Went for our walk tonight and came across these Geese and their babies! So cute!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Walkin the tracks
Last night we went for a walk along the rail road. Our house is on the other side of the tracks, so we decided to take a walk along them and see if we could find a short cut from Gord's parents to the house... Were not sure if it was quicker or not, but the trail was a little steep to get up to the tracks and we couldn't really get thru to the subdivision because all the houses have fenced yards and the area that isn't fenced is under construction... so we turned back :O)
Here are a few pictures from the walk...
Monday, May 17, 2010
Gotta love SLEEP!
For the last 3 nights the Sleep has been amazing!
A friend who had been bragging about her son sleeping for 12 hours a night sent me the Sleep Sense Book on Friday. So we made a few tweaks to our bedtime rules and voila, Asher sleeps almost through the night!
Basically the only real change we made was not going into his room when he wakes up in the middle of the night. Rather we wait for a minimum of 3 minutes (10 minutes at most) and give him a chance to put himself back to sleep.
We have been doing this for naps also.
Asher has always napped for about 30 minutes several times per day. But now, when he wakes up 30 minutes into his nap, I give him a few minutes and usually within a minute or so he is able to put himself right back to sleep.
Yesterday's nap was 1 hour and 45 minutes!
Last night he slept from 8pm - 7am and we only had to go into his room once during the night!
The night before he slept from 7:20pm - 8:30am and again we only had to go in once!
He is actually napping right now... and I'm hoping it will go just as well!
I have to say, having him nap and sleep so well at night makes me feel SO much better about going back to work!
Speaking of which, today was Asher's first morning at daycare!
Gord dropped him off at 8:30am and Tricia and I went out shopping for the morning. I was going to pick him up at 12 but as I was heading home I figured I would call to see how things were going and see if she wanted me to come and get him a bit early.
Turns out she did!
Not that he was terrible, but I think she was just a bit overwhelmed having a 10 month old and all the other kids too (she has two girls of her own and a boy she looks after)! She said that she forgot what it was like with such a little one. Apparently he didn't want to be put down so she had to pack him around :O( He didn't want to go down for a nap either... I felt kind of bad for her... she seemed a bit frazzled but assured me that both she and Asher would get used to it!
Hopefully the next time goes better!
A friend who had been bragging about her son sleeping for 12 hours a night sent me the Sleep Sense Book on Friday. So we made a few tweaks to our bedtime rules and voila, Asher sleeps almost through the night!
Basically the only real change we made was not going into his room when he wakes up in the middle of the night. Rather we wait for a minimum of 3 minutes (10 minutes at most) and give him a chance to put himself back to sleep.
We have been doing this for naps also.
Asher has always napped for about 30 minutes several times per day. But now, when he wakes up 30 minutes into his nap, I give him a few minutes and usually within a minute or so he is able to put himself right back to sleep.
Yesterday's nap was 1 hour and 45 minutes!
Last night he slept from 8pm - 7am and we only had to go into his room once during the night!
The night before he slept from 7:20pm - 8:30am and again we only had to go in once!
He is actually napping right now... and I'm hoping it will go just as well!
I have to say, having him nap and sleep so well at night makes me feel SO much better about going back to work!
Speaking of which, today was Asher's first morning at daycare!
Gord dropped him off at 8:30am and Tricia and I went out shopping for the morning. I was going to pick him up at 12 but as I was heading home I figured I would call to see how things were going and see if she wanted me to come and get him a bit early.
Turns out she did!
Not that he was terrible, but I think she was just a bit overwhelmed having a 10 month old and all the other kids too (she has two girls of her own and a boy she looks after)! She said that she forgot what it was like with such a little one. Apparently he didn't want to be put down so she had to pack him around :O( He didn't want to go down for a nap either... I felt kind of bad for her... she seemed a bit frazzled but assured me that both she and Asher would get used to it!
Hopefully the next time goes better!
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Eating on his own
Over the past few weeks I have been giving Asher lots of opportunities to feed himself. This morning I cut up a whole Eggo and he ate it all, after which he scarfed down a bunch of peach slices too! I have been trying to post a video of this... however it seems to be too large to upload! So instead I will add a few pictures!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
House Update!
Lots of progress in the last week and a half!! Starting to think that our new home might actually be completed on time!
Wednesday May 5th - Starting to to frame the 1st floor
Thursday May 6th - Framing of the first floor
Friday May 7th - Framing of the downstairs rooms
Saturday May 8th - Second floor walls
Monday May 10 - Second Floor walls and Trusses
Tuesday May 11 - Trusses spread out & peaks filled in
Wednesday May 12th - Roof on & front peak over porch
I have lots more pictures of the inside and the rear view of the house also, however the picture upload on blogger doesn't want to play nice tonight so they will have to wait!
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