Wow.. Nearly a Year...

Wow!!! Its been nearly a year since posting about my girlies... how can you tell I've gone back to work???!! LOL

Here's a little update from the past year.

Anika is now in Grade 2. She's loving school even more this year. She's come a long ways, learning to read and improving daily. Tonight brought such a smile to my face when she said "mom... can you read this book to me at bed. Its too hard for me." I said "Absolutely!! But... I want you to try. I'll read a line then you read a line." She said "Ok.. but I want to start because the first line is easy!" I'm proud to say that Anika read 5 pages of her Fancy Nancy book tonight with little or no help at all. This is a super huge deal in our house!! YAY Anika!!

Anika is also doing gymnastics again this year. She has moved up from JP1 last year to JP2, which means a larger time commitment from 4 hours per week to 10 hours per week. I love sitting and watching her... especially when she gets a new move on her own... a proud moment for both of us. She was quite surprised that I was still able to do a cartwheel and handstand without breaking a hip!

Where to start with Sophia.... well, she's still quite the little spit fire. Everyday proves to be more exciting than the day before. She's talking a mile a minute and definitely knows how to get what she wants. She is nothing like her older sister who feared her parents (lol), didn't have to lead the way, and was a little cautious. Anytime she can mock one of us, stick her tongue out in protest of doing something or run the opposite direction she will. She fears nothing, and loves to be the centre of attention. She is a happy little girl (most of the time), and a very girlie girl (much different from a year ago - remember stomping on her dolls...). We still struggle nightly with her sleeping, and can honestly say that she is still not sleeping through the night... and people wonder why I'm a little testy at times - 25 months of being woken up at least once or should say one billion times per night might do that to a person.

Sophia recently had a birthday party with all her friends and family. I believe 27 people - including (2) 7 year olds, (1) 6 year old, (2) 4 year olds, (5) 2 and under. Needless to say, the house was busy but they all played really well together! She was spoiled beyond belief, but soaked up every moment of being in the spotlight.

Now time for a Mamma to brag on her little girl... at 24 1/2 months, I can say that my little girl is successfully potty trained. I took November 12 & 13th off of work to give us an extra long weekend to get this task completed.... hard to believe that on the November 13th, 2009 (our first day of potty training) my little girlie sat on the potty and diapers were history. She had one accident first thing in the morning - not really know what was going on, and the rest of the day marched to the potty every time she had to go.... EVEN WITH POOP!! In 5 days, she's had 2 accidents. I think those are pretty good stats if I do say so myself!! Today was the first day that she wore pants all day (we did the bare bum approach), and had no accidents!! I tell ya, I don't miss the struggle of changing diapers. And she has the cutest bum in her little leggings with just panties underneath... I think I'm going to fill her stocking with super cute panties from gymboree at Christmas!!

What's new with us? Hmmmmm about 6 months ago I made the decision to leave the printing industry and take a job with 100.7 HANK FM and 810AM CKJS as an advertising sales rep. Its been a hard transition, but definitely a rewarding one. My work family is incredible to say the least. Do I ever miss doing what I was doing... absolutely, but I think the change was what I needed. Adrian is still working at MTS. Life over there is busy, which is great.

Over the past year and a bit, we had been talking about putting a pool in, either in ground or above ground. This was the summer that this was going to give us our dream oasis however with the crappy weather we had, and Sophia being the fearless little devil we decided to put that dream on hold, but opened another door and bought a travel trailer.... its a 27 foot Keystone Passport, with bunkbeds in the back for the girls, a queen size bed in the front for us, full kitchen, bathroom with bathtub and shower and lots of storage. We had the pleasure of taking a camping trip to Falcon Lake with friends and am so thankful that we decided to move forward with this. The dogs loved being outside all the time, the girls had a blast being at the beach and by the fire, and the best part... it has AIR CONDITIONING!!! :)

Well that's about all for now. I will update again with pictures on the weekend.

xoxo
kathryn.adrian.anika.sophia.