E Speak

Words she has invented recently (about a month ago): 1) Spigus 2) Gavelle 

Also E speak: Come Together by the Beatles is also called "the people song", because I showed her a music video of Come Together, with stylized animated Beatles. 

And today over breakfast E suddenly started talking about Halloween. She said, "I was Abby and Mummy was a pumpkin". Jon didn't dress up this year, so I decided to ask her what Daddy was, and she immediately replied, "a jacket". I burst out laughing, and then she continued, "Daddy was a sweater."

Come Together

E has a new favourite song - Come Together by the Beatles. Another song she likes, but not as much as Come Together, is Take Me Home Tonight by Eddie Money. Again, both songs are courtesy of 103.3 FM. This comes as a slight relief, as the other day That's All by Genesis came on when I was driving by myself, and I had to change the radio station. And I actually like That's All, I'm just sick of listening to it. 

Today I'm 28 weeks and 6 days pregnant. I went to Walmart earlier with E, namely to return some winter jackets to the store, but of course ended up walking around. At the end of that, I felt (and still feel) utterly exhausted. I've been napping almost every day too. The main perk at least of having a toddler and being pregnant is that I can sometimes get her to clean up after herself (usually about a 70% rate), and I can ask her to pick things up from the floor for me, because I can't breathe and bend down at the same time anymore (though this is not new, it's been at least a month since I noticed this).

In other news, although Jon and I decided to hire someone to do the leaf cleanup this year, I thought I could save money on the first round of leaf pick up by the city by cleaning up some of the leaves myself. This was because at the beginning of the week, only our side yard had leaves all over, and leaf pick up is next week. So I spent yesterday blowing leaves with the leaf blower for an hour while E napped. Today however, all the leaves are on the ground again. It's almost as if I didn't even do anything yesterday. D'oh. I'm not going to bother for now though, far too tired to do anything about it. Plus the laundry I didn't do yesterday needs to be done today. 

New Favourite Song

E's new favourite song is That's All by Genesis. She also calls it 'That Song'. Either way, about a week ago when I was driving around with her, it came on the radio and she started chiming along whenever the chorus got to 'That's All', which I thought was very cute and funny. 

I just realised that I didn't write anything the whole of October. Jon was off for a week, but still ended up doing a lot of work from home. During his down time we were able to go apple picking/pumpkin picking at Braeutigam Orchards, visit Boo at the Zoo and go to Pumpkinland at Theis Farm with some friends. In October we also had another playdate with a colleague of Jon's, went to Suson Park to see the farm animals again, and took family photos at Forest Park. And of course just a few days ago, we celebrated Halloween with the rest of our neighbourhood. This was the table I set up for our trick-or-treaters:

E was dressed as Abby, and I had an orange maternity t-shirt with a pumpkin face on the belly area. At the end of the night, I was so exhausted and felt so sore from all the walking. The soreness persisted throughout yesterday as well. 

On a separate note, I'm currently 27 weeks and 4 days pregnant. The general pregnancy fatigue from being large, and bad quality of sleep is starting to kick in now. At least I got to enjoy my 2nd trimester (meaning, I didn't really notice how being pregnant affected my daily life/functioning). I'm currently on the hunt for a cheap winter jacket, because I can't zip up any of my existing jackets, and the weather here suddenly became very chilly.