Tyke Update #6

Our doctor (Allison) told us her husband was quite concerned about her little tyke being all squished inside before being born. Wow! Colleen feels the same way, and gets sympathetic-claustrophobia symptoms.

Colleen only has 7.5 hours left to work.
Here is what her day looks like tomorrow.

Morning: Try to finish up a few things.
Long Lunch: out with her colleagues at a greek restaurant.
Afternoon: Meeting to explain all the things she did not get to.

Then, we'll see how it goes with Colleen and me BOTH being at home all day. Should I expect coffee brought to me? Maybe a nice lunch. Will she start canning vegetables and baking pies! Maybe knit some more?

Actually, probably she'll keep coming over to me and say "Do you like the name .....?"

So, help us out, folks. Suggest a few more names.
Done having kids, and got a few gems you didn't use?
Expecting a boy and got a girl? We're still looking!

Thanks to Wayne's son Seth for growing so quickly, we got some more nice clothes today.

Still Seeking Names....!

Please use the comment button (below this post, to the right) to submit names for the tyke. We don't know if its a blue or a pink. While we will accept cash consideration to move the name up the preference list, there is no entry fee, just a nice prize if we use your suggested name...

Colleen is Huge!

Taken just a few hours ago. Huge!!!!

Tyke Update #5 - Circumcision and IKEA

First IKEA. This is not really a tyke update, but we did want to get these $2 blue bins to use in organizing some of the baby swag. Now, usually I would try to find some blue bins by driving around hours and hours to second hand stores and yard sales, pay $1. But this was a special outing. IKEA was boasting a $1 breakfast (eggs, potatoes, croissant and choice of sausage/bacon).

I am a cheap breakfast fan, and this was the "mother of all cheap breakfasts." Colleen is an occassional cheap breakfast partner!

We arrived to a line up at IKEA with about a 20 minute snaking line to get the food. By the time we sat down, the line behind us was twice as long as when we arrived. I was not suprised at all, to see many, many people ordering TWO breakfasts for themselves, since it was only ONE DOLLAR! (Canadian!!) This include small children, grandmas and grandpas. They only serve for 90 minutes, but they sure end up with a big fat well-fed brunch crowd well fueled for a good shop. I often go to Asia for unique cultural experiences. But this was a wonderful home-brewed memory, thanks to IKEA.

So, circumcision. At the infant care class we went, they had about 10 info sheets which you help yourself to on a resource table. Two different male partners of our class mates riffled through the stack of sheets, came to a brochure about circumcision and quickly returned to the resource table dropped the circumcision sheet off and announced loudly, "I don't need this...". This is a question to you, gentle reader... were they a couple of guys who were going to cut their little dudes, and didn't want any literature, weren't going to cut, or were they parents of little girls? Hmmmm.

Anyway, it seems that in Canada, snipping is less common than in the US, and if you want the snip, you have to pay $150 + whatever the doctor charges!

Colleen is in her final week of work, this is her last Sunday that she to go to bed early enough for work on Monday...for a YEAR!