Boxing Day walk at Fort Langley

On Boxing Day morning we went for a walk with some people at Brae Island Regional Park at Fort Langley. It was very cold and foggy, but made for some great pictures for the cards my Mom and me are making. Most of the kids did pretty good considering how cold it was, although Jayden kept taking his gloves off and his fingers were freezing half way into the walk.

By the look of his face you can tell he was woken up to go on the walk. He really likes his tuque :)

I still can't believe how calm the Fraser River was that morning

Christmas

Well Christmas has already come and gone and it's 2010! This means a lot of stuff for us, watching 3+1 boys for 3 days, Big White in Feb, finding a home in Hamilton, Tyler graduating in April and receiving his Masters in Biblical Studies, the move to Hamilton, hopefully some camping, smashing good-bye party, and of course the reason for most of this madness, Seminary in September for Tyler :) Enough about the future, here's some pics of the Christmas season:

New pajamas from Oma!

New toy, you can just see his excitement ;)

Vandergaag grandkids group shot (they all got a teddy from gramma).

He managed to find both soothers and comes to the kitchen to show me.

He then dropped them and was trying to put both in his mouth :)

more to come...

More of the Birthday Boy

We had the grandparents over on Wednesday and a birthday party on Thursday for Jayden. The party went really well considering the amount of kids and the size of our house and Jayden is loving all the new toys he got.
As soon as he found the button that starts the tractor he was done unwrapping :)Checking out the cool truck from Gramma & Grampa:
Big cousin Aaron was Jayden's handy helper with the new trucks and gladly showed the little kids how to use them :)

And some birthday cake!

Jayden's 1st Birthday!!

Well the little guy (well not that little I guess) is already 1 ! Man does time fly! It's hard to imagine what life was like prior to a year ago. It's amazing how these little people make such a huge difference in your life. You not only revolve around them but your life is forever full of silly things they do or learn and constantly laughing at how goofy they act and what type of reaction they'll give you next :)

Here's his 1 year portrait:

A couple since birth as well:
and the hair :)

Jayden Walking

So within the last week or so Jayden went from just standing to taking steps to walking around our house. He's very proud of himself and gets really excited when he's walking. He's now just started being able to bend over and pick things up :) This video is when he just started taking steps.

The last few weeks

Well I haven't posted much in the last few weeks, it's mostly because whenever I went to post I couldn't think of anything. But now looking back at my pictures of October I guess we did do a few things.
In the beginning of the month we went to Tyler's Titan hockey game opener. Just about the whole family was there from both sides I think and along with tons of friends which was nice to see. The Langley Events Center wasn't full as was hoped ;) but approx. 500 people showed.





"Opa! Wear you're hat backwards"
- Thomas








Then one day we went to Oma's house to help pick the kale. Well Jackie and me picked along with our big helpers Nathan and Jaxon and Jayden helped Oma wash the kale. At first he didn't realize there was water in the tub but then he got a bit deeper and started really "helping".

Jayden has found his new favourite thing in our house. My drawer I throw all my misc. plastic, bottles, baking stuff etc. etc. in that he beelines to about 5 times a day. He manages to literally throw out the rolling pin every time without hitting his toes. I'm still waiting for it to happen. Every bottle nipple he pulls out he must think is some type of soother, so he starts sucking on it.

A regular site in the kitchen

Jayden Discovers the Toilet

The other day the bathroom door was left open and as I was washing the dishes I heard water splashing around and thought, "where is that coming from?" Quite quickly I realized Jayden was, no doubt, playing in the toilet! He even thought of taking his rubber ducky in so that he could play too :) So of course before I bathed him and changed him because he was soaked I had to take a few pictures.