does she hear what i hear?

Corrina had another hearing test today, and again the results were inconsistent and she still has liquid/congestion in her ear, so one of the tests was unable to be performed. We were referred onto the next phase of testing because the audiologist thought we were benefit from further testing. The nest set of tests will repeat what has been done, checking for liquid levels and drainage, checking responses to noises coming out of speakers, plus they will place electrodes behind Corrina's ears, put little headphones into her ears and check exactly how her brain/inner ear responds to noise/sound. She has to be asleep for this test. I will post closer to the date, but please pray for us on Jan 26th, next friday, as we take her for this test. We will skip her morning nap in hopes that she will sleep while there so we can test her accurately. Sleep is required because in order to do this test the child has to be very still and quiet, so obviously with a baby, asleep!!
I am not really worried about what the results will be, hearing or not. There are a few programs that have speech/hearing therapy for children her age. One even has a little preschool program so she could interact with other children that have hearing impairment. I am not worried about the costs because i am sure we would qualify for government support. Corrina is such a clever child, i doubt that this would hold her back. It would be a challenge, yes, for the whole family, but challenges build character and strengthen hope in God (Romans 5:4).

On the pretty side of life, we have our wonderful photos back and i would like to share a few!

I went to school

I went to school today. I got to the building, and took the elevator (small school, with few stairs. i want to take the stairs ONE FLOOR down, but can't find them. dumb) to the basement. I left my coat, mitts, hat, scarf in my locker and went to the third floor. I left my lunch (in a pink bag) in the fridge that i was told i was allowed to use. I went to the second floor (if i could find those stairs i would be like 5 lbs lighter already), and went to class. We all introduced our selves, but really, the person sitting next to us introduced us. I was the only new person in the class. The teacher forgot to let my partner introduce me. Ha.
I sat, and learned (every the teach said i had already read in the text book. i hate that). I went and got my lunch and hid in the library and read for my wednesday class. my baby is crying now in her crib (corrina play time is over i guess)

I went to school.

Janie

From Ontario

We arrived for a visit in Ontario on tuesday. It is friday night now. The time has gone by so quickly, but has been so great. It is so nice to have more people around a table, see Dave go off with guy friends for an evening of games and hanging out, eat delicious food and spend time with Chris and Mary (grandma and grandpa), see Corrina getting to know her family better, and visit lots with D, S & J

I don't have any pictures to upload. I will have some when i arrive home though!

Tomorrow we are having a Christmas style turkey lunch. FYI Dave was too sick on Christmas to actualy eat the food, so Mary offered to make a meal. We had wanted to do this anyway so we are thankful that we can gather with some friends and chow down. I am sure we will have pictures and a report on this when we get home as well.

The feilds are brown and green, not white. The sky drops cool wet water, not frozen, six pointed crystals. Very nice!
I am going to finish off making my little quilt. It is doll sized, and cute. Now i have the skills! Can't wait to do some sewing in the spare time i will have (in two to three years, when i am done school)!
Sorry this little report isn't too exciting for y'all, but that's that.

Will i learn?

Here is a list of things i am hoping to learn in the next, let's say, MONTH:

- to make a simple quilt, with the help of the world's best Mother-in-law, Mary! (she really is the most amazing women, such a prayer warrior, full of wisdom, great to just chat with, and talented at making quilts and Christmas pudding!) - where to buy real wool felt in canada... any leads? I have looked at most of our fabric stores, but am unsuccessful. Is there a store where you live that sells real wool felt? Or any good websites that you know of? -to toilet train Corrina. I am not too serious yet, but i would like to start making toilet sits part of her day! Exciting! I guess the day care will be doing a majority of the work, but i will do my part too. -to prioritize my time at school (YES, I am back at school now. I even have an assignment that i am going to work on this afternoon while dave hangs with babe) -to make soup. What is your favorite soup recipe.. leave me a comment/link please!

