Folk Fest 2010 Video

It's been a while since Folk Fest, but I've now gotten the time to put together the videos from Folk Fest. Now that there's snow on the ground, it seems like a looooooong time ago. I think it was one of my favorite one's in the last 6 (or was it 7?) years that I've gone. There is a long clip near the end that I will risk any manly man status I might have and say it was magical. It was like the band was playing Robin's soundtrack. She trips and falls to the music, balls bounce to the beat, it was amazing. I can't believe I got it on film. That short bit of film captures pretty well the moment I didn't think Robin was like a baby anymore, but a little girl figuring out how the world around her works and loving every bit of it (it was an extended version of Andrew Bird playing "Plasticities")

Olivia turns 6... no, 7 months old!

Olivia is almost 7 months old! The time has been flying by at a breakneck pace. I swear the last time I looked at the date, it was only mid November (in fact I started to write this entry at the beginning of November). I've made a point of getting out with the kids more (like going to singing circles and the play area at Wolseley Family Place) and getting to know some neighbours better. Just today Robin had a play date with Elliot down the street. At the end, Elliot tried to give Robin a kiss and she was VERY emphatic in her "NOOOO!" That's my girl ;) It still blows my mind how much she can string sentences together, with coherent thoughts and big picture ideas filling her head. I still get confused every once and a while though. And sometimes there is no winning:

Daddy: "Here's your food." A banana.
Robin: "I want something else to eat."
Daddy: Thinking. "Here's some Cheerios" really Nutrios.
Robin: "I want something else to eat."
Daddy: Brain crash. No solution. I don't know what "something else" is supposed to taste like, but it must be good.

Robin: "I want a million bars!" her cereal bars that she likes.
Daddy: Nervously "OK, I'll get you a bar."
Robin: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I want a MILLION bars!"
Daddy: Brain crash. No solution. You'd be surprised how often this happens.

We have been working very hard on asking politely too. This is an example of what happens a million (wonder where she gets that word from) times a day:

Robin: "I want that!!!!"
Daddy: "What's a nice way to say that Robin?" or "I can't hear Robin when she uses her whiny voice."
Robin: "Please can I have that?" or often "Please I could have that?"
Repeat. Many. Many. Times.

We've also made a big change in the last month with Robin. She is no longer going to her daycare at Flora's. It was only two days a week, difficult to get to while I've been home, and also Flora's was cutting back the number of children so it was good timing. It was a great daycare, with Flora and Paras running it extremely well, but it was time to end it.


Olivia has changed so much since the last post! She is a lovely little girl, who smiles almost every time she sees you, and has a giggle that will knock your socks off. She has just recently started to consistently sleep through the night (about 9 to 7 or so) for the last couple of days. Let's hope this keeps up. I think this is mostly due to her impressive solid food consumption. She was pretty slow at first, and we did a lot of soother feeding (there should be a video shortly) but she is eating a TON of food now. Doesn't matter what it is: meat, peas, butternut squash, turkey, as long as it's mashed up, it's going down the gullet. Just the other day, she started to roll over to get what she's going after (which is just about everything) so I think that crawling might just be around the corner. She might just crawl to the Christmas tree to get her presents.


Things are going to get intense soon. I can see it now. Two mobile kids, with one wanting to put everything in the mouth, and the other watching it happen but articulating very well just how many pieces of dog food was crammed in.