Getting up every day at 3:21am (precise eh?) is fine, but when Saturday rolls around, I’d like to stretch that out ‘til about 6 or 7. My kids on the other hand, have different plans. Toddlers are similar to retirees; to them a Saturday may as well be a Tuesday, and February might as well be June, … [Read more...]
Wipe Out
One thing that amazes me about my wife is how many wipes she uses to clean up our 2 year old. I swear she can do the job in one, maybe two wipes. I tend to do the job in eight to ten. I don't know how she does it. She uses every square inch of that thing, and I go through them like they're … [Read more...]
Um …
I was really hoping to just have a bath in the tub by myself. … [Read more...]
Toddler 101
I am the exact same person I was before I had a baby, except fatter and as a result of pregnancy hormones there are now three whiskers on my chin for which I keep tweezers in my purse. Motherhood is not where the lessons were, for me. Toddlerhood on the other hand ... there are a lot of things to be … [Read more...]
Into the garden.
We live in an apartment but community gardens are abundant in this city, and so this year we must confront the grim reality of gardening with our small boy. When you Google "toddlers gardening," you get all kinds of cutesy suggestions from people with screen names like "mummykins" - such un-doable … [Read more...]
Planes, Pains and Automobiles
Now that the spring is here (somewhat), it's got me thinking about our summer vacation. My wife is from Cape Breton and fortunately, still has a lot of family there. (Score one for me!) Every year I get to go to one of the most beautiful places on the planet, never mind the country. Things there … [Read more...]
You can be brave.
Dear Toddler, You are so small. You are so little. And even though one of those online growth calculators assured me you will be six feet and six inches tall when you are grown, you will always be small, because the world is so big. There is a lot that you might learn to be afraid of. When I … [Read more...]
Head first.
It seems that anything worth doing is worth doing head-first. Is this a boy thing? Is it a personality trait? Is this reckless abandon something I could stand to learn to incorporate into my own life? Am I fated to spend the next eighteen years standing at the foot of the metaphorical slide, … [Read more...]
Decisions decisions
So I have a big decision to make. To put the twins in Nursery / pre-school or not? My oldest went to Toronto French school and started in the pre-k program. My oldest son went to pre-school and continued in that setting for JK and SK, second oldest boy was in pre-school, as were Ryley … [Read more...]
clothes confetti and fire starters!
Each time the twins hit a milestone I was estatic, they were after all premature and I was warned they may have developmental delays and take a bit longer to hit certain milestones. Tanner being the smaller of the two did take longer and had us very concerned a few times....WHAT THE HELL … [Read more...]