I could make a few more up, but i think that is enough for one month.
If you are reading this and would like to consider yourself tagged, please throw up a list of what you want to learn in the next month

I have a Pumpkin Spice Latte waiting for me in the microwave. Why there you ask? Well, i keep forgetting to drink it and it gets cold. Now's the time though.

Just for laughs

Me and dave had some adjustments made on our faces.. now we match better!

Dave didn't really like the change.. and he wanted big hair, so the next logical step was...

And i just love teeth...well mine at least

Really when it comes down to what i really want from life.. well, i just want to look like an alien... working on the green thing still..


we were having a little too much fun with the 'photo booth' on our new mac! Come take a picture of YOURSELF at our house if you want!

were on our way...

A song: We're on our way, we're on our way, we're on our way, on our way to GRANDMA AND GRANDPA's farm (well, house really)!

We are taking an impromptu visit out east. West Jet seat sales, gotta love em!

See you there, maybe?!

We had a very mellow Christmas, but it was good! We exchanged a few presents, were invited for dinner and enjoyed every delicious morsel-well i who was well did- and were blessed with quick medicine for Baby Corrie's ear infection. I cannot imagine living in a country where something as curable as an ear infection might cause a baby to die. If we were not able to see a doctor (quickly, when we wanted, in a week, or even a month), be able to zip over to the pharmacy (oh, and there was a pharmacy at the clinic, but we chose to go to one that already had our info in their system... some people don't even have one in their village, town, country, let alone many to choose from), and start baby on meds she would have continued to be in pain, vomit all food and water, and probably die from and ear infection. How awful that a simple ear infection (which isn't really all that serious to any North American mother... baby takes yummy meds, baby gets better) can kill. Plus there are numerous other diseases with much harsher symptoms and effects which kill countless children everyday. It makes me so sad. This is what i am going to do.


On the lighter side of things:
I now have a cold. Boo. We are not healthy, but we sure are over tired! It is finally snowing again in winnipeg. The flakes are gentle, chilly, and pretty. I love when you can see the points of real snow flakes. Blows me away.
Dave is reading a comic book he bought for himself with some christmas money.
We still haven't received our photos back, this you don't have a card from us yet. Sorry. As soon as they come that will be my priority.
I am going to update my craft blog now.

Happy new Years to you!

Corrina finally has enough hair to style in the bath-tub

She wasn't actually interested in the Christmas tree or presents, so we plopped her down and got her into the idea! After that we pulled down the soft ornaments that were hung low for babies (and kitties)!

sick

Corrina's 'flu' was still not gone by monday, Christmas, and the vomitting was continuing. We went to the clinic and it turns out she has severe ear infections in both ears. She is on antibiotics of course, but still isn't keeping food down... well, applesauce is staying down, but can that really be considered food when that is all she has eaten for 6 days. Poor babe. Please pray for her if you think of us.

Dave is sick as well, i don't know with what. Something like the flu i suppose. He is run down and sore, and also not able to eat very much. This has been an odd Christmas.
On the bright side Dave gave me tickets to see "Peter Pan" at the ballet tonight, of course with him. We have a sitter and hopefully dave will be able to sit through the show without feeling too poorly.
Me, you ask? I'm just tired and trying to get a shower and a walk in today. Hope they happen, they would help me out!

I'll post more when we are all better later!

A Colvinson Quiz

We have little riddle for you:

5 Heaving throws up
4 Hours napping
3 pairs of dirty pants
2 loads of laundry
And...a partridge in a pear tree!

Can you guess what has been going on at our this Christmas Eve Eve Eve night and Christmas Eve eve Day??

Announcement: I am done Christmas shopping, but haven't even begun to put together Christmas cards. A little backwards this year. You WILL get a picture and a card!!!

Instead of a buy nothing CHristmas we decided to have a buy less Christmas at our home. We also had a more-homemade Christmas and shared our crafting abilities with friends.

