Moms Surprise Birthday Party - part two - at the playground

Saturday late morning we took Savannah and Keiran to the playground at the beach. They're still a little small for most of the stuff but had fun anyways. My mom gave Keiran a duck hat that looked really cute on him. It is now officially called the duckman hat.


My little man on the swing. I think it was his favourite part of the playground! Some good drool coming out of his mouth too.


Playing with Savannah on the little turn-around thingy. He liked that part too.

On the teeter-totter. Dave was on the other side with Savannah. Not quite ready for this one yet. He only lasted about a minute on it before he'd had enough.

Moms Surprise Birthday Party - part one

My mom turned 50 this past weekend! Woohoo! My sister decided that my mom needed a surprise party and so we somehow managed to pull it off! I don't know how, but it was great! She knew I was going to be out there (how could I go out for the party and not let her see Keiran as much as possible???!!!) but didn't know about Lindsay and Mike being out there (and the party itself of course).
So anyways, Keiran and I flew half way across the country for the weekend and it was great! He was sooo good on the plane. I had been really worried that the plane ride would be a nightmare but thankfully he managed to keep himself nicely occupied.
Here he is on the day we left (friday), about 10 minutes before we needed to leave for the airport. He didn't get a great nap that afternoon, poor kid. He looked cute when he was sleeping though!


On the plane. The guy you see sleeping in the background was about the nicest man ever! He let Keiran climb all over him and he played with him and was just so good natured. At the stop over in Calgary, he got off the plane and bought Keiran a donut from Timmies. Sooo nice! It turns out that he's the chief of the Air Force squadron in Comox! cool.


Eating and watching TV standing up.

Saturday morning we went out for breakfast with Dave. We had Savannah for the day so the cousins got to hang out together. Keiran sure enjoyed his pancakes that morning!

Keirans latest thing has been to walk around as often as he can with a finger in his bellybutton. He is obssessed with the thing! He loves to lift up his shirt and get tickled and show off the button. In the tub, he'll have one hand on a toy and one on his bellybutton. Too cute!
So here's Daddy with the little monkey:


One of their favourite games to play together:


I think Keiran is almost done with picture face! Now Daddy is the only one to make it!!!!



This kiddo is going to grow up to be a computer nerd like his parents. He is already obssessed with them! He especially loves it when I show him little videos of himself on my computer!

A few random pictures from the past couple of days. Here is cute little Simon sitting on Brians lap. It's been awhile since I've put pictures up that haven't been of Keiran!!!


Taken this afternoon. Maybe he's hinting that we don't give him enough to drink??!! He's actually pretty obssessed with carrying around his bottles whenever he can find them.


Playing in the tub last night. He makes up new games all the time!


On one of his first days of daycare. He is adjusting pretty well but still screams like crazy every time I leave. Poor kid! Poor Laura!!! It's great that he has a few kids to play with every day too. He already says NO! whenever he doesn't want something. Didn't take too long to learn that one!!!

I haven't been able to upload much lately, especially videos. For some reason they just don't want to load so I'll have to stick to pictures for now!
Right before New Years, Keiran got his first major head bump. He was playing a chasing game with Daddy and fell straight into the door jamb. Poor kiddo!!!! Much screaming ensued but about 5 minutes later he was totally fine. Here is the progression of his bump for the first 3 days after it happened.
Day 1: about 10 minutes after the "incident". (you can tell he is totally fine by the appearance of "picture face")


Day 2 at tub time: (what?!?!?!?! "picture face" again?!?!?!?)


Day 3 at St. Vital mall. Unsurprisingly we again get to see "picture face".



Still day 3, just a close up. We would have seen "picture face" if my camera had reacted just a tad quicker!

Our Christmas was fun this year! We spent it at home in Winnipeg and hosted a Christmas eve supper and went to Jeremy and Christines on Christmas day. I meant to go to the zoo on Christmas day but somehow the day disappeared and we ended up not going. Instead, we went yesterday and had a blast, it was a lot warmer than the day before!
The first picture is Keiran after doing a faceplant in the snow at the zoo. He was sooo upset! Next is him right after we picked him out of the snow, it was everywhere, poor kid.



Making his picture face in the stroller. He now does this every time we turn the camera on.

In my brain deadiness I accidentally put Keirans name on the gift from me to Brian but was too lazy to put a new gift tag on it.


Keiran playing with his Maracas from Auntie Karen and Uncle Mike. He has the matching drum, it's lots of fun.


"Uncle" Stephen Cocks got him some cool toys too and he's already having fun with the twirly thing (and by "he" I mean "we" as in mommy and daddy)


His new corn popper thingy. He hasn't played with it too much yet but I'm sure he will soon.


Opening presents with Daddy. They are both wearing their Christmas PJs. We all got new PJs to wear on Christmas day. He actually wasn't all that interested in opening presents, I could barely even get him to rip paper! He was however interested in playing with the toys once they were opened.


Making picture face in his new tunnel tent. He loves this thing! I remember having one when I was a kid and spending a lot of time playing with it and I wanted the same thing for Keiran.


Wrestling with Daddy on Christmas morning. Much fun was had by all!


I know all the pictures are in random order. Sorry for that, it is hard to re-arrange them once they've been downloaded. I'm not sure if it is blogger or my computer that is the problem. Oh well! Videos to hopefully come soon. I'm having an internet problem right now that is preventing me from loading a video so I'm not sure what I'm going to do about it.

