http://www.galpin.ca Web portal to the Galpin family. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:24:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There was enough snow earlier in the month to warrant several sled rides (or sleigh rides as Leah would say). She even got pulled by the neighbour's dog on her sled. The weather got quite cold (-10) for a few days so we took some snow inside, ... http://www.galpin.ca/2012/01/28/snow-fun/ We went to breakfeast with Santa at my mom's work and had a lot of fun. Even though we don't "do" Santa at our house (he doesn't bring presents and we tell Leah he is just for fun). she was still excited to see him, especially once he arrived ... http://www.galpin.ca/2012/01/02/1769/ Joel loves bath time. You really have to watch him now that he can pull himself up to a stand as he tries to do it in the bathtub. Leah helping melt chocolate to dip our Christmas cookies into. Joel loves to crawl with this ... http://www.galpin.ca/2011/12/15/bits-of-our-december-so-far/ Leah and I made this countdown Christmas chain together. She is so excited about Christmas this year and I love it. She glued most of the links herself and cuts one off every morning. She remembers lots of details about Christmas last year, like Grandpa delivering our ... http://www.galpin.ca/2011/12/09/o-christmas-tree/ We went to visit my Mom at work and see the farm all decorated up for Christmas. Grandma gave Leah a gingerbread cookie and we got to go on a horse drawn wagon ride. The farm seems so peaceful with a blanket of snow. We ... http://www.galpin.ca/2011/12/01/1716/ Last Wednesday Joel rolled from back to front a few times. I also made him cry for the first time (kind of intentionally but not really). He bit me and I said in a rather stern, loud voice, "no!". His face scrunched and he teared up and ... http://www.galpin.ca/2011/11/22/firsts/ It has been a very busy month with me preparing to get my daycare licensed as well as Morgan working hard on his business as well. Here is an update of the past month. At the end of every month, Leah's preschool invites parents to a small presentation so the ... http://www.galpin.ca/2011/11/13/the-past-month/ We had lots of fun with friends at the pumpkin patch this year. Leah enjoyed the petting zoo as well as hanging out with her buddies. She was a little nervous about the hayride but once we talked it over, she was excited. Leah would not ... http://www.galpin.ca/2011/10/06/pumpkin-patch-2/ I've started feeding Joel three times a day this week even though he doesn't totally have the hang of it. He usually eats better during breakfast and lunch as oppose to his dinner. Joel doesn't open his mouth intentionally for food yet so I try ... http://www.galpin.ca/2011/10/05/1669/ On Monday, we went to the park and I put Joel in the swing for the first time. At first he was a little unsure but there were lots of smiles in between the perplexed faces. Once he was more confident in the swing, I ... http://www.galpin.ca/2011/09/17/this-week/