Monday 28 December 2015

Catch Up

I keep meaning to keep up with the blog, blogging a number of times a month, every month but sometimes life gets in the way. No idea how some people manage the time and something to say every day. Every day is not going to happen but at least if I can catch up for this year I'd be happy.

Our life with Maya is interesting, happy, sad, and all over the place at times. The second half of the year has gone much better. Grade five is more productive. There are still times as we found out she decides not to co-operate but it's better again after another talk. She has more friends and gets along with the rest of us. Brandon too has learned to get along with his aunt Maya better and the two can play in a more structural manner as oppose to only running around.

Somewhere in between Thanksgiving and Halloween we had a visit from a few members of the CCCWA. It appears they were in Canada for vacation and the agency was showing them around and had asked if we would allow them to come to our home as an example to where an adoptive child lives. It was somewhat unnerving but I think we did ok. They came over, stayed a while, looked at Maya's room and her adoption book and then we went out to a Chinese restaurant for lunch. Maya received presents from each of them and she was good with that.

In November we went to our first Tree Lighting Ceremony, following that was the first time Maya went to a Santa Clause Parade. She liked it, even though it was pretty cold and there was some wait time in between floats at the Parade. The tree lighting was a bit more fun because we got to walk around there were games and roasting marshmallows.  Brandon had his first school play. Wish we were there for that but we did get a video and pictures. It is so precious of course, a child's first school play, the first time they are doing something more important without their parents right by their side. He did great.


Thanksgiving



Mom's Birthday



CCCWA



Mom & Dad are happy having all the younger ones



Halloween


Brandon & Jaxon in the same hamburger costume




Our only son, Steve all dressed to impress his girlfriend




The Parade



Brandon with his aunt Maya or as he calls her Teta Maya



Jaxon has a sleepover at our place



Maya buying fabric for the first time to try her hand at making a dress. As we know she wants to be a movie star and a fashion designer. She took a while to chose the material. The girl knows what she likes. It has to be soft and comfortable on the skin.



Brandon's first School Play at Christmas. He actually did sing, did his hand motions and stayed put. Many times these little ones just like to goof around and not really do any singing so he did good.



Maya decorating the 2015 Christmas tree. She and her sister Krissy did the whole thing with just a little help from me but I was happy to let them have their fun. Though Maya would like to put on every single ornament we own if I didn't stop her. I like to use some one year and then different ones next year and so on. Still they did a great job. Krissy was wearing a comfy bathrobe so I left her out of the pictures.








I think we can now safely move onto more of the Holiday Season.
Hope you're having a good one.






Tuesday 15 December 2015

Sleeping Baby

Just had to show you this, nothing cuter than a sleeping baby. So while the little one is snoozing the big brother is off to school learning to draw. I think this is his interpretation of himself and yes I like it, love it really.





Monday 14 December 2015

Enjoying the Family

October is also our heavy month for birthdays and here are a few snaps from early October of a father and son birthday celebrating together since they are so close in the days not the year of course. It was a great day of our family being together enjoying Italian food. We also visited more of our family and a Chinese mall nearby. There were so many vendors it was hard deciding which store to go into. Maya too does not do well when there are too many choices, it just overwhelms her senses but it was good to see it since we've been meaning to go there at some point. There were more birthdays later on in the month as well. Always a good time.














Everyone wants to hold the baby :))







Peace out from Maya.