Olympic Flame

I know I mentioned this in the last post, but I felt that this should be its own separate post for Sebastian to reflect back on one day.

This morning the Olympic Flame passed through Guelph between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m. As the flame was going to be heading out of Guelph near Nonee and Papa's house we decided we would meet up with them to watch history in the making.

It was a wonderful morning and the only regret I have was that I didn't cheer loud enough! But in my heart, I was definitely cheering!

'Tis the 5th Day of Christmas

It seems like this has been the Christmas that just won't end. Not that we want it to end, as we've been enjoying ourselves immensely, however, it seems that we've been celebrating straight now for the past 5 days!

On Christmas Eve we got into the car and went to pick up Aunt Jennifer in Hamilton so that she could spend the night with us and help us celebrate Christmas. We then spent the evening at Nonee and Papa's enjoying a wonderful array of foods and each other's company.

Christmas morning was extra special for us this year as it was the first time in over 13 years that we actually woke up in our own beds!! For our first Christmas at our new home Nonee, Papa and Aunt Becky came over in the morning to watch Sebastian open up his Christmas presents. After a wonderful breakfast, Nonee, Papa and Aunt Becky left to go home and we had a couple of hours to relax with Aunt Jennifer before we got ready to go over to their house for the remainder of the day. We had a wonderful afternoon and evening with family and Sebastian really enjoyed himself, playing with all his new toys and helping everyone open up their presents by sitting on their laps and assisting them with the unwrapping! Dinner was as wonderful as usual and we retreated home once again later in the evening. Sebastian gave us an extra present by sleeping in on Boxing Day and our day was once again spent with Nonee, Papa and Aunt Becky at our house playing video games and enjoying each other's company while grazing on food all day long.



On the 27th Grandma and Grandpa, Aunt Shari, Uncle Dan, Kassy, Jeremy and Sophia came over for a visit. Once again, Sebastian really enjoyed opening up his presents and playing with his cousins. After dropping off Uncle Danny at the bus terminal we headed over again to Nonee and Papa's house to help them eat some more of the leftovers. I must say, I really wish my in-laws weren't such good cooks! Sebastian is very lucky his Nonee and Papa make such great food but my waistline suffers every year!!

Which brings us to today...our 5th day of celebrating. We woke up around 7:30, got dressed and rushed over to Nonee and Papa's to watch the Olympic flame pass through Guelph. It was a memorable moment and I'm glad we managed to get out the door by 8 a.m. in order to observe such an occasion. After breakfast we said good-bye to Nonee, Papa and Aunt Becky and headed home. We then took Sebastian sledding! This was the first time he freely went down a hill without one of us pulling him! Jamie and I took turns sitting in the sled with him and it was a lot of fun. We both enjoyed listening to Sebastian squeal with delight while going down the hill! After a nice walk through the trails we played in the backyard making snow angels before coming in the house for some hot cocoa.

Overall, we've had a wonderful relaxing holiday and hoping everyone else has enjoyed theirs! Tomorrow will probably be much slower as we're having some furniture delivered and we're hoping to see Aunt Becky one more time before she has to head back home to B.C. We're then off to Fort Erie on the 30th to help celebrate my dad's birthday. Again, we'll be busy but when it's spent with family it's well worth it!

Hoping everyone had a wonderful holiday!
Cheers!
Kim

On this eve...

On the eve of Christmas, as we're reflecting back on Christmas's past and enjoying the moment that is today, we can't help but feel overwhelmed with how lucky we are to have such a wonderful son in our lives. Merry Christmas Sebastian! We love you!


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These are a few of his favourite things....

These are just little bits of information about our boy that I wanted to document.

Favourite animal(s): giraffe, hippopotamus

Favourite colour: orange

Favourite thing to play: Superheroes. Sebastian loves either wearing his Batman or Spiderman costume or just prancing around in his underwear pretending to be a wrestler (thanks Jeremy!). He has recently asked me if he could get a Buzz Lightyear costume. This of course means that getting dressed in the morning, and even appropriately for the weather, has been quite interesting. Sebastian is now pretty independent with picking out his own clothes (as he refuses to wear anything we ask him too!) and the only thing he still requires assistance with are the snaps/buttons. Most days he will get dressed only to change 15 minutes later into one of his costumes. He also really enjoys playing with Lego (particularly his daddy's space kit from his childhood) and our Millenium Falcon. His imagination astounds me, not to mention the conversations we have. Our most recent discussion centred on whether Chewbacca carried a guitar or a man-purse. Of course, I say it's a man-purse but Seb is very adamant that he carries a guitar. I think a rockin' Chewbacca would be a wonderful sight to see! And lastly, Sebastian loves ryhming. He'll be playing with his toys and just start rhyming off a bunch of words and put them into song. Newest thing is rhyming like Dr. Seuss (he'll even ask you if you have a Gox to Box!).

Favourite Books: Doesn't really have any. We recently got the book Silly Sally from the library and he was quite sad to see it go (hint hint to those who still need to purchase a gift for him!).

Favourite TV Shows (out of the ones we allow him to watch): Animal Mechanicals, Sid the Science Kid, Super Why. He also really enjoys Sid and Patty from CBC Kids.

And if you were to ask him what he enjoys doing with me the most it would be watching Christmas Specials (I'm such a sucker for them!) and with his daddy, it's the Lego. I can make houses and ships but his daddy is the Lego King in our house!

Busy!

As the holidays are fast approaching I figured I would take some time to update the blog before the busyness of the holidays actually hit!

Sebastian has done really well with adjusting to our new life in our new home and City. The first two weeks were quite hard on him and we weren't too sure how the three of us were going to survive this, but with a game plan in place (distract, remove, ignore) we quickly had things stabilized and our lovable excitable bear was once again himself.

Right now our days are pretty much just spent playing around the house and exploring the neighbourhood. Come the new year we'll be attending Music Together once again as well as Creative Critters and a program at the Waldorf School in the area. We'll have two "free days" during the week to do what we please when Jamie has to commute to work. I'm looking forward to getting out and meeting new people and having Sebastian meet children his age, and since Sebastian enjoyed participating in programs in the past I am hoping that this will add some more enrichment to his days.

Anyways, I really enjoy sharing pictures of what we've been up to, as opposed to writing about it, as it enables others to actually see what Sebastian is doing. I hope everyone is staying warm and enjoying the magic of the season!

Helping cousin Sophia celebrate her 1st birthday!
Candy Land Festival, Cambridge
Arts & Crafts
Enjoying his Advent Calendar
Going to the tree farm and cutting down our own tree!
Three thumbs up!
Enjoying himself with Aunt Judy at Nana's 83rd Birthday Party!
Helping string the tree

We're Here!

Just a quick update, as promised, as to what we've been up to...

In mid-October we got possession of our new home. As it was 3 bedrooms upstairs with a large rec room in the basement we decided now would be a good time to add that 4th bedroom/office in the basement. With that said our weekends were spent in Guelph constructing a room in the basement (correction; when I say our weekends were spent constructing a room I really meant Jamie and his dad!).

During this time Sebastian and I would play around the house and spend time with Nonee. On one of those weekends our friends Stacey and Brendan, with their son Campbell, came by for a visit. As we had little to no furniture in the house Sebastian and Campbell really enjoyed being able to dance around, and I thought these videos were way too cute not to share! The first video is Sebastian in his "skirt" dancing around as a ballerina on his own and the second is Sebastian and Campbell rocking it out to Michael Jackson's Billie Jean.





As our actual move occurred on October 31st we decided to remain in the area and celebrate Hallow's Eve with Brendan, Stacey and Campbell. It was a cold night but a good one, with Cambridge, more specifically Old Preston, providing a wonderful backdrop to our haunts with all their century old brick homes and trees. It was a great way to celebrate our "official" first night at our new home.



Since then we've been slowly transitioning into our new community. Sebastian and I have scouted out the conservation trails behind our house and have made a couple of treks to our new library, where we've started attending their preschooler program on Wednesday mornings, and the playground. There's been a lot more happenings going on, including helping Campbell celebrate his 4th birthday, celebrating daddy's and grandpa's birthday and attending cousin Sophia's baptism, but I will attempt to write another blog entry within the very near future including those events. Hopefully it won't take me nearly as long to update the blog as it did this time around!

