School days

Calum is going to be a school boy! Well, sort of. We just heard today that he has finally got a spot in the Burnaby South daycare. On Wednesday we go up to do the paper work, then on Thursday I will try leaving him there for a couple of hours and if that works, we will try to go for a couple more hours on Friday. I don't know if it will be harder on me or Calum. I've really gotten used to our afternoons together. It's also been really nice knowing that while I've been working downstairs, he's been getting a lot of TLC from Grandma Bain. It seems like it will be a good program though - formula, diapers and baby food are included so it sounds like a good deal too. When I'm working from home I'll be able to dash up the hill to rescue him and Desiree and Dakota both go to the school and can be with him in minutes if necessary. Calum the school boy.....our baby is growing up!

Funny though, he seems more like his dad every day. Last night he discovered (all by himself) that if he blew on his arm he could make interesting sounds. I'm just waiting for him to find out he can make the same noise with his armpits. He is curious about everything around him and I always need to watch what he has in his sights. Recently, he has decided that my measuring tape is the neatest thing. It's his newest toy and he will play with it for quite some time. Mind you, he is a baby and can easily be distracted. It's pretty funny to watch him play. If we put him in his exasaucer he usually winds up throwing all his toys in a little circle around him. Poor grandma has spent countless hours picking them up for him only to have him drop them again. He loves things with different textures and is really starting to use his hands to learn about things.

Dakota and I have started our ASL classes. The first one was a lot of fun. Dakota is pretty good. The instructor is deaf and we have all been warned not to talk in class. It's an interesting thing, as we all try to communicate without verbal communication. We played a game where you use gestures to communicate and it was pretty funny. Dakota was great but I caused our team to lose some points because I couldn't figure out a good way to say skeleton!

Calum has had another swimming lesson. He was supposed to try putting his head under water but the last time I tried to get him to blow bubbles in the bath he drank a lot of water so I nixed that idea. We settled for getting his head wet and taking an extra turn "jumping" into the pool. No lesson this week because of Thanksgiving but next time we may try.

Calum is sleeping but I expect he will notice I slipped out on him soon so I'd better sign off and get to a few of the other chores I've put off all day. Have a good week everyone.