Let the busy life begin:)

For the Labour Day weekend, Brian took Lynsey on their annual guys camping trip out in the middle of nowhere. I should add that she made history by being the very first female to ever attend this testosterone-dominated trip. I was very worried about how she would do for so long out there, but Brian reports that she did fantastic! She had a lot of fun with the other kids that were there, and went for lots of rides on this buggy thing with her Grandpa:). I was happy to hear that she enjoyed it, and was glad that Brian was also able to enjoy the trip instead of dealing with a high-maintenance girl:). Adam and I had a great weekend! We did some shopping, spent some time at the park, took it easy. I've said it once, I'll say it again - I had my kids in the wrong order!:)

We (well, mostly Brian) have been working hard on the landscaping! Brian took a day off work and got the backyard tilled up and started on a box beside our patio (hard to explain, will have to post pictures when it's done). We got a big load of dirt delivered and Brian has started wheeling it down to the backyard. It's looking promising that we'll be able to have the majority of the landscaping done by the end of the month. Fingers crossed!

We had my southern Alberta family over yesterday for a housewarming party, and it was a lot of fun! For some reason I didn't get any pictures, but I've been so bad with taking pictures lately so it's not much of a surprise. Anyway, mostly everyone in the south was able to come and it was great to see how much easier it is to have them all over in the new house:).

Lynsey started preschool last week! She did great, just as I thought she would. Tomorrow is her first full two hour day, and she starts dance tomorrow as well! Yes, we are starting with a busy life now:). I know she'll enjoy these things, and I really hope it doesn't become too much to keep up with.

So Adam's singing is becoming more and more advanced! Just yesterday, we started noticing that he is now singing the entire song "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" from start to finish, and we can understand almost all of the words! It's so cute, I can hardly stand it:). One day when I get the whole song clearly on video, I'll post it on here - it really is impressive!

Camping Adventures!

We have been doing some camping that last few weekends! Just this last weekend it was me and Lynsey with my friends Coraleah and Larissa, and the weekend before was Brian and I with the kids with some friends, Katie and Mark (there are no pictures of this trip because I forgot my camera! Grrr!). Both weekends were a lot of fun! Unfortunately on the trip that we did with Mark and Katie, their daughter Alyssa broke her arm on the playground so they had to leave early - major bummer! The kids did really well all things considered, and we only had one freakout from Adam the first night (Brian took him for a little drive around the campsite and he was fine after that). Lynsey is quite the little camper - she loves sleeping in a tent and had a lot of fun both weekends. This last weekend we did have a few attitude issues from time to time, but all in all, not too bad. Mary and Ezra came to see up Saturday morning as well which was nice! Lynsey was thrilled to see her long lost cousin again:).

Adam just keeps on singing! He now sings the ABC song (which is of course the same tune as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star), and I'm impressed at how much of the song he sings! He gets all the way to "Q" and then loses it, but you can hear him trying to sound out the letters. So cute!

Lynsey starts Preschool next week! And so our life of driving our children from this to that begins:). She is very excited, and I'm fully confident that she will do great! We have been having some attitude issues lately, but I think she's just going through another period of testing us. As she gets older, these testing periods become more and more challenging (apparently she also gets more stubborn with age!) but I think we'll get through it okay.

Lots to say!

In the last week, Adam has decided that he has a lot to tell us all of a sudden! He says "hi" and "bye" in context, he said "more orange" today, and he walks around the house saying, "Go wa-wa (walk) ousside" and goes to get his shoes. He was whining at bedtime today and Brian asked him a bunch of questions about what he wanted to do, and when he asked if he wanted to "go nigh-night", he said "go nigh-night" and was perfectly happy to go to his crib. He now picks up a stool and moves it to a light switch, gets up on the stool and turns the switch on and off. I feel like he's losing a bit more of his baby-hood, which I have mixed feelings about!

Lynsey started swimming lessons on her own this week, and I was a bit choked up when she walked off with the teacher without looking back! She is doing so well - much better than I even thought. Her fear of water seems to have dwindled away to nothing and she is happily cooperating with everything the teacher is asking her to do. She seems very excited that she was "swimming" today (with some help!), so I think it won't be long and she actually will be swimming:).

I guess now might be a good time to let my loyal readers know that I am expecting another baby! I'm 12 weeks now, due February 28th. I have been feeling very good through this pregnancy, and I will give most of the credit to the fact that I've kept up with running. I actually did a 10k night race the other night, quite spontaneously (a friend had an extra race package!) and it was a lot of fun! I ran 9.77k in 58:24, which is on pace to run 10k in under an hour, my goal for the September 10k I'm signed up for. Guess I better make a new goal for that one! How about 59:30:). I have surprised myself at the amount of energy I've been able to muster for these runs - I've had times of nausea and feeling tired, but they have been few and far between. I'm very thankful at how good things have gone so far! Hopefully it keeps up!