Shovel

Oh I just love this picture. Adrian looks so grown up and handsome... straight off the pages of the Sears catalogue. (-: He loves to shovel the deck and has been known to get quite upset if his 'shovelling' (which consists of pushing a shovel around the deck) is cut short. I am guessing his obsession probably stems from the fact that his Daddy has been seen with a shovel so often lately. This picture is what happens when you take the shovel away:

We went to visit the latest addition to the Boyle family at the hospital today. Mommy and baby Adam are both doing great. He sure is cute and I forgot that they came out that small (although to be fair Adrian was a 9 pounder and never that small). It sure put some perspective on how much my 'baby' has grown. Adrian wasn't too keen on me holding the baby.... uh oh... I hope this isn't a sign of what is to come. I have to admit that being in the hospital and holding that sweet little guy gave me a tinge of baby fever! What is it about us girls? Jamie claims he was unaffected by the whole visit but I left the hospital longing for a newborn!

Monkey See Monkey Do

Sorry for the blogging hiatus but Adrian has had a bad dose of the flu. Coupled with teething he requires a lot of TLC these days.

The funny thing I have noticed about Adrian lately is he is starting to try to copy everything Jamie and I do. (uh oh... we have to be on our best behaviour now!) I am going to enjoy the fact that he thinks Mommy is cool while it lasts!

Whenever I brush my teeth he has to as well. (All I hear is 'teehhh, teehh' until he gets his tooth brush)

He is obsessed with wearing our shoes.

I thought this was funny because we were eating breakfast and he saw me eating my eggs on my toast and now he insists on eating that way too. He is trying to get the egg to stay on his toast in this picture. (He also says cheese whenever I take a picture now... not sure where that came from!)

And household chores just seem like so much fun when you are one. Too bad the novelty wears off!

Future Olympian 2024

What a great weekend we had. Sunday nights always come far too quickly. The highlight of our weekend was that we finally made it to gymnastics at Kingswood. They have an open pre-school session on Saturday afternoons where the little tykes can just run and jump and play for a whole hour. It was great, made even better by the fact that Grammy Underhill came too.

Adrian was hesitant at first. The facility is huge, full of strange apparatus and very energetic kids, most of whom were older and faster than Adrian. At first he was rather timid and couldn’t be coaxed to play on anything for very long. But then he saw an older boy (and by older I mean 3) hanging from a bar and he went over to the boy’s Dad and said ‘Up, Up!’ So we got him up there and he actually hung on his own for a few seconds at a time. After that he was on fire and wanted to play with everything as quickly as possible. We only had about 15 minutes left at that point and he was very upset when Mommy had to pull him out of the foam pit to go. We will definitely be going back on another Saturday now that he has the hang of it.

The four of us got outside for a sled ride this afternoon. It is amazing how the fresh winter air tires out both Adrian and Barkley. When we got back Adrian went in the shed with Jamie to put his sled away and he didn’t want to leave. He just stood in there and looked around for the longest time. Looks like he is his father’s son in this regard!