Tales from Ashton Manor

Simon is talking all the time now. His words are clear, his sentences are well-formed. He loves to ask questions. His favourite question is why we say certain things. Say, for example, that I dropped a boulder on my toe and said "Shoot!". Simon would follow with "How come say shoot?"
He has a teddy bear which we received as a gift from the hospital where he is participating in a study. His teddy bear has been named Mimi and is a boy. When Mimi first moved into our house, he mostly just said "mimimimimimimimimimimimi" in a high-pitched voice. Now Mimi has begun to talk quite a bit too. Simon takes good care of Mimi, feeding him, fixing any ouchies he might have and making sure mimi gets his naps.
Simon is also getting sneaky. He approached his mom today and used a disguised voice to pretend to be another toy he had in the house. The toy, the voice stated, was hungry for chocolate. So mom gave Simon a chocolate to give the toy. But, after giving it to the toy, Simon discovered that the toy didn't actually like chocolate after all. So Simon had to eat it instead.
He loved Barney the large pink dinasour and his favourite song to sing before bedtime is "Oh Canada".
He is also beginning to use his imagination in very creative and astonishing ways. Today he used a box as a hockey net, a basketball for a puck and a container of glue for his hockey stick.
Simon will be, if all goes according to plan, in Boot to Blades in January.

Elliot passed his level one skating class and is going into level two in January. He has been really glad to have his Aunty Amanda back from school for the Christmas holidays and he is looking forward to his uncle Clayton being back after his Christmas holidays in Saskatoon.
Elliot is doing really well in school, enjoying being with his friends there and loving his teachers. He also loves Sunday School and his pastor Liz.
We still read a Cam Jansen story nearly every night but recently Elliot also recieved a dinasour book unlike any other. It is a huge pop-out dinasour book that you really need to see to believe. Anyhow, Elliot loves it and I don't mind the break from Cam Jansen's clicking. It was getting on my nerves.

Elliot has loved the snow, Simon is warming up to it.

No pun intended.