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SH – Hanging Out With My Boy

While Tim was up in Fort McMurray on his business trip (he returned on the 10th), I tried to complete a photo scavenger hunt he created for me to work through so I stay busy and he can get new photos of our boy.
(see the whole list here

Mommy and Calvin’s best artwork (Mommy can help Calvin draw!).
I mis-remembered what the list actually said, so I don’t have a picture of what he drew, but you can be assured that it was a masterpiece!

 

Calvin helping mommy make dinner.

 

Mommy and Calvin reading books.

 

Calvin and mommy upside-down together.

 

Mommy and Calvin wearing some of each other’s clothes.
Yes, I am giving him bunny ears while wearing his socks on my fingers.

 

Now if only he would appreciate the fun to be had when we do these things. Truthfully, the extent of our hang out time normally is me showing him how a truck can roll along the floor, and him showing me that he would prefer to eat it.

How do YOU play with a baby who doesn’t know how to interact with toys and books yet?

SH – A Visit with Aunty Michelle

While Tim is up in Fort McMurray on his business trip, I am completing a photo scavenger hunt he created for me to work through so I stay busy and he can get new photos of our boy.
(see the whole list here

Calvin getting a shoulder ride from Auntie Michelle.

Last Thursday Tim’s sister, Michelle, flew in for a visit over the long weekend. It was looking like Tim might have been gone for the whole time, but he was able to finish the work up North and fly back down to join us on Saturday. I don’t have many pictures from her visit, but I did get the one I needed to check one off the list!

We had a good visit, with the exception of the two of us girls getting the flu and being rendered useless all day Monday. But I think I am pretty much back to normal, and hopefully she is too!

I also have to share my experience with picking her up when she arrived.
The day before she flew in, Edmonton got a pretty major snow storm and no clean up had happened between then and Thursday late evening when her plane was scheduled to arrive. The parent’s of friends of hers offered to pick her up and have her stay with them the first night since they lived fairly close to the airport and that meant I didn’t have to drive there in the middle of the night with Calvin. What a great idea!
So the next morning I got the address and directions from Michelle. The address was pretty remote, but Google pulled it up when I typed it in. However it didn’t match the directions Michelle gave me, so I kinda winged it. Google’s directions ended up to be completely incorrect, and Michelle’s directions looked to me like it was not quite right compared to what Google showed me, so I was completely lost. I stopped at a coffee shop and some guy looked up the address for me again, and found it! So I drove there (on a completely remote township road with tons of snow…don’t worry, it wasn’t slippery, and I stayed in control of my car the whole time), but I ended up at the end of the road at the banks of a lake before I got the house that matched the address.
I called Michelle and she looked it up and directed me from there. However, the road numbers she saw were differently named at the place I was, so I went out of my way yet again and made another call when it looked like I would be going way farther than I thought I should be. Here is a map that maybe makes it all clearer.

1: Where Google told me it was (makes sense – close to the airport)
2: Where the coffee shop guy showed me it was
3: Where it really was (not quite as close to the airport as I was expecting – maybe “close” means something different in more remote places)
The highlighted portion is where I drove. Not shown is another exit further north I took then got back on the highway.

So what should have taken me half an hour took about an hour and a half, but we made it there safe and sound!

Thanks for coming, Michelle!

SH – A Visit with Jordan and Amy

While Tim is up in Fort McMurray on his business trip, I am completing a photo scavenger hunt he created for me to work through so I stay busy and he can get new photos of our boy.
(see the whole list here

Calvin beating up Uncle Jordan.

This morning Calvin and I went to the church that Tim’s brother, Jordan, attends. Afterwards we were invited over for lunch with Jordan and Amy. Of course things got a little out of control.

First, Calvin punched Uncle Jordan in the face…

…then he pinned him to the ground!

But of course he only had kind smiles for Amy.

SH – Calvin in the Snow

While Tim is up in Fort McMurray on his business trip, I am completing a photo scavenger hunt he created for me to work through so I stay busy and he can get new photos of our boy.
(see the whole list here

Calvin making a snow angel in his snow suit.

On Thursday is snowed what I consider a good amount. Probably between 4 and 6 inches. It is supposed to warm up in the next couple days, so before it disappeared, I thought I should get Calvin out there for his first real experience in the white fluff. He was incredibly emotionless and motionless the entire time. 

Photo Scavenger Hunt

Tim decided to make me a photo scavenger hunt to keep myself busy while he is away, and probably also so he could get more photos of Calvin. :)

UPDATE: Not all the items got completed for a couple good reasons. One, I got busy with meeting up with people (yay!), and two, Tim came home a little bit earlier than expected (YAY!).

Here is the list he came up with:

  • Calvin making a snow angel in his snowsuit (completed)
  • Calvin and mommy sharing an ice cream cone
  • Mommy and Calvin wearing some of each other’s clothes (completed)
  • Calvin and mommy upside-down together (completed)
  • Calvin shovelling the driveway
  • A walk in the park
  • Calvin and Max going for a ride
  • Mommy and Calvin’s best artwork (Mommy can help Calvin draw!) (completed)
  • Calvin helping mommy make dinner (completed)
  • Calvin talking to Oma on the phone or Skype
  • PARTY TIME!!!
  • Calvin talking to Grandma on the phone or Skype
  • Go, Canucks, go! (A photo that represents this idea.)
  • Calvin and Mommy meeting Wayne Gretzky’s statue at Rexall Place
  • Calvin and Mommy playing video games together. (Bonus point if it isn’t on the iPad!)
  • Calvin making a new friend
  • Mommy and Calvin reading books (completed)
  • Calvin beating up Uncle Jordan (completed)
  • Calvin getting a shoulder ride from Auntie Michelle (completed)
  • Mommy and Calvin’s funniest faces!
So over the next week or more, I will be completing these tasks. The snow related ones will probably have to be done in the next couple days since it looks like it will be warming up. But these all sound like fun things to do and will keep me busy and some will get me out of the house! I think it will be fun!

A photo of us on our road trip honeymoon, just ’cause I miss him.