6 months old!

As I write this, I still can't believe our "little" man is 6 months old. In 6 months Sam has reached a whopping 24lbs, and 29.5". He is currently wearing 18-24 month clothing, and can often swap Luke for tops (Luke is only 29lbs). As a whole he is a very, very happy little boy, but is at the frustrated age of wanting to join the fun of Katie and Luke but can't crawl, at least can't move forward. He tries very hard to move, but only succeds in pushing himself backward. It will come and I know when it does it will make me happy and sad. At six months the real baby days are past, but it is exciting to watch him and his huge personality growing.

On the farm...kinda

This past weekend, Red Deer hosted the largest agricultural trade show is Canada. It is actually one of the biggest in North America. We decided to visit and let Luke soak up all the tractors and combines he could handle. Apparently we underestimated him. The adults got tired way before him... I am still not sure if he would have gotten tired of it actually. We all had a great time looking at the equipement and climbing on them and taking a look. Unfortunately you won't be able to really get a grasp of how big all this equipement is, but if you look at some of the photos, you will see that many of the wheels are as tall as most men. We weren't able to see much of the show due to size and time of day for little people, but it was enough to hopefully get us by until next year.

Halloween 2012

Pretty self explanatory, but here is our little mechanic, spider (the only time I will say a spider is adorable) and a bride (I know don't say it).

Victoria Weekend and Race

I know... I am really behind on my blogging. I would love to use the excuse that I am just really busy, and I am... but I'm not. I'm sure that will make no sense to some of you, but to the other moms it may make perfect sense.

For the thanksgiving weekend, my cousin Carmen and her family and our family packed up the cars and travelled to Vancouver and Victoria for the long weekend. Carmen and I had been training for the half marathon here while Andrea trained for it in Vancouver. We had a good trip out and were able to stay with the Breedveld family the night before we caught our ferry. It was a great evening in a full house since they also had family visiting. The evening was way too quick, actually on that note, the whole weekend was, but I'm glad we got what we did. We met up with Andrea and family the next morning and were on our way to Victoria. We had a great weekend. The weather was great, the kids had fun without any fighting and the husbands seemed to have a good time even with 7 kids combined! The race was beautiful, and I must note this is my favourite race of all the 13 I have now done. Time wasn't great, but the whole point of this race was to complete it, have fun, and most of all do it with Andrea and Carmen. I am getting choked up just thinking about racing with Andrea again. It had been a long time since we ran side by side in a race. Ladies, I had a wonderful time and look forward to doing it again. Next time though I am dragging Carolyne along too!!!

Princess and the Pea

A couple of years ago I made a quilt for Katie. In short, she doesn't use it. She has a baby quilt that is flannel that I also made for her and that is what she slept with each night with the appropriate size quilt bunched up at the end of the bed. Her reason, it wasn't fuzzy! So a few weeks ago I made her a flannel duvet cover that I sewed felt flowers onto. The pattern for that is HERE. Finally Katie is using a quilt that fits and she loves her flowers. Just a note if you try this, I placed a button in the center of each flower with ribbon and tied that thru the duvet so I can remove them when I need to wash the duvet.