It's time for Pukey baby again!!! Brian and I have been looking through a few of our videos from when Keiran was super small, and this is our favourite one. I know that I have it on Youtube and Facebook, but it's just so darn cute and funny that it had to make it over to the blog.
Enjoy watching my son puke!

A couple of videos for fun. Keiran loves to dance and will dance to just about any sound he hears. In the first video he is dancing to the sound of the dishwasher running.

The second video is him making that funny face. He thought I was going to take a picture of him. Too cute.



We are finally on Christmas leave here. It's great to know that we have a few weeks to relax and de-stress! It's been the busiest fall we've had at work in a number of years. I'm looking forward to a few months where there will be no travelling. We are doing a fairly big tour in April, but that's still 4 months away so I'm not thinking of it right now!
The big news I was talking about a few weeks ago?! Here it is: we are moving to Edmonton this summer! We are being posted! It's not completely official yet but it will be very soon. The only thing left to make it official is the posting message, which they will get to us around March 1st, then we can put the house up on the market and then look for a place in Edmonton. (unless we decide to move into a PMQ)
Anyways, that's our big news for now. Change will be good!

Naked baby alert!!!! Tonight he escaped after Brian took his clothes off for the bath and came to the kitchen. Had a good time until daddy took him back to the bathroom for his bath!

The (not so) many faces of Keiran!

This is the face Keiran makes lately when I try to take a picture of him. Super cute!

This is our gingerbread house for this year. I didn't do a great job but it took me about a week to get the whole thing together and finally decorated! We just didn't have time. Of course, I could have waited until this weekend to do it (now that we are finally finished with all 9 Christmas concerts), but that would have been smart. Oh well.

So the first pic, side view. Notice the cyclops snowman, he's a real winner!


Side view from the other direction. Notice the fallen down chimney and the fallen over gingerbread man. Lovely!



Finally a front view. At least it's original somewhat!!! I'm going to enjoy eating the trees over the next few weeks!

Just a few random pics to throw in. Top one is Keiran and I at the Conservatory yesterday.
Next is Brian and Keiran.

Keiran LOVES it when Brian and Hailey carry him around on their backs. He'll go behind them and crawl on and then get upset if they don't pick him up and carry him around! He's changed it over the past few days though to where he'll go behind you and try and push you off the couch. Very amusing.

Our Christmas tree this year. It's our first live one! Also have the china cabinet decorated with all of our stockings (including ones for the cats!)

Keirans first attempt at playing with the Christmas tree. Bad baby. Thankfully, he is never allowed in the living room unattended or I'm sure the tree would have been knocked over by now!




Keiran has recently been sticking his tongue out lots and saying "blather blather", which of course we encourage (again because we are bad parents). We think it's really cute.

Brian and I took Keiran to the Assiniboine Park Conservatory yesterday to see the Festival of Trees and Lights. He really liked looking at the lights strung across the plants. He even walked holding my hand for the first time and Brian caught it on video!
I'm going to put the video on here first and then put up some pictures later. For now I have to run off and get ready for a Christmas concert.

We just got back from a three day trip to Dryden Ontario. I sure missed the little guy while we were gone!!! The trip was the beginning of our two and a half week Christmas concert tour. Brian and I are both doing a little singing and I do a little dancing as well. It's a good show and I'm proud of it but it takes us away from home quite a bit over the next few weeks. I will be happy when it is over!
I will have some big news to announce soon as well (and NO I am not pregnant!).
This video I put up is from this afternoon after Keiran got up from his nap. He does the fake cry thing now when he doesn't get his way. He doesn't like it when we say "Ow!" after he hits us so he always starts to cry. I find it hilarious (because I'm a bad mom). He was a little grumpy in the video but I'm glad I caught him in the slap, ow, cry act because it has us laughing all the time. He is a hitting machine lately though! I hope this phase does not last too long.
On another note, we got our Christmas tree today! It's the first time we've gotten a live tree together! Keiran didn't really like being out in the cold, he cried almost the whole time we were out there. We actually weren't out there very long, we took the first tree we saw, it called to us both! Right now it is in the living room thawing out and dropping needles. I hope to decorate it tomorrow after my orchestra concert.
On another Keiran note, here is a picture of his room when we came home today. He is totally Capt. Destructor. He can trash his bedroom in 2 minutes flat! Which he now does on a daily basis. Sigh.

We've been having a lot of fun lately with Keiran! He now walks a bit, sticks out his tongue and waves hello. I got him waving hello and sort of sticking out his tongue in the first video and we finally got him walking on the second video. Fun times!!!!

Brian and Keiran were having tons of fun today! We were all sitting around the kitchen floor and they started playing a fun game of slapping the floor and stove and giggling. It was great!

Keiran has also taken a few solo steps!!!!! Woohoo!!!! On saturday he took his first two and today we convinced him to take a few more. It's great! I think it will still be a while before he is walking but that's fine with us, we're enjoying the learning part too!

Our little monkey is having a bad day today and only seems to want Mommy. But he did take a small break from his clingyness to play in the dishwasher. It was cute.
Today was a Keiran and Mommy baking day. *we* made whole wheat cinnamon buns, double fudge cookies, butter tarts and we iced some sugar cookies that I made the other day. I'm getting a head start on Christmas baking!





This little video shows a bit of the roughness of Keirans day. Sometimes it's just hard being a baby!