Me & K

My little cutie pie is 7 months old now. My how time flies! He can sit up on his own now and he is desperately trying to crawl (and very frustrated because he can only go backwards right now.)

Looking for Child Care

I have only 2.5 more months before I'm scheduled to go back to work. At this point, I have no confirmed childcare. I'm starting to get a little concerned about that.

So... I have started contacting home daycares. I have also put an ad on Kijiji looking for some stay at home mom who wants to take in another child. I've had a couple of responses to that one. A few are totally out of the question (completely wrong end of town), but there are a couple that look promising. I'm following up with them to see what they are like. Fun times!

Wish me luck!

Finally, I can get started...

My thesis is moving again at long last! The email request for participants went out on Friday. Now on Sunday afternoon, I already have 12 willing participants. I only really need 20 of them, so 8 more to go and the rest are icing on the thesis cake!

Now I need to start sending out my questionnaires.


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On another note... K just got his first tooth. It wasn't too bad, he only got up 3 times that night after being up until midnight.

Santa's little helper...

Our little darling is growing so fast and learning so much! He's sitting on his own for a few seconds at a time. He's hopping away in his jolly jumper (at the moment not very happily). He rolls all over the place. I know that in just a blink of an eye he'll be running around the apartment getting into all the things we haven't thought of putting away.

Sigh, three months until I have to get back to work.

Merry Christmas

It has been quite the year for E and I. We started off 2008 with the purchase of a house in the south end of Winnipeg to renovate and sell. I was still working full time and getting started on my thesis proposal at that time. Both the house and my thesis proposal were finished by the time my due date was (thank goodness!)

K was born on June 21st and what a huge change that brought to our lives! E took the first 8 weeks off with me. K is doing great and is quite a happy little guy much of the time.

We took a trip to BC to visit friends and family in September. We are still hoping to move out to the west coast within the next couple of years. Winter in Winnipeg seems to get colder and more miserable every year. Of course, being on maternity leave this winter means I'm not forced to go out there every day!

Now we are ending off our year with the purchase of another house to renovate (we're working on it with some friends of ours) and a trip to Winnipegosis to visit family. My thesis proposal has been approved and the ethics board has approved my research.

In January I'll start my research and I hope to be finished with collecting questionnaires and doing interviews before I go back to work in April. We also hope to be done our house renovation by that time. I'd like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I hope your year will be filled with wonderful things!