Dave put up our Christmas Village over the weekend. It is beautiful, i love it, and it reminds me of being a child. At our house my mom would instruct us to collect a few of our toys to place on puffs of cotton batting/stuffing. Of course lights shone through from underneat creating a beautiful, cartoony glow. The toy that always made it to the village was our Ewoke play set. I'm talking the original from the Ewoke/star wars movies... created sometimes in the 70's or 80's. My mom saved this play set and all it's parts, and now it is the central piece in our Family Christmas Village. Dave did an extraordinary job setting up the display. Each little group of toys has a story line, a song, and a task! Very involved! Thanks dave, i love you. I can't wait until we can have corrina bring her favorite toys for the Christmas village. I imagine in a few years if will spread over our kitchen table!


Last week we were out at Christmas Shing digs almost every night. Corrina was home one night out of 7 or 8. Absolutely too much coming and going, but none the less a lot of fun. We even attened a Christmas party at a extraveagent home where servers took our coats and shoes, poured our drinks and carried trays offering delivciously obscure H'orderves. Our pastor's wife at church gave Corrina a cute little Christmas dress. I will snap a photo next time she is dressed up. For now here are some pictures of her playing on her new push car, coloring (both her face and her paper), and wearing too-big rubber boots that Candace spotted at the thrift store. Actually, i had one of my most sucessful thrift store runs last week. I found two awesome wool coats, lots of Dave (currently wrapped under the tree), and many cute things for Corrina.
Oh yes, back to pictures..

Do you see what i see? A nice shade of green in the corner of her mouth. Last week at daycare Corrina colored her very own black moustache on her upper lip using the classic licorice smelly marker. I had just dropped her off and she was already into the coloring! I think she likes to taste the markers and crayons more than make art with them! I just hope the daycare gets crayon soon, and i am not too sure about getting marker off of leather robeez. Maybe spray and wash will work! I think you can see her top teeth in this picture if you look closley.

Not the new Christmas dress, but the new christmas push car (from Grandma Judy... babies get lots of early presents!) She can actualy push herself both forward and backwards on this thing. She has also mastered getting off, which just means she leans over until she and the car topple over, then she crawls away happily! (those shoes are also from the thrift store. Really great day, i'm telling ya!)



our favorite girl Bre visited us

New...

The sentance that follows is only partialy true. I have been composing this post on both computers... read on...

Imac! This post is coming to you from our new imac computer. We bought it so dave could develope his animation skills on a computer that has many more capabilities than our old (sitting right beside me) computer. It feels very odd to be on this one, while the other one is just inches away, staring me longlingly in the face. Ahhboooo. Poor old compy. We will keep it around though because it has years and years of dave's art projects on it.
Oh no, i was just looking at the menu bar for this blog post and the only option avaliable to me is "photos'. Well, at least that one is there. I wonder why that is. Hmmm. Not that i use any of the other ones anyways.
I will try to add photos, but i don't really know where they live yet on this computer so i might not find them. You will know if i did or didn't!
Today i am working on wrapping gifts, and putting together things that need to be mailed. We have an event out EVERY night this week, a little too much for me, but all are important so i hope i can accomplish a fair amount in this next hour or so.
Corrina is at day care playing her little heart out. There is a very noisey plane flying overhead. I hate that sound because i often think something dangerous is about to happen.
Anywho, picture time. maybe.

I made a little reversible dress for baby corrie. It is a tad too wide (i am so not good at sewing without a pattern), but generally cute. I had such a great time creating the details, learning to sew button holes, and trying my hardest to do a neat job. I often rush through projects but i took time to complete this one with careful stiches of love.

Dave and I had our hair cut just over the weekend. We both like our new tresses.

