kids on the carpet

february has been rainy but warming up.  we are still loving our window seat.  ty has been more cuddly recently.  last night i went in to check on him in bed and he looked up and said "daddy i want snuggles" so i climbed in with him and snuggled him to sleep.  highlight of my year so far.

a few days ago kylie was putting ty in his pajamas and zeke took a few minutes to play with ty's blanket and some cars in peace.  ty has made it his mission to deny zeke any toys whatsoever.  this has become more stressful for him since zeke learned to crawl.  now ty is constantly running ahead of zeke, gathering up cars and stuffed animals, or just throwing them into the corners if zeke is catching up.  anyways, zeke was super cute all candid on the carpet so i grabbed the camera and took a few pictures.

"the zeke"

i love this carpet.  we bought it in goreme, turkey in the dead of winter when we were travelling and exploring cappadocia.  we stayed in a rest house carved into a rock.  it was cold and snowy so we sought shelter in a carpet store.  they gave us wine, we looked at carpets...  suleman the owner brought out this one from his personal collection and all the others we had looked at were off the table.

 we still got a great deal b/c it was the dead of winter and there was no one around to buy carpets.  suleman needed money to finance the hotel he was building, and he liked kylie.  nowhere since have we found a carpet anywhere as nice as ours.  sorry to brag, but we really really love this carpet.  zeke has spit up on it, but it came out fine.  they are made to be abused.  this one was handknotted by a turkish woman near the border with iraq for her dowry sometime in the 70s.  i suppose she never got married which is too bad, but worked out well for us!

"did i just spit up on mom and dad's favourite carpet???  must have been someone else!"

here's ty after getting his pajamas on.  "zeke wasnt just playing with my cars, was he??"

ty has developed a fondness for white spot breakfast burgers to match my own.  i love the breakfast club, mmmmmm.... i could eat it every day.  good thing triple o's is waaay across town.  if i am taking ty to canadian tire, we have been stopping together for breakfast burgers first.  then to BC liquor store, then canadian tire.

kylie's dad greg recently upgraded ty's rainsuit.  the new one is blue instead of yellow and initially ty was not a fan.  after playing in the rain for a while and staying nicely dry, he was converted.  our friend jarrid saw these outfits and was amazed.  do they make them for adults?  that would be awesome!