Happy Birthday to Jeff 🎈

Today Jeff is celebrating a milestone birthday – happy 40th to my sweet husband, daddy to our two girls, and all around monsterific man 🧟‍♂️

There are many updates to report. Every week I mean to say more than I do, but I run out of time. So I will try to include something in each of the next few posts until I am sort of caught up.

We have renovated the area in our bedroom where the Jacuzzi tub used to be. It is currently serving as Linden‘s “bedroom,“ and we have her sleeping in her own crib in that space. We are doing some gentle “sleep training“ to help her sleep better. It seems to be working, despite her having had a cold and then learning how to sit up in bed but how to not lay back down. Things aren’t perfect, but after we go to bed for the night she is mostly waking up to feed only once before waking up for the day.

Eventually we plan to move Linden into her own bedroom, which is the room that used to be our guest room. We have purchased a pull out couch which is in our “TV“ room, a back room with a door that will serve well as a guest room once we don’t have an extra bedroom anymore.

Here are some favourite recent photos:

Happy Thanksgiving!

Up here in Canada it’s Thanksgiving, so Happy Thanksgiving to all the Canadians 🍁  We had a potluck with friends yesterday, and our own family celebration today. I am over full, but looking forward to more pumpkin pie.

It feels like past week has been excruciatingly long. Poor Linden has been teething and I don’t remember teething being nearly this bad with Maren. Her second top tooth popped through overnight last night, and today has been a much better day than the past few. I hope we get a little bit of a break, but I can see the next teeth starting to appear.

Despite all this, I have a whole bunch of great photos from the past week. Here are a few of my favorites:

New appliances

Last week we got all new kitchen appliances. New dishwasher, microwave, range, and refrigerator.  The ones that came with the house were probably about 25ish  years old. I didn’t realize how bad they were until we got new ones. We thought that getting new appliances was kind of silly because the ones we had worked, but it is amazing to be able to have the dishwasher running and still have a conversation. Or have the microwave running and still have a conversation.  And to have an oven light that works. And a freezer that doesn’t accidentally get stuck open. I feel like we are living in luxury.

 Linden has been having a bit of a tough time lately, and today we could see that her two top middle teeth are about to come through. It seems like teething is pretty rough for her.  With only two down and two more coming, I think we are going to be dealing with teething for quite some time. Poor kiddo.