One last note: Hello to everyone! I have been reading blogs but not making time to leave thoughts and comments. This goes out especialy to family, whose adventures and photos we have been enjoying! and oh.. we are just waiting for our family photos to be sent from the photographer and then your Christmas cards will come, baring photos and creativity. Love to all.

a list

What we have been doing this week:

1. not blogging
2. making mini chocolate marble bread loaves
3. finding old craft projects and ideas; finishing them
4. not working on current craft projects and christmas gifts
3. i know i just typed three again, ops
5. tending to a sick Corrina and Dave. I am not sure which is worse. Both stayed home on monday and tuesday; both are back at daycare and work now. I miss them (a little... you see, now i have more time to work on their gifts!)
6. getting sick myself! Well, i guess i won't be working on Christmas gifts!
7. checking out this website and ooooggling over all the craft and beading books.
8. Finally blogging
9. some pictures from COrrina's life

I am not writting this post to talk about the HUGE amount of snow, large six-pointed flakes, or how i am not too sure how i am actualy going to push Corrina's stroller 20 minutes home in the very densely covered sidewalks. Nope. I am Not here to mention the fact that i cannot see the intersection at the end of my street, 20 meters away because of the white out. I won't tell you about that because if you live in BC or winnipeg, you already know that it's a marshmellow world. I wonder if weather patterns are messed up in other parts of the world. It is suppose to be 14 degrees in Toronto tomorrow. Screwy.

I am posting to show you some more of our Christmas creations. Last night we settled in to work on some our projects. I was working on baby felt shoes to match a dress i am making. Neither are quite done yet.. soon i hope though, especially if this weather keeps up! Dave went into magical creative dave land and made beautiful recycled christmas card ornaments. We have done these before, but this year we are actualy using cards instead of printing designs off the computer. Perhaps we sent you one in the mail last year (perhaps not :( )
This time he came up with the idea to dress the finished ornaments with a collection of beads.
I am so excited to be able to decorate with all the beautiful christmas cards we received last year! You can find the pattern and how to here.

I am posting some more crafting/baking pictures and ideas on Buttons and Glue!
For now i must get all winter suited up again and trek through the snow to go get my beloved Corrina!

Puppet-time Video!

Check out our video, introducing our new friend GERM! Janie made him (uuh, it?) at Brownies, and we decided to have a little fun with her creation!

PLEASE follow this link and rate the video on You Tube!
-Dave and Janie

more crafts for you!

Just a little note to let everyone know that i have put a little bit on baking up on Buttons and Glue. Also, a very simply (to keep with dave's post) christmas craft!
I am having a particularly grumpy sunday. Corrina, for reasons i still don't know, wouldn't go to bed until 11pm. She was just so wound up and i could get her to stop playing with her feet. Arrrggggg. I am super tired and irritable. I am going to watch Lord of the Rings and put up more Christmas lights. Dave is at Church all afternoon preparing with the cast for our Christmas Pagent. The hobbits will be keeping me comfortable.
Any thoughts on the relationship of Lord of the Rings to the old testament, current day, Christianity, or the world in general. I wish i had taken the course dealing with that at Prov.
Anyway, let me know.

Simpler Christmas?

I found this really neat little website from World Vision:

Meaningful Christmas

Please check it out and let me know what you think!

Now, I love the IDEA of a simplier Christmas, but it's not easy! For me, the problem is this: I LOVE Christmas decorations, baking, and presents! I love the busyness! I love the excitment! Why would I want to cut back? But then they do have a really good point: I do not love feeling obligated and guilty for not doing enough/buying enough/sending enough. And when did it all become about Stuff, anyway?

One suggestion (take note, Colvin Family!) that I really liked was the idea of a Gift exchange, so that we spend less time on STUFF and have more chance to enjoy the season. Our friend Jodi's family only allows gift-exchange presents, and they all have to be hand-made! Very nice!


So how do YOU strike a balance during the Christmas season? Less gifts? Fair-trade decorations? Email your Christmas Cards? Please leave a comment and let me know! (I'm already feeling the Yuletide Burn and it's not even December!)

