Thursday, December 25, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
It's official
Xavier is now fully weaned. It's been a week now since he's last had breast milk. It was his decision, he weaned himself, so there you go.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
Baby "it's cold out there" is an understatement!
The past couple of days its been -43 degrees out here with the windchill. Brrrrrrrr.
Okay so there are a lot of things to chat about.
On December 3, we went to "Village du Pere Noel" (Santa's Village) at the CCFM (Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain). It's was awesome. They really did a great job putting everything and the kids really enjoyed themselves (except when Emma ran away from Santa Claus).
There were three different areas to the Village. The first was different songs and games. The second area was where Santa was hanging out. The last area was where Mrs. Claus was, the kids each enjoyed a yummy sugar cookie and a play about the three little pigs which was hilarious! So well done.
Since that day, we've just been busy getting some last minute things ready for Christmas and I still can't get over that people actually do all their Christmas shopping in December. I try to avoid the malls as much as possible as Christmas approaches.
I had my office team lunch last week. It was interesting. We had our lunch in a restaurant located in the Club Regent Casino. It was noisy with all the slot machines around and the food was just okay, but I had a good time anyway.
On Thursday we had a pre-Christmas dinner at Dayspring, which had an international flare.
The food was so good, that Richard felt compelled to take a photo of his plate!
One important thing to mention is my old roommate from Chimo (where I lived as a live-in in L'Arche) Ruth is visiting from Germany! I had no idea and was surprised.
On Saturday we had our annual community Pageant and Christmas dinner. They had the pageant before the supper this year, which made the evening seem a little longer for me. All in all however it was a good night, Emma and Xavier both danced. The only bad part from that evening, was that before supper Xavier was suffering some constapation. He finally was able to poop before dinner, but it was hard and hurt him a little. Poor little guy. He's doing much better now, thank God!
I'm looking forward to the Christmas break and hopefully taking some extra time off to make up for the business of the last couple of weeks.
Okay so there are a lot of things to chat about.
On December 3, we went to "Village du Pere Noel" (Santa's Village) at the CCFM (Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain). It's was awesome. They really did a great job putting everything and the kids really enjoyed themselves (except when Emma ran away from Santa Claus).
There were three different areas to the Village. The first was different songs and games. The second area was where Santa was hanging out. The last area was where Mrs. Claus was, the kids each enjoyed a yummy sugar cookie and a play about the three little pigs which was hilarious! So well done.
Since that day, we've just been busy getting some last minute things ready for Christmas and I still can't get over that people actually do all their Christmas shopping in December. I try to avoid the malls as much as possible as Christmas approaches.
I had my office team lunch last week. It was interesting. We had our lunch in a restaurant located in the Club Regent Casino. It was noisy with all the slot machines around and the food was just okay, but I had a good time anyway.
On Thursday we had a pre-Christmas dinner at Dayspring, which had an international flare.
The food was so good, that Richard felt compelled to take a photo of his plate!
One important thing to mention is my old roommate from Chimo (where I lived as a live-in in L'Arche) Ruth is visiting from Germany! I had no idea and was surprised.
On Saturday we had our annual community Pageant and Christmas dinner. They had the pageant before the supper this year, which made the evening seem a little longer for me. All in all however it was a good night, Emma and Xavier both danced. The only bad part from that evening, was that before supper Xavier was suffering some constapation. He finally was able to poop before dinner, but it was hard and hurt him a little. Poor little guy. He's doing much better now, thank God!
I'm looking forward to the Christmas break and hopefully taking some extra time off to make up for the business of the last couple of weeks.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Happy 4th birthday Sebastien!!
Today is Sebastien's 4th birthday. Our wish for him is that he can finally receive new kidneys. He almost received the surgery earlier this month, but was not able to get them at the last minute. We pray the next year can finally bring to Sebastien excellent health and back living here in Winnipeg amongst family and friends. We pray for you and celebrate your 4th birthday you cute little monkey!!
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Xavier's first trip to the emergency
Monday morning Xavier came to visit me while I was busy in the washroom. Somehow he lost his footing, fell forward and hit his head on the corner of the base board heater. The gash on his forehead did not look good. Richard was able to stay home with Emma as I rushed Xavier to Children's emergency.
After waiting for 3 hours, Xavier was finally seen. The doctor felt Xavier's gash was small enough that it didn't require stitches, instead, he put glue on the wound.
Everything is back to normal now, but what a way to start the week!
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