Granddad's visit and Halloween pics

Trying.really.hard.to.blog. - That is the sound of me speaking in "blogese" (b/c isn't that how you stress something when writing on a blog? with lots of periods?) Seriously, read that sentence with a strained sound to your voice, like someone struggling to cross the finish line of a long race. Life is feeling like that a lot these days, like a really long race without enough rest stops. My blogging is suffering for it.

But enough of my complaining. We just spent a lovely week with Granddad Dave who drove all the way down from Ontario, after driving up to Peterborough and a few days before that, all the way out West to see Uncle Meeko. Call it the Retirement Tour de Kids (and Grandkids). But I think it was worth it to see everyone and to get all kinds of Teia-Love.

To say the little Peach was a bit smitten with Granddad is an understatement. This is where she spent as much time as she could, snuggled up on Granddad's lap. She'd wake up in the morning or come down from her nap and beam her biggest smile before toddling over to Granddad and requesting up for a snuggle.

I don't think Granddad minded at all :-)

These two were a bit of an item all week long and these are just a few of the Granddad/Teia photos I snapped.

Here she is stopping in for a little snuggle time during play time when, to her delight, she found big, tall Granddad easily accessible at baby-level on the floor.

But let's not forget Kaister-Moo who enjoyed his visit as well and even peed on Granddad during one of his snuggle sessions. Good thing Granddad is good natured! Here Kai is posing with "weekend bear" a special friend he brought home from preschool for his mandatory weekend visit. To say that Kai enjoyed weekend bear is a bit of a stretch. Let's just say weekend bear was dropped, tossed from a swing and almost thrown in a lake. The latter activity was even accompanied by some evil laughter! But Kai did his duty (or rather mommy did) and weekend bear was toted around all weekend long. Good thing we didn't lose him!

And finally some Halloween pics. This year Kai only tried to walk into one house before figuring out that the open door was an invitation to take candy, not an invitation to come on in!

The lion costume Kai requested turned out to be a perfect choice (even if a recent growth spurt resulted in it being one size too small) b/c the night was very cold, the first chilly Halloween since we moved to Mass. As a result, Teia looked more like a little skier than she did a princess, with her winter coat and toque on!

Weekend Bear had to get into the action too. We dressed him up like an elephant. Teia gave him lots of hugs and kisses to make up for his school buddy's disdain. She rather liked weekend bear.

Kai lying on the floor in this picture turned out to be a bad Halloween omen because before the trick or treating was finished the poor guy had a raging fever that ended him up in the ER by Monday night. Luckily he does seem to be getting better, and feels a bit better too. Thankfully, we discovered that the fiesty growth spurt of his also resulted in a weight gain requiring a bit more fever medication than we thought he needed! So one sick little baby last week, one sick big baby this week, let's hope we're done for awhile. Mom and Dad need some Zzzzzzs....