Our October

Callum turned 3 on the 19th. He now totally gets birthdays. He had 3 parties, one with family on the 17th while Mimi was visiting from Bedford, QC, one at daycare on the 19th and then the kids party on the 24th, and today thinks that Halloween is his birthday too! We got rained out for his pumpkin patch party but Colin and I created a pumpkin patch in the garden instead with 18 med. sized pumpkins. The kids came over and to let them blow off steam we setup a little floor hockey down in the garage.

Toilet training is getting closer to being successful. Number 2 is still hit or miss but think it's getting closer to hit! Number 1 is hit most of the time now. Getting there!

Lucas is officially crawling. That took him 3 weeks from his commando crawl to crawling all the time. About a month earlier than Callum. I am sure Callum helped encouraging him to crawl sooner. Lucas is just so interested in what his big brother is doing and wants to do the same! Not sure Callum is all that happy when Lucas reaches up to pull down his train track!

Lucas's two top front teeth are now threw. About a month and half sooner than when Callum cut his.

On Sunday we put them together in the same room. So far it's going really well. Just had to change story time to the living room as Lucas is down at around 7 pm and that's when we start reading stories to Callum. Callum is down around 7:30 pm. Callum is still napping at daycare when he is up at 7 am but during the weekends when he usually sleeps longer the nap has been dropped. Lucas naps about twice a day for only 30 mins. Once at around 10 am and again at around 2 pm. Hoping these will get longer as he gets older.

Lucas attempted to climb the stairs this morning. Wow, here goes the baby gate for the staircase going up to the third floor!

I have started bringing Lucas to Gymboree Play and Learn. He is just as engaged in the circle as Callum was. Callum is such a good listener at circle time. I hope Lucas is the same.

Callum went off to daycare this morning as a fireman. Added a mustache with a brown lip pencil I had. He wasn't totally keen on it. For the past couple of days he has changed his mind about his costume. On Wed. it was a dragon and then yesterday he wanted to be a 'nice baa baa (sheep)'. Mmm. Fireman was much easier! I will stop by daycare at around 11:45 am with Lucas to take pictures. I have a pumpkin hat for Lucas and a witches hat for me. We will both wear orange!

Colin is off to Orlando Florida next week for a conference. I will be a single Mum all week. Eek!