Monday, December 31, 2007

I went to the zoo, just the other week....



To mark the last day of 2007 we ventured to the zoo today. Danielle, Morgan and Leah joined us and we even ran into Kim & Griffin while we were there! It was a great day as the animals were not nearly as lethargic as they are in the summer heat and Sebastian was definitely noticing the animals this time. It was neat watching his face as he watched the otters frolicking in the snow and the octopus playing with lego. I made a mental note, as we have a yearly membership and parking is free until March, that we must take more treks to the zoo this season. So, if anyone is up for the adventure give us a shout! The more the merrier!

Happy New Year!
Kim


Sunday, December 30, 2007

Our New Toy Box


For awhile now Sebastian's toys have been taking up our living room. It's taken quite awhile but right before the holidays I began to get irritated by looking at toys 24/7. As a result, Jamie and I took a trek out yesterday afternoon and purchased a beautiful storage bench that not only gives Sebastian's toys a place to go when he's not playing with them, it also makes our living room somewhat adult-oriented too!! The best of both worlds...what more could a mom ask for? =)

Friday, December 28, 2007

May I please have some cheese to go with my whine???


What a holiday! First off, I apologize for not updating the blog sooner... I feel that I missed Christmas this year, which was one of the reasons why I haven't updated the blog until now.

After our eventful night with Sebastian getting sick and my relief that he was ill prior to the holidays, I spent the weekend getting all of us ready to head to "the Farm" (Jamie's parent's) for Christmas. Early afternoon Christmas Eve Jamie was busy packing the car and I was standing in the middle of our living room cuddling with Sebastian, when it happened once again... he vomited! All over himself and me, which included our very nice Christmas Eve clothes!!

I think I stood in the middle of the living room in shock for a bit, hoping that Jamie would come into the house and save me from the mess. It took a bit before I realized that Jamie wasn't going to be coming back into the house anytime soon, so I did the only thing I knew... I plopped Sebastian in the bathtub.....

An hour and a half later, after reassurances that kids get sick and it wasn't a big deal, we were on our way to Paris to the grandparents house to spend our Christmas Eve. Well, I should have gone with my gut instinct and stayed home because that night I started vomiting and was unwell until Boxing Day morning. As a result, I missed Christmas dinner and the Christmas pudding (So if anyone has leftovers they want to send my way let me know!! Ha!) and wasn't able to spend the Christmas that I had envisioned we were going to have as a family.


However, I am not whining (really!). I was able to sit and watch Sebastian open his gifts and play with them...and I know Sebastian had a wonderful time. And Jamie, of course, is my hero - not only did he take care of Sebastian for the entire day he also managed to take care of me too.

Unfortunately whatever it was that we had (I think it was just a nasty ol' stomach virus) it was highly contagious... Seems like it's made it's way through the family and as a result of this we chose to not go down to Fort Erie to spend Christmas with my family until after the New Year. We'll be heading down next weekend so I'll post some pics from that adventure when we return.







Sunday, December 23, 2007




Wishing you and your Family the Happiest of Holidays and All the Best Wishes for a Prosperous New Year!

Love,
Kim, Jamie & Sebastian

What a Night!

Our night started off normal... Sebastian was in bed by 7 p.m. and Jamie and I were looking forward to spending our evening relaxing with some port and wrapping Christmas presents. At approx. 7:15 p.m. Sebastian awakes and is crying quite strongly so Jamie runs upstairs to settle him back down. Jamie calls out for me in a panicked voice so I run upstairs to see Sebastian covered in vomit. Not only is he covered, but there's vomit in the crib, on the crib and even on the floor. Poor guy was quite scared, reasonably so. Jamie and I quickly stripped him down and while I soothed him Jamie was a champ and cleaned up the puke.

Okay, so by now you should be asking yourself, "What is the big deal? It's only puke and why would Kim be blogging about it?" Well you see, for us, it was a big deal. This was Sebastian's first ever big boy puke. He used to spittle a bit as an infant but nothing like what we faced last night. And no sooner had we cleaned him up with fresh pajamas, he puked again! This time all over himself and me! I wasn't actually as grossed out as I thought I would be. I was more focused on reassuring Sebastian that he was okay and cleaning up the mess once again.

Again we stripped him down, got him into fresh pajamas and cuddled. By now he was pretty pale and green, but thankfully he was drinking his water well. I contacted Evelyn, the woman who cares for him while I'm working, as she was ill on Friday and we deduced that he probably picked up a stomach virus. She reassured me that she was fine within 24hrs and since he didn't have a fever and he was drinking his water I knew we just had to wait it out and let things run its course.

