Random October Stuff

Below are a collection of random October moments.  Some are typical every day things, and a few are special occasions.  

I'm not sure why, but it seems that all children enjoy playing with their car seats.  Ken thinks it's Kate's way of saying bully to one of her objects of confinement.

Kate is slowly but surely trying to figure out the stairs.  She has finally figured out how to pull herself up onto a step, but hasn't quite figured out how to get to the next one.  I keep waiting for the day we'll have to buy gates.

On Thanksgiving Day we went for a drive - a lovely drive.  The current family history quest is a side step - trying to find Aunt Addie - my Dad's godmother that had no children of her own.  We drove out to a cemetery in Harriston, Ontario to look for what could have possibly been her grave - but it wasn't.

On the way home we took the northern route and drove through several pretty towns and past the Shelburne wind farms.  I could not adequately capture the wind turbines.  They are huge and every where!

After visiting the cemetery in Harriston it got me thinking about other graves, graves of my family in the city.  I was searching on a Jewish site and found Al and Florence Solman's graves, and Eva - the first wife of Uncle Stanley, mother of Maribeth and Lenny.  I decided that Kate and I would go and find the graves.

Al and Florence's grave is in a beautiful cemetery in North York - very well maintained, very peaceful.  The grass was thick and lush and Kate enjoyed it very much.  Eva's grave was in another cemetery in North York and I think Maribeth captured the feeling very well when she called it "a rather spooky and spiritual graveyard".  I felt a connection to Eva that I can't describe, considering she's a person that I've never met and she isn't a blood relative.

Everyone keeps asking me how I'm enjoying Tottenham.  I am slowly making my peace with the place.  The one thing that I love doing in town is going for walks.  I try to take Kate out everyday, it doesn't always happen but we try!  The weather has been so unpredictable the last little while.  I'm never quite sure how to dress Kate. There's the light weight coat, with blanket and cat hat...

...or the heavier snowsuit.

Of course one thing that Kate does absolutley every day is nap!  I'm trying to introduce a "lovey".  I tried the pig and she seemed to like it very much - she's a girl after my own heart!

And every Sunday we go to church.  Thanks to many hand-me-downs from Suzanne, and other generous gifts Kate has a plethora of dresses.

And last but not least in the randomness - eating.  Trying to find the balance between Kate figuring out how to feed herself, and MESS is an interesting journey.  This particular day Ken and I decided to let Kate enjoy her food in every possible sensory way.  She was in Shepherd's Pie heaven!