TAPS!

We went to TAPS today. I have no idea what the acronym means, well I forget. T stands for toddler. It's basically a playgroup at a family resource centre on the base. It was a ton of fun. We did a craft (an ornament with Jake's hand prints), well, it's more like hand smudges. Jake wasn't impressed with getting paint on his hands, he preferred to paint with the brush.

There were a bunch of kids. Jake is nice with most of them, he still plays independently though, but sometimes interacts with the others. He loved the toy car they had, he had a blast going in and out.

There was chocolate croissant, Jake feasted on his. He had a face full of chocolate at the end. It was pretty funny.

As for me? I'm really happy to get to meet other moms and have another activity on my social calendar. Everyone was really nice, and I had a good time.

Jacob and his teddy bear!

Monday is daycare day! He did great again today, he didn't even want to leave, he was having too much fun playing with his toys. He also wanted to bring home a toy phone, but that wasn't happening!

My friend Michelle came over this afternoon. We used to swim on the swim team together back in Greenwood about 10 years ago. Her dad is here and she's visiting for three months, we met up at the gym one morning. Jake loved her! He kept playing with her hat, it was pretty funny. Also, Michelle took Jake's Teddy Bear and was shaking his head to say "no", well Jake thought that was absolutely hilarious. He kept shaking his head, and then just laughing and laughing and laughing. I didn't really get it on camera, and unfortunately, I don't seem to be as good at the game. He doesn't laugh as hard for me.

I made Louisiana Chicken Pasta from Annie's Eats for supper: http://annies-eats.com/2009/07/10/louisiana-chicken-pasta/. It was pretty good. A tiny bit too spicy for Jake, but he ate his whole plate, though his eyes were a little watery. Oops. He did eat a ton of blueberries for dessert to make up for it!

Here are some pictures from today:





I have more pictures, but it took me almost two hours to upload those four. My dad is also using the internet, and he's stealing some of the signal!

Sleepy Sunday

The heating in this house is a little wonky, plus, we don't control it, the landlord does and he's a little grinchy about it. The result? Jake's room is FREEZING. He's been getting up earlier and earlier lately, and I think it's partly because he's cold. My dad bought and installed a heater for his room yesterday. The result? Success! Jake let me sleep until 830am, and his room was toasty warm when I went to get him.

It was really cold today, snowy, very windy, definitely an indoor day. We watched the Christmas classics in the morning: How the Grinch stole Christmas, Frosty the Snowman and a Muppet Christmas Carol. Jake liked the Grinch, but was pretty indifferent about the rest of them.

After a nice long nap, we played for the rest of the afternoon. It was nice. Jake loves his mega blocks and he also loves when I push him really fast on his truck. He also loves to play under the snack table, it's pretty funny.

Snowworld

Today was a busy busy day! Perhaps a tad bit too busy for Jake.

We dropped my brother off at Snowworld, it was my first time there. It was a pretty neat place. It's an indoor ski/snowboard hill. It's like a mini resort, they even have a hotel.

Then we went shopping and grocery shopping at the American Base. We had lunch at Burger King. Jake ate a whole chicken nugget kids meal, then still asked for more after he was done.

We didn't get home until after 3pm. Jake has done fine skipping his nap and sleeping in the car before, but not today. I think there was too much coming and going and he was pretty cranky for the rest of the afternoon. He went to bed early tonight, and was visibly exhausted.

Here are some pictures from Snowworld.

Wing night!

The first Friday of every month is wing night at the Canadian Legion. I went with my dad while Andrew and his friend Katrina babysat Jacob.

I had three glasses of wine. Delightful.

That's all.

Jake was good. Here are a few pictures.

Yawn! Yawn! Yawn!

It's going to be early to bed...for me!

Jake always wakes up just before 7am, but he normally babbles and stays in his crib happily until 8am. Not this morning!! We were up yelling at 630am, I tried to bring him to bed with me to get some extra sleep, I even gave him my ipod to entertain him, but it was a no go.

We had fun playing this morning. We spent the day inside, it's freezing inside, so imagine how cold it is outside! Brrr!!! Jake spent most of his morning spreading his toys all over the the living room.

Then on top of having an early wake up call, Jake barely napped for an hour! I didn't even have time to get supper ready! Good thing he's pretty good at playing by himself while I'm in the kitchen, he does hang around the gate asking for food a lot!

Jake has also been enjoying his baths lately...he likes to splash. A lot!

Anyhow, it's time for me to go to bed early tonight! We have a big day tomorrow, it's daycare day.

Here are some random pictures from today. Do you like his belly shirt? LOL! I guess he's really outgrowing the 12 month clothes!

Time flies!

We've been in Germany for one month. I can't believe how fast time flies. We've settled into a pretty good routine.

Jake has been getting into a drawer in the dining room, he knows he's not suppose to. He actually says "no! no! no!", then goes into it. I've started redirecting him away from it, and I sit him against the wall in the living room. Well, I think he gets the picture since he's starting going to the drawer, opening it, closing it, saying "no, no, no", then he goes and puts himself against the wall.

Then repeat, repeat, and repeat for at least half an hour. It actually got pretty amusing.