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We have Teeth!

Nicholas has started showing his pearly whites! His first tooth popped through late last week, and his second one followed this past Tuesday. He’s been playing with them with his tongue and I have even seen him playing with them with his fingers.

The little guy is growing up right in front of us. It truly is amazing how fast he starts doing stuff once he does it the first time. He’s turning off lights for us now, playing with all kinds of toys and really gets entranced by Kids CBC, especially Lunar Jim. On Sunday morning me and Siobhan watched “Just Friends” from start to finish with Nicholas sitting on the floor playing with his toys and talking to us. His evenings are still a little tough as we have so much to do after we get off of work and he usually starts getting tired around 7pm. We try to get him into the bath at that time, give him a little play time in the water and then feed him some cereal and a bottle of milk before he hits the sack. When he does get to bed we don’t usually hear anything out of him until around 7 to 8 the next morning. Even then he just wakes up and plays with his feet until we get him and we are always greeted with a big smile.

Siobhan went back to work on the 6th of November and her mother is babysitting both Nicholas and his cousin Brayden. Things are going great, Brayden really seems to love his little cousin and plays well with Nicholas.

I also have some Halloween pictures up in the Gallery. check them out here.

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How not to four wheel drive!

Danny, Danny, Danny.

When are you going to learn how to drive according to the conditions?

🙂

Rene

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Happy Halloween

Nicholas
Click the picture for some new pictures of Nicholas!

Pumpkins
Here’s our pumpkins! Me and Siobhan spent an hour or so the other night carving them. We then lined the openings with parchment paper and stuck in a coil of red led rope lights that we have for christmas. Looks really nice and no flame to worry about!

Later

Rene

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This is a good one for all the parents out there

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Someone emailed me this and I thought I’d share it with whoever reads my blog. I don’t know who put this together, but someone has a great mind to think of all this!

Enjoy!
Rene

P.S. Click the picture!

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Hey, what happened to my movie?

I had a phone call this past weekend while we were doing our Christmas shopping in St. John’s. My sister Gwen called us to tell us some news. The night before, Gwen, Darren and their two children were in an accident. They hit water and hydroplaned across the Trans Canada Highway, near Norris Arm. Darren almost managed to recover when they hit the dirt shoulder and the truck hooked in and stared rolling. They figure they rolled three times. Gwen can remember the first time she saw the ground through her window, then the next time the window broke. The third time the mirror smashed off. The truck stopped, in the ditch, on all four wheels. Gwen checked to see if everyone was all right and her son’s first comment was, “Hey, what happened to my movie?”

Everyone was fine. They all walked away from the crash with minor bumps and scratches. It makes me sick to think of what could have happened, and how lucky they were. They are out a truck, but they are all fine… and Darren’s excited about getting a new truck now! Too bad he can’t wait until the New Tundra is out in 2007. Judging by how their truck survived and how they all came out of this I am seriously thinking about the new Toyota Tundra for us when our lease is up!

Rene

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Interesting Video

I thought this was quite an interesting video…

Rene

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Another Nicholas Video

You never know what will come out of your child’s mouth!

Enjoy!
Rene

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Pics of the war and Marijuana in Afghanistan

I was just sent a link to a Yahoo! news story about 10 foot Afghan marijuana plants and I figured I would let people see some more from Afghanistan. Siobhan’s childhood friend Dwayne is over there now and his family setup a small site with some pics, including some large marijuana plants.

Go here to view!

Enjoy!
Rene

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A couple of Videos

Thought I’d put a couple more videos online.
Here’s Nicholas enjoying Dancing!

And me on a trampoline.

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Wedding Pictures

I finally have some updated pictures on my blog. We had a bunch of weddings this past summer and with the little guy around it has been hard to get some pictures online. Last night I took an hour or so and uploaded a bunch.

The first wedding was Donald and Natasha. We couldn’t stay around too long as we only had a babysitter for a few hours. I only got a few pictures at this wedding.

The second wedding we went to was Quentin and Judy’s. These pics were uploaded a while ago but I forgot to post about them. Congratulations guys. I wish I had more pics, but I left the camera home for the wedding ceremony, which was outdoors and really nice.

The third wedding we went to was Tim and Chrissy’s. They got married down South and came home to celebrate. They had a reception at the Vancor on Thursday night and a party at the Kelly Ranch the next night. It was a good time.

The Saturday night following Tim and Chrissy’s party we were also invited to another wedding reception. Kevin and Dena also got married down South and then came home to party. Unfortunately we never got to make it to this reception as we were pooped from the last two nights and we had to leave town early the next morning. I dropped over and chatted with Kevin for an hour or so before the reception started. They had the Legion decorated with palm trees and everything. I think we missed a good time, but those are the sacrifices you have to make sometimes. Kevin and Dena came by our house the following week after we had got back home and visited for a while.

In August we had another wedding. Craig and Andrea came home from Alberta and got married. We hauled our camper to St. Alban’s and set up in the Legion parking lot for this one. It was pretty convenient having a bed and a fridge in the parking lot of the reception. Thanks to the people living next to the legion for letting us use their electricity!

Our last wedding of the year was Danny’s and Angel’s. This was a big one for us as it was held in Grand Falls-Windsor and I was standing for Danny. Siobhan was also asked to stand but had to turn it down as we figured it would be difficult for us both to be standing while having a five month old with us. It was a nice wedding. The pictures came out nice with the fall colors in the background. Unfortunately we all almost froze while getting them taken. It was cold and a little windy. The reception was perfect for us as our room was about a 30 second walk from the reception and it made it really easy to look after Nicholas and to take turns between watching our boy and being at the dance.

Congratulations everybody! And just a little advance notice to anybody who might be reading… Siobhan and I have a date set for our wedding as well. August 2nd, 2008. There will be more details on this in the near future as we figure out how we are doing it and where!

Rene