Adventures in Painting

I’ve not been able to get Luke to sit still long enough to do any crafts to date. Unless he’s standing, he won’t even pick up a crayon. And he’s plays with playdough squatting on the floor.

But! I tried locking him into his high chair and we were able to successfully paint for almost 30 minutes!!!

Here are some of the shots:

He did great! He’s decided he doesn’t like the taste of paint, which is a good thing

Update on Baby Cairns #2

I was in for another ultrasound today – and find out any results tomorrow. But I thought I’d share the latest photos of baby Cairns #2 They’re getting tougher to make out as the baby’s getting bigger and more squished.

A face-shot

Profile

Thumbs up!

Happy New Year

 

These are the last two pictures we took of Luke in 2009!

Sporting his Man Utd shirt!

and standing at his chalk board wishing everyone a happy 2010!

it has been a fun 2009 – here is to big changes in 2010!!

Nativity Play

Last Sunday, we had our first Christmas nativity play at Crestwicke.

A few things to note:

• The second portion of lines that the angel was to recite were not given to her; hence the “winging it”
• If you ask Luke what a camel says, a camel’s tongue just goes in-out, in-out; to a naive toddler a donkey costume could be misconstrued as a camel, therefore any attempts to communicate with said donkey would resemble the communication he would have with a camel
• Any attempts by the cow to distract the donkey from activity resulted in a loss of control over the lamb

With these caveats in mind, please enjoy:

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!

We’ve got lots of picture already from today – but we wanted to do a blog post of Luke’s bedroom present he got from Mummy and Daddy.

Now presenting:

This is a cross stitch I did for Luke when he was born:

Here’s the view from the doorway:

Here’s a picture of Toby:

And of Thomas:

And decals we got from eBay:

And his car rug:

And finally, Luke’s reaction to his new room (I apologize for the annoying voices in the background):

Christmas-y Update!

It’s only a Christmas-y update because it’s still only Dec 23rd. However, there’s a lot of catching up to be done!

The first weekend of December we set out to get our Christmas tree. Despite unsuccessful attempts at going to a u-cut place, we ended up going to Grobe Nursery – highly recommended indeed as their trees are all stored inside – away from the elements (of course this year, it didn’t matter, but last year we took Luke on his first tree selection trip in a blizzard).

Luke’s been fantastic with the Christmas tree this year!! He asks for the “ights” to be turned on every night

Then, this past Sunday we had the Crestwicke nativity play. Luke was a sheep – but ended up being more of a playful lamb.

We’ll have a video soon – but unfortunately we’re in need of a certain cable first!

The long and short of it is, lambs don’t sit still. Neither do donkeys. And Mary can be territorial about baby Jesus when donkeys want to play with her son

We also got to visit with our friends the Lams. It was great to see them! Luke loved playing chase … it’s a favourite game of his – regardless of whether or not anyone’s chasing him, or there’s anyone to chase!

A brief aside on Luke. Now that he’s mastered his sorting blocks puzzle box – he’s taken to stacking the pieces! Quite the impressive monument if I do say so myself!

And then there was tonight. Our annual pre-Christmas Eve tradition. The Making of the Bread

For those that don’t know, we have an Ulster Fry on Christmas Eve. A very healthy combination of fried potato farls, fried soda farls, eggs, bacon, sausage, and beans. This year the beans are a “proper” recipe of Boston Baked Beans. Here’s the preview of tomorrow’s calorie-free yumminess:

(To those that want to see one – this is a “belly picture” of me – today I’m 29 weeks pregnant!

Soda bread on the left, potato bread on the right

I wasn’t pre-planning properly, so I had to transfer the beans out of our bean pot to cool for overnight. They’ll be back in the pot in the morning:

Well that’s all for today! We’re beat! Luke’s new room is finally all done! There will be pictures very soon – but he should see it first!

Not quite Tiger

Given the popularity of news about golf, I thought I’d share another recent video of Luke. He was given a golf set by Nanny and Grandad. He LOVES it!

Sorry it’s a long video! (2 mins) but it’s adorable! Gotta love Luke’s scowls whenever he realizes the camera’s taping him!

A new addition to the Cairns family!

No, not “that” kind of addition – we’re still some weeks away …

But we did get “Bobby” the fish – a present from Nanny and Grandad (Nono).

Here’s a video of Luke and Bobby (I apologize in advance for my annoying voice!):

Halloween

I know! I know! I’m so late posting these! I apologize

On Halloween, we went over to my parents’ place for a pumpkin carving contest. Luke and Chelsea were dressed up for Halloween:

Chelsea was a beautiful flower:

And Luke was Iggle Piggle from In the Night Garden:

Then the pumpkin carving contest began:

Tim did a pumpkin version of Iggle Piggle

Unfortunately though I’m an idiot and forgot to take pictures after the carving was all done

Pumpkin Carving – Round One

On October 30th, we set about carving our pumpkins. Last year, we got Luke to at least touch the pumpkin seeds/guts – this year he was having none of it!

Here’s Luke keeping a watchful eye over Tim as he draws the face onto our pumpkins:

This is the face I get if I ever ask him to “smile” for the camera:

He’s not impressed at all!

Here’s a picture of Luke and his Nanny (Tom and Sylvia are staying with us!)

Luke inspecting the results:

The finished product: