01.24.10
Posted in thoughts at 6:25 pm by Melissa
I really need to do a better job of posting because there are so many stories that I keep forgetting. Josiah is growing up so fast and has so many “instersting” things to tell us. He still acts his age a lot, but is getting better at listening and is very polite. Sometimes he’ll just say, “I’m so proud of you Mom.” 
Very cute! His big interests right now are Buzz and Woody from Toy Story, anything from the Cars movie, and his friends. He loves to go to Market Mall to see his buddies! I am so blessed to have such an amazing group of friends here and so blessed that my kids do too! Here are some pictures from this summer of my fun little boy!
Josiah is such a nice brother! He does get annoyed that Abby is into his stuff already, but takes time to give her kisses and find her toys that she likes. He even bought her a car (the King) for Christmas!
He has also been a big “helper” with all our house renovations. Josiah and his buddy Avyn had lots of fun playing in the drywall dust and then helping their mommies paint. They were so dirty and had so much fun!
Work hard, sleep hard.
Busy painting with Daddy! This was his favorite job and we let him paint inside the closets.
Work hard, sleep hard again!
Painting Abigail’s room. I’ll do a post about the house later. You can tell by the picture how proud he was of himself!
Random story time. In these last few pictures Josiah is modeling his very cool painting clothes — a t-shirt and pull-up. We have had a very long, long time of trying to potty train him with no success until recently. We have tried charts, stickers, candies, chocolate, train-in-a-day methods, different kinds of pull-ups, little potty, big potty, sitting, standing, etc… Argh! I was starting to get frustrated because it seemed like he knew what to do, but was deciding not to. Finally a few weeks ago we found the trick! He really wanted the big Buzz Lightyear toy so I told him he better make some money. He asked how to make money and so I put a paper cup on the bathroom counter and told him I’d pay him to pee or poop. Bingo! Light bulb moment! He’s had a few accidents since, but really has done amazing. He bought Buzz off kijiji (I know. I have an addiction, but this way he didn’t have to save until he was a teenager! lol!) and is VERY proud of himself! He took his cup full of change to the lady selling Buzz and she was proud of him too and even gave him a second little Buzz for free when he told her he got money for going potty. Yes. I paid him to potty train. Sounds expensive, but so are diapers!
My cutie at a summer picnic! (This is where he would correct me and say “No Mom, I’m handsome!”
He wore this “cowboy hat” and his “Robert boots” every day in the summer!
Josiah loved playing in the lake up at Heritage. It was freezing cold that weekend and we all wore jackets the entire time. Didn’t stop the kids though!
My handsome boys! Josiah tells me that when he is big like Daddy he will be bigger than Daddy.
We were able to go down to the farm to visit “Brown Grandma” and “Brown Grandpa” during harvest. Josiah spent a few hours every day out on the combine and Grandma bought him his own little toy combine. He came back to Saskatoon and explained to all his friends how the combine worked.
I was reading through my facebook status updates and found a bunch of Josiah moments that made me smile. Decided to put them here so I don’t forget .
Melissa Orr enjoys that Josiah has insisted on everyone calling him “Buzz Lightyear” for the last three days. He even pokes his own chest and says “to infinity and beyond!”.
Melissa Orr was kinda excited when Josiah told me “don’t call me Buzz anymore” until he finished with “I am Andy”.
Melissa Orr is tired of Josiah calling himself “Andy” and not listening to me because his name is Andy now. I liked it better when he was Buzz Lightyear! Funny kid!
Melissa Orr Josiah just told me that Abby turned him back into Josiah. No more Andy! Yay!
Melissa Orr is doing laundry and watching Mary Poppins with Abby and a pirate who is wearing an eyepatch, backwards clothes, and is singing “hickry, dickry, duck”. I love my kids!
Melissa Orr “Wow. God made Lightening McQueen’s eyes blue just like mine!” — Josiah
Melissa Orr watched a movie with three toddlers this morning. One called it “pokie-o”, another “pee-o-co”, and the third said he was watching “hokey-dokey-o”!
Melissa Orr is happy that Josiah had his last opthamologist appointment today and everything looked great!
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01.09.10
Posted in thoughts at 9:32 pm by Melissa
So some of my motivation to start blogging again is that Robert bought me a new laptop for Christmas. I am VERY spoiled! It is exciting to get on the computer and not have to keep re-starting it so it will keep working. It was so slow that blogging was painful. Still need to get used to this one. My blog set-up is different and it wouldn’t let me add any more pics to my last post so I’ll break it up a bit!
Here she is enjoying one of our many summer picnics! We had lots of fun with our Mommy group called Village Time and had extra picnics with Linaya and Gianna!
