Sunday, October 3, 2010

Family Visit

My mom, sister Regina and niece Keira came to visit this weekend. 

We went to the  Hathaway Farm Corn Maze with animal petting area and hay rides.  The animals were a big hit as usual!  We only made it into the mini corn maze, which had to be called the "big guy" maze because Toby wanted no part of a mini maze.  Last year we went in the big one which is 13 acres and spent hours trying and never found the exit we had to take the "exit early".  It was fun trying, but with wild card Jayden around this year we don't have hours to spend in a maze so we took the fast route.  Toby was suspicious when we came out the entrance and thought we didn't do it right, can't get anything past him!  We never made it on the hay ride because little J had had enough and wanted to go home. 




The next day we harvest veggies from our garden. We still have to harvest the potatoes, carrots, eggplants, brussel sprouts and have TONS of green tomatoes and tomatillos.  Overall for our first year of this garden was a huge success!  We will take notes for next year and do thing a little differently but overall I am pleased we got a lot of food out of our little back yard.


Here is Steve and Keira harvesting potatoes!  Keira was using a little stick to dig.

Jayden Rolls on Over!

Jayden rolled over for the first time today. Boy was he pissed off when he realised he was on his belly and couldn't roll back.

 

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Toby rides with no training wheels!

I am not sure what prompted it but Toby started asking Steve to take off his training wheels.  I, of course, was against it from the start! I tried to rationalise waiting until next summer but Steve figured what harm could be done by sending a 3 year old down hill on a bike?  So he took them off and off Toby went!



And he kept on practicing every chance he gets.  He was unusually whiny this day ....


One small crash resulted in a bloody lip but otherwise he is still in one piece.  Trouble is he can pedal just fine and steer, but he can't start or stop himself. He tends to just stop by crashing into the grass...not ideal!


Thursday, July 15, 2010

Wecome baby Jayden!

The Pytlik Guys


This seems like a good place to start our family adventures!  Baby Jayden was welcomed into our family on the 4th of July 2010 after a LONG pregnancy but a quick labor! 


 We all worked very hard to bring him into this world and after all the drama he is perfect and healthy and we are unbelievably lucky to have our two boys! 


Our whole family had some adjusting to do to make room for the new arrival. I naively thought Toby was almost 4 and he would be helpful.  Boy was I wrong!  Toby turned into a monster of propositions I had never seen, but this too shall pass....and it did!  Here is one memory of his adjusting period:



Well it's just hair and look at that cute face how could we stay mad at him?   All is well and months later Toby is doing great!