-DAve

mini crisis

Today Corrina experienced her first day of Daycare. We hadn't expected this new adventure to begin until January, but when it comes to infant daycare spaces in Winnipeg you take what you can get, WHENEVER you can get it. Last friday i received a phone call from the daycare with a spot for us. I had just called them the day before to let them know that i was still interested and was looking for anything from now until January. I couldn't believe that i received a phone call one day later! Wow. What a decision to make. Should we take this spot at a perfectly located care centre (it is about a 15 minute walk from our home, 5 from my school, and 10 from dave's work), and start early, giving up my time with Corrina and straining our finances, or should we pass this one by and kick ourselves later if we don't get a spot anywhere. What if i can't go back to school/work because we don't have care. I was very unsure of what to do, and went into mini crisis mode. Oh, the stress. I hate stress.
After talking with a few people from church who know about the struggle of finding quality childcare we decided to go look at the daycare, meet the person who would be watching Corrina and then make a decision. I picked Dave up from work and we met with the director and talked the situation over. We thought about it over the weekend, and as i have already mentioned that Corrina was there today, we accepted the position.
Corrina was so excited to play with new toys and other children that i don't think she even noticed that i was over in the corner playing with other little ones and watching her interact. She has a great attention span, doesn't share, loves mirrors, shows off all her skills to any adult who will watch her, and generaly enjoys the environment. She enjoyed her day so much that when morning naptime came she did not want to sleep. She just wanted to play and be with all the other children. So, after an hour of trying to get her comfortable with her playpen i decided to feed her lunch and leave for a bit.
I wandered around the city feeling quite lost, without purpose and a little naked without a stroller and babe in front of me. I missed her, but was not worried that she was having a tough time. I stopped by my future school to met with the admissions counselor that has been helping me. We took a little tour of the city and chatted about courses and such. I am excited to get back into studying.
When i returned to the daycare a few hours later Corrina was still happily playing. She apparently had ended up sleeping for about 40 minutes (this is horrible in my opinion since she usualy takes a good 1.5 nap in the morn, and again in the afternoon.) and then just continued playing, while yawning the whole time. I hope she adjusts to her new environment and learns to sleep again.
Now that we are home she is taking a nap. I don't want her to lose all her great sleeping skills. I don't want her to be grumpy because she isn't getting enough rest. I hope something works out at daycare. I will have to be extra earnest in my prayers for her.

All in all it has been a good experience. Tomorrow i plan on leaving her for about 4 hours. I will come home and get a few things done while she learns and grows in a new environment.
That's my little story. Mini Crisis over, all is well, we hope!

Buttons and Glue

To showcase all my crafty creations i have created a new blog: Buttons and Glue. It is located at www.buttonsandglue.blogspot.com

Or... you can click on the link in my list of far away places, over to the right!
What's awaiting you there? OUR FIRST CHRISTMAS CRAFT OF THE SEASON!!!!

Take a look, and add it to your links if you would like to!

Have a creative day.

Oh, and to keep everyone happy, here is a Corrina picture:

Bad videos!

I have been trying very hard to capture some little clips of Corrina crawling, playing, and talking ('ggggrrrrrggrr', throaty noise!) but as most of you know it is hard to film little spontaneous people, especialy when all they really want is to have the camera in their own hands.
So, here are a few bad videos that get the idea across! This is primarily for family who isn't close enough to have Corrina crawl into their arms, pull herself up and their pants, and beg to be held and kissed. I know this won't do the trick but maybe it will fill your heart until the next visit with Corrina.





And if you don't have time to watch videos here are a few pictures:
Dave and I got to go on a Monday afternoon date. I finished crocheting the little caplete i am wearing, and we had decided that when i was done we should wear it out on a date. We went to winnipeg's revolving resturant. Great view of the City from 30 floors high. We stayed for one full revolution around which took at least an hour. We couldn't stop looking out at the city and pointing out places we knew and figuring out which street was which! The food was awful (lunch buffet that tastes gross) but the lovely time gazing out onto the city was wonderful. I think if we go again we will head there when it has just snowed, it is night time so the city christmas lights will be on, and in the evening in hopes of a better dinner time menu.

Corrina is an expert stander now, although she is still needing the assistance of a chair to balance herself.

It's sticking!

Outside my window the naked brown trees are being blanked in thick, white, fluffy six-pointed flakes that are finally sticking. I, like Loralie Gilmore (she's real in my world, okay!) love the first few snow falls. Slowly the snall reaches the sidewalks and gently lies down for all to enjoy. Very self sacrificing.

