Tiny Tots Parade

A 17 degree morning, bright sunshine, candy being doled out, an ecstatic Paige=great morning. Thousands of "tiny Tots" and their parents congregated in the Town Square in Oakville to show off their costumes. There was actual Trick-or-treating along the downtown strip, but it was insanely busy and without a mouthfull of teeth, it was pointless to get Paige any candy. We hung out with Paige's friends Amy, Belle, and Ella for an hour or so in the square where there was plenty of room for the walking ones to run. I saw 4 others in the same costume.


Amy as a monkey....

Ella as corn on the cob (2 months old).......

Belle as a spider (6 months old).....

After we got home, she was still happy to be in her costume so I took some pictures.

Today we went to our Thursday playgroup, where all of the kids dressed up. Surprisingly, Paige kept her flower hat on the entire hour and a half. I should have waited till tomorrow to post the pictures I guess, but there will be more from the parade and the "trick or treating" in the evening.

Grandpa has created a monster!

Grandpa let Paige eat her yogurt all by herself, so she now refuses to be fed her yogurt. This accounts for a rather large mess, so I bought her one of those huge bibs with sleeves. Now she can eat anything she wants with a minimal clean up!

Here are some cute pictures of Paige playing the piano:

I could go on and on about how she has not been napping, and how last night's sleep was horrible, but instead I will go and do some well deserved reading by myself while she is actually sleeping....

Little Girl.....

Since Paige won't let me put elastics in her hair, I managed to sneak these hair clips on unnoticed. I can't handle how cute it is to see her with a little girly accessory. I have to supervise her with these though in case she takes them out and puts them in her mouth. They are pretty secure though. If you can't see the clips, you may be able to click on the picture to enlarge it.

I finally managed to get some prescription cough medicine for this lingering cough. Talk about powerful. I feel drowsy, dizzy, and naseous, and am not supposed to drive. I can definitely see why that would be a bad idea. I hope I can just get rid of this thing though.

Mike and I are going to Niagara on the Lake for a weekend getaway. Paige is staying with "Bama" and "Bampa" (that's pretty much how she pronounces it). We're going for massages, wine tasting/winery tour, and going to see a play at the Shaw Festival. Should be nice and relaxing. Seems funny to stay in a hotel so close to home, since we're used to going to the cottage if we go anywhere overnight.

Pictures today....

Looking at a plane overhead....


Today the plan was to push Paige in the stroller to the ravine so she could walk along and play with the leaves. She wouldn't get in her stroller, so I pushed her stroller as she walked beside me all the way to the park. It probably took about half an hour, which is the furthest she has ever walked. She played on the park for a bit, and as we started to go into the path by the ravine she was turning around to go home and sat down. Clearly she was tired, but still didn't want to go in the stroller. I had to force her to sit in it and strap her in really quickly in order to get home. The whole experience really tired her out though, and she fell asleep as soon as we got home.

Poo and lies....

Paige has continued to tell me when she has a poo diaper. Sometimes she even tells me when she has to go. She'll say "poo" and there is nothing, but then 5 minutes later, there it is! I'm thinking this is a good thing for toilet training. However, sometimes she likes to lie. I say, "Do you have poo?", and she says "no?". I ask her again and she says "no?", when I know that she clearly does have poo. She just wants to get out of having her diaper changed which she can't stand.

More new words...

Poo

Tyson

Moose

Bib

Again--this is a good one....makes me read stories to her 8 times now. Or, do weird things repeatedly, like cover her up completely with a blanket while she is standing, so she can walk around like a tiny little ghost without knowing where she is going.

So many more new words that I have never posted. Let's just say there are a lot of words.

Something good with the new diapers. She tells me when she wants her diaper changed. Obviously there are times when she does NOT want her diaper changed at all costs and screams and kicks, but I like that she has learned that she can tell me when she does want it changed. I'm thinking these things will contribute to earlier potty training. Something NOt good with the new diapers: night time diapers. 1 word...disgusting. Going to use disposables for that.

G diapers

Paige shows off her new diaper:

Ever since we got a composting system in Burlington I have watched with horror as our garbage goes out every 2 weeks filled only with diapers. And we're talking 3 full garbage bags mainly of diapers. Of course there are also little scraps of plastic, toothpaste containers, and that sort of thing, but that is basically a non-issue compared to these diapers. I had read about G diapers, and was really interested to try them. They consist of a cotton outer part and then an inner flushable/biodegradable lining. The best part of both worlds between the disposable and the cotton varieties. I wasn't prepared to take on cloth diaper washing at home or getting a service, so I think this is a start. They are a little more $$$, but we'll try to save in other areas. We'll keep some disposables around for outings, but I'm hoping these work well. it's a bit more work, but I really feel I'm in no position to complain about something that will really take 5 minutes more out of my not-so-busy day. And also, who am I to complain when, as they so aptly put it on the g-diaper website:

"It takes up to 500 years for a disposable to biodegrade in a landfill. Just in time for your great, great, great, great, grandchild's birth. Not a very nice baby gift. "

I had to buy a starter kit which came with 2 pairs of "little g" pants in orange and cream. It also came with a "swish stick" to use to break it down in the toilet. I'll report back about how these little guys are working.

update!: We had a poo in the g-diaper and I went through the steps. Wow, that's a lot of stuff to flush, but after i swished it around with the stick it was totally fine! The plastic liner (i forgot to mention there is a snap in liner that you put the biodegradable other liner in) inside gets poo on it, but you just rinse it off and air dry it while you use your other "little g-pant". So, all in all, not bad, but I can imagine mike might think that washing the poo off the liner is a bit gross. The pee diapers will be no problem. You wouldn't want a poo in the mall or something though...

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.