Happy Anniversary

Because things just got really busy again and because of all the excitement tomorrow will bring I thought that we'd better post this tonight.

Happy Anniversary Grandpa and Grandma Bain!

Bazooka - The fish with one less fin

Noticed something strange floating in Bazooka's bowl this week - his dorsal fin! I'm not sure how it came off but it's off. Bazooka was still happily swimming around, taking the occassional nibble on it. YUCK! Calum, Dakota and I cleaned his bowl and gave him some real food. He seems OK and if you didn't know it was missing he looks normal. Now that I think about it I didn't check on him this morning.....better be off.

Blue, Blue

Blues Clues - Calum thinks that it should be on 24 hours a day. Sometimes he'll wake up a couple of hours after I put him to bed and demand "Blue". He wants to get up for a little late night tv. The funny thing is that we don't actually own any of those DVDs. We rent them and every week he will pick one of the two that are his favorite. Imagine watching the same 4 episodes, every day, numerous times a day for weeks. I can honestly say I hope that he gets over this phase quickly. It's my fault though because I wanted him to watch it at first because they do a lot of signing.

What ever happened to Sesame Street? At least that show has variety.

We don't know what the weekend plans are yet. I have some documents that should be arriving today so I expect I will be busy with some database work. I'm almost finished my small project for my Band - still a few glitches to work out and some report templates to design. Hope you all have a good weekend.

Mine!

Calum is still trying to learn the concept of sharing. Unfortunately he's still in the "everything is mine" stage. He's taken to pushing the other kids at daycare away if he feels they are too close to anything he considers his. I see this in the mornings when I go to drop him off and spend some time settling him in. Today, nobody else was allowed to play with the Thomas trains. I consistently tell him that he has to share, that he can't push other kids, that he has to be nice but he's still testing the boundaries. Hopefully he'll learn not to do this soon.

I've decided to start the potty training over Christmas break. He's almost ready now. Last night before our bath he was running around the bathroom naked as I got the tub ready. It was only about 2 minutes and I turned around and caught him peeing! He knew what he was doing and proudly pointed it out to me. Once before he stood up in the bath and happily did the same thing. That little stinker.

The girls are doing well. Desiree is working a lot these days - nothing like retail to take advantage of cheap labour. Dakota is supposed to be going gliding this weekend for Air Cadets - if she manages to get a permission form before the weekend. She's been especially forgetful about things like notices, forms, and letters lately. I think that she had the form she needed last week but lost it and forgot to get a new one this week. Don and I have told her that it is her responsibility to get the form so we'll see if she follows through. I've also told her to get a new form for parent teacher interview requests. She "lost" that one too but I may just pop across the street this morning and get a new one.

Interim reports went out yesterday and happily Dakota is doing much better so far this year. I want to talk to a couple of her teachers about their comments though. Desiree reported she is doing well but I didn't see her report.

Calum has a Halloween party on Monday night. Last year he cried and we had to leave early. This year I think he'll be more excited. They've decorated the daycare and he loves showing it all to me. He also likes pumpkins. They've got a bunch for them to play with and he is always carrying the little ones around.

Calum and Dakota on the Beach

Exploring the Alleys of Vancouver

OK, so it was just up the street from Don's office. The alley was painted this year and we thought it would be a good place to take some photos. Unfortunately, there were people sleeping there and it smelled like pee. So, we took some quick shots and made our way to Starbucks. Calum mostly liked looking for birds and getting attention from the other people walking in the alley.

Happy Belated Birthday to Papa

Calum wrote a very special message for his Papa. His birthday was on the 19th.

The Calum Pumpkin

Finished carving my foam pumpkin. It was pretty quick to do. It isn't as detailed as I had planned, mainly because I'm missing a part for my project saw and couldn't use the smaller bits. Oh well, at least you can tell it's Calum.

Coy Bain came into this world a 6:50 PM on October 14, 2006 at 8 pounds 3 ounces

One proud Dad

He's my boy

One proud family

Peaceful

He has the hands of a wide receiver...Superbowl 2026?

His little foot

Coy with his Uncle Don

Auntie Angie remembers when Calum was this small

Desiree with her new cousin

Dakota with her new cousin

A niece or nephew on the way

Just heard from Don. My sister-in-law has gone into labor. There may be a trip to Comox in our weekend plans!