This is Abby and I the day she turned 9 months old. Robert was having fun playing with some photography equipment.
Here is Abby at family camp. Her first camping experience was a freezing cold one, but she had lots of fun playing in the tent with her big brother.
This picnic was on our front lawn
Girl weekend! The weekend of my 30th birthday some friends I went to university with planned a girl weekend. We stayed at April’s house and enjoyed an awesome day on the beach at Waskesiu. Abby was spoiled rotten by all the girls!
Abby chewed through her first cob of corn in Grandma’s garden.
She also got another visit with Uncle Stephen in September. This is Abby with her cousin Gianna.
Must have a bean picture to show how well she feeds herself! My independent girls likes to do things herself and she hates bibs! Not a fan of baby food either. This is unfortunate as she is almost a year old and still has no teeth!
In October I took a week long physical therapy continuing education course in Regina. The course was excellent and Abby had her first experience of being away from Mom during the day. Robert came with me for the first few days to watch the kids, but then had to come back to Saskatoon with Josiah when the radio station had technical difficulties. I was very blessed to have Janice (in the pic) and Robert’s sister May jump in to take care of Abby for me!
At the pumkin maze!
Bowling for the first time. More like a cheerleader really…
Hangin’ with big brother!
Kids with tools! Josiah announced, “C’mon Abby. We need to go fix stuff.” and then started handing her tools!
10 months!
11 months! Now that we have moved upstairs Abby has figured out that she can climb them. She is getting much better at it, but still has the common sense of a baby. Seemed appropriate to take her 11 month pics on the stairs since that is where she spent all her time that week!
Her beautiful Christmas dress from Auntie Glenda and Sonia.
Abby’s first car she got for Christmas.
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Posted in thoughts at 8:14 pm by Melissa
Since my last post on Abby was her 4, 5, and 6 month pictures it looks like she is a typical second child who doesn’t have any pictures! I promise this is not the case! I may not have quite as many as I took of Josiah, but with a digital camera always with me, there are still several hundred. Here are some pictures to catch everyone up on how our little girl is growing.
7 months
8 month photo shoot in the park. These ones are some of my favorites!
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Posted in thoughts at 7:41 pm by Melissa
This post is dedicated to my friend Allison who is the most recent person to harass me about not blogging anymore. It has been a crazy last few months, and if I can ever get caught up on blogging I’ll tell you all about them! Enough with the excuses. Here is a random post about Josiah.
A few days ago Josiah was eating cheerios, playing with his cars, and was carrying around the tire changing car (he calls “pit crew”). I had explained to him that “pit crew” changes tires for the other cars and then I ran upstairs to grab some laundry. This is what I found when I came downstairs! Love it!
He is very creative and also has a wisdom that only children have. Last week we were at McDonalds in Regina and there was a little kid throwing a huge temper tantrum. The other kid was yelling and hitting his very young looking mother. She looked exasperated and just kept getting after him. Josiah turned to me and said, “he’s not talking nice to his Mom”. “That’s not good. He needs to say sorry.” Robert asked him, “What does that little boy need?”. We were expecting him to say “time out”, but instead he said, “That little boy needs some snuggles”. I think he was probably right. A good lesson to all of us to give our kids more snuggles.
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07.30.09
Posted in thoughts at 11:47 am by Melissa
Looking through my pictures and found a lot of Josiah and Abby together. It is fun to watch them together because they love each other so much. First thing in the morning Josiah always needs to hold Abby and give her hugs!
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07.28.09
Posted in thoughts at 10:34 pm by Melissa
Josiah has also been busy growing and learning new things. I really need to write more of them down because some days he makes me laugh so hard! Yesterday we went for a walk and he pointed to a tree and asked if he could climb up to see Jesus. Then he sang me the Zacheus song. Very cute!
One day Josiah said “that’s very good listending Mom” when I did something he asked me to do.
He was really excited to go to the circus this year. He took Linaya and got to see the elephants. For a two year old boy that was amazing! He still talks about it, but mostly the story is about the elephant peeing on the floor. “He should use the potty!”
Another story of Josiah learning to be polite is that when Robert asked me to please pass the water at lunch one day Josiah said, “That was very nice Daddy. Thanks for using your polite words.”
He is also still very affectionate and loves to cuddle. This is with his cousin Patience when they were watching tv.
Did I mention that my kids will sleep anywhere???
Learning to play hockey with Daddy. A good Canadian boy!
And bouncing in the “big doggy trampoline” with Daddy and Janice!
He also got his face painted with Lightening McQueen from the Cars movie! Very cool!
