Temperance Street Times

January 16th saw Thomas’ Second birthday.  A hair cut at the local kids salon, presents galore, cake and good times with relatives and friends were highlights of the day!  And so this brings us to the terrible twos.  We’ve experienced a few temper tantrums already, which were a real eye opener!  But of course it is only a stage and this too shall pass.  In other news Nathaniel is now almost 3 weeks old.  He is a lovely baby, sleeps lots and when awake, if not busy regurgitating his most recent meal, will play happily on his own in his playpen or bouncy chair.  A very different person than Thomas at 3 weeks.  The result of Nathaniel’s good behavior is that I’m getting at least 5-6 hours of sleep every night, plus usually a 1-2 hour nap during the day.  So sleep deprivation hasn’t been too bad so far.   Otherwise,  I seem to be recovering and repairing a lot faster the second time around.  Have been out cross country skiing twice already, what with the cold snap finally breaking I just couldn’t resist!  And weight is dropping rapidly (thank goodness!)  already down 20 pounds from where I was on January 1.

After much deliberation and tearing out of hair, a decision has been made:

Nathaniel Loewen Storer

Some more pics are up on the Albums page.

More pics on the Albums page.

We’ll keep you posted on a name.

Looks like it will be a white Christmas in Saskatoon this year!  10 days ago the thermometer dipped down to -34 degrees Celsius and hasn’t been above -20 since.  Brrr.  Snow accumulation hasn’t been enough for tracked skiing, but we seem to get a little bit more every night (total accumulation is about 4 inches so far), so hopefully by the new year we’ll be swooshing over fields and dale.  Thomas is intrigued by all things Christmas this year, presents, christmas trees, and SANTA!  Or ‘AHANTA’ as Thomas calls him.  Santa visited a Christmas party that Thomas was attending and I’m posting a picture of Thomas’s ‘close encounter’. That’s about it from this end.  We aren’t travelling anywhere this holiday season, just hanging out waiting for ‘mom’ to pop anyday now…

Thomas’ playdoh was confiscated by Toronto airport security while he was enroute to Boston this AM. Imbaw demanded to see a list showing this and they said they didn’t have one but were “trained” to know. They told him to check the website for the list which he did and couldn’t find it. He called a phone agent and he wasn’t sure why it would be confiscated but he said to submit a complaint on the site for a definitive answer…Too Funny!