The Life of Tasha-Lynne

Sunday, March 13, 2022

January 2022

Playing some major catch up here with the blog! As you may have read in December we laid off Nanny Tabitha, which has made it a very crazy time given I returned to work in January. As I type this she has returned and I am now able to catch up:)

January has seen some exciting milestones for Violet. She is now pulling herself up using furniture, has started scooching across the floor, and had 4 top teeth pop through with days of each other (she now has 6 teeth).

Snow!!!!

We switched the bedrooms around, and Kenna-Rae is back in her original bedroom.

Riding the balance bike at The Spit.

Kenna-Rae hasn't really been a cuddly kiddo, but the past couple months that has been changing.

Little climber

Scooching around

Working toward crawling...

As part of Kenna-Rae's wind down before bed we read a couple Mindfulness Cards, by Little Renegades. This has become a very enjoyable part of our evening, and helps us with slow down and be present.

Back to work...

I returned to work after New Years, and am slowly going to build back my practice resuming with people I was working with before my leave in May 2021. I am working from my home office which is in the shop in the backyard. I am working via Telehealth only, and will continue through the pandemic this way.

Monday, January 17, 2022

December 2021

We managed to pack a whole lot in to December.

Violet turned 6 months. She slept for 8 hours straight for the first (and only) time. That night happened to be the night we had our Christmas dinner, so I am sure the level of stimulation helped. We discovered she loves the jolly jumper, oatmeal, and yams. She adores her sister more and more every day. When Kenna-Rae comes in to get her up after naps her face lights up to see her big sis.

Kenna-Rae has really taken to the roll of big sis, she is also into copying the every day tasks she sees, like feeding Ella (her prized elephant) yams, tucking her in for naps, and ensuring she gets time in the activity centre and jolly jumper.

Aaron's back is slowly improving. He is dedicated to his physio routine, and I am sure if it weren't for having to pick up a 20+ pound baby and a toddler it would likely be a bit better by now.

For the month of December we got my office setup in the back garage, and I started working Tuesday afternoons to prepare for my return to work and reconnect with my clients arranging for January appointments.

Sadly on December 23 we laid our nanny off due to the current wave of the pandemic. We are hopeful this wave will pass soon and she will be back before long. The timing did not fit so well with my return to work a week later, but it is what it is!

The Truck Parade

Mama big sis outing to the spit

The pictures for the Christmas cards we never ended up sending out...

The rare soother sighting

Discovering the jolly jumper

Starting solids with puree

I think she wants to skip the purees and go for the solids...

Celebrating solstice with making bird feeders and drying oranges to decorate with

Making sugar cookies

Yams, the one thing other than oatmeal that she will actually eat

Making candy cane reindeer

Making more sugar cookies

Future pianist?

Christmas Dinner on December 23 with Gramps, Elizabeth, and GG. We ended dup bumming up our dinner because of the wave of Omicron and knowing we were going to be limiting contact with people moving forward through this phase of the pandemic.