A verrrry cool evening walk. It seemed nice enough until we got out in the open in the park. We had gone with the intentions of feeding the geese. The geese weren't even around so we ran back home.
Playing hide and go seek. I couldn't find Em, then I double checked Kaitlyn's closet, she was on a shelf!
Precariously perched! She knows not to climb on the arms of the sofa and was choosing to ignore me, maybe thinking I wouldn't notice.
Hanging out!
Another cool walk. This time it was so cold we only made it past a few houses in the alley, it was just to windy!
Sharing hugs. Kaitlyn has become so attached to Emily she cries out for her in the middle of the night and has to find her as soon as she wakes up.
"Eth" loves his Nuby!
Curls! They are only there when her hair is wet.
On Monday mom flew out to Toronto to be with Nana and Gramps. Gramps is really unwell and won't be with us much longer. His long battle with small cell cancer is drawing to an end so she wanted to be there for them. Philip and Emily came to stay with us since dad and Danny's schedule's don't work well for them. They are home schooled so they spend their mornings plugged in. Kaitlyn does what they do, she thinks she does anyway.
Pretty!!
Bath time has become quite the event, a little break for me and for them!
We try to get out for walks every day, even though it has been overcast we still get out for a few minutes.
"Ball-ball"
Last Sunday we went for a walk down to the park. Kaitlyn was so excited about the puddles in front of our house it took 15 minutes to get past them. Once in front of the neighbours house we thought we were making progress when Kaitlyn fell on her tush, in a puddle. So we went home, changed and started over again. It ended up taking us longer to get going than it took for us to take our walk.
Hello out there.
This is that totem pole you could barely see through the trees a few posts back.
The ducks and geese are settling in. Anytime you step out our front door all you can hear is their squawking from the lake.
We went down to the ledg, and found the grounds to still be pretty muddy, it'll be better in a few months.
Well tonight rather than upload pics, which there are a ton of!!! I decided to draw, on Paint, with my right hand(I'm a lefty), and with the mouse. Why? A challenge I guess. It sure isn't anything to be proud of but I thought I'd share it anyway since it took 45 mins to create. 
So, little Mr. Happy-go-lucky hasn't been so happy lately. He cut his second tooth on Sunday and has been very fussy, wanting to be held all the time and not sleeping or eating well.
Such a sad face, he wouldn't even eat his mum mum's, poor lil man!
Finally sleeping, though it is in daddy's arms.
We went to the baby Expo on Sunday and found out about a bunch of neat little stores here in town. I am excited about a little baby and mommy boutique that I came across. She is one of the few I know who carries Rocky Mountain Soap supplies in this city. I won't have to bribe my Edmonton connections into sending it to me, yea! Though nobody here carries the full line,I will get what what I need. www.rockymountainsoap.com I got hooked on their products (thank you Rose:)) and now swear by their eczema line, it cleared both mine and Ethan's eczema up really well.
Boys. 
Saturday was gorgeous out, it hit around 20C! So we spent at least an hour out playing in the puddles. At first Kaitlyn wasn't so sure about stepping in the water, but after a little encouragement she made her first splash.
And splashed, and splashed, and splashed....
And splashed...
She was soaked from the knees down, socks included, by the time we dragged her into the house.
On Friday evening it was so beautiful out, so we decided to see how long it would take to walk over to my parents place.
Turned out to be a really nice walk except for this one wheel-chair ramp. Of all places, you would expect it to be cleared, you could never get up it in a chair! Oh, and it only took 42 minutes to get to mom and dads.
Ethan had his first pickle, and loved it! He now likes three foods, pickles, bananas and applesauce, what a combo!
Mom, Phil and Emily joined us for the walk home...
and Emily lucked out in the piggy-back department!
While eating breakfast we could hear the "bueeez" (birdies) chirping away outside. Kaitlyn kept pointing and yelling "bueeez" so I finally put her up on the counter to see if she could find any.
We never did see the "bueeez" although they sounded close by. We did however see "tchakers" (tractors) across the street.
Hangin out, playing in Kaitlyn's room. Ethan is so happy go lucky during the day, I still wish our nights would get better again, sigh.
Spring might finally be on the way. I have been putting off this post for fear that I would jink us again, but it has been melting again now for a few days. Last weekend (on the 17th) Philip and I built a new snow dude. 
Yesterday his head fell off and today all that is left of him is snow bones.
A couple houses down and across from us a crew has been working to move a house. They have been at it for about a month now and we watch their progress daily. The moment Kaitlyn hears one of the big trucks roar to life she runs to the window to see the "tchakers".
I think she will really miss them when they're gone!
Seriously, I didn't give her anything! We had just brought in the groceries and I was rushing to get supper started. In the meantime Kaitlyn got into the pantry and Ethan's baby food and decided to cook as well. This picture above is the surprise I got when I turned around after prepping all the veggies.
This time I decided to watch her for a few minutes, after all she wasn't hanging off my leg so why disturb her, and my momentary peace!
Well, I had to turn my back just to brown the meat and add the veggies. In that time she had added Oreo fudge cookies to the mix and was eating the baby cereal hand over fist!
Then I realized I was wearing the same yoga pants that I wore the last time this happened. I am not wearing those to cook again! They must be some sort of signal to Kaitlyn....Time to make a mess!
