We did dress the boys up for Oct.31st. Noah was an elephant and Luke was (and is) a clown. I didn't think they would keep their costumes on, but they did. We only went over to the neighbors house so they could see them dressed up. I'm glad that we didn't go any further, that was enough candy.
The other big event was Noah's potty training. One Friday I was changing another dirty diaper and I said to him, "Noah if you learn to use the potty I will buy you a big biter dinosaur." Big biter is what he calls the T-Rex. He said "Okay" So that's how it started and by Saturday afternoon he was peeing consistently on the potty and by Sunday evening he was taking care of the other business too. So we went to Toys R Us on Monday and he picked out this set of dinosaurs. He was a little grumpy when I took this picture, but he really loves them and plays with them all the time, it's really cute.
The long weekend in November was spent at the Victoria Inn with Nath's family. We enjoyed Dino beach, which has a nice beach entry pool and some water slides. Noah loved the Big Biter on the wall too.
Eric was also playing hockey in Winnipeg that weekend so most of the fam went to Friday's game and everyone made it to the Saturday game. Then we had the priveledge of seeing Eric at breakfast on Sunday. It was a nice treat to see him.
Oh and for those of you who don't know Nath's family is expanding by leaps and bounds this Spring. Not only is Nath gaining a brother in law (Eric), he is also going to be an uncle again! Mike and Jess are pregnant and due May 30th! We are all very excited! (We have already sent one load of baby paraphernalia to Winkler for them.)
We had another eye appointment for Luke last week. This time with Dr. Rahman, whose an opthalmologist who sees some kids. She didn't really have anything new for us except that she thought that we should give glasses a try. So we found some for him today and will get them next week some time. We are cautiously optimistic. It would be great if this would improve his vision, but I'm a little skeptical because the two pediatric ophthalmologists that we saw before her didn't think that glasses would be beneficial. So we'll give it a try and see what happens. He did look really cute in them.
I guess that's all for Fall, I finally took down my scarecrow today and I guess I'll have to put up my Christmas wreath. We have our first Christmas get together this weekend, though it sure feels too early for that. The weather has been too nice. High of +9 for Wednesday! What a great November we're having!
Blessings,
KW
