Run, hide, save yourself!!!!! The Terrible Two's have arrived!!!!!! Still pretty darn cute though.....

So I have heard all about the "Terrible twos". How the switch flips and all of a sudden it is like "Look out!!!". I of course have repeatedly said to myself "Self, terrible twos, shmerrible shmoos!!!". "Self, that's a bunch of poppycock!!!". "Self, it's all a big ruse!!!". "Self, that's the deal of the century that I ain't buyin'!!!".

Yep, I have said all that many times.......but those days are GONE!!!! DONE!!!! FINISHED!!!! HISTOIRE!!!! BYE-BYE!!!! KAPUT!!!!

Well we are a little less than one month into this glorious twelve month period of our precious, sweet, beautiful little girl being two years old. Now instead I am saying to myself "Self, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!". "Self, Poppycock shmoppycock!!!!". "Self, it ain't no ruse!!!". "Self, ok I'm buyin', I'm buyin'!!!".

Ok....so it is not all THAT bad. However, she did recently set a new record for huge fits!!! Wooooooeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! She wanted to go outside to play in the cold, dark, night....and Mommy and Daddy said that "We will have to wait until tomorrow to go outside to play."......and...well....she did not approve of that response. She did not approve one bit!!! She got her shoes, coat, and hat on and she was NOT taking them off!!!....AND....she made it very, very clear that Mommy and Daddy were GOING TO put on their shoes and coats.

Anyhow.....after many attempts to sidetrack her we were successful and the hat, coat, and shoes came off, and we returned to being one big happy family.

So to all of you with kids older than two...to those of you who have lived it all....to those of you who are done with it all....to those of you who are laughing at me right now....thanks....thanks a lot!!! :-)

To those of you with kids under two...and you KNOW who you are!!!! (T and M come to mind....) GET READY!!!!!!! (insert Jaws theme here) It is coming!!!!!

She still sure is cute though!!!!! And getting taller....


Doesn't that picture just scream "Yep, I'm two, and I'm all it...and I'm very, very cute...so don't forget it!!!!"

Carolyn has been busy doing the craft show circuit!!



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A snowman revisited, birthday fun, and the cutest little hands.....

Hey!!!!! How are you????? Good to see you!!!! How ya been????

Any point to the previous stuff???? No of course not. Have we just met???? By now you must know me better than that.

Well, I have been meaning to get to the third and final snowman update as well as some birthday stuff....but I was away in Vancouver for work most of the week (got to have a couple of great meals with Don while I was there!!!). But....I have returned!!!

Mr. Snowman the final chapter

....he has moved on the bigger and better things....

Clarissa is now TWO YEARS OLD!!!!!!!! Ok, technically she is now TWO YEARS AND FIVE DAYS OLD!!!!!!!



Now.....for the star of the show.....



She got some wonderful gifts......


We had a great dinner with Grandma, Grandpa, and Uncle Joey....


Oh....and Uncle Don joined us too all the way from Vancouver....


Clarissa looooooooved her Dairy Queen ice cream birthday cake!!!



Lots of playing with her new mailbox!!!!


Yep.....two.........

A snowman downsized.....

Just thought that I would give an update as to how our friend the snowman is doing....




As you will notice he has lost some weight rather quickly....Jenny Craig eat your heart out. Jenny has nothing on a bit of sunshine.

Wait until you see my next update....maybe tomorrow....

Until then here are a couple of other picutures that I forgot to post:

Clarissa had fun picking pumpkins



She helped Daddy rake the leaves....




Well ok Daddy raked them into a big pile and she jumped into them....


Oh......and Sunday is Clarissa's birthday!!!! She will be TWO!!!!!!!!

I'm Rob, this is Carolyn, and this is Clarissa. And she is?.....She is our daughter of course....

Something interesting that happened recently. Sort of one of those moments....you know? Not a bad thing....just one of those "hmmmm that is kind of interesting" moments. One of those "wow that has never really crossed my mind" kind of moments.

But wait....before I get to that let me get to this......


Oh....and I like this too....


It was Halloween afterall....



Ok, back to my moment....

We were out on the weekend and met someone that we hadn't met before...it went something like this (I will do this "a la Adrian" if I may....)

Him: Hi! Welcome! My name is Mark.
Me: Hi Mark! I'm Rob!
Carolyn: Hi! I'm Carolyn!
Me: And this is Clarissa!
Him:slight pause....and she is?.......
Me: (thinking to myself...what is he asking????? Didn't he hear me???? I just told him that she is Clarissa....Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)Clarissa is our daughter.

Of course he then smiled with a look that said "I pretty much knew that, but I wanted to be sure before assuming...."

Now, it took me a few seconds to "get" what he meant. He looked at us, and looked at Clarissa, and wanted to be sure that she was in fact our daughter.

To be honest this caught me a bit off guard. Upon reflection I realized that perhaps at times I am not aware enough of the reality of our world. I realized that perhaps I am absolutely oblivious to the fact that our precious little girl doesn't look like us. I realized that perhaps others look at us and wonder. I realized that perhaps when I am at the grocery store with my amazingly wonderful, special little girl that people say to themselves "I wonder where his Asian wife is. Oh, and his Asian wife must be beautiful because look at how beautiful his little girl is". I realized that perhaps people are thinking "What is that strange looking man doing with that incredibly beautiful little girl???".

Firstly, my wife, while not Asian, is incredibly beautiful, and amazingly wonderful, and special!

Then I am left asking myself "Self, am I wrong to be absolutely oblivious to all this????......or am I right?????".....and.... "Self, am I wrong to not be constantly aware of all this????.....or am I right?????".

It struck me how I truly don't think of her as being "different" than us in any way. I think of her only as my daughter. I think of her only as the amazingly wonderful, special, funny, brilliant, beautiful little girl that I love so very much.

Then I say to myself "Self, you can never forget these things because you always need to be aware of her needs.". Then I say to myself "Self, but even considering this whole conversation that I am having with myself, I am always still very aware of her needs. I will protect all of her needs from anyone, anything, anywhere, anytime.". Then I say to myself "Self, but does any of this really have anything to do with me seeing her as nothing other than my amazingly wonderful, special, funny, brilliant, beautiful daughter who I love so very much?????".

I don't think so.

Oh....before we got dressed up for Halloween we did this.......








Yep.....that's Clarissa. She's our daughter!!!!! We love her very, very much!!!!