This year we have had a few "first" snow falls. The other two didn't stick. I think this is the one to hang around a little longer.

Last night i again mentioned to Dave that i thought it was time to bring some decorations upstairs and begin transforming our place into a magical, warm, softly lite Christmas home. He said that he wasn't 'feeling' it yet (like feelings mean anything.. really!) and that he wanted to wait until there was at least snow on the ground. Yippy, here it comes!

I am spending some time this morning (after moping my floors) looking online at one of my favorite Christmas sites: Martha Stewart (who would have guessed! I like that i am pretty predictable when it comes to my relationship with the martha site. What can i say, it's a genial place!) I am thinking of trying a few new cookie recipes this year, and i am going to make some new ornaments, mostly out of paper i think, for our home. We are also going to do our best to have a lower calorie/fat Christmas. I have alot of research to do for this idea!
I have to let you know though, that i am not the first person to be in the Christmas spirit. I am way behind my friend Sue; her home is already beginning to glisten with her christmas creativity!

Please tell me about your Christmas traditions:
what are your favorite cookies (you could even leave a link to the recipe!)
do you like to make decorations? what kind?
any thoughts about a 'Healthy Christmas'???
What do one year olds like to play with? (yes, this pertains to Christmas, for Corrina will be almost one at Christmas and i am thinking she could a new-to-her toy!)

I hope the Christmas spirit is coming your way too, if you want it there!

Wondercafe.ca and the Easy Answer Squirrel

I ran across an interesting article the other day and I thought I would share. The United Church of Canada (the largest Prodistant denomination in Canada) has launched a nation ad campaign, including magazines and television, to present themselves as a place of open-dialogue on a number of hot-button issues. The campaign is based around the launch of wondercafe.ca, a website for online discussion and where you can view both their print ads ( and EZ the Squirrel's TV Spot.

I post this because I am interested in people's response. Do you think this type of campaign will be effective? Are online forums a productive form of communication? How do you feel about open dialogue in the church on such topics as Sex, Gay Marriage and the Authority of the Bible?


If you're looking for my opinion, you can find it in the comments. But please check out the links before you do.

-Dave

Coach Z, why come you don't post no more?

Just in case anyone was wondering, the reason I (dave) have not posted in such a long long time has been largetly up my nose. To be more specifiic, I have had a sinus infection up my nose and across my face that has swollen one nostril shut, puffed out my face, and at one point half-swelled an eye closed. I looked like I had been beaten up, half felt like it, and wasn't particularly up to blogging.

In other (less mucus-filled) news, things have been all manner of up and down for me lately. I think most of the 'downs' have been sick-related, but either way. I was down last week because I held a big youth event that I was very excited about and which no one showed up to. It was dissappointing, certainly, but the worst part was that it's really left me twisting. Should I pursue this group? Do I need to change the day? The time? My advertising? Do I need to change anything? Everything? I feel really thrown for a loop, like everything's up in the air and I'm not sure where things are going to land (and where I should try to catch them or just cover my head).

Beyond the 'blah' world of infections and absentee youth, there has of course been plenty of good stuff in the last little while. Bre's Brithday Party last week was a blast, with the highlight being the custome-made adventure game that Janie and Allison designed. Very hilarious and fun.

Also, the last two weeks have been filled with far more Gaming than normal, which always makes me feel pretty good. A quick but fun game of Settlers of Catan, many games of Munchkin (a fabulous game for those who don't already know), and a hilarious edition last night of "Kung Fu Samurai on Giant Robot Island" where you create your own asian-style B-Movie filled with Ninja action, type-cast characters and bad-dubbing! My favourite part was doing a running comentary of the plot and making up the dialogue to fit the bizarre series of events!

Sumo Wrestler: We must stop Skippy the Wonder Chow before he strikes again!
Shop Keeper pushed to the edge: But how can we do anything if we stay in the house all the time? I'm pushed to the edge!
Gambler: Hey, wanna Gamble?
Shop Keeper: Shut up! Stop asking that!
Sumo Wrestler: I hate that guy!

