It's been 2 months since we last posted anything and to be honest, it's kind of been nice. I know people are pretty interested in Ryan and what he's up to but writing it out every day would probably make me feel like we don't do much. And that's because we don't... really.
A usual day involves waking up at whatever time Ryan decides to make us get out of bed. Sleeping in is no longer in our vocabulary, or at least it's definition has changed dramatically. For a while now, Ryan has been waking up any where between 6 to 7. Tyler has been getting out of bed to change him and give him breakfast because on a regular night, I'm out of bed with Ryan about 5 times. We are trying to change that but the Ry man isn't making that easy. I'm out of bed soon after because I can hear them in the kitchen or living room and it sounds like they are having so much fun and I don't want to miss out on it.
Tyler heads off to work or to go hunting and I get to play with my son. It's almost always the same thing every day - I kind of just follow him around, talking and singing, showing him what things are. We also read a lot of books. He likes to flip pages by himself and pick the book. He's pretty much the cutest kid around.
It's really fun to see his personality coming out. He's such a little clown. Always laughing and being silly. He's also a very curious little boy. It's so fun to watch him learn and to show him how things work.
Ryan's face lights up when Tyler comes home from work. You can just tell that he loves his dad so much. They have so much fun together, rolling around on the floor, tickling and laughing. Everything gets dropped when dad comes home.
We get to come home for Christmas in less then a month and I'm just so excited about that. Actually getting home is going to be a slight gong show though. We have 2 flights to get to Vancouver and then a 4 hours wait in the airport before finally getting on another plane to come home. I'm hoping Ryan will just sleep the whole time we are flying. That would make things so much easier. I don't think he will because he'll want to look around and squirm and move. The 4 hours in the airport might not be that bad though. With so much to see, we can go for walks, eat some dinner, and entertain everyone else in the airport. I'm just so excited to be coming home again. I can't wait to see family and friends and nieces and nephews and cousins and everyone!!! I'm also pretty excited to give nieces and nephews gifts!! They are awesome and I can't wait!
So what else is new with us? Hmm, well, probably lots of stuff since it's been so long since we've written anything on here.
Ryan lived through his first, and I hope only earthquake and tsunami warning. And it was more frightening then the first one we dealt with. We were at a halloween party with a bunch of friends when someone got a phone call asking if they were all right. This party guest was confused because we didn't feel anything. She hung up and almost immediately got another phone call regarding her safety. We started to wonder what was going on and how serious it all was. Tyler and I decided to leave the party and check everything out. We learned it was a 7.7 earthquake that happened about 180 miles north west of where we are. That send us into semi-panic mode. Having Ryan makes us take things a little more serious. Right away, Tyler went out and reconnected the vehicle battery (long story about that but the gist of it is that our car battery died and when we got a new one, we didn't leave it hooked up so it wouldn't drain itself) while I gathered everything important we might need if our town got destroyed. Blankets, warm clothes for all 3 of us, food, knives, Tyler's rifle, computer, camera and even the cat made it. It took us about half and hour to get all this stuff together and be out the door. And it's pretty tough to gather everything while trying to stay calm and keep Ryan settled down. Having a baby makes escaping from a tsunami more complicated.
I put Ryan in the car while Tyler hauled the totes into the trunk. And then we were off. We drove through a stop sign, promising to stop twice next time as we headed up to higher ground. We went almost half way up the mountain before we finally stopped and waited. We were talking with our parents, making sure they knew we were ok. And then we sat there. I had a very strange feeling. I had the adrenaline coursing through my body but now we were just sitting there and it felt like we should still be doing something. And then nothing happened. We turned on the radio and listened. It turns out that there wasn't anything to be scared of because that type of earthquake doesn't produce huge tsunami waves. We ended the mini adventure by going over to Jan and Carl's place and hanging out with a bunch of other people. They live on the highest street in town so we figured we would be safe there.
When it was time to come home and go to sleep, I didn't sleep well. All I could think about was the next earthquake and all the what if's. It makes me really want to move to Alberta where almost nothing bad happens weather-wise.
I'm trying to find a picture to show how close the quake was to us but I can't find anything. I found a website, http://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/index-eng.php that shows all the recent earthquakes and aftershocks and it's really amazing how many actually happen around here.
Something else to report isn't new at all. Our upstairs neighbor must have bought and started to train elephants due to the amount of noise that comes from up there. It's actually unbelievable to me how much one person can stomp around. It's only a problem when she wakes Ryan up. But, she has this uncanny ability of knowing when he is sleeping and that is when she stomps the hardest with her heels, so I guess it's usually a huge problem. I know we could go up there and ask her to keep it down but it's not her fault and she isn't doing it on purpose. And it's her home up there. I'm not sure I would be impressed if someone asked me to not walk so hard, or to stop walking around after 8. I also think she keeps every single thing she owns in the drawers in her room. We lay in bed and just listen to her get ready for bed. She opens about 20 drawers before she finally stops. I just want to scream because I don't understand how one person can open so many drawers. It's frustrating. She just woke Ryan up too so I think I'm going to sign off for now.
I would like to blog more often but we will see how that goes.
Sonja
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