The Chronicles of Nadia

Nadia's First Day of School!!!!

2010-09-30T18:30:00.000-07:00

Nadia started school this past month and is loving it! She had her first day on the 14th of September and we watched her get off the bus at the school....we missed watching her get on as the bus driver was a 1/2 hour early and daycare was there to get her on the bus. When we saw her get off she was so cute and well behaved! Seeing her little head in the window was priceless!!! We got to walk her inside her school. The only thing we forgot to do was sign in at the principal's office and Mike ended up having the principal chase him down to find out who he was and why he hadn't signed in!!! I guess since Nadia was holding my hand I was ok...Mike was in trouble on the first day!! I have to admit though, I'm glad that they keep such a close eye on the people entering the school! I didn't even cry on her first day!!! I cried a few times before the day when discussing it with various people but did not actually cry the day of!!! It's hard to believe that Nadia is so grown up now! She enjoys riding the school bus but it is a crazy long ride (45minutes) considering the school is maybe a ten minute car ride!! Nadia is also busy with activities like gymnastics and skating. She is really doing well! We're so proud of her! The only thing I would do differently is not have the activities back to back on Saturday morning as she is sooooo tired by the time skating is over!!!! I guess this will help her to build some endurance!!! Nothing like 1 1/2 hours of training straight!!!

Stuff that's new with Ryan...we took him skating for the first time just over a month ago. It was quite the experience!!! His little feet just kept slipping everywhere!!! Oh well, he'll get the hang of it eventually!!! He is starting to like Dora. Probably because we have alot of Dora books and shows cause of Nadia. Who says Dora isn't for boys too!!!! As well, he is really talking up a storm these days and enjoys singing!!!! Baa Baa black sheep is his current favourite and then Dora's backpack song. Of course his singing consists of repetitive 'baa baa' to the right tune or 'backpack, backpack' along with that song....it's pretty cute! He's doing pretty good with his vocabulary though, he's roughly just over 100 words now!!! He also likes to identify belongings like....'Adia milk'. Ryan is also starting to take an interest in the potty, he has gone pee on the potty a few times. He's still not to sure about the whole experience, but he seems to be starting to tell us after he's had a poop in his diaper. He says 'Peeu'. Still a long potty training road ahead... but he likes sitting on the potty with a good book! Ryan also likes to wear daddy's shoes! It was so cute the other day when he put on daddy's big sandals and was walking around! Ryan is pretty funny and has quite the sense of humour!!! He does a really funny pretending to sleep thing too where he closes his eyes and fake snores!!! What a guy!

September Long Weekend Mike and I got to spend the weekend alone together!!! I can't remember the last time we got to spend a whole weekend together just the two of us!!! It was our belated anniversary celebration! We've been married 6 years!!! Actually, I just remembered the last time we spent a whole weekend alone together, it was just over two years ago now, we went to a wedding in Halifax!!! Where does the time go! I definitely missed Nadia and Ryan but it was so amazing to just worry about ourselves!!! Thanks to Mike's parents for watching our wonderful but very busy children!!! We went outlet mall shopping!!! Always fun and we shopped mostly for ourselves!!!

I'm Back!!!

2010-08-28T10:45:00.000-07:00

Hard to believe that Summer is almost over!!! Today I decided it was time to start blogging once again. I will have to change the title of this blog though as since the last entry there has been a new addition to our little family...Ryan...who is not so new anymore...in a few more days he will be a year and a half!!!!! Which is absolutely crazy!!

We've had a really nice summer, the weather has been great! We were very fortunate to be able to make it out to Manitoba for a week where we went to my cousin Carla's wedding, got to visit lots of family, my parents, sister and friend April from highschool and her two kids. Then once we got back home we had a nice visit with our friends Andrew and Jen and their two kids. They came out and stayed with us for a couple of nights while they were finalizing things with their new house!!! Then we got a special visit from one of my oldest and dearest friends Angela!!! She's getting married next year so we went and did a little bit of dress shopping!!! It was very exciting!! I love weddings!!

