Then and now...

A friend of mine has a daughter that is almost exactly a year younger than Halle. It's hard to believe the difference that occurs in that 12 months. Earlier this evening Halle was in the backyard on her climber. It just so happened to be a almost a year to the day since she first used the climber...It seems a lot warmer in the pictures from last year...


I feel like I need to explain this picture. Halle was standing next to Charlie. Charlie licked her. She doesn't like being slobbered on but being a good kid she still wanted Mommy to get a picture. This is Halle sneaking in close to Charlie...out of licking range!!

This was also deemed a safe distance....

People pay to have this done?

Halle discovered a relic under the sink in the downstairs bathroom...my old rollers. For anyone who knows me, you may be asking yourself why I would own items normally used for curling hair. When my hair was shorter I use to use them as phase 1 in the hair straightening process. It was short lived. Both the rollers and the straight hair. And now we have come full circle. My daughter uses them for curling her hair which lasts about as long as mine did when it was straightened!!

Are you sure about this Mommy?


I look so good in these rollers I need to take my own picture!!

Voila! The beautiful espresso colored, silk strands have some body!!

And an hour later at playgroup we are back to the beautiful, espresso colored, silk strands of everyday!

And now, representing Canada...

...in this final round of the uneven bars here at the 2016 Summer Olympics, we are watching our newest competitor to the field, Halle. She needs a score of 15.75 to guarantee her gold in this event and to qualify her team for the all-around title...



And end waking dream sequence...Just kidding...I'm glad that Halle enjoys 'nastics but the look on her face in the picture made me think of pure determination and not to mention upper body strength!! However, I think she's already bigger than half the girls on the Chinese Women's Gymnastics team.

'Nastics...

Everybody Dance!

An Easter Surprise!

Can you guess what the Easter Bunny brought Halle this afternoon?

Spring Fever and Puddle Madness!

Yesterday, Alan was just putting his runners on to go work on the basement (putting everything back after the flood) when the front door opened. It was Tessa! She wanted to know if Halle could come outside and play in the puddles with she and her brother. Halle goes to the same daycare so they are all good buddies!! It was a fairly nice day and not too cold. We managed to get Halle into her coat and splash pants (the dry coat and the dry mitts that is. We usually make an effort to coordinate Halle's clothes but there is only so much you can do when it's puddle season.)

The parents and kids from around the bay!

Explaining how things work...

Discussing the manhole cover and drainage no doubt...

Working hard! Using the muscles!

Teamwork!

After playing outside, Tanner and Halle came in and decorated some cookies...

BIG girl bed!

It's been talked about for a long time, discussed into the wee hours of the morning and has been the subject of road trip conversations gone by and last night it finally happened...Halle slept in her big girl bed. Alan finished putting the bed together and she was soooo excited. She slept there all night too!! I only had to ask her once to stop playing (she was tucking in all her stuffed animals) and get back in her bed or else she would have to sleep in her crib (it's still in her room just in case). She was quite upset at that notion so she got back in her big girl bed and went to sleep. When she got up this morning she said 'I did it! I sleep big girl bed.' She was very, very proud of herself!!
I think I was so happy and excited for Halle that I neglected to observe what a milestone this is for her in her young toddler life. Well, until Alan was tucking her in and said 'I think I'm going to cry'. Well she does look pretty small.



'Pretending' to sleep...


Kisses and hugs goodnight!!

Lights out!