The Child Grows

Each and every day I see the child grows more and more and it absolutely fascinates me seeing it all happen.

Now for those of you who don't know, I'm a first-time parents and so if any of you already have children of your own or don't have children at all, then you may not know what I'm talking about. For everybody else out there reading this, as my dear Isabelle gets ever closer to being two years old, she's learning so much so quickly it's absolutely amazing to see.

Just yesterday I very clearly heard her saying the words "brush teeth" together even though she wouldn't say it upon request in front of Carley, BUT I KNOW SHE DID! Currently she is able to repeat almost anything said as the last word in a sentence and I think she's JUST starting reeeeeally put two words together as she says more and more words on her own without any prompting. She's got a few opposites such as up and down confused sometimes, but other than that her language seems to be right on the edge of starting to say whole phrases at one time. Just a few days ago I got her saying "Oh man". (She's really good at that one.)

I imagine life is a bit difficult for her at this time with trying to learn so many things all at one time. She's been constantly learning new language skills as well as learning to climb and colour and trying to learn to use the potty. We've also started using a consistent timeout method with her which seems to have her all rattled now that mom and dad are both on the same page with not letting her get away with things... even if mom doesn't like it so much.

At this point, with her birthday being only a little over a week away, I'm looking forward to seeing all the possible new changes that are coming over the next year to see where things go from here... hopefully with more cuddles in the future as well.


~ Kyle Welykholowa

Visiting My Family - Happy Birthday Dad! ^_^

     Just got back from visiting my family this evening. Had a wonderful time. I always enjoy seeing my mom and dad. My sister and brother. And of course the rest of the family. We always have great conversations and being the general wallflower that I am, I like listening to all the stories people tell. Especially my brother, he's really great at telling stories in a funny way; Makes me think of my grandpa.

     So a bunch of the family got together tonight to visit and celebrate my dad's birthday. Me, being the lovely son that I am, played some pool with my dad... and unfortunately I wasn't very nice. I won two of the three games we played. We'll have to play some more games sometime dad. It would give me a wonderful reason to come visit you guys other than seeing the dog and my little gerbils.

     Tomorrow is back to work once again. It's Sears Days right now, so there's some pretty good deals going on, but seeing as I'll be working during the day... it'll probably be another slow day. Perhaps I'll write some more of the story I'm working on in my spare time. Or maybe I'll decide upon something to draw. Who knows? There's so much that I feel like doing, I don't even know what I'm going to want to do.

     I used to prefer planning things out ahead of time... I still do like planning some things ahead of time, but I think I've reached more of a point where I just like to do things as they come along. Whatever I feel like whenever I feel like. In the past I took things too seriously and wanted things to work out in a certain way, but now I realize that there are much more important things in life than worrying about everything all day long. Sometimes you just need to go out for an unplanned drive rather than having everything planned out ahead of time.

     Well anyways, that's all for now. I'll talk to you all again later. Have a great day everybody! ^_^

~ Kyle

Somehow flawless.

Alright, so I curl a ton on both Mondays and Fridays. I really do like my team... I mean it is my family after all, but I'm slowly realizing just how old they're getting.

My aunt is doing really well this season. Better than I've seen her do in the past. I think ever since we taught her how to throw better she's been doing great! My uncle has always had some troubles throwing consistently, but I love having him around to talk to. My dad is unfortunately beginning to have issues playing as well. Then we get to my mom, who plays really well for me. She does her best to set things up for me so I can do what needs to be done for us to score whenever possible.

And throughout this all... we somehow have a flawless record of 3 and 0. I'm not complaining. I just... don't really... know... how we managed it. But hey, that's the fun of playing with my family. I love them. <3

~ Kyle