Nadia is so grown up now!!! She starts school in a few weeks. She's all ready and tomorrow we will be going to a school bus orientation for her to learn about the rules of the bus. She's really looking forward to school!! She has a disney princess backpack and we have all of her school supplies. We've also gotten some nice back to school clothes. I think auntie Julianne would be proud!! There is one shirt that I bought that totally reminds me of her (It's the shirt in this pic...we did a little fashion show)! I think Nadia will have lots of fun! She loves to draw, paint, make crafts, sing, and write all kinds of things like the alphabet, and simple words. Her latest interest is hopscotch!!! She draws it up on our new driveaway and goes crazy jumping and hopping around! She also loves biking and playing computer games, especially the ITouch!! She's actually quite good at alot of different games and she even likes the educational ones where she gets to learn how to spell and do addition and subtraction problems.

Ryan on the other hand is busy figuring out the world and where he fits within it. He is starting to become familiar with time outs!!! He's so cute...I'll have to remember to take a picture on his next time out. He is starting to do what Nadia did. Where he sits there and looks down. He still tries to get up and talk during time out but he's learning!! He's a great kid and is really picking up on all kinds of things really fast! He has quite the vocabulary!!! He has his favourites though like truck, uh oh, oh no, rock, bubble, fish, feet, turtle, anana (banana), cheese, milk, book, ball, block, boat, walk, clock, that and baby, and then he has a whole host of others and a few phrases like "no daddy or no more". He's constantly surprising us though with words like raspberry (baberry), pizza, Nadia (adia) and whatever else that seems to come out. Like when I asked where's Nadia and all of a sudden this little person points and says "right there" he definitely blows us away!!! Ryan's favourite things are playing in the sand, dirt, with rocks, with trucks, cars, buses (just about anything with wheels), he likes his shape sorter, making towers and destroying them and anything that Nadia is building/working on too, so she has gotten quite used to doing activities on the kitchen table that she doesn't want disturbed. For the most part that usually works but as Ryan has been climbing everything like couches and chairs for a few months already it's hard to find a completely uninterrupted space. Oh well, she's used to it!

The two of them really play well together!! He's like her partner in crime. Nadia loves to jump on our guest bed and it's a little high for Ryan but he tries to climb up it and if he's having a little trouble, Nadia gives him a boost and then there they are bouncing around. They also love chasing each other around. He's at a really cute and fun stage. It's also fun to watch how Nadia is showing and teaching him all kinds of things like animal noises. I think she was responsible for teaching him most of the different animal noises and a number of the parts of his body. It was funny the other day I just asked the kids "who wants pancakes put up your hand" and Ryan's little arm shot up. Then he looked at his hand. He's so cute!!! It's crazy how fast time goes!!! I just want to freeze time!!! The kids definitely make our life very interesting!!!

Happy Belated 1st Birthday Nadia

2008-02-23T13:29:00.000-08:00

Nadia has grown into such a beautiful little girl!!! It's hard to believe that a year has passed so quickly (actually even more than that now...)!!! She has changed so much and come so far in all the different things that she has learned to do. We are so proud of her!! Yet some things never change.....Nadia cried on her birth day and on her first birthday!! She's so cute!!! It's all good Nadia!! It's your party and you can cry if you want to!!

BIRTHDAY PARTY

I know that it's now March!! But I never got around to dedicating a blog for Nadia's First Birthday.... So better late than never!! Where does the time go!!! I had intended to do this much sooner...in any case... Nadia had an excellent first birthday party!! We held it at Grandma and Grandpa's house the weekend before her actual birth date. We were so lucky to have family and friends there to celebrate the big day. Nadia had a great time! She wasn't a fan of the cake though and definitely was not a cake trasher. She wasn't too sure about the whole thing and we even cut her a smaller piece thinking that it would be less intimidating and Uncle Sebastien even tried to encourage her to get her hands into it but, she just cried. Poor girl!! She didn't even particularily like the taste. It was her first time having something that sweet. It was a really yummy cake though!! So we ended up replacing her piece of cake with her favourtist thing in the whole world, CHEESE!!! Mmmmm cheese!! She loves cheese so much!! We love you more than cheese Nadia!!! (I actually saw a stamp in a scrapbooking store that said 'I love you more than cheese' and I was very close to buying it!!!)

