The Canada Family: Crawlin' the Ground and Tumblin' Around

My original plan for once a week updates seem to have turned into once a month updates.... but I am still updating so that's the important part! I never thought that staying home with my little ones would end up being so much work! As you all know Brooke is very personable so she loves to talk... and talk... and talk. Lately her vocabulary has jumped through the roof! She's been saying words like exquisite and spectacular on a regular basis. Too regular if you ask me. LOL I'm not quite sure where she's been learning these words but I love that she's learning! I'd like to think I have a fairly decent vocabulary, but I don't usually walk around saying exquisite on a daily basis. I had hoped that we would have been able to get Brooke into a good preschool by now, but sadly, it's not looking like it's going to happen as soon as we'd hoped. Who knew you'd need to be on a 3 year waiting list to get your toddler into a public preschool? There are of course private preschool's...but they require a pretty penny that we just don't have. If any of you do have this penny... and would like to share.... we'd be MORE than grateful. =) Though preschool is sort of out of the question for moment, we did sign Brooke up for a tumbling class at TumbleBeez. She had her first class this morning and is now officially a TumbleTot! In the class there are 4 little girls (ages 3-4) and one little boy. The teacher teaches them how to stretch properly, go through obstical courses, summersalts, and jump on the trampolines. Brooke LOVED this. She had such a great time and cannot wait to go back next week. Bradley and I were able to watch through the windows and hang out with the other mama's and baby's. I was able to get a few pictures, though they are not the best quality since we had to take them through a window.

Bradley is now crawling.... fast! Full on belly off the ground crawling. He zooms all over the place!!! I cannot believe that my baby is already 10 months and before I know it, he'll be a year old. We plan to have a small party for him, hopefully at his Papa's and Bama's house with their new pool. =) And for those of you who would like to send gifts to the birthday boy... I have an idea to try and save you all from post office lines, and the cost of shipping as well. If you tell me a specific item that you would like to purchase for our handsome son, send me the money for the item... I will go out and buy it, wrap it, and have it ready for him to open at his party. I'll even take lots of pictures and video of him opening the gifts and send them to you, so you can fell as if you were there. This way you don't have to pay the crazy shipping fees, worry about it being damaged or delivered on time. I'm also thinking about registering at Target so you can have some ideas as to what he (or we) would like. So if this sounds like something that would work for you... shoot me a text, email, phone call, facebook message, etc., and I'll get it done. =)

I have been working hard to get our house into shape. I've put lots of decorations up in the kiddos rooms and now am working on framing, and hanging pictures up in the rest of the house. As soon as I am satisfied with the way the place looks, I'll take some more pictures and post for you all to see. Daniel is in his 5th week of training at Verizon now. He's got 2 more weeks until he enters his "transition" phase where he will be taking live phone calls on a regular basis. He's already started taking phone calls and even got surveyed on his first day! The result... a perfect ten survey and an award to go with. We are so very proud!

Picture time!!!!!

....and if I can get it figured out.... a Bonus VIDEO of our Mr. Bradley Ryan zooming across the room!