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London

Jayna, Kepler & I flew to London last week to visit my sister and her family. I was a little nervous flying with both kids alone, but they did great, on the way there and back! This week went by so fast, we didn't do a whole lot, considering there were 7 kids, but it was so much fun hanging out all day and seeing Clara, my niece. Jayna was really excited about the trip, she kept saying "go airplane, see cousins!" We didn't take a ton of pictures, except on Halloween.

Jesse, Jayna & Nathan, probably watching Backyardigans

Jayna could not have been any more uncooperative for pictures this week

More Backyardigans!

All the kids wearing their Play On! shirts from Unlce Scott, as pajamas

Clara is the most snuggly baby and loves being held, I was in heaven!

Some highlights of the trip:

• Jayna had one of those animal backpacks on with a leash so she can't run away. Jesse said "Nathan doesn't need a string. He can walk all by himself."
• We got ambitious and went to a playgroup at the library one morning. It was a bit of an ordeal getting ready and out of the house before lunch. By the time we got there the playgroup was full. So we stayed at the library for a while and when we did end up going in to the playgroup, Jayna just wanted to steal everyone's snacks and threw a tantrum, and Nathan was saying "eat, drink" over and over so we didn't stay very long.
• Watching the funniest Seinfeld ever, and crying I was laughing so hard
• Staying up so late every night talking, and being completely exhausted the next morning
• Drinking tons of dessert herbal tea, because we all got sick
  

What a fun week, we miss everyone already!

More Halloween

I have so many pictures of Halloween this year, and I just couldn't decide which ones to post, so get ready for picture overload.

Samantha & Jayna in their matching Halloween shirts

First, we did a photoshoot with the babies in the afternoon.

My adorable niece Clara in her Halloween sleeper.

Clara & Kepler, best buds!

Not a very good picture of Kepler, but the most adorable picture of Clara's smile!

Clara & Kepler are a little scared of Halloween!

Just kidding!

My cute little pumpkin!

Then we did a photoshoot for Jeff & Lindsey, here is their adorable little boy Tyler, love his costume!

Finally it was time for trick-or-treating!
We took 7 kids out, and 4 of them were 2 and under. All I have to say about that is good thing Scott came home early from Toronto.

Samantha is the cutest cousin to Jayna, and Jayna loves her! She held her hand and helped her get her candy at the houses.

Jesse & Jayna were both spiders, it ws so cute, but this is the best picture I got of them together

The plan was that the babies would both just sleep in the double stroller, too bad things never go according to plan. At one point Cassandra and I were both feeding the babies in the van, with Jayna and Nathan running around in the back trying to eat candy. Scott took the 3 older kids ahead to keep trick-or-treating.

Jesse was so excited about Halloween and C A N D Y!

Nathan as the cutest scarecrow ever

TRICK OR TREAT!
(I made Jayna practice yelling it, hoping it would get me extra candy ;)
Kissing cousins

Pretty much the best picture we could of these two

5 babies on Halloween!

There are so many things I love about this picture, I'll just name a few:
1. We thought it would be cute to put the pumpkin in the picture, it was already hard enough trying to get all the kids in the picture.
2. Nathan and Jayna holding their candy
3. All the kids looking at the same exact same spot, but not at the camera. This is because Cassandra jumped and made the funniest noise ever to get all their attention, it was pretty funny!
4. In 94% of the pictures we took, Jayna's hand was in her mouth shovelling in candy. This was pretty much the first time she ever had candy. Yes you read that right, and I don't care if you think we're mean parents. It was so funny once she realized what was in her bag, she went crazy. The rest of the week randomly she would just say "I want candy", for example when she didn't like what we were having for dinner.

After trick or treating we came home and were watching Tyler, Cassandra & Scott's nephew. Now we were up to 5 babies 2 and under, we had to get a picture. Good thing all the babies under 1 are pretty much all angels.

Such a fun day, but we were sad that Gibb wasn't there for it.

Happy Halloween!

I love this holiday! Today is going to be Kepler's first Halloween and Jayna's first year trick-or-treating and she gets to go with her cousins. Jayna, Kepler and I are visiting my sister Cassandra and her family in London. It's so good to see everyone and Jayna is having so much fun! We're just sad that Gibb isn't here with us.
Jayna is going to be a spider and Kepler is a pumpkin, so cute!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Halloween Spooktacular

I'm posting about this a little late, but I figured I'd put it up anyways. Every year the Orthodontist in Gibb's building rents our Galaxyland in West Edmonton Mall for a night and sells tickets for a charity. Jayna didn't wear her spider costume here because we thought it would get in the way for riding rides, so she had to squeeze into this monkey costume that really looks like a boy costume, but it was still so cute. We met up with Gibb's cousin and his wife, Ryan & Jody and their 2 kids.

Jayna could have spent the whole night in this play area. They had balls and a jumpy room and tunnels and slides.

Riding the train

Coolest cotumes ever, Jasper & Alice! (like our fangs?)

Jayna loving the cars, she did NOT want to get off this!

Jo & Luke

We had lots of fun, but kept the kids up WAY too late. Kepler is ready to crash!
Jayna had tons of fun, but we're thinking of making it a date night next year and leaving the kids at home!

4

Kepler turned 4 months old today. He weighs 14 lbs. 8 oz. (50th percentile) and is 2 feet tall (25th percentile). He is the exact opposite of Jayna in so many ways. (I know, I know, I shouldn't compare them, but how can you not?) He is super fair skinned with light hair. He is short and chubby. He was so happy at his doctors appointment today and didn't cry at all. He is so friendly, he smiles and talks to everyone we see. He is really easygoing and can chill by himself in his chair for up to an hour at a time sometimes. (You might think from reading this that Jayna wasn't a very good baby, but that's not true, just different good.)

Some of Kepler's favourite things:

• Eating
• Sleeping
• Chewing on his hands
• Drooling
• Being adorable
  
• Grabbing toys
• Holding his head up, especially when he's laying on his tummy
  
• Making our day by giving us huge smiles and laughs with almost no effort on our part!

Gibb and I were just talking about how much we love having Kepler in our family. We can't imagine our little family without him.

Green Smoothies

Smoothies are by far one of Jayna's favourite foods. She'll eat almost anything in a smoothie, including tons of spinach. This is one of the only consistent ways I can get Jayna to eat any substantial amount of veggies. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated!