TGIF

It was a full week and as much as I enjoy my job, it was nice to see Friday afternoon roll around.

Monday - Vic and I visited and observed two Kindergarten classes for Sophie for next September: a French Immersion class and an English one. We were impressed with both classes, but are hedging towards the French class.

Tuesday - I saw my doctor about some nagging ailments. I can't seem to kick the annoying cysts that keep appearing on my chin, so she prescribed an antibiotic to kick out the bacteria. So far, so good.

Wednesday - family night. No gym after work, just hanging with the kids. It was nice and Sophie and I made a few Christmas cards together.

Friday - our usual routine is to go to Boston Pizza after work. Poor Fynn was under the weather with his cold, but he hung in there. Ahh, Friday!

Have a good weekend!

cozy Sundays

It was nice to chill out at home today and enjoy our surroundings.

Sophie (and mom) wrote her letter to Santa (our retired Canada Post employees pen the letters back to kids) and we watched this.
The holiday season has officially begun.

fynnie and grandpa

last Sunday after my birthday dinner, we came back to find fynnie and grandpa watching Bugs' Life and eating popcorn twists. that's the life.

catching up...settling down

I am confident that we are getting things under control around here. For example:

1. The tile guys were back and finally finished the surround on our fireplace.
2. We have towel bars in our ensuite.
3. I bought a book of stamps today (a major milestone) as I've been putting it off for a week.
4. I finally made an appointment to see my doctor about the blind pimples I seem to be developing almost daily on my chin (stress???). I want an antibiotic to clear it up.
5. I've made an appointment to visit/observe a Kindergarten French and Kindergarten English class next week. We are researching our options for Sophie for next fall.
6. My laundry basket is empty.

birthday update

I turned the big 41 on Sunday.
Wow, I never imagined turning 41 and having two little ones.

Anyways, it is all good.
We were at my parent's place.
Vic spoiled me with the Barbara Walter's memoir Audition (it is a delicious book about her life) and a beautiful necklace. Plus a really nice dinner out -- without children :) thanks to my mom's babysitting.

My SIL Joanne also got be a couple of fun magazines. So, I'm definately set with reading material for the next little while.

Here are some photos of us enjoying the playground on my b'day.

bath

The two little squirts have their baths individually. I try to have Fynn asleep before I start Sophie's bath. However, tonight their bath paths crossed and they had a little bit of fun.

Life is still pretty crazy around here...we've had so many changes this fall...moving into the new house, going back to work, Fynn off to daycare. I'm hopeful that things are settling down and we will start to feel that this new routine is our new "normal."

date night

BSF (before Sophie and Fynn) Vic and I went to the movies once a week. It was our "thing". Since Fynn was born, I don't think we have seen one -- okay maybe one but that was when we brought Sophie and found a sitter for Fynn.

We have been having a hard time getting a sitter, so we were very happy when we ran into Nicole on Saturday working at a lighting store here in town. She recognized us since we used to live across the street from her family in our old neighbourhood. She is about 20 and has just finished up a college program and still enjoys babysitting. She still sits for the 3 little boys that lived down the street from us.

I got her business card from the lighting store and we called her this morning to see if she could watch the kids for a few hours while Vic and I went to a late matinee and then grabbed some dinner at a brew pub. We had a great time and she was wonderful with Sophie and Fynn.

BTW...the movie was eh, not so good. Fairly good special effects for the war scenes, and it tried to tell an important story about Canada's efforts during WWI, but the poor excuse for a love story was just bad (bad writing, some bad acting).

simple Saturdays

It was nice just to have a low key day.

Other than Fynn falling out of the laundry basket first thing this morning (and getting a swollen lip), it was a quiet Saturday.

We had breakfast at our favourite little German deli with our friends Bryan and Patti. They just got back from 3 weeks in China so it was interesting to hear about that.

Then Sophie had a haircut. Notice the blue nail polish. She has been applying that at daycare.

For dinner we had pancakes and sausages. Simple comfort food. Yum.

handy man Fynn

He is such a little man.
Vic was putting up some floating shelves we picked up at Canadian Tire for Sophie's room (she has so many little tchochkes).
Fynn gets right in there. Into the tool box. Into the drill bits. Into everything.
He also looks quite adorable in overalls.