January 29th, 2010

The Last Time

Baby firsts are marked with fanfare and photos, joy and excitement. But the last time? It sneaks away on you. The last time your baby crawled instead of walking, the last time your baby said a word in that cute little baby way, before learning to say it “right”. The last time he slept in his crib.

Two days ago I mentioned to my husband that I wanted him to set up the toddler bed for our 2yo. I didn’t know if he was ready for it, but I wanted to introduce it to him. My husband misunderstood what I wanted and not only set up the toddler bed, but also took apart the crib. The crib that has been the bed for all three of my children in their infancies. The crib I have leaned into so many nights, to pat a back gently or to beg a baby to please, please, please go back to sleep. The crib my mom bought for us when we just half-way through our first pregnancy, and we set up with such anticipation. The crib we no longer need, and cannot even give away, as it is a drop side rail crib, no longer considered particularly safe.

I thought it would be exciting to move my baby up to a big boy bed, but I find myself tearing up as I realize the baby days are truly over in my house. Well, you know, other than that my “big” boy at 2 years old still is addicted to his soother AND still has a bedtime bottle AND still wakes regularly at night! And don’t get me wrong, I have no desire to have another baby, I am more than happy not to start fresh with all that comes with newborns. It’s just a little bittersweet watching all of my babies growing up so quickly on me – just like everyone told me they would.

Well, let’s mark the end of crib days with a picture shall we? Bye, bye crib, you served us well.

Little Boy In The Crib

May 25th, 2009

Baby’s First Haircut

I took all three boys yesterday to our favorite kids haircut salon, Beaners, in St. Albert.  I actually was only planning on getting Big Boy and Little Boy haircuts, I love baby’s sweet curly hair and wasn’t quite ready to make any change!

So Big Boy and Little Boy got their standard cuts – fairly short but long enough on top for a faux-hawk (with color spray gel of course!)

Big boy w/new cut

Little boy w/new cut

While the two older boys were having their hair cut though, I was chatting with the great stylist and she was commenting on Baby Boy’s cute curls. I told her about my hesitancy to get it cut yet, and she suggested at least doing some spray in conditioner to moisturize it, to prevent the curls from getting frizzy. She sprayed some on for me and as she put it in his hair she commented that he really could use at least a little trim.

So I took the plunge and let her trim Baby Boy’s pretty curls – and yay! Still super cute and curly. Probably not even a noticeable difference to anyone but me or DH! Plus she took some of the clippings and put them in an envelope for his baby book and gave us a certificate for his first haircut. So cute and I even actually put them in the baby book already.

Baby Boy - First Haircut!!

So now I have three super cute kiddos all ready to go on their vacation with nice light hair!

3 boys

March 23rd, 2009

Family Swimming Fun

DH and I took our boys to the wonderful local pool tonight (it’s actually one of those all-inclusive leisure centres – pool, gym, soccer fields etc). We had a great time – they really all love the water so much. It reminded me I need to get the older two into some more swim lessons pronto!

Anyway I just had to particularly note the great new thing (new to me anyway, lol) they had there for the baby. It was a SwimWays floatation device and it let him feel independent in the water and gave DH and I an easier time of it in also managing the older boys and playing with them. We were there over an hour and the baby barely wanted out of the float – although he did love going down the big waterslide with mom and dad! I so need to buy myself one of those babies for when we swim other places.

And can I say how proud I was of my two older boys – they finally found a little courage and trusted the lifejackets to hold them up while they took turns jumping into the deep end. It sure gave mommy a workout treading water for 20 minutes while they jumped over and over again!

It was a lot of fun and I definitely found a Monday night at the pool was much nicer than a busy Saturday or Sunday afternoon!