In total our little guy got sick 4 times. By then we were able to direct the vomit into the bucket and him and I were both covered in towels as well as a full-sleeve artists smock on Sebastian to help keep our clothes clean. After having some crackers Sebastian finally drifted off to sleep in my arms at 10:15 p.m. We both fell asleep in the chair cuddling and it wasn't until midnight that Jamie woke me up and I placed Sebastian in his crib for the night.

The rest of the night was uneventful and it was nice to see colour in Sebastian's face this morning when he awoke. Which of course was still early at 6:30 a.m. despite not having nearly as much sleep as he normally gets!

But he's in great spirits, there's been no pukeage (is that even a word?) as of yet today and hopefully neither Jamie and I will catch whatever he had! So now we're a little behind on our holiday prep, but that's okay...we've survived our first bout of having a vomiting toddler. And we're just thankful that this little adventure happened now as opposed to Tuesday!

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Spoon!

(And no, to those who know me, this entry isn't about the Tick!)

Wednesday marked Sebastian's 15 month birthday! Happy Birthday! To celebrate I sang Happy Birthday to Sebastian all the way home on Wednesday. It was the only song to which he sung along... If I changed the tune he began to protest, so I kept singing. I'm wondering how long I'm going to keep up celebrating his birthday every month? I have visions of him being 19, away at school and me calling him up on the 19th of each month just to wish him a happy birthday. Let's see...the month after his 19th birthday I'll be wishing him a happy 229th month birthday! Now let's hope I did my math correct there...it's one thing to do poorly in math but another when you're keeping a blog and everyone can see your blunder!

This month I've noticed a marked difference in Sebastian's interactions with other children. He is now approaching them and initiating conversation. Unfortunately, the other children have no idea what he's saying, but he's trying! Sebastian is also attempting to run, which is nerve racking at times, and his vocabulary is growing daily.

The other new nifty thing that our lil' grub is doing is refusing to eat unless he has a utensil. Of course this means mealtimes are now taking longer but it's neat watching Sebastian use a spoon and I'm amazed at how quickly his skills have developed! I even gave him a fork the other night, demonstrating how to use it, and he quickly caught on. The picture below was actually taken from this morning's escapades with his yogurt. He normally doesn't make much of a mess when using the spoon but this pic was too funny not to share!


Check out those teeth!! I don't think I've seen another toddler with such gargantuan teeth!

Side Note: Jamie clarified earlier today that the reason why Sebastian's face was so messy was because he was trying to lick the yogurt out of the cup. So I guess it wasn't his use of the spoon after all! Oh well!

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Our First Hair Cut!!


Sebastian's hair prior to getting it cut. Love the hawk!!

As the title suggests, we braved the snow earlier today and took Sebastian to get his first hair cut! As always, our boy was a champ! He sat still and looked at a book while the hairdresser worked her magic (a.k.a., fixing up mama's uneven bang job!!). It went wonderfully well and we even received a certificate when we were done commemorating the moment. As I had previously cut his hair we didn't take any of his locks home with us. I think there comes a time when saving your kids hair just becomes a tad bit creepy...

Getting ready




Snip-snip-snip




Ta-Da!!


Now if you're wondering why his bangs still look a tad bit uneven it's because the hairdresser "softened" his bangs so they don't look so straight-cut (think of Ralph Wiggum from the Simpsons..that's the look we don't want!).

As for the rest of our day we're going to stay close to home. Sebastian is currently napping, Jamie is in the kitchen perusing cookbooks to commence his holiday baking and I'm sitting here with a hot chocolate and a Tabs at my side. We have instrumental holiday music playing in the background and all I have to say is "let it snow! let it snow! let it snow!"....we have no place we need to go!

Hoping everyone is staying warm,
Kim

Friday, December 14, 2007


For awhile now Sebastian has been in need of getting a hair cut but I kept putting it off until it got to the point that he either got a haircut or I went out and purchased clips to keep his bangs out of his eyes! So with that being said I went and got our scissors and decided that I was going to give Sebastian's bangs a trim earlier this week.

Lesson learned: I cannot cut hair. Even when your toddler is strapped in their highchair and they're focused on eating their fishy crackers!! And no matter how hard you try, it will still look like you put a bowl on your kids head! Luckily though I faired much better from the last time I attempted to cut someone's hair (it was back in my college days and I nipped Tom in the back of his neck! Oops!).

