Baby sitter

I have found an awesome baby sitter.  In last year's gymnastics class there was a little girl Scarlett who went to the class with a nanny.  I always though she was an amazing nanny.  Very patient, etc. As the girls were in the same class for the year I got to talk to the many quite a bit.  Her nanny family had to lay her off in the summer when the mom went on mat leave.  When she found a new family to work for they only needed her morning and then later afternoon.  That means she is free in the morning.  Soooo, I have had her come over a couple of times to watch Rose and Henry while I did some long overdo tidy up in the basement from our move.  Purged some clothes, found our Christmas decorations, and organized some stuff.  Literally there was no time over the past 4 months to get it done.  At any rate I am so happy to have a person around if ever needed.  She is getting really busy, as word has gotten out about her awesomeness.

Wer werk

I wanted to post this as to not forget Rose's talking.  She is 3 and a half now, and she can say most of her sounds now.  She does have a bit of trouble with R's at the beginning of words, but generally says things properly.  A word she has hung onto for so long, even though she would be capable of saying it correctly, is her word for yogurt--"wer were".  So cute.

6 months so far...

6 month photo shoot....

A few new things this month...

He has perfected sitting, with few fall overs.

He has started solids--Rice cereal, oat cereal, pears, creamed corn, peas, sweet potato...

And, 3 days ago he started to crawl!

The crawling was too much for me...I feel like he is growing up too fast.

Also, he has started to sleep amazing...we're talking 10 hour stretches without a peep sometimes ...if not usually.  I feel like 6 months was the turning point for all of the kids in terms of sleeping...but I don't really want to check in case that was true and then they started sleeping bad again....

Halloween

A wonderfully warm Halloween this year.  It was strange to be in a new house.  I bought large size chocolate bars as we were (mis)informed that we would have about 30 trick or treaters.  We had double that and totally ran out of candy and had to shut off the lights.  Rose was the youngest trick or treater on the street and we had mainly older kids.  I missed the cute little ones from the old house.  It was nice to have an excuse to meet some of the neighbours on the street.  

Rose at preschool with her BFF Claire. 

Preparing the candy

An Angry Bird

A red fox

A spooky house.  With the flashing eyes skull we were the spookiest on the street. Ooooooh

Tired and counting the candy

Sitting up and early attempts at crawling...

Henry started sitting up at 5 months, and when I finally got around to sorting through some boxes in the basement I found the perfect pillow to keep him from falling over and hurting himself. 

Henry started to crawl much like I remember Rose crawling--tiny scoots backwards.  For instance, in this next photo, he started off in front of the toys and after a few minutes was at the wall.

Scout is constantly trying to get at him to lick his face. 

Trying downward dog to see if that will get him anywhere.

He started to get very proficient at swivelling around on his tummy to get toys as well. That's another thing that happened around turning 6 months...he really started to take an interest in toys.

Its getting cold...

Even though we haven't turned the heat on yet it's getting cold.  The house was 65 degrees yesterday. That's 17.  Henry is warm and toasty when we go back and forth to the school in his new suit, and he has had great sleeps in his new 2.5 tog sleep sack.

New table

The Turcsanyi's have outgrown our kitchen table.  Mike and I bought the other table about 8 years ago when we first moved into our new house.  I think it was our first purchase.  It was a large table, but only sat 4 people pretty much.

Here's the new one.  With the toasty warm fire.

The table could easily sit 8.  Tomorrow we meet with a design consultant about some new things for the living room.  It's all coming together.

A bit of randomness

Two girls at their dentist visit!

We still haven't turned the heat on thanks to our 2 fireplaces.  This kitchen fireplace is the first thing I loved about this house when we looked at the photos online. 

sitting up in bouncy chair.  Almost time to retire this thing. 

Hello!

Helping with Laundry

Hunting Season

Mike went away for a few days hunting.  Luckily that involves Scout, so it wasn't as much work for me.