Kristine's Baby Adventures: A much needed update of our life

Hello all! I hope you have time to read this one. Well, skim through some pics of what we have been up to in the past few weeks. It's been really hard to put aside some time to blog recently. I finally decided to do it tonight at 12:05 in the morning (yes, that is the time I found to do it). I left Mark to party with his friends at a wedding we went to tonight, and I came home to an already asleep Micah...so I figured might as well blog!

Things will be better starting next week. My best friend Angele has decided to look after Micah for a full day once a week so I can go and do some work. This way he gets an Auntie Angele to look after him who love him so much!(Micah you are so lucky!)and I get to go out, do some web work and have a little Krissy time. Phew! this is so great! it will allow me to have some balance in my life. I can now have some nights to relax and spend time with my family, and yet still work on my business. Thank you Angele! you save me once again :) We appreciate you so much!

As for business, all I can say is I have a lot more appreciation and respect for people that own a business. It is soooo freakin hard! yet so much more rewarding. Hard in a way that you have to constantly promote yourself, make sure your clients are happy and constantly be thinking about how to make your business better. I now am starting to sleep less but what's new?! I am learning so much right now it is mind bogling. I like it though, it challenges me everyday...I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I didn't have something to do.

As for my little warrior, he is at a fun stage right now that I am loving every single minute that I spend with him. We have a routine for this phase of his life. He wakes up at 7:30 but I usually let him play in his crib until 8. Then I go and change him, give him his bottle and he checks out all of his books for 1/2 hour. We then try to wake up Mark but he always ends up sleeping in! When do I get to do that Marky? After that we head downstairs to have breakfast as a family. That is our everyday morning routine. I am so thankful that I get to spend it just like this. I wouldn't change it for the world. The great thing about having your own business is you get to set the time you work during the day. For Mark he usually starts around 10:30...for me I usually start when Micah is in bed. But that will change starting next week. yay!

Some Micah milestones. He is my little running man! yes! chasing after Cassy and squealing at the same time. He will do this for at least 1/2 hour every day and getting better at it too. Now that he has figured out how to run, it has resulted to a lot more tumbles and harder falls. He got the biggest fattest lip we've ever seen. He was running in front of our house yesterday and fell hard on the pavement. Mark and I felt soooo bad! There was so much blood that we totally forgot everything else but to take him inside and comfort him. I thought he broke his nose because he was kind of breathing funny when he was asleep. Mark reassured me that it was his snore but paranoid me didn't quite believe him. Anyway, he is doing much better today. Just a few scratches on his chin and upper lip and a really really big fat lower 'w'ips.

He is talking a lot more. He can say the word 'show' very well and it sounds soooo cute! I love it!

His tantrums are getting better. I think he is becoming so smart about it but I am smarter :) He's got this thing where he whines and wants me to pick him up. My trick recently that I found and works is that whenever he does that, I will just stoop down to his level and asks him what he wants. He then gives me a hug or touches me and then he is off to see something else. Everytime he does that, I kneel down and let him know that I'm still here. And I am so proud that it is actually working for me. We are trying to not pick him up everytime he does that.

With the weather being so hot, he and I are loving spending time in places where there is water. Either the pool, spray park or the river by Stanley park. We have become quite regulars at these places. Micah loves the water no matter how cold it is or how cold he gets. We are looking forward to our trip to the Philippines this winter. November 26 is our tentative date that we have picked to leave cold Calgary...woohoo! I can't wait!

Ok, ok...as promised here are some pics from what we've been up to in the past weeks. Enjoy!

He loves the park!