Bye apartment, bye Winnipeg...

 [stef]

Sorry, no Mr.Icarus (giant frog) picture this month - I figured we would start doing it every other month, as next month is his six month birthday!
Five months has flown by. Hudson is turning into a little boy. A giggly, charming, and most evidently, cheeky one at that! If he's ever sitting on one of our laps on the couch, he's not content to just sit and stare anymore - nope, the first thing he does is leap sideways over to one or more of the channel changers, and attempt to army crawl across the cushions to claim his button-y prize. Last night the show we were watching on the play station started rewinding on it's own, but then we looked down on the floor, and there was Hudson, a few feet away from where we put him, clutching the playstation controller and grinning very deviously. He had actually turned it on himself and managed to hit the right sequence of buttons to make it rewind. Putting him on his back on his play mat is useless now, as he flips onto his tummy within seconds and pulls himself in whatever direction that will lead him to the most desirable toy.

Silly program won't let me flip this! Anyways,  this is where I originally placed him...

This is where he was less than five minutes later

As a mommy, I'm obligated to talk about his sleeping situation, because it determines my sleeping situation too! Let's just say it, once again, hasn't been awesome. I blame the fact that both of us have been alternately sick since the middle of October, mixed in with growth spurting, and maybe just a dash of plain old baby silliness. Hudson's bedtime is still around 11pm, which is fine, but for awhile he's been waking up after maybe only an hour or two and crying. I know he's not hungry, but because I'm so tired, I allow him to nurse for a minute or two, simply because that's the easiest way to get him back to sleep (easy is good right now with everything that's going on!). But then one night last week, when he woke up at 12:30am and cried, neither me or Ty were willing to jump up and get him, and 15 minutes later he got himself back to sleep! The next night, the same thing happened, and the next one after that. And then the one after that, he didn't wake up until almost 5:00am! So, some positive changes are happening, ones I hope to continue while in BC for the next few weeks. I originally thought I would have liked to start the whole 'sleep training' thing sometime after four months, but I've made some changes in my thinking, and am now okay with slowly working into it like we are now. And soon we'll start solids, which some people claim to make a big difference, but we'll see!

I'm making this short, as I have ALOT to do today in the form of packing, cleaning and saying goodbye to a few of the tenants at Woodrow. This is my last day in our apartment (sniff), and last day living in Winnipeg (bigger sniff). I never thought I would get so attached  to this city. When I first moved here, I was relatively unimpressed with it, and thought three and a half years of living here (the original plan) was going to be a major challenge. But slowly it's grown on me, and  now four years later, I'm sad to be leaving.  Not that I won't be visiting often, and by next summer I'll be working here again, but I just won't be a part of it like I am now. But country life will have it's benefits too. A few weeks ago when we were out in Rosenort, I saw stars for the first time in who knows how long! That seems like an odd thing to say, but really, you just don't notice them out here. Just little things like that.
Anyhow, I'm off to continue packin'. I'm trying to get as much done today as possible, because my dear husband is temporarily staying behind to finish off the  year with his grade 3/4 class, and has offered to basically do all the moving after me and H are on the plane. How sweet and awesome (for me) is that? Next time I write, it will be from my momma's computer in Mission! Gray, damp, but oh so familiar Christmas, here we come! 
Please pray the flights go well (I have to be at the airport at 4:30am -eek!), and that Hudson will be a superstar baby for mine and my seatmate's sake (say that ten times in a row).

So, like I said:

Bye apartment, bye Wolseley, bye Winnipeg, bye house, bye Dana, bye Bear, bye Shaggy!

Our Christmas card that was very sadly unprintable