Happy Thanksgiving!

Well, it's hard to believe that it's practically mid-October already! As you can see from the above, Rowan thoroughly enjoyed her thanksgiving dinner, especially the pumpkin pie part of it! We made our own little turkey dinner for just the three of us, and we'll be eating turkey for the remainder of the week.

As many of you know, I've had the past week (well, 12 days) off from work as I took some time so that Andrian could head up north to hunt for his moose. He was gone almost a week, and while they saw several moose, they didn't make it easy. But this past Saturday he came through and brought a moose home (didn't include pics of this as is not appreciated by all). But Rowan took one look at what was in the garage and said "moose!" She's her father's daughter...

So anyways, while all this was going on, I had convinced Nana to come up to visit so that she could spend some time with Rowan while I worked on some home improvements (new bedroom pics you'll see below). I spent the better part of a week painting, cleaning and re-decorating, and it's nice to have a fresh, clean bedroom again (like when we moved in 6 years ago!). Rowan and Nana had some quality time going to the park, going shopping, reading books and colouring. It was nice to be home for the week and feel back in the routine of being home and spending time with Rowan. I am sometimes shocked at how quickly she is growing up. Not only is she trying new skills, like jumping and walking on her tip-toes, but her vocabulary is growing everyday and it almost feels like you can have a conversation with her. Most of the time she's right in whatever observation she is trying to make and I am slow on the uptake to figure it out. It was only a few months ago that Dr. Lewis wanted to make sure that she had 6 words solid and now I can't even keep up to counting them....new favourite words; fries (asks for them at every meal), Happy Feet (the movie - wants to watch it every day), movie, moon, colouring (cah-lur-lur). Anyways, it's all good and our week together has been lots of fun.

Here's a few posts to keep you updated on her goings-on....

New Bedroom!

So it's not exactly what I had in my vision, but I'm happy with it. The paint turned out to be more of a silver/blue/gray colour, especially in the light in the bathroom. But it looks good with the duvet, and the browns all tied in very nicely. A few new pieces of artwork on the walls, and some baskets in the bathroom to better organize "stuff" and we're good for another 5-6 years! While it looks nice and clean in these pics, I assure you, it's back to it's "lived-in" state already!

Mama! Tato!

These days Ro loves to run around yelling for Mama and Tato! I can't even tell you how many times she asked for him when he was gone for a week....

Rowan loves to do her "cah-lur-lur" (colouring), so Tato took some time to evaluate her penmanship!

Where's My Baby?

Just to show how much Rowan is looking like a little girl these days...

Bucket-Head!

So this is a halloween bucket that Nana bought for Rowan, only Rowan thinks it's the greatest hat. She did it to all three of us (Nana, Tato and me), where she runs up to you with the bucket saying, "hat, hat, hat!" and insists that you put it on your head. When you do, she has a little giggle, as if to say, "you idiot, you have a bucket on your head", and then goes back to whatever she was doing. But if you dare take it off, she keeps yelling, "hat, hat, hat!" and waits till you put it back on your head. This went on much too long, but I thought it was worthy of a picture (even if at my own expense), cause no wonder it makes her giggle!

Hanging with Friends

A couple of weekends ago, Cath brought Kate and Colin over for dinner, and as you can see here, they play pretty well, and try to stay in a 3-square foot area! I was surprised when we reviewed the pics on the camera and Rowan simply told me that there were "Kate" and "Cah-win". Totally gets who her buddies are!

Random Ro-ness

Well, Rowan still loves her books and will sit to read them frequently throughout the day. And that's in addition to the books that we read her (each of them at least 2x/day!). And she still loves her hats, trying on any that she can find and wearing them around the house, just for fun...

This one, it just cracks me up....