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!

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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!

Cereal Please

Jayna loves cereal. Usually as soon as she wakes up in the morning she wants to "Eat!" and when we get downstairs she says "cereal please". This is what we have for breakfast almost every day at our house. Unless Gibb makes waffles.
This is what happens if we don't put the cereal away after breakfast. Jayna hides under the table and eats as much as she can before we find her. She's getting pretty good at being sneaky!

Thanksgiving Week-end

Thanksgiving week-end could pretty much be summed up in 2 words:

cousins & delicious!

We love it when Scott & Erin come to visit! We pretty much camped out at Chris & Pat's to spend as much time with them as possible. Jayna loves her cousins, especially the baby girls. She gets so excited when we tell her that we're going to see cousins.

We had a delicious turkey dinner on Sunday, courtesy of my wonderful mother-in-law, Pat! She makes a mean turkey and sweet potato casserole. This is by far my favourite meal of the year!

Monday we headed out to the Edmonton Corn Maze, and this time we actually went through the maze! Just in time too, because it was getting kind of cold and then it started to rain.

I love long week-ends like this, so relaxing, but so fun.

Thank you!

Dear Samantha, Brett, Jesse, Nathan & Clara,

Thank you so much for all the Princess stuff and books. I was so excited when I opened the present because those are 2 of my favourite things right now. I've barely taken off any of the jewelry since I opened it. I love you guys and I can't wait to see you soon!

Love, Jayna

Birthday Dinner

Today I turned the big 2-8. I'll save the part about how I feel so old, and just say that it was a low-key, but fun day. Of course the spa was so awesome, the perfect gift! I thought that Gibb was going to be working the rest of the day and then have a meeting after that. But it turned out that he only had a couple patients and then his meeting was canceled, hooray! So he told me to choose a restaurant, any restaurant, and he would take us out to celebrate. So I chose Red Lobster. Yes, you read that right. First of all it's kid friendly, very important. Second of all it's pretty much my only chance to go there when Gibb has no veto power (he's not crazy about sea food). Two highlights of the night were:

1. When the man in the booth beside us told us that our children were very well behaved!
2. Gibb cracking all my crab legs for me, because I think it's disgusting to crack, but so yummy to eat it!
   

Me & my sweet little girl

The whole family

We wore Kepler out and brought him home way past his early 7:00 pm bedtime
(Kepler never stays asleep in his car seat, this is so rare for him)

La La Land

I just spent the morning getting massaged at the spa! It was so relaxing, I felt like I could barely drive home. Have I mentioned lately how amazing my husband is?

Don't forget

• To vote today, for all my fellow Canadians.

• It's my birthday tomorrow, which I have mixed feelings about.