Hoping everyone is well,
K.

Chubby Cheeks

I'm feeling very delinquent with this whole blogging thing lately. With the move now behind us there has been a lot to update on, but unfortunately, I just haven't had the energy to do so. However, since I know people have been checking the blog I thought that perhaps I'd just take a quick trip down memory lane and give you a short little video to view.

I had been reminiscing the other night, after having watched a video of a friend's 20 month old, and found this in the vault of our videos. This was taken in May of 2008 when Sebastian was just shy of being 20 months old. His cute chubby cheeks, the fact that he's eating lima beans and the way he talks makes me chuckle every time!

On Thanksgiving....

Just wanted to wish you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving and to let you know that we are very grateful to have you in our lives.

Love,
Kim, Jamie & Sebastian.

Annual Check Up

Took Seb to his annual check-up this morning. He weighs 31lbs and is 38.5" tall. No concerns were noted and he got a clean bill of health.

And as I'm typing this Sebastian is running around in his Batman costume playing the guitar. He just asked me to close my eyes while he plays music... So with my eyes closed I asked, "What does it feel like to be 3?" His answer, "Like a Cowboy".

This I did not know...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEBASTIAN!!!

We love you to the moon and back,
Mommy & Daddy xoxoxo...

Sebastian's thoughts on Caterpillars

Sebastian was up quite early this morning so we came downstairs and watched a bit of Owl TV. Part of the segment covered the life cycle of caterpillars, during which, Sebastian made the following insightful observation/comment:

"Why do they eat the leaves? Then they have nothing to crawl on."

I didn't know what to say... so we just held hands instead.

19 More Days....

Until Sebastian turns 3!!!


Sebastian turns 1!
Sebastian turns 2!!
Almost 3!

A Camping We Will Go....

Just got back a few days ago from our annual family camping trip. We headed up to Earl Rowe Provincial Park this year for a few days of rest and relaxation in the great outdoors. Unfortunately, the weather was definitely not on our side this year. It rained for pretty much the majority of our trip and as such, we chose to leave camp early.

Unfortunately it wasn't early enough as a severe storm hit just as we were clearing up our dinner dishes (lucky for us everything else had been packed). Once the wind picked up I ran to the car with Sebastian and sat there wondering if I should be making a run to the nearest comfort station, while Jamie and his folks had the horrible task of taking down the tarp in the severe thunderstorm. The wind, thunder & lightening was quite frightful and luckily once again, Sebastian slept through most of it.


Upon leaving the campground Sebastian awoke and started to cry because he was upset we were leaving...

Glad to see he loves camping as much as we do, but it made us sad to know how upset he was so we're hoping to grab another camping trip in prior to the end of the season. We drove home in darkness, as the storm had knocked out the power to the majority of the towns we drove through, and watched the zig zags of lightening crash throughout the skies. We followed the tail of the storm home and made it home safe to our snug and warm beds without incident.

The Cottage

In early August we spent a few days at my co-worker's cottage. As some of you may remember, we first took Sebastian to this cottage when he was 10 months old. It was a very nice and relaxing few days spent at a leisurely pace and Sebastian continues to talk about Balm Beach and all the frogs he spotted at Wye Marsh! Anyways, for fun I thought it would be interesting to see the differences between Sebastian then and now. Hope you enjoy the trek down memory lane as much as I did!

Our summer in pictures part two

Spaceman Seb at the Science Centre
Lovin' the trampoline with cousin Jeremy
Sebastian's 1st roller coaster ride, Marineland
We went to Marineland with Aunt Shari, Uncle Dave, Kassy, Jeremy and Sophia
Holding a boa at Jungle Cat World at Griff's 4th Birthday
Petting a tarantula at Jungle Cat World for Griff's 4th Birthday
Painting the porch with Daddy getting ready for our house to sell

Our summer in pictures

Instead of writing more I figured I'd just update the blog with pictures of what we've been up to. There will be more to come.

Swimming with Daddy at Campbell's house
Showering with Daddy
Playing with Campbell
Playing in his garden
Swinging with cousin Jeremy
Cuddling with Grandpa