Playground Love

It’s someone’s first birthday today.

One year ago, we finally got to meet our little dude on April 17, 2011. Callum Rhys Maxom-Wiebe came charging out into the world with his arm raised above his head.

What a roller coaster this first year has been. You have taught me patience, humility, greater compassion, and unconditional love. I have cried so much, but through that you have taught me to slow down, smile and then finally, to laugh again. I have learned so much from you about myself and have grown to be a better person and parent because of you. Even though you have physically exhausted me to a point beyond reason, our early morning starts are exciting. Your smile, your excited gurgle and your vigorous crib rail shaking awaits my arrival. I pick you up and bring you into bed for an early morning cuddle (one of the only times you allow this) and try to prolong the good, warm, sleepy feelings for as long as possible. Once you are done nursing, you tell me you’ve had it and want to get moving. You are active and have a mind of your own. You are stubborn, but deliberate and methodical. You are easy going but strong willed. You are precious. You are ours. We are a family.

Happy Birthday Bubba Cub

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March is over, thank goodness. We’ve been all sorts of sick and are now back on our feet. This post will be a big photo dump of everything we’ve been up to, from spring break on.

The carousel at the Village Museum

Over spring break we went to the Burnaby Village Museum and enjoyed all sorts of old-timey stuff. I’d been holding off going, because I thought it would be hokey- but it was just the thing to cure the boredom and stuck-at-home doll drums we’ve been in! A was super excited about the carousel but  was quite freaked out once we got there. It goes really fast and the horses are quite high so the first few rides were spent on the sleigh bench. We eventually worked our way up to the stationary mini-horses just right for toddlers.

This inspired me to dig out a pop-out book that my Aunt S gave to me when I was really young. Amina enjoyed it and added some of her own modern day dollhouse furniture to it along with critters and dolls.

I’m usually not surprised when Amina picks out books from the library because they tend to be quite predictable (cowgirls wearing boots, etc). One book tends to stand out for both of us though and it’s Traction Man. This book is geared towards little boys which follows an action hero saving everyday objects from around the house, but who has a special action hero outfit for every adventure.  Amina is quite enamoured with him. We found a printable pdf to turn Traction Man into a physical two-dimensional dress up doll. A match made in heaven. Here’s how it turned out:

Can I tell you how awesome it is when kids can use scissors on their own?

Art, art and more art.

Amina going on an Easter egg hunt.

This is C’s first art too! He’s been watching (and eating A’s markers) and now wants to have a go. So fun! I put some side walk chalk out and got him to pound on the blackboard. Looking forward to more art firsts with him!

Happy April!

xok