Jesson is developing faster than we can keep up. His vocabulary is getting better every day, and he picks up a new action most days too. He's becoming quite social too, he rides in one of those car-style grocery carts when we go to the Co-op and he says "Hi" to everyone who goes by. He's learning his farm animals and unfortunately labelled a woman's leather patchwork purse as a "cow" quite loudly last week while we were in the produce isle. When I turned around to see what he was looking at, I knew right away that he was talking about the hand bag but the woman holding it was really large and I wasn't sure how I'd explain what he yelled so I hid my head in the lettuce pretending to ignore him. When we brought the groceries home, he proceeded to unpack the soup cans into a cupboard I had left empty for him to play in, and all by himself! We just stood there and watched, it was so cute! He's infinitely busy, the joke is we don't have any recent pictures because we can't catch him. He seems to run everywhere. He hates to have his diaper changed like most kids his age, I guess it involves too much down time. It's amazing to see how fast he catches onto things, including the swear I said on the phone to his Grandma one evening, he caught that RIGHT AWAY. Scott's still mad at me for that one. This picture was taken before his recent hair cut, and after a nap. It's the only photo I caught before he jumped out of the oven drawer, half blinking. See, too fast to catch him.
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Congrats Jerk!


Sincere Congratulations to our Dear Friend Shane Betts on his recent engagement. Shane was only with us for a couple of years, then the RCMP took him away again (not in the back of the car either). While he was here he won our hearts with his sincere, caring ways and his social personality. He was able to hold his beer (except those lemon ones), but could not hold his junk food when it came to a match with me one late night on patrol. Remember the tree by the school in Harris Shane?
The soon-to-be Mrs. must be someone REALLY special because he's an aweful picky guy when it comes to his "best girl". We hope some day to be able to meet her, but Moncton, NB is quite a hike from here. I'm sure she's wonderful and she's got herself a great guy. A man that's true to his word, even when it means fulfilling a promise to finish the 6 month old lemon beer he left in our fridge before he left town. What a guy!
We sure do miss you Shane, and we're thrilled you've found Mrs. Right. Keep us posted on your plans and send us pictures of all the little ones ;-). Take Care of yourselves, OK?
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Today was Daddy's Friday off. Much to Jesson's liking, he had Daddy all to himself all day. It was WAY too cold to bother going outside, so we spent the day playing with "tractors", baking, and had coffee with a friend who stopped by. It was the perfect day to get very little accomplished. Posted by Hello

Welcome Back!

Sorry for the delay in posting, I guess I put this little project on the back-burner for a while. Things have been a little backed up around here lately due to the flu bug during Christmas, and now my never-ending flu symptoms that keep me moving slowly most of the day.
Our Christmas turned out as well as could be expected given that Jesson came down with the flu on Christmas Eve at 10:00 p.m. losing his lunch until he finally slept soundly at 3:00 a.m.. The following morning, as Scott and I dragged ourselves to the coffee maker, he bounded around the house like nothing had ever happened. He managed to open all of his presents and had some dry breakfast.
After a long nap we decided to head to the farm to celebrate with the McNally's, convinced that it must have been something he ate. As usual the food was amazing and it was wonderful to see everyone. Jesson had a good lunch but woke from his nap with a high fever and could do little more than lay around. We had to cut our evening short and headed to the comfort of our own beds.
On boxing day we were due to arrive at the lake to visit with my side of the family and had already phoned to say we wouldn't be there when Jesson seemed to bounce back AGAIN. After he yelled at me for not letting him have candy for lunch, we decided he was healthy enough to make the trip to the lake. On the way there, Scott started to complain about his stomache and within hours of arriving he was bed-ridden where he stayed for most of the two day visit with the flu as well. This is year #2 for Scott and the flu! Despite how ill he felt, Scott did manage to open his gifts and snap a few pictures. By the day we left, he had a little food in him finally too. It was nice to see Mom, Dad, and my sister and her family from Alberta again.
Over Christmas I ate so often I don't think my stomache had a chance to think about morning sickness, it was never empty. Once we got home, and after I had told everyone it must be a girl because I'd hardly been sick at all(woops), I was hit hard from morning until night. I was starting to get a little depressed about it, when my OB/GYN told me that it's the women who say they have little to no negative pregnancy side effects who usually miscarry. Now I feel a little better about my numerous daily trips down the hall. It's all for a good cause, and it won't last forever(although it feels like it might some days).
All in all, we managed to accomplish almost everything we planned to during our Christmas break. Scott didn't get a chance to go snowmobiling while we were at the lake, and we hadn't planned on passing the flu to as many people as we did either (SO sorry Sarah, Kendell, and Grampa Nicholetts[Uncle Norman too]). But we'll hope everyone is healthy for next year and if we have the flu again, I think we'll just keep it to ourselves and stay home.
We hope your Christmas was all you hoped it would be. Keep in touch!

Once Christmas was over, Jesson was back to his normal busy self, much to the cat's dismay. Posted by Hello

Auntie Cari and Uncle Darrell got Jesson a musical school bus which was in instant hit. Posted by Hello

Grampa and Grandma Nicholetts got Jesson a Tonka Bulldozer, which he calls a tractor (close enough). Posted by Hello

Jesson received a lot of cool stuff for Christmas, most of which we don't have photos of, but these two things were close favourites one evening before bed - his Dancing Booh Bah, and his mini Ikea lounge chair. Posted by Hello