What is it about Cheerios?

I sat down to check my email and heard a sound. I looked up to see this: 
 
She had pulled the box out of the cupboard and tried to fill her own bowl. I have similar pictures from 2 years ago, although I can't find them right now, of Linaya doing the same thing! The Cheerios people sure know what they're doing to get kids so hooked on these things!

Another cute moment: Gianna found a new hiding place, in the recycling bin!
 

Bathroom renos

Ever since we moved into this house we have wanted/needed to renovate the main bathroom, but couldn't decide exactly what we wanted so we just put it off. Well, we finally had to be decisive to take advantage of the home reno grant. It was a long process (and I'll never shop at Emco again!) but it is finally done. Well, almost...We just need to put up the decorative things now, like shelves and pictures and the mirror. 
 
I looked around a lot to find a mirror I liked, and couldn't find the right size, so Roy said "Why don't you just make one?" So, I cut down the mirror that had been there, and I'm doing stained glass corners to frame it. This is the very rough cut out version of the bottom corners. 
 

I just realized I didn't take a picture of the best part: the tub! We got a jetted tub with additional backjets, and I love it! Linaya also likes the jets, especially the part about how just a drip of bubble bath creates a mountain of bubbles when you turn on the jets! There will be pictures of this at some point, I'm sure!

Gianna update

 

Since Gianna turned 1 right in the middle of the H1N1 scare, she didn't get her one year check up or shots till 15 months. She's doing very well, and measured 28 3/4 inches long, and 17 pounds. That's the 40th percentile for height and 5th for weight. I think she's quite close in size to what Linaya was at that age. The doctor was impressed with her language abilities, as she knows Mom, Dad, Abby, Grandma, Grandpa, milk, up, please, sheep, Patience, Josiah, and probably a few more I'm forgetting. She's still not walking, although she's forgotten and taken up to 5 steps at a time once in a while. She's just being extremely stubborn about not wanting to walk! Gianna enjoys doing whatever Linaya is doing, and had fun playing playdough. She was starting to enjoy colouring but I haven't let her do much of that as she chewed quite a bit off of a crayon and would just suck the marker tips if we let her. She has been sleeping fairly well, except for after her shots, and now is trying to go down to one nap a day.

(I realize most of you probably aren't interested in all of this, but the blog is a record for us more than anything so I'm writing down things we may want to remember some day.)

Gymnastics

 

 

 

 

We signed Linaya up for gymnastics through the city leisure services after Christmas. Well, so far they play a lot of tag and her favorite part is playing on the mats before class actually starts. So, we took the kids to Flip! last week, where they actually have trampolines and balance beams and things. The kids had a lot of fun. Abby's favorite was getting bounced by the big kids! (Gianna got to stay home because she'd had 4 shots the day before and was a grouch!)

Field trip

 
 
 
 
While we were out at the farm, we got to go on a field trip to Wendell's to see his animals. Linaya's favorite was Max, the dog, but we also got to see sheep and a llama, and she got to pet a pigeon! It was quite the experience for her, and we look forward to going back during lambing time! Thanks Wendell!

New Year's

We went to my parents' for a few days at New Year's. Grandma gave the girls a tent and inflatable chairs. Linaya was excited, can you tell? 
 
We also enjoyed playing outside. 
 

Christmas

 
 
 
 
In an attempt to catch up on the blogging, I'm now up to Christmas! We spent 2 nights out at Al and Nancy's, and the kids enjoyed time with their cousins.
Before Christmas, Roy found this on line, and said I should make some. So I made one for Josiah, Gianna, Gloria and Patience. Then I forgot to take take pictures before I wrapped them, so I only got these ones as they opened them.

December

There wasn't much time between getting back from our trip and Christmas, but we had some fun. Linaya enjoyed playing in the snow. 
 She also enjoyed making her gingerbread house.
 We went to the Western Development museum one day, and Linaya was thrilled to take her own pictures! The last one is one of hers. Pretty good I think!
 

Trip pics, part 3

And a few more.  
This is what we got to come home to! We missed our girls.
 
 

More trip pictures

Apparently I can only post 4 pics per post, so here are some more.