This year for Halloween (I know! I’m late! So sue me!) Princess wanted to go as Prince’s “best friend”, the Woody to his Buzz, if you will. I think it came out absolutely adorable, she of course had to add the sparkly Jessie boots to her ensemble – which led to much confusion on her chosen costume on that rainy night of Trick-or-Treating. She quickly reminded everyone that she was Woody, because “he has the brown hat”. See her hat? It’s brown. Clearly.
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After spending an impromptu night in Vancouver, we drove home to find our mountains had been sprinkled with snow! The temperatures are definitely dropping and I can’t wait until the snow makes its’ way down the hills and all around us.
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5 Months ago you came into our lives with a cute little cry. The doctor spoke about soccer games and made jokes with my husband while I awaited your sound. From the moment you were placed into my arms, I could feel the love growing for you. You were so tiny, with a button nose, the darkest of eyes and fine peach fuzz hair. You breastfed like a pro and you loved to eat. Bringing you home from the hospital, we were terrified, as most parents are, of the ride home, driving a lot slower than usual and not caring if we slowed someone else down – we were bringing YOU home!
And somewhere in those first few days I made it my mission to understand you. I simply had to figure you out, your ‘cues’, as they call them. I wanted to know what each little cry was for, why you did things the way you did – I needed to know the reasons why. But I slowly came to realize that it wasn’t as simple as I thought it would be. My old memories of your sister as a baby were coming back in a fuzzy haze, but she was different than you.
She craved routine, she craved her sleep – she’s still very cranky and grumpy without sleep. She slept two hours in the morning and two more in the afternoon – and she would sleep anywhere we would go and stay asleep. Not you. She would eat every 2.5 hours in the first couple of weeks, I even had to wake her up so we could be on schedule, and she slowly tapered off her feedings to about every 3 hours. Not you. She would take a bottle of expressed breast milk when I needed to go out. Not you.
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Last weekend we received complimentary tickets for the fabulous family to check out The Great Big Boo, at the PNE Forum in Vancouver. It gave us a great excuse to bust out the Halloween costumes early – check out my Baby Buzz & my Princess Woody! I wasn’t sure how the show would go, Princess is 6 going on 16 and babies are unpredictable at the best of times, so what was going to happen at the theatre?
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I absolutely fell in love with this Icelandic knit by Vík Prjónsdóttír, The Baby Seal (Kópurinn). I can just picture our little baby boy toddling around in it! It’s warm and cozy and perfect for picture opportunities, don’t you think?
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This weekend we’ll be checking out The Great Big Boo! , a Halloween musical. Princess & Prince will be putting on their costumes before Halloween (!) and heading out to take in this awesome show and go trick-or-treating afterwards! It’s being held at the PNE and ONLY this weekend on October 20th & 21st – check out the website here!
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