Yes, its officially here.
The terrible twos!!!
This is a year I hate to love. I love, love it so much because this is the year Payton will become more and more
an independent person. As her speech continues
to improve we see glimpses of how she will tackle challenges in life, how she
will express her love, laughter and gratitude.
How she will interact with her sister (which is proving to be hilarious
I may add) and other things. Essentially
we’ll begin seeing how the world will see her and how she sees the world. For this, I LOVE this age.
Age 2, so many wonderful things, but, this is where I start
realizing that my little baby girl is beginning to grow up. Beginning to spread her wings and learning
that I am NOT the centre of her universe.
I will become less needed in her life and less her everything. Such an absolute blessing to know that my
child is growing up. Such a heartbreaker to know one day she will leave. Yes, at age two I start to fear this. I was the same way with Livy.
In saying that, I would not trade it for anything else? My beautiful girls are healthy, happy and if
we continue with being as lucky as we are, they will grow up.
Payton’s birthday yesterday was a small family affair. Livy’s will be the same and around mid-August
we’ll have a combined birthday party for both girls.
Here are some pictures of our family time:
Payton continues to do well.
She’s growing like a weed and is so cute some days I feel like I want to
steal her from the world and keep her all to myself. She’s talking a mile a minute and as is always
so fun, watching how a little 2 year olds mind works is simply fascinating. We got her 24-month development status in the
mail and I need to go through it to see how she’s stacking up. Honestly I can’t imagine having any development
concerns with this one.
Health wise she’s doing great other than another bout of pneumonia
back in May. So that’s 4 in total for
her. This winter we’re going to be
diligent with the asthma inhaler and hope that it minimizes any chest
colds/flus. Its seemed to help this past
year and only when we took her off it did she develop pneumonia.
Her reflux continues and she continues to respond well with
the medication. We try every once in a while
to wean her off but within a night or so she’s up in the middle of the night
with reflux. So for now we
continue.
Olivia is growing so much. She’s outgrown her terrible’er
threes and is now so easy to have around.
She’s not quite weaned from her naps and its obvious if she’s lacking in
sleep. Usually she can do 2 nap-less
days in a row before the Lucile Ball personality comes shining through.
We started her ‘racing’ her bike on the BMX track. Its only ~4 little hills that they ride down/over
but she loves it and she’s doing it on her pedal bike, a big feat from the
point we started to where she is now. She even ‘won’ one last time she
raced. Usually she waits till all the
riders leave the start point then starts.
That generally equates to mid pack or last finishes though she did squeak
out a ‘win’. Still, we haven’t told her yet what “winning” is simply because we
want her focused on the ‘right’ parts of the event which is riding your bike
with rules and riding with others. We
figure she’ll learn the ‘win’ part soon enough with or without any effort on
our part.
One thing we are doing with Livy health wise is getting her
assessed for sleep apnea. I often hear
her at night stop breathing and she’s a decently loud snorer so there’s the
chance that its affecting her sleep (which may explain why she’s still so dependent
on napping). We’re still waiting to hear
about timing but it’s in the works at a minimum.
Dwayne and I are doing well despite feeling the pinch that
has had a strangle hold on the exploration and mining industry over the last 2
years. We’re both still working though
we continue to be on watch that things may be coming to an end (job wise not
the pinch on the industry). It’s hard to
believe that I would start to focus on work outside the resource industry but
the reality is that this industry works on cycles and when I started back in
1999, a number of geologists were doing other work to ‘get by’ until the next
resource swing. Time will tell. For now we both still enjoy the companies we’re
with and hope that we can stay put. If
life causes us to adjust, then we’ll do just that.
We’ve had an awesome summer weather wise and we’ve both
spent some good quality time on our bikes.
