Monday, July 29, 2013

Year 2 Update: Happy Birthday Payton


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.
 

 

 

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