Play Date

Last weekend we went over to the Starkman's for a little play date. For those of you who have not seen the Starkman play room - honestly it is like going to Gymboree and the kids have a blast! Truman and Jake had fun "parallel playing" (Jerry's new favourite term)...although in these shots it looks as though Jake is trying to show Truman something!

Today we finally figured out why Truman has been a little grumpy over the last week. All this time I thought it was a combination of teething and day care. Last night Truman had a low grade fever and continued to have it until this morning. We then realized that the cause of all this discomfort is most likely from the MMR immunization. Needless to say, I did not bring him to day care this morning and we will be spending the day together. Good excuse for me!

Congratulations to Lori and Andrew with the birth of their first son Gavin on Friday September 14th. We can't wait to meet him!

School Days

Truman started day care last week, which was incredibly difficult for me. It was strange not having him with me and terribly lonely. I constantly worried if he was alright and to be honest I didn't even leave him in school for long. On the second day, they asked me to leave and supposedly he fell asleep right away and when I came back to get him he was just fine. This week he has figured things out a little more and starts to panic as I put him in his highchair (he knows I am going to leave him). Truman has had a much harder time the last few days, and I am doing much better. Poor thing is also fighting a cold and has yet another tooth coming in. We'll see how the next few days go. I hope he starts enjoying day care. Now....what to do with all this free time?

Labour Day Weekend

The last long weekend of the summer has passed us, how very depressing. I love summer and will miss the warm weather, al fresco dining and water parks (my love for water parks only developed this year because of my little Truman). So, how did we spend the weekend?

Saturday morning I took Truman to Tim Horton's ("TH") for our weekend bagels. We were not joined by Emily, Grace and Mark, nor were we joined by Jerry. But nonetheless Truman had a great time smearing cream cheese in every crevice possible. Late Friday morning we attended Jake's first birthday party. HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY JAKE!!! Truman had fun in the ultimate play room and devoured his special cupcake. Truman would sincerely like to apologize for also eating some of Jake's cupcake as well. Unfortunately, I did not manage to get a picture of the birthday boy, how very sad. We then headed to the Sullivan's where we were joined by the Thornton's, CK (who was visiting from Cincinnati) and Kevin (whom I have not seen in over a year). I think we (the families who have children) may have tipped the scales in helping CK decide not to have children. As you can imagine it was a busy house with many little children running and screaming about!

Sunday afternoon once Jerry returned from golf we headed downtown to the Eaton Center so that Truman could work on a much needed factum. He managed to get it done quickly so that Jerry and I did not have to spend too much time at the Eaton Center! Later that evening we took Truman out for dinner on a patio and then to Mel Lastman Square to do some dancing and running around. Truman fell asleep so quickly after a hard day of work!

This morning we went to the zoo with Nanny, Oopa, Aunt T, Uncle Pat and Aunt Misty. Truman loved walking around and checking out the animals. Mostly he loved the water park and had a great time, despite falling within the first few seconds. We then headed to Nanny and Oopa's for a BBQ - delish!

Later this afternoon we had a yummy dinner at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Grandpa and Truman had such a great time playing with the hose, we had to strip Truman down because he was soaking wet. Truman did not seem to mind and wanted to continue to play in the water. Our little fish. He looked especially classy wearing just a diaper and a towel at dinner!