Boyd's New Year

On January 2nd, Boyd rang in 2008 with his first haircut. He got to sit in a tiny car with perky music and cartoons on a screen in front of him. His mood could be described as tense, but amused, until the cheery stylist took out the electric clippers. Boyd immediately began to wail, and his remained inconsolable the ordeal was finished. Luckily, there was a small pit of balls with a slide entry to play in after the cut, which helped ease Boyd back into his happy self. We were surprised by how grown up (and handsome!) he looked when it was through.



Another change since 2007 has been Boyd's transition in to Nursery. He has very nice leaders, Brother and Sister Lee, and some very fun little friends: Nolan, Donovan, Amelia, Thomas, Deacon, and Easton. Boyd is reportedly a very eager learner in nursery, and exclaims "Jesus!" when a picture of Jesus is shown. (Today in church, when brother Stouffer got up to speak, Boyd cried "prophet!", as we learned about prophets in FHE last week).





Finally, Boyd is discovering all kinds of new skills. He has mastered many letters of the alphabet, and loves to pick them out wherever we go. Reading books is still his top favourite activity, but he also loves playing with his "quack-quacks" in the bath, climbing on the wall in the basement, playing catch or tunnel-ball with one of many balls, riding on "Horsey", making pretend phone calls to Grampy, Gran, Grandma and Grandpa, Nolan, Dylan, and especially - Daddy. During these very cold winter months we've been visiting Gymaniacs in Cochrane and swimming pools for family fun on Saturdays.




One of the sweetest things Boyd does is say "Thank you, mommy", or "Thank you, Daddy" whenever we do the smallest things for him!