A Whole New World

It's a sad day when you leave the house you brought your baby home to; at least it was for me! We moved out of our townhouse on Thursday, but officially gave up possession of it on Friday at noon. We went back on Friday to move the last few things and vacuum and it was so hard for me to watch Andrew close the garage door with all our keys locked inside. I cried (surprise, surprise), but Andrew did a good job of assuring me our new house will be even better for Adelyn and we can create a whole bunch of new memories there and we can bring home another baby there and it'll all be great. That's all true and I know this move is for the better, but it was still difficult to leave that place behind. Oh well, on to bigger and better, right?
Anyway, so we're nice and settled into my parents house and they just love having little "GB" (Grand baby/ Godbout baby) around day in and out. And I'm still looking forward to having a hot tub every night!
Adelyn's getting used to sleeping in her playpen all the time instead of her crib, which is a great thing! And I have a feeling she'll be getting close to sleeping through the night just in time for us to move and disrupt her sleep all over again. The sleeping thing is getting to be a huge deal.
Anyway, that's it for now. Now that I don't have to spend all my time packing and/or worrying about packing I should be able to post a little more regularly. I'll get some Halloween monkey pictures up soon... well, as soon as Halloween comes.

Cheers,
A, M & A

10 Days and 30 Boxes

We are officially movers and shakers. Well, we're movers anyway.
We officially sold our townhouse on Saturday. Yay! We get to move into our lovely new house in mid-November. Yay!
Now for the kicker- we have to be out of our townhouse on the 26th of October. Yes, in 10 days! Yikes. That means a lot of work has to be done.
I started packing last night, knowing it would be a big task, but also feeling like it was a feasible task. But once I started my thinking totally changed. I'm now stressed out (already, I know) and worried that we won't be ready to get out because this packing thing is a HUGE job. We have so much stuff!
I have decided, however, to go against my natural pack-rat ways and purge. Anything I pull out of a cupboard that I haven't used since we moved into the townhouse (Jan. 2006) is either being chucked out or given away. I just can't stand to pack it all up and bring it with us knowing it'll just be going straight to the back of another cupboard or closet. It should be a very cleansing process for me! Hahaha.
So we have about 30 boxes so far (only about 6 are packed) so we'll be making trips to Save On Foods to pick up some banana boxes in the next few days. I'm praying they don't come with spiders this time too. Yuck, I hate packing almost as much as I hate spiders.
So where are we going to be spending the three weeks of time we're left without a house? We're moving in with my parents! They have two spare bedrooms so we should be able to make ourselves right at home. And luckily we don't really need to bring anything other than clothes and Adelyn's stuff, so the second moving day (Oy vey...) should be pretty quick. That of course is easy for me to say, as I don't really do much of the moving part anyway.
So here we go, 10 days and counting...
Wish us luck... we're going to need it!

Cheers,
A, M & A

Adelyn's Big Day

Wow- was last Friday (Oct. 12) the most monumental day for Adelyn so far! Well, as far as the baby book goes anyway.
She started the day off with a tiny little piece of a tooth breaking through her gums! Yay- the beginning of her first tooth!
Then as the day went on she decided it was time to crawl. If she takes her time and concentrates she can do it properly. However, most of the time she's in a hurry to get where she wants to go and then only half crawls and sort of pulls herself. But she's doing it... and she's pretty fast. I really have to watch her now.
She has a basket of toys that we keep under our coffee table (so that we only have a few toys on the floor at a time) and since she's been moving a bit I've covered the bottom of the table with pillows (so she won't be distracted by what's under the table and also so she doesn't bash her head against it). However, she knows the toys are "hidden" behind the pillows so routinely beelines for the coffee table, moves the pillows aside, pulls out the basket, tips it over and then goes crazy with all her new-found toys! It's pretty cute to watch, but makes for a messy living room floor!
Anyway, back to her big day, with all the crawling around she also somehow figured out how to get from all fours into a seated position, so she can finally play with the toys once she crawls over to them. Unfortunately, she can't do it every time, but she gets there every once in a while!
Then towards the end of the day I looked and Adelyn had a second tooth popping out! She went from no teeth to two teeth in one day!
Then later on that night (after she had gone to bed) Auntie Lindsay called to ask Adelyn to officially be a flower girl at her wedding- she was now engaged!
It was a very exciting day- I wrote in her baby book a lot that day! Now I'm just hoping she slows down a little... I'm kinda worried she's going to continue to try and pull herself up to standing. I'm not ready for that yet!

