September 2020

Kenna-Rae continues to keep us on our toes! Her bottom incisors have been in progress, and we are seeing more parts of her personality come out. She really likes to help, whatever the task! She helps wipe the floors and walls, dusts, 'folds' laundry, and helps take the cutlery out of the dishwasher to put away. She also really enjoys watching us food prep and cook. 

Although she hasn't expanded her verbal language much, she continues to use sign language, and has very good comprehension. She can show you which animals are which, and loves playing with her shape puzzles and buckle boards. 

She has been doing a great job of using her potty, of which Aaron and I can take zero credit for as it's been something the nanny wanted to take on. We are so grateful for our awesome nanny Tabitha, who still comes Wednesday to Friday while Tasha is at work. Kenna-Rae really enjoys her time with Tabitha and they go on fun outdoor adventures most days. We our so thankful that Tabitha has turned out to be the perfect match for our family, and we plan on having her here until Aaron retires in 2025.

Kenna-Rae still has a passion for music and loves to get her groove on. She will be in the middle of a task and when a song comes on that she really likes she drops everything to dance.

Our first girls weekend, while Aaron was away working on Hornby Island.

 

Gramps is in our little bubble and comes by to help out with little projects around the house. Thankfully he redid all the seals around our doors, right before the smoke from the US fires impacted our air quality, so that was great timing.

 

Kenna-Rae LOVES her cottage cheese!

 

Koloa thinks he is a dog, and waits for Kenna-Rae to drop food

 

Supervising Daddy's project to beef up the pantry shelves

 

Kenna-Rae still loves her books, and we read numerous times a day.

Waiting for Daddy to come home from work

 

Practicing her beading

Kenna-Rae's first time seeing Aaron in his uniform, and she was a bit confused.

Mmmm PBJ rolls

Kenna-Rae enjoys her trail walks with Daddy.

 

Doesn't everyone go to the mail box in their jammies?

Scrub a dub dub she still loves being in the tub!

 

Orange Shirt Day, we will be sure to get her an orange short for next year.

Every Child Matters

 

Kenna-Rae's first crayon wall art.

For us grown ups, we have been enjoying the fall:) Aaron has been working hard keeping up with the yard, and organizing the storage, which we never seem to have enough of.

For myself, I received notice from my office landlord that he will be renting out the entire building to a new tenant, and so I will no longer have my office as of the end of the year. I have a few options but all of them mean working from home for a period of time, one option leaves me home for a few weeks, another option has me working from home until roughly the summer, and the third option is that I work from home until the pandemic is over, and then look for an office at that time. Aaron is looking into building a garage in the backyard, which I could use as an office for the new year, until I resume seeing clients in person again (which won't be anytime soon). Finding accessible office space in this town is very challenging at the best of times, so leaving it may not be wise.

August 2020

Kenna-Rae continues to meet her milestones: she had her first time going to the bathroom on the potty, all 4 molars that were in progress have poked through, and she ate with a fork. The adventures continue!

We have tried to get in some visiting with immediate family, over the summer as we go into the fall being more isolated. 

I continue to work via Telehealth, which I will be doing for the remainder of this year and likely beyond. For work, Aaron spent the summer overseeing service to Denman and Hornby Islands, which he quite enjoyed. Other than that, not much for us grown ups.

 Out for a walk on the seawalk

Watching mama peel prawns

 

 A visit from Granny & Jim

 

A visit from Uncle Ray, Auntie Nicole, Kane & Kole

 

Kenna-Rae's first visit to the Ophthalmologist

Visiting with Gramps

I apologize for the gaps and lack of flow in the format, I am trying to get the hang of the new blogger, and haven't yet figured parts of it out. I prioritized getting my post done over waiting and figuring out the formatting.

July 2020

Once again I have fallen a bit behind on my blog. Blogger changed some of their formatting, and it took me a little bit of time to learn how to work with the changes. 

July brought new milestones for Kenna-Rae: she shook her head no, started putting books away on the shelf, her top right molar poked through, has made the transition to drinking cows milk, and had her first poop in the bath tub. Kenna-Rae also decided to make the transition from 2 naps to 1. Aaron and I didn't feel quite ready for the nap transition, but not feeling ready feels like a consistent theme of parenting!

The look of determination. Someone once told me that I walk with intention, and I think I passed that on to Kenna-Rae

Somebody has mastered the skill of the zipper...

Texting while on the potty?

Pool party

Showing Aunti Lynette her water table

Making good use of the new screened in patio

Out for a walk

A visit from Karen and Amaliya

 

Helping Daddy make breakfast

 I have been trying to remember back to July to think about what was going on for Aaron and I, and I can't remember a single thing... better luck for August???