September and October Cate and Chloe

Well, here we are and two months have passed since the last post...I intended to post an update every week but I still think I can accomplish more than I actually can...

Starting back in late August we celebrated Cate's 2nd birthday with Joel and Jordana (they were here for a week from Toronto) and Grammy Jude. We had fun and ate chocolate cake, of course!

Following her birthday Cate started at a new daycare in Bathurst, just a couple of days a week to hang out with some kids her age - boy did we luck out with a fabulous daycare called Club des amis. The caregivers are warm and gentle and all completely bilingual; the kids are all so well behaved and happy and rested... Anyway Cate has a ball when she 's there; I saw a little boy at daycare doing a backwards walk with rap moves and making those rap sounds that result in a lot of spitting, well Cate came home doing the same moves the other day, and has been imitating it all week - the down low crouch with bent knees and arms a-swingin' like a monkey and the pffft phhfffftt pftpft, again with lots of saliva in the mix.



They had a Halloween party last week and she dressed up in a little purple tutu with a leotard and was a dancer - of course she had a backup wonder woman costume on underneath - that does truly explain Cate: gentle and fiersome, ballerina and superhero. Aside from daycare and rapping and dancing, she is completely obsessed with sailboats - we've been showing her some videos of the various Volvo Ocean Race clips and she is truly awed and I think inspired - she talks about Grandpa John's sailboat almost everyday...

Chloe is a love, her personality and character are emerging more and more and she is really a gigglepuss, she's fairly anxious to go straight to walking, but being only 5 1/2 months, she'll have to wait a bit longer! She is very, very tall and lovely, her complexion is much more fair than Cate's b ut you can tell they are sisters. She loves to sit up and look around but her favourite time is when we are interacting with her, she just loves to have a face right there for her to gaze at and tickle and grab. Cate has gracefully accepted her sister's permanent state in our family and Chloe glows with glee when Cate plays with her.














That's all for now...next post will have news of our new house!