He loves to play outside and loves the water. He’ll play until his lips are blue and cry when I make him take a break.
Still loves his “go gos”.
I love this picture. One of his favorite things to do right now is to sit on scoop, wear his construction hat, and watch Bob the Builder. He even wears his Bob hat when we go for walks. Other items recently worn on walks include: construction hat, mittens, cowboy hat, Robert boots, and his tiger costume from last Halloween.
Remember the very nice six month pictures we took of Abby on the front lawn? Here is what happens when big brother decides to steal the show!
So curious…
and determined….
and funny!
and sweet! We love our boy!
Lately I ask Josiah “You know what?” and then I say “I love you soooo much!”. Now he asks me the same question and tells me “Mommy, I love you tooooo much!”
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Posted in thoughts at 10:00 pm by Melissa
So as you can probably tell from the title of this post, I am a little behind in my blogging again! This has been such a fun summer and a very busy summer. The weather has been so nice that we have been outside a lot! I keep reminding myself that this blog is a record of things I don’t want to forget so I need to keep up with it. This post is all about Abigail and then my next one will be about Josiah.
Abby is getting very big and very busy! She is now able to roll across the floor to get into whatever toys Josiah has out, she can sit on her own, babble loudly, turn circles on her tummy, and is just starting to push with her toes in an attempt to crawl. She is still the most easy-going baby in the world! She usually sleeps all night and is very content during the day. This last week she has been a bit of a mommy’s girl and she really likes to yell in line at the grocery store to get attention. One day she freaked out enough that two teenage boys came over and offered to pack my groceries for me. I let them .
Here are some pictures of when Abigail was 4 months!
Here she is at 5 months!
This was her first attempt at solid food. She loved the rice cereal and insisted on feeding herself. I haven’t been able to get the spoon to her mouth yet without her grabbing it and shoving it in herself!
Here is another attempt at solids. Squash. Mmmm!
She has also been loving any time that she can spend in the water. This is Abigail swimming with her friend Tegan!
So this picture is really funny if you know that Abby is completely asleep and she has her leg straight up in the air. If she’s tired she can fall asleep anywhere. Sometimes she’ll be playing on the floor and I’ll look a couple minutes later and she is sound asleep!
Here is another example of my good sleeper. I tied her in the shopping cart with her sling and she got tired and fell asleep. What a sweetie!
Here is my baby girl at 6 months already! At her 6 month check up she was exactly 16 pounds and looking great! We are so blessed to have such a happy and healthy girl!
This last picture is my favorite picture of Abby. It makes my heart hurt! She is just such a little sweet heart and we love her so much!
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06.11.09
Posted in thoughts at 8:21 pm by Melissa
For the last two Sundays Robert and I set up our photography equipment at church and took pictures of people as a fundraiser for our Western Christian College Alumni Association (to help send kids to WCC). The fundraiser went over very well and we got some cute pictures too. I took pictures of my kids in the morning, but both Sundays didn’t try to get a family picture until later in the afternoon so they didn’t all work great. It was a lot of fun and we got a couple good ones! My parents were here this last Sunday so we were able to take their picture with all four grandkids.
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05.17.09
Posted in thoughts at 4:55 pm by Melissa
We went to the park with some friends for lunch today. The weather was beautiful, and the kids were being so cute! Here are some pics.
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05.16.09
Posted in thoughts at 6:47 pm by Melissa
Here are some random cute pictures. This first one is Abby with her cousins Gianna and Gloria. At the time they were 3, 6, and 5 months old which you can’t tell by size! I think Abby is the biggest of the three now, but you can tell that the other girls are tougher (or maybe their cheeks just aren’t as heavy!).
Here is the cute outfit Grandpa and Grandma bought for Abigail in Mexico the week before she was born. So cute!
My cowboy!
Josiah and I made cookies a couple weeks ago. I haven’t really baked with him before and we had a lot of fun. He didn’t like the gooey dough, but once he figured out how to eat the chocolate chips out of the cookies he was hooked!
My friend April came to visit and we went for a nice walk. She pointed out that we didn’t have a pic of Abby in the cute bear suit. Here you go April!
Abby has discovered that she LOVES fuzzy blankets. She loves to hold them, cuddle them, and most of all to lick them.
I think they’re pretty cute!
Here is Josiah with his cousins Sonia and Theo at lunch on Mother’s day.
This was not a set-up picture. He actually looked like this when he was finished his chocolate pudding.
Just to confuse everyone, here is a picture of Robert and I with no kids. My posts are always just about my cute kids, but I think my hubby is pretty cute too!
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