Meanwhile, in a shady back alley, an Apachi Helocopter lands beside and innocent looking dog.

House Servant: Skippy, I brought you the plans from the house!
Skippy the Wonder Chow: Woof!
House Servant: How come no one noticed my arrival? I came in a freaking helocopter!


We laughed ourselves silly for over an hour. Great fun. Feel free to come over and play a round with us sometime.

Well, my lunch break must be over by now. Take care all!
-Dave

the cake

Today i took Corrina for the shorest walk we have ever been on. It isn't really too cold outside, or at least not half as cold as it will be come January. She was nicely bundled up and ready to face the chill and sunshine. I really really needed to get out and move my legs around. I have kept us inside all week, besides a few errands, because neither of us has felt very well. Corrina really did not like the part were i had to bundle her up, put her mittens on, and tuck blankets around her. She wiggled and fussed the whole 20 minutes we were out. Oh poor dear. Well, we still made it around the block at least on our first winter walk! We'll try again tomorrow!

I have been in a baking mood, but not an eating-all-the-baking mood. So, dave and I, more I than dave, have been contemplating looking for a second hand apartment size deep freeze. I think it would be convenient to have for when i go back to work/school so we can still enjoy baked goods, that i make now and freeze. They are good in so many ways, and today, after making little tiny zuchinni and banana muffins, i am focused on the sweeter side!

Here is the Care bear cake dave and i made for Bre! It was very tasty and so pretty to look at. It brought back many memories for all of us. Which care bear did you have?
I just tried to take a photo of Corrina playing to attach to this post, but let me tell you what happened. I got down on the floor, got her attention, pointed the camera towards her, and before i could activate the shutter she was coming towards me very determined to have the camera in her hands. When we got close enough and was not given the camera all her smiles turned into whines. I showed her the pictures that i took of her and tried to let her touch the camera a little, but folks, this was not enough. She needed to be holding and flailing the precious silver box about. I think she already knew that this was not going to happen and gave me a big pout session, then off to nap time she went! Oh my little darling. No cute photo today.

She was very busy

I had a wonderfuly productive day today, despite my dry throat and cough. I cleaned out the car and put away all the summer items that occupied the trunk: chair and kyte. I think that dave would try to fly the kyte in winter if he could. I can't wait till Corrina can run along side him with colors floating, whisping through the air. I don't really love kyte flying like he does, but i will do my best to train Corrina to! Today i also shoveled our little parking space behind our apartment. All the snow had turned to ice already beside our car, and i was slipping all over the place while trying to carry Corrina out and get her in the car. I couldn't take the chance that i might slip so i cleared all the ice with our ice pick thing! It was fun actualy. I like doing different chores! I also put away a bunch of decorations, had a wonderful lunch and dinner, and managed to make it to my mom's group in the afternoon. Feels good!
Right now Dave and Corrina are having bedtime stories on the living room floor. Dave is feeling awful because it seems he has a sinus infection. He isn't sneezing, or having a runny nose like a cold would cause. Rather he is very congested and one side of his nose is actualy visibly swollen. He has been taking 'sinus' pills throughout the day to relieve him of the headache that goes along with sinus infections and tomorrow he will visit a walk in the morning and get the real hard drugs!
Corrina was very busy last night at our halloween-Bre's birthday party, so the photos i have of her are very candid. Here is the cake we made for Bre. Dave spent about 5 hours on monday making little chocolate care bears... yup, everything on that cake is edible except the rainbow! We love bre and wanted to give her a special cake! We played games, and sent her on a scavenger type hunt game thing and ate great ethnic food made by our friends!
I was a tree, and Corrina was the woodland fairy that lived in me. Pictured here without our hats, and corrie without her fairy boots and wings!
Corrina's double chin is nicely highlighted in this photo, as is her two front teeth! She added to that mouthful just yesterday when we saw the beginning of a front top tooth just barley poking through. Also, note the plastic container, which i could not take from her all day without much crying and whinning. Oh, personality!