You want what?

After a nice drive today we stopped at Dairy Queen for treats on the way home. Calum saw the freezer with all of the nice cakes and decided he wanted a cake, not a small treat. I guess he remembered his birthday cake and wanted more. Lucky for him, we all like them so on our way out we picked one up. Don't laugh, it's to celebrate the fact that it didn't rain today!

I've almost made it through the work crunch, just another week of year-end things to do and some reports and updates to finish. Once things are back on track blog posts will be a bit more regular.

Also, hope you all have heard the news by now. Don's Band, Lheidli T’enneh, voted no on their treaty ratification. Watch the news in the next few days as everyone has an opinion on what this means for the treaty process.

Better now

Calum's ear infection is gone and he was back at daycare. I saw them all out playing today and noticed Calum teaching Julia how to throw stuff. He seemed very enthusiastic about it and Julia joined right in. They were both waving their arms at each other and jumping up and down. I hope that they didn't hit any of the other kids.

Don got Calum the complete Spiderman DVD set (the old 1967 cartoons). He loves it but keeps wanting to change the DVDs. At least now we won't have to worry about getting up early enough to catch it on tv. Got to go pick him up from "the Old DC (daycare)". We call it the Old DC so he will look at it as a special club - only the lucky kids get to play there. He was very excited about going to the Old DC this morning so I hope he had a good day.

Murphy's Law

Don and I had a very busy Friday, juggling our schedules so that we could take Calum for a hearing test on Friday afternoon. We picked him up from daycare and were getting ready to go out for his appointment when I noticed his ear was draining fluid again. An ear infection! He had been very restless the night before and Don and I got very little sleep as we had to get up and watch cartoons with him. We thought it was a cold but we were wrong.

Luckily, since we were both home anyway we took him to the doctor and got in to see her in record time. I think we were in and out the door in 15 minutes. He's on medication for 10 days and it seems to be helping. He was up at 4:30 today, and I couldn't get him back to sleep till 7:00. It's thrown our whole day off but he seems happier now. All of the kids are off for the week - spring break. Desiree and Dakota are helping with Calum as the last two weeks are busy for both Don and I. Let's hope the rest of the week is a bit better.

Spiderman Gifts

On Monday, Larry and Tabitha dropped by with loads of gifts from the family. Calum was very excited when he saw them pull up in front of the house and he was doing a little dance when he saw them getting stuff out of the car. He noticed his Spiderman chair right away. He got lots of neat stuff and immediately set to work playing with it all. Thanks to Nanny and Papa, Bonnie, Clint, Jen, Nicola and of course Larry and Tabitha. I'll post some more pictures later.

Calum's 2nd Birthday

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday to Calum
I can't believe you're 2!

We had a nice party yesterday at Grandma and Grandpa Bain's house. Coy, Grant and Jen were in town for the weekend so we all had a good visit and enjoyed the Spidey cake (combined for both Des and Calum). Uncle Grant helped Spidey climb the walls, Coy and Calum were measured on the wall, Buddy and Cedar were chased around the house and we all had pizza and cake. Calum wanted to blow out his candles twice so we all had to sing and cheer again. We let him open his presents yesterday (lots of Spiderman stuff) and had a tough time getting him settled down for bed.

Nan called early this morning and wished him a happy birthday then he was off and playing again. We went out for breakfast but Calum wanted to ride the escalators at the mall and visit the animals at the pet store instead. He was busy trying to blow up some balloons and playing with the boxes from his presents this afternoon and we finally got him down for a nap.

I'm sure Calum would agree that it was a very good birthday.

Update

I'm sure many of you have heard about Dakota's snowboarding accident. She went on a school trip to Whistler on Saturday and had a bad fall near the end of the day. We were all very worried about her as she was transported to Children's Hospital where they ran tests and monitored her for awhile. She was kept immobilized till they were sure there was no damage to her back or spine. We are very happy to report she was released from the hospital on Monday night and though she has some stiffness and pain, she'll be fine. She's back at school now and seems to be doing great. She'll have a follow up visit in a few weeks.

Grandpa Bain has suggested she take up a less adventurous past time - something like shopping. I'm trying to think of some way to convince her that helmets and safety gear are really the in thing this year - all of the radtabulous (her word) kids are wearing them.

A nice walk at Mud Bay

Bye Mom

Lately Calum has been great when I drop him off at daycare in the mornings. If his good friend (formerly his fighting buddy) Kiernan is there, he runs in and they start playing right away. If he's not there, Calum will help me fill out the intake form then ease into an activity. As soon as he gets involved in it, he will turn to me and say "Bye mom". I can be in the middle of a conversation with the staff but Calum will keep telling me "Bye" till I go.

Sniff, sniff. I'm so happy my baby is growing up. Really. Can't wait for the eye rolling "Mom, don't embarrass me" phase that I am sure is just around the corner.

Can you believe there is snow outside again? When I showed Calum the snow this morning, he looked out the window and said in a very accusing-type of tone "Snow!" then proceeded to tell me where the snow ought not to be - on the cars, on the lawn, on the sidewalk. Nasty snow. Mostly I think he wants to wear his new Spiderman shoes and doesn't like it when it snows because I make him wear his boots.