And the funniest part was that when we went to Gymboree on Tuesday quite a few of our new mommy friends commented on Sebastian's new mommy-haircut. I heard lots of stories of how they cut their own child's hair once and never again. And I agree. Poor kid still looks like his mom put a bowl on his head! Which means of course, we're going to one of those hair places this weekend that caters to toddlers for our first real hair cut! Should be a grand adventure!

Tuesday, December 11, 2007


We took our trek to Michigan this past weekend to celebrate Christmas with our family. It was great being able to see everyone and the 3 of us had a good time. Once again we were amazed at Sebastian's endurance! Instead of his normal bedtime of 7 p.m. he lasted until a little bit after 10 p.m. and was in pretty good spirits. He really enjoyed himself and did a great job not touching everything at Aunt Nancy's (and thank goodness to that! I much prefer the "you touch it and it's yours" game vs. the new one of "you break it and you pay" game! Ha!). Thank you once again to Aunt Nancy for your hospitality! We really appreciate being able to stay over and spending time with you.

Yesterday we just stayed around the house and played. It was a low key day compared to the hustle bustle of the weekend and was much needed. Today we headed off to Gymboree for our play group and I've noticed quite a difference in Sebastian from when we first started attending. He is much more interested in what the other children are doing and he's much more interactive. It's great seeing him being so social with others. We were invited out to Starbucks following group today with the other mom's but unfortunately we had errands to run. Hopefully next week we'll be able to sit back and relax with the mom's after class (I'm already looking forward to the tazo chai!).

Other than that, there really isn't too much new to report. Sebastian is now walking well and he's even attempted to pick up the pace a bit. He loves it when we say "I'm going to get you!" and squeals with delight. Unfortunately he has it a little backwards as he will run to us laughing as opposed to running away! He also loves playing with his ball and trucks and will sit contently and look at his books. Sebastian is also learning new words every day. This past weekend we taught him how to say "Cheers!" and raise his glass - just in time for the holidays!! He also says cheese, oh-oh-, bus, mama, dada, car, truck, vroom and hi (just to name a few). He's also beginning to use his sign language more, with the sign for "more" being one of the most used ones at the moment. When people say kids brains are like sponges they really aren't joking! This kid just soaks everything up!

Anyways, I've added a few pics from our weekend away. I was going to add a pic or two of the haircut I gave Sebastian yesterday...but that will just have to wait! =)
Hope everyone is doing well,
Kim

Sunday, December 2, 2007


There is nothing better in this world than waking up to 10-15 cm of snow and knowing that you have no where you need to be today (and having a baby who decides to let you sleep in until 8:30 isn't too bad either!) to make your Sunday a wonderful one!!

We have had a wonderful lazy day playing around and recuperating from a busy week of illness. I'm still sick but luckily Sebastian is now on the mends and Jamie has managed to be well through all of this sickness mayhem. Hopefully this means that none of us will be ill during the holidays! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for that one!

Our Saturday was also spent relaxing with Uncle Dan and Auntie Alice who joined us for breakfast and lunch. Sebastian was quite comical acting all shy in front of Dan and Alice and as much as I hate saying that a toddler is "flirting" with someone, Sebastian was definitely a little googly-eyed for Alice. I've never quite seen him like this before but it was quite evident that he enjoyed having her around! Guess I won't have to worry about having Sebastian misbehaving when Auntie Alice is over! =)

We're supposed to be getting more snow tonight once the rain stops so hopefully the weather won't be too bad tomorrow as I really do want to get out tomorrow with Sebastian to play in the snow. I think we may have to try some tobogganing this year, which of course means that I need to get out and buy a toboggan! I can't begin to explain how much fun it is being able to do kid stuff all over again!

Actually...I never really stopped acting like a kid but now I don't get those odd looks by people passing by. Okay, I should clarify that I don't get those odd looks as often as I used to, except every now and then someone will look at me as if they're saying "Don't worry, I know you're only using your kid as an excuse to get away with acting like this!" And I just smile back because I know they're jealous! *laugh*

And Jamie will be the first to tell you it was I who was jumping up and down in Sebastian's room with glee this morning shouting "It snowed! It snowed!" and doing my snow dance (yes, I have a snow dance). But don't worry... You see, I'm teaching Sebastian all the intricacies of being a kid...and next winter we'll be jumping up and down together. =)

Wishing everyone a Monday full of playful moments,
Kim