Coziest
holiday greetings to all of you, our beloved family and friends!
We hope thus far the Christmas season has been wondrous and inspiring for all of
you. As usual, we are enjoying the
shopping, baking, singing and all the other merry things which lead up to our
favourite holiday celebration. It has
been a lovely year, even if it did speed right by us!
Jordan is
blossoming at Children’s Hearing and Speech Centre of BC (CHSC) and is now in kindergarten. Little by little, he is
coming out of his shell and making friends.
He benefits greatly from one-on-one speech therapy sessions and an
occupational therapist visits him once a week.
We are very pleased to say Jordy is learning to read, and each night
brings home a simple reader for practice. The fare is bland (“Up in a tree,
what do I see? I see a dog and it sees
me,”) but we are just tickled that he is reading it aloud to us with minimal
help. We look forward to when he starts
bringing home books with a little more character development and denouement to
hone his new skills. He loves music and
often upon hearing a song new to him on the radio will request that one of us
put that song on his iPod Nano. His
current jam is Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock ‘n Roll.” He has also taken up the hobby of balloon
twisting and can whip up a wacky balloon hat all on his own (he needs helping
tying off the balloons,) his other creations like dogs and horses tend more
toward abstract interpretation.
Our sweet Cygni is now three. She isn't completely potty trained yet, so she won’t go to pre-school until next year, but we are keeping her busy and stimulated in dance class and attending strong-start a couple of times a week. She has recently graduated from dance class that parents sit-in on, to one where parents wait outside for their kids. She is transitioning fairly well, though she will sometimes run outside for a quick hug or kiss. She loves to dance and has the cutest little bum-wiggle ever! She will be starting swim lessons with Jordan in January.
Our sweet Cygni is now three. She isn't completely potty trained yet, so she won’t go to pre-school until next year, but we are keeping her busy and stimulated in dance class and attending strong-start a couple of times a week. She has recently graduated from dance class that parents sit-in on, to one where parents wait outside for their kids. She is transitioning fairly well, though she will sometimes run outside for a quick hug or kiss. She loves to dance and has the cutest little bum-wiggle ever! She will be starting swim lessons with Jordan in January.
Chris has been super busy with work! His job changed again this year, however it’s one of those situations where he needs to define his own role and title, but he’s been too busy doing the job to stop and pick a title. He is on a team that is using data and advanced analytics to help make better business decisions. Don’t feel sorry for him… he thinks it’s fun. In his new role he won’t travel as much, but he did go back to Romania in June for a whirlwind 3 days. For fun outings Chris, surprisingly, chose football. The day we confirmed our September vacation in Oregon was bonus payout day at Electronic Arts so Chris bought two row-3 seats to the Oregon Ducks vs. Michigan State Spartans and got to witness a fantastic 2nd-half comeback by the Ducks with Stuart Leaton. Then in November Chris went to the Canadian Football League championship game, The Grey Cup. Though his beloved BC Lions weren’t in the game, he had a lot of fun seeing how far some fans go to dress up for this game.
XOX
Deb & Family
Special thanks to my friend Caitlin Cowan, Gingersnaps Photography
for all these great shots of us taken in Mundy Park, Coquitlam last month!
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