Cheers,
A, M & A

Road Trip, Sleep (or lack thereof), Real Food and Swimming

We're back from our week of travels and are happy to say Adelyn did pretty well! She was pleasant for most of the long drives, probably realizing that crying wouldn't help the situation... we were going to keep driving anyway. So she mostly slept, stared out the window or babbled. She did fuss on occasion, but for the most part was pretty quiet.
However, after we reached our destination city and checked into our hotel we usually went out for dinner and then trying to strap Adelyn back into her car seat (after she'd just been in there for a minimum of 5 hours) was no easy task. She would stick her elbows out and fuss and cry as if to say "You're crazy if you think I'm getting back in that thing for another six hours! I won't go! I won't go back in there!!!"
We went to Trail, Cranbrook and Revelstoke and along the way saw some great scenery. BC truly is the most beautiful place on earth. Would I want to move to and live in any of these far off places and small towns? No... but they're very beautiful! We had some good food (a random guy in Trail bought our dinner at the local Italian restaurant), saw some great sights, Andrew saw a few bears and we had so much fun on the world's best water slide (in the hotel in Cranbrook). So all in all it was a good trip, nice to see what Andrew does on these trips too.

Anyway, back to the real world, Adelyn's slowly getting back into her regular sleep patterns. She slept from 10:40 to 4:40 am straight a few nights ago, which is great! BUT then the following night she was up every two to three hours. Not so great. So it kinda goes back and forth. While she's always fed a couple times during the night it's never been a problem because I always felt pretty rested (for the most part anyway), but now it is a problem because I'm just wiped on any given day, and I don't like that!
But we're being pretty persistent in not rushing in to her room when she wakes during the night. Often times if she wakes she'll cry for a few minutes and then go right back to sleep. I guess all we can really do is be patient. One day she'll sleep through the night. And that will be followed with another glorious night of sleep. And then another. It'll happen. I just can't wait though!

We started feeding Adelyn "real" food for dinner on Monday as we thought she'd be sick of the same old rice cereal day in and day out. So I started with one of my favourite foods, Avocado. Did she like it as much as I do? Hardly. She kept sticking out her tongue in disgust and even gagging. I guess she didn't like it much... So the next night I started dinner out with mashed bananas and... nope, she didn't like those either. So, I brought out the sure-fire winner for the night- applesauce. And to our surprise she wasn't fond of that either! But we did get some great video of her eating it... her one eye closes and she shudders as if she had just done a shot of tequila. We killed ourselves laughing! It was so funny... it made up for all the previous meal failures.
The real food thing isn't going too well so far as Adelyn simply won't open her mouth, so feeding her is quite a challenge. But it's still new, so hopefully she'll slowly get used to the different flavours and textures and come around. She wants to eat, that much is obvious, so hopefully soon she'll actually participate in the feedings!

We also started Mom and Tots swimming lessons this week (big week, I know!). It's been kinda fun, (mostly because we have two friends in the class) but it's really been unorganized and very whimsical. The instructor isn't very clear and the class isn't very structured, so I don't feel like I'm learning anything, and I really wanted to learn what to do with Adelyn in the water. The instructor casually got us to bring the babies to the wall of the pool and then went "Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, Humpty Dumpty had a big fall!" and then got us to bring the babies into the pool. Then she says we can put the babies under if we want, but only if we're comfortable. But she offered NO instruction on how to do that properly! Luckily for us one of our friends had taken the class before (with a different instructor) and was shown how, so she showed me how to do it. Frustrating! But after going under a few times Adelyn started to anticipate it and would scrunch up her face and hold her breath on her own! That part was very exciting! I was so proud! Plus, she has the cutest little gym membership card with her picture on it! I carry it in my wallet and have been showing it to everyone I know.
I really didn't want to be one of those gushing parents who carried all these pictures around of their kids and showed them to everyone and anyone, but I just can't help it- she's just too cute!

Anyway, it's been a long week and a long night, so I think I'm going to take advantage of the fact that Adelyn's sleeping and go take a bath.

Happy Thanksgiving!

A, M & A