty much only uses words, or things that are words to her, that I just can't understand. (eg. "a-doh"....says this a lot...not sure what it means)

4. Has a favourite show (only will watch for a few minutes, but asks for it) "Wonder Pets". You can get it on Free on Demand. She calls it "Monkey" and hands me the remote. There was a monkey on one episode, so that may be why she calls it that, or maybe she thinks the guinea pig is a monkey.

Obsessive....

Literally every time Paige and I go in the car she says "No....santa....knee....deer" or a combination of a few of these words. I have come to the conclusion that it isn't that she is really obsessing over it, but rather it has become a habit to talk about Santa in the car, kind of like it has become a habit to ask for a snack in the car. We're going to a Christmas party at the rec center on December 15 and Santa will be there....uh oh!

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At our play group this morning we were about to sing the sleeping bunny song in which the kids lie on the floor and pretend to be sleeping bunnies. Well, as I go to help Paige lie on the floor, she was obviously quite aware of what to do and had already started to lie down on her own. In the process as I was "helping" her I helped to bonk her head against the gym floor and cause her to cry for a few minutes. I can just see what it looked like from the outside....me slamnming my child's head against the floor "BE A SLEEPING BUNNY!!". Kind of like when Paige is walking around in the rec center and I gently touch her back to show her which direction to walk and she happens to fall at that exact moment so I look like I pushed her to the ground. OH mommy...

Conversations with Paige II

Scene: This morning in the car after diaper fit....

Paige: No?
Me: No what?
Paige: Santa

First trip to Santa....woops.....

On Saturday we got Paige dressed up in the coveted sweater-dress and went out for breakfast. We told her at breakfast that we would go to see Santa after. "Santa!" she says all morning. "Do you want to see Santa?" we kept asking her all through breakfast and in the car. "YA" she kept saying. Then we went to the mall and showed her a santa up close. "Do you want to see Santa?", we ask. "No", she says. We waited about 10 minutes and then lined up for Santa. She was fine in the line, and then Mike sat with her on the bench beside santa. He started to ask her some questions, and from my vantage point, she had never looked so cute in her whole life. She was saying "ya" looking up at him and nodding to all of his questions. Mommy was so proud. Then Mike made the move to put her on santa's knee. ..........WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH". NOT happy. We had to give up but Santa still gave her a gift. We'll have to try again next year. Mike says that even though she looked really cute answering his questions she was saying ya in a really frantically scared voice.

It was definitely a Christmas learning experience, though. She now relates the word "knee" to Santa, and when we ask "what does santa have?" she says "deer".

Favourite outfit....

This morning Paige picked up her dress from last night that hadn't made it into the laundry basket, and said "nice!". She then proceeded to chuck it at me and sit in my lap so that I could put it on her. I thought she liked it since she had called it "nice" before, but this confirms it. It's the jealous-mommy sweater dress from the previous post.

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It's amazing how toddlers can pick up on words quickly when they want to. Last night Paige was given a bit of pie at Auntie Amanda's birthday party. We told her it was pie and then she kept saying "pie.....more....pie....more".

Christmas-ready.....

The house is all decked out. Looking around barely anyone has their lights up yet, but since we leave for Edmonton in 4 weeks we wanted time to enjoy the lights and tree as a family. Within the 4 weeks there are dinners and Christmas parties to attend, so we wanted maximum time with the decorations on the weekends and evenings. Paige has been attempting to pull the ornaments off but oh well.

This is Paige today in her sweater-dress. Mommy is jealous and is desperately looking online for something similar....

Walking in a Winter Wonderland (for the first time).....

This was the scene we woke up to this morning at the cottage. After the rain had stopped and the snow started coming down, it created the perfect conditions for these snow-covered trees. The snow was actually quite deep in some spots, and when Paige walked in the snow for the first time, it was definitely up to her knees. She got the hang of it after a little while but at first she was only able to do a little shuffling. Also, the only suitable footwear was a pair of too-big rubber boots, which were probably tricky for her to walk in. She was definitely confused and excited about the overnight landscape change. SNOW! she can now say...

Paige wore pyjamas all day, under her snowsuit and to the store. Here she is with her new slippers on playing with a flashlight....

correction!!??

I can't believe nobody corrected me.....

Paige's length on the right side of the screen was listed as 19.5cm, rather than inches. I just noticed that now! Yikes! That's one tiny baby!

Randoms...

I felt around in Paige's mouth at lunchtime and discovered that she has 2 random top molars--one on each side. On the bottom of her mouth on each side, directly below the top randoms, are huge swollen lumps where 2 more molars are making their way (painfully, I assume) up. Poor thing. The only way I could look in her mouth was to feed her raisins and get my fingers in there at the same time. She discovered she likes raisins and she thinks she has to sit on a certain spot of the kitchen floor to get them.