In and Out

Silas' new favourite game is to take things out.  He isn't picky.  He doesn't care what it is.  He just wants to take everything out of boxes, bins, bags, wipe containers, kleenex boxes...  Sometimes, he will even put the stuff back in.  The other day he found his favourite thing to take in and out.  This way, he can have a snack while he is playing.  Thankfully, he kept tasting the same orange and he didn't bit each and every one.

And one of Caleb.  Just because I don't have as many pictures of him.  He's been busy the last few days building his lego.  The Star Wars lego that he got for Christmas this year is a definite hit!

Wait for me!

Silas has been busy the past little bit.  He is crawling and is constantly following Caleb and Sophie around. He is happiest when he is included in whatever game they are playing.  The other day when Caleb and Sophie were playing outside, Silas stood at the door for almost a half hour.  He watched the other two play, giggling when they would throw snow at the window and whining if they moved out of sight of the window.

Christmas 2010

 I love Christmas!  I love the energy and the excitement, the lights and music, visiting with friends and family.  The past few days have been pretty busy and the kids are looking forward to finally spending a day at home to play with their new toys.  Caleb is actually still sleeping this morning-at almost 10.  He seems to need the most sleep out of the 3.  It took a while for me to realize when Sophie was a baby that she just didn't need as much sleep as her older brother.  Silas seems to be more like his sister.  So far, he's not much of a fan of sleep.


Here is what has kept us busy the last couple of days...

Caleb, Sophie and Silas all dressed up for church

Sophie singing on Christmas Eve

Caleb singing.  It was hard to get a picture of him.
I always forget how small he is until he is in a big group with others his own age.

Silas on Christmas morning.
He LOVED all of the wrapping, bows and ribbons.

Christmas morning!  I couldn't find Christmas pyjamas that I liked this year
and finally settled on these.  Sophie kept exclaiming "It's a sleeping dress?!?!?!" 

Sophie was excited her princess gloves that she got from her aunt and uncle.
She was quite convinced that they would keep her hands warm outside and wore them all morning.

Silas eating Christmas dinner

Sophie and her cousin had matching dresses to wear
as well as matching flowers for their hair.
So cute!

We had a great Christmas this year and it's looking like it will be a relaxing Boxing day with the kids busy with their new toys and movies, Silas actually taking a nap and having one last family dinner.  Did I mention that I love Christmas?  ♥

Merry Christmas!!!

Getting excited for Christmas

Sophie loves wrapping presents.  She helped me wrap up all of the Christmas books and then decided that she should give a present to Caleb.  Sophie went around the house and collected a whole bunch of things that she thought that Caleb would like.  She wrapped it all up using half a roll of tape and put 4 bows on the top.  When Caleb got home from school, Sophie was so excited to give him his present and stood back and watched him open it.  She was so proud to give him something that she picked out and wrapped all by herself.

I'm glad that Sophie seems to enjoy the giving as much as the getting.  She is very excited to wrap more presents.  I may have to buy more tape though.

Can't wait for school!

Truth be told, Silas is a little scared of Sophie.  And with good reason.  She is constantly picking him up and dragging him wherever she wants to go.  He loves hanging out with Caleb though.  Caleb kind of lets him do his own thing while talking to him and handing him new toys when needed.  Here Caleb was reading the multiplication, addition and subtraction problems in his agenda (I know...weird.  And he was so excited asking me "And do you know what 3 x 4 is?  Wow!  It's 12!"  He really does like math.).  Silas was not going to be left out and just had to see what Caleb was up to.

He was so excited to be hanging out with Caleb.  Until Sophie dragged him off again.

Who needs a play pen....

...when you have a chair!  Silas is on the move.  He's not quite crawling forwards yet but is moving backwards quite efficiently.  His favourite place to crawl seems to be under the chair.

The only problem is, he can't figure out how to get out.

Cooking for the picky....

I never thought much about how kids became picky until I had Caleb.  I always figured that if I offered him lots of different foods on a regular basis, he would eat most of them.  I knew that he would have likes and dislikes but I didn't really think that he would reject so many foods.  I recently saw a t-shirt that summed up his meal plan when he was about 3.  It said "Cereal-it's what's for dinner tonight" or something like that and there was a picture of a bowl of cheerios.  And that is what he ate for what seemed like forever.  Cheerios, some fruit, bread and french fries.  I think he ate cucumber and tomatoes as well and if the stars were aligned, he might have had a few bites of chicken.  He reminded me of that book "Bread and Jam for Frances" where she only ate bread and jam-for every single meal.  Except in the book, Frances become tired of eating bread and jam.  At the time, Caleb never tired of cheerios,  I will never forget him trying to eat a perogy.  He was gagging every time he brought the fork up to his mouth.  Before the food even hit his tongue.  After that, we quit trying to get him to eat things.  I would cook what I wanted and we always offered what we had but he knew that he could have cheerios if he wanted.  Gradually he started trying new things and now he eats quite a wide variety though he still is not too fond of soups, casseroles and things like that.  He won't eat cheerios anymore.  I guess he got his fill between the ages of 3 and 5.

The one thing that all 3 kids eat without any complaining is spaghetti.  Sophie always picks spaghetti when she is asked what she wants for supper and it is quickly becoming Silas' favourite food as well.

I have to admit though....we have been eating a lot of spaghetti.  And I'm starting to get just a little bit tired of it.









Oh, and here's a picture of Sophie.  Who sometimes feels a little bit left out when I take pictures of Silas eating so she insisted that I take one of her too.  And then she made me take a second one because the spoon was not right in her mouth in the first picture.