We took Aidan for haircut #2 yesterday afternoon.

In retrospect, maybe we shouldn’t have done it when he was so tired. Despite my best efforts, he didn’t get a nap yesterday. Not for a lack of trying, though. Also not for a lack of needing. He just wouldn’t go to sleep. Anyway, we went for haircuts around 4. The same barber who cut his hair last time was there, and getting him onto the kiddy bench wasn’t that difficult. The trouble started when the apron was placed over him.

And, by “trouble” I mean crying.

So, we tried a different approach. I sat in the chair, and Aidan sat on my lap. Well, that was sorta ok. Until the clippers turned on. Then the flight or fight instinct kicked in. Fortunately it was mostly the flight instinct, but that meant that it took both Gwen and I to hold him more or less still (well, actually a whole lot less than more) while the barber tried to cut his hair. For the whole experience, Aidan cried, shrieked, and fought to escape. The barber showed remarkable patience.

After trimming what he could, Aidan fled with Gwen while I got my hair cut. Aidan cuddled with Gwen for almost the whole time, but eventually started showing interest in the other people who were there getting their hair cut, and interest in what was being done to them.

Maybe we should look into cutting his hair ourselves. For the sake of the barber and his customers.

Hallowe’en! Trick-or-treating! Lavish costumes! Lots of candy.

Oh wait. Not in Vancouver. And what’s with the fireworks?
Well, at least some of the units in our place were done up. And Aidan went trick-or-treating. Two whole units opened their doors!

Both Aidan and Tristan were simians of some sort:

And Gwen had fun carving some pumpkins: a scary Tyrone (from The Backyardigans!) and an even scarier owl:

As usual, more pictures are on the Picture Barn.

OK. So, with the desktop computer running so well, any time I’ve been on the computer, I’ve been trying to work. If I’m not able to sit at the computer, then … well obviously I can’t blog.

So, I know I haven’t finished posting about the vacation. I’ll get another post out tonight and try to wrap it up early next week.

The sciatica: I’m not in any pain, but I’m still numb up and down my left leg, and half my left foot. I went for a little walk yesterday, and a bit of a longer one today. I’ve got a doctor’s appointment tomorrow and afterwards I hope to make it into work (by bus). Hopefully, with the doctor’s approval, I’ll commute by bus for a while into work and equally hopefully the sensation (and muscular control) will return to my leg.

The walk today involved taking Aidan down to the park to get some daylight pictures of him in his Monkey Costume. Being the experienced toddler he is, he walked all by himself down the hill and one block east to Oak Street before we put him in the stroller. He sure likes walking by himself and not so much in the stroller. Oh well.

We went down to Charleson Park and took some shots of him playing in the leaves. Sadly, we swept through the leaves first to make sure there were no needles. Oh well. Anyhow we got some nice shots. Here are a few, and more can be found in the Photo Barn.

Welcome to the new site! We’re moving away from Blogger, due to many reasons. We’ve made this move after returning from our Halifax vacation, so all the posts about our vacation will be the “test drive” of this Word Press site. Update date your bookmarks and blog readers. The new site address is www.leftcoastfloyds.net.

We took over 700 pictures while back East. One of them has been used for the mast-head. Here’s the unmodified (mostly) version: