Happy Halloween!!

We had a fun Halloween day today. We went to the park for a play group and Jayna went on the swings for the first time. She LOVED it!!! She was laughing and smiling the whole time, it was so cute. She kept looking over at her friend Graham beside her like "isn't this the best thing you've ever done!".

Jayna & Graham

It got a little bit too cold

Peek-a-boo

Jayna getting into the candy bowl

We were going to take Jayna trick-or-treating to a few of our neighbours, but she wasn't really in the mood. She has been cutting a molar and it was kind of a rough night. She's already been in her costume twice, so that's probably more than enough. We had Julie and Jason over for dinner and Jason was the costume police for us!

Halloween Party

Last night Gibb and I went to a Halloween Costume Party. Dressing up is not really Gibb's thing, so we compromised and dressed up as the Simpsons. I've never seen Gibb that excited to dress up. I think our costumes turned out pretty good, considering they were homemade.

Marge and Homer

Cousins!

Cousins are so much fun! I'm glad that when we move to Edmonton Jayna will have lots of cousins to play with. Here are some of the pictures from our trip to London last week.

Decorating pumpkin cookies

Jesse, Jayna and Nathan in the tub

Jayna and Nathan giving each other the evil eye

Saying good-bye,

We miss you guys!

Little Chicken

Last night we had a Halloween Party at church, and Jayna dressed up as a chicken. I don't think we could have picked a more appropriate costume for our little chicken because she is so scared of everything! I dressed up as a leopard and painted my nose black, and she was so scared of me she wouldn't let me hold her for most of the night. It was a really fun night, even though it was raining! I love seeing all the kids (and some adults) all dressed up. There's nothing cuter than kids dressed up as animals!!

Jayna missed Daddy so much this week while we were away

Jayna did not want to be held at all (which is so not like her), all she wanted to do was crawl all over the place. There was a little mini ramp to go into the gym and she was crawling up and down it for 5 minutes! I think she was little bit sick of driving home in her car seat for 6 hours.

Jayna's friend Brooks trying to share a sucker with her

Jayna was still a little bit scared of me here

"Hey, is there more candy in that bag?"

Caught ya!

Jayna took the Trunk or Treat a little bit too literally

London

Jayna and I went to London, Ontario this week to visit my sister and her family. Wow, life is so busy with 5 kids (Cassandra's 4 + Jayna) !! I feel like we were only there for a couple days, it went by way too fast! It's so fun for Jayna to be able to see her cousins, and they love her sooo much, it's really cute! Jesse is always trying to "play" with Jayna, and whenever he comes home from anything he asks where she is. If he knows she's napping it's just way too tempting for him to go and "check on her". One time when he woke her from a nap Cassandra told him to come tell me what he did and he started off with this: "Well, the first time I went in there she was just laying there..." I was laughing so hard, how could we be mad?!!

I love going to visit my sisters, we didn't even really do most of the things we planned to do, but it's just so nice to be able to hang out. We did manage to fit in a trip to Ikea, which was great, I forgot how much I love Ikea! Cassandra and I decided that life would be close to perfect if we could just be next door neighbours! (As long as they don't mind living in the North Pole) The only bad thing about the whole trip is that I forgot my camera!! I was so disappointed, but we did remember to snap a few pictures with Cassandra's, so as soon as she sends them to me I'll post them (hint, hint).

I'm gonna get you!

Jayna is such a silly girl right now. She loves to laugh, but it's not always that easy to get her to laugh. Sometimes she will be in a silly mood and and she will start doing funny little things and then laugh at herself. And if we imitate her, she thinks it's hilarious! She loves it when one of us hides behind something and she'll start looking for us and then we jump out and scare her. She laughs so hard and hides her face and snuggles with whoever is holding her (I think that's the best part). Unless nobody is holding her, then she'll dive into whoever's lap is closest, one time she almost jumped off the couch.

I am sooo funny!

I'm gonna get you!

Making a dive for it!

I think Jayna's absolute favourite game is to be chased. All we have to say is: "Jayna, I'm gonna get you!", and she screams and crawls away as fast as she can. Except once in a while she just stops and either lets us catch her, or starts crawling towards us. (I think she might like getting caught). Sometimes she actually seems really scared, but she still loves it!

I would be scared of Gibb too, look at that face!

Bath Time is Fun Again

Jayna is finally starting to like her bath again! She used to love her bath, but for the past month or so bath time has been so hard because all she wanted to do is stand up in the tub and when we wouldn't let her she would get really mad and so we would just try to finish as fast as we could. Now I think she is finally starting to understand that she just can't stand up in the tub and she'll actually sit back down without throwing a fit! What a relief, now Gibb and I will both want to give Jayna her bath instead of doing the dishes after dinner.

Jayna loves her rubber duckie, but maybe we should get some dirty dogs like Grandma has

I have to wash this?

Pink Blankie

Jayna loves her little pink blankie, it's silky on one side and so soft on the other side. We started giving it to her to sleep with when she was about 6 months old because she loved holding onto to things and would grab the blankets in her crib. Now I don't think she could sleep without it (we actually haven't tried though). Whenever I want her to fall asleep in the stroller or car I bring it with us and as soon as we give it to her she hugs it and starts sucking her thumb.

27

Birthdays used to be so much more exciting when I was young, yes that's right I think I'm old. I know I'm only 27, but that sounds and feels old for me. Ever since I turned 25, or actually make that 20, I feel like I'm old. But 27 isn't as depressing as 25, so I guess it is getting better, I don't know how that makes sense though. On my 25th birthday Gibb took me to Cedar Point, there's no way you can feel old while riding the craziest, funnest roller coasters ever!

But I still love my birthday! Tonight we took Jayna over to Julie and Jason's and we went out on a date. We went to the Mad Greek for dinner, this restaurant I've been wanting to try since we moved here. And then we went and saw the movie Across the Universe. It was a really fun night! Gibb got me a gift certificate for a manicure and pedicure. I'm going to use it right before we go to Dubai, I can't wait!

Little Music Lover

This past week-end while we were watching conference Jayna was mesmerized with the choir singing. She really seems to like music and loves singing and dancing. While we were watching the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing, Jayna started waving her arm like the choir director (Mom and Pat you would've bee so proud! I just realized that you're both the choir directors in your ward.) She was doing it all throughout conference. Then today we were driving in the car and listening to music and she started doing it again! It's so cute, I wish I had a picture to post. Now whenever we're listening to music Gibb and I pretend to lead, trying to get her to do it again.

Pigtails!

Pigtails are my absolute favourite hair-do on little girls and I'm always trying it out on Jayna to see if her hair is long enough yet. I think that we're really close this time. She looks so grown up with these pigtails in! I couldn't get a great picture because she was so distracted with this fun box, but you can still get the idea.