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Throwback Thursday: 1 1/2 Years Ago

One and a half years ago we moved to Edmonton. One and a half years ago, Calvin was the same age Victor is now (yes, I know I will always be able to say that). This seems unreal to me. Calvin was still such a baby when we came here? It seems that he has always been a toddler. I don’t remember him being a baby. When did he grow up? Sheesh. Or maybe Victor is less of a baby than I think he is. Hmmm…

Well, here are a few photos from that time.

Getting packed up for the move.

Short pit stop on the way.

Learning to crawl at the new place.

Just comparing the two of them at this age, 5-6 months, they are quite different with what they have accomplished. Calvin could roll and sit (evidenced by the Mt. Robson photo), but Victor is content to just not learn this stuff. They were/are both happy babies who are easy to please and quick to smile. It will be fun to see how they grow up to be individuals.

Here is a photo of Victor, for a visual comparison.

Victor is a bit smaller than Calvin was. Calvin had already grown out of the bucket seat by 5 months, but Victor still has one more strap setting to move up to! Little shorty.

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Sharing a Room

Last night was the first night Calvin and Victor shared their room. I had no clue how it would go, but past experience told me Calvin wouldn’t do too poorly. When Victor first came onto the scene and was crying at night, it only woke Calvin up for the first two or three days. For the last four nights, I had been putting Victor down for the night in the guest room. It is between our room and the boys’ room, so I thought it would be a nice little transition for Calvin, with the crying noise a little closer, but not right beside him. It only woke Calvin up on the first night.

Last night, Victor woke up twice between 8:00 and 11:00 (once because he was apparently hungry, and the second time because his tummy was gurgly). Neither time Calvin woke up. Yes!

And then Victor went on to sleep for 5 more hours! Lately he has been doing 3 at the most at a time, so that was wonderful! And Calvin didn’t wake up that time either.

I know it has been only one night, so I can’t really call it a complete success yet, but I am pleased with the results so far. I feel like one reason Victor may have slept longer is that I got a prescription cream for his skin yesterday, so maybe he wasn’t waking up from itchiness? I don’t know if that was the reason he used to wake up, but it’s hard to know. He always went back to sleep really easily.

But anyways, hooray for them sharing so nicely, and hooray for us having a room to ourselves!

Currently the boys are napping peacefully.

I love that Calvin still sleeps like this.

Zzzz…

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The Boys’ Room

I finally painted a second room in our yellow house! The first was the bathroom. And now I am done the boys’ room! I found a can of grey-blue on Kijiji for $20 (seriously, if you aren’t picky about the specific colour, this is a super great way to go; or also the ReStore), and I love the colour a lot!

The room itself used to be the guest room. It is the larger of the two bedrooms (other than the master), so when it came time for the boys to share, it made sense that they would get the larger room and the smaller room that Calvin used to occupy would be the new guest room.

Here is what it used to look like:

Blah.

And here it is now:

That’s better!

I still have to finish painting the trim. It would have been done, except the white paint that was left behind by the previous owner had gone bad since I painted the bathroom. Maybe I didn’t close it properly. Oh well.

I realize it may look a little girly with all the white furniture, but I’m sure they don’t mind. And look…a dinosaur on the wall!

I love the room, and it has worked out well so far. You can read about how the adjustment has gone for the boys so far here, if you are interested.

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My Birthday

On the 7th, I turned 27. I have to say, it was a lovely day!

Tim’s mom was here, so I had company throughout the morning. We had French Toast for breakfast. Yum! Then we hung around the house. In the afternoon, I was able to leave the boys with Mom and pick Tim up early from work and go out for lunch! We went to the Cactus Club, since Tim had a gift certificate from Christmas. Then we headed home for the rest of the day.

For supper we made pizza, and Calvin even joined in on the process!

While we were out in the afternoon, Mom had made a carrot cake for me. It was yummy!

And that was my day. Perfect.

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Grandma Came to Visit

Last week, Tim’s mom flew out for a little visit.

Unfortunately, on here first day here, Calvin was feeling unexplainably under the weather. But that just meant there were lots of cuddles to be had!

Then he got better, and there was lots of play time to be had!

And lots of books to be read!

And then the weather turned for the better and there was lots of outdoors to enjoy. I just don’t have any proof of that!

Thanks for coming, Mom!

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Calvin Talking

Calvin has a small, and slowly growing vocabulary. I love every single one of his words and phrases. It’s so cute, and fun to watch him learn and experiment with sounds.

He says the normal “mamma”, “dadda”, “ball”, “up”etc. And he has the common problem of replacing Ls with Ys. So words like “hello” and “please” come out as “heyo” and “peas”.

The fun part is that there are a couple sentences he says. I don’t think he knows they are sentences, just a long word. They are demonstrated in the video below.

You can probably figure it out, but his sentences are “where did it go?” that sounds like “go go go?” and “there it is!”that sounds like, well, I don’t know how to write it. Haha!

Oh, and his counting! “Doo, doo, doo, go!” He loves to count down (up? who can tell?) to jumping, throwing, running, kicking…I love that he has the counting intonation.

Anyways, that’s what Calvin is up to. Growing up into a big boy.

Family Day Long Weekend

Alberta just had their Family Day and Tim was done with all his crazy amounts of overtime on Thursday night, so we had the entire weekend to enjoy together! What added to the “family” part of the weekend was that Jordan was in town (and actually is staying with us all week), so we got to spend time with him and Amy as well.

Saturday was a park day.

There are trolls under the bridge!

Sunday was game day. Go Team Canada!

You can tell we are watching hockey because Calvin is wearing a team Canada hat. Obviously.

On the holiday Monday, we partook in the free admission the Royal Alberta Museum was offering. I think Calvin is still a bit too young to fully enjoy it, but it was at least a little fun for him. Especially the live snake (not pictured), and the tarantula!

One exhibit had little capes for the kids to wear around. It was cute.

Tarantula!

And then the weekend was over. Hope you all enjoyed yours!