The birthday crowd, here Nadia's playing away!! Oh how she loves to play with all kinds of things!!! What a busy little girl!! Always on the move..always doing something!!

Nadia opening gifts!! Ooooh, I wonder what's inside!!!

Nadia and her friend Aiden!!

Nadia's birthday gifts!! What a lucky girl!!! Thank-you everybody for coming out and for all of the wonderful presents!! Also, a big thank-you to Grandma and Grandpa for hosting the birthday party!!

BIRTHDAY (The actual day)

So since she wasn't a fan of cake at her birthday party we thought that we would give it a second shot on her actual birthday. No tears this time but still not to sure about the whole cake and not really interested. Oh well, more for mommy!!!

Nadia got to open some presents on her birthday. This one was from mommy and daddy, Nadia's very first doll house!!

TRICK OR TREATING

Here Nadia was all ready to go out trick or treating!! She was just the cutest little butterfly!!! Everybody loved her!!! Nadia went to five of the neighbour's houses. It was actually a very effective way to meet the neighbours that we hadn't met yet! We also stopped into our next door neighbour's house who has a little boy that's a little older than Nadia so they got to play together for a little while. He was a cute little dinosaur...too bad I didn't have the camera with me when we were there.

Into the candy!!

Family photo after being out trick or treating!! Mommy sure looks in better shape than last Halloween!! Definitely not as pale!!

Thank you Amma for handing out candy for us while we were out!!!

Here is Nadia the morning after Halloween trucking her candy around!! Yummy candy!!

Next I plan to catch everybody up on the other major holidays and things that have been going on in our lives over the last few months or so, as well as, to talk about all of the things that Nadia is up to these days. So many changes!!!

Amma's Visit!!

2007-11-24T21:52:00.000-08:00

Miss you Amma!!!

We were so lucky to have Amma visit us for 5 weeks!!! She arrived the 7th of October and Nadia warmed up to her right away! Funny enough though, for the first couple of days we would take Nadia to the sitter's during the day and each afternoon when we picked her up and brought her home she would look at Amma like, who are you? and what are you doing in my house! It was funny, but she got over that very quickly and loved playing with Amma and getting tickled. Amma even taught her a few new skills while she was out. Like blowing on tummies, blowing better kisses, climbing up and down stairs, saying 'tickle, tickle, tickle' and of course saying 'Amma'.

Early on in the visit we got to stop at my friend Angie's place to meet up with her mom who was also out for a visit!

Nadia and Amma had so much fun together!!! They played and played! In fact Nadia had this one phrase 'doy, doy, doy' which we were beginning to believe was really 'play,play,play'. Amma and Nadia went for lots of walks around the area. Nadia loves walking outside! They also went to the park, where Nadia got to go down the slide and swing on the swings!! She LOVEs playing at the park!!! She also really loves playing with the little stones that are around the play structure!! I think we're really going to have to think about getting a swing set next spring! Nadia also loves to be tickled and boy was she in for a treat as Amma loves to tickle little girls!!! Amma's favourite phrase 'Here come Amma's tickle fingers!'.

We got to do all kinds of fun things during Amma's visit!! One of the biggest challenges was finding the perfect Halloween costume for Nadia!! Amma, Nadia and mommy spent a full day going around looking at costumes and trying different ones on. It was so hard to decide as they were all just so cute!!! The first one that we really liked was wonder woman. Nadia made a great little wonder woman and especially since she's so strong ,as she likes to lift and carry everything around, it really suited her, but we figured it would be too cold going around trick or treating in so then we found a cute little piglet costume. It was so adorable, but as it was made so fitting, you couldn't easily fit another layer on underneath and the material inside was incredibly itchy....very strange for a children's costume. Then we found a pink lamb costume which we thought was 'the costume' but then we came across this perfect little butterfly costume!! Not even a second thought, I bought it right away and it was definitely the best choice as she could wear layers of warm clothing underneath and she was still so ridiculously cute!!! Mind you she's pretty cute in most anything she wears!!!!

Well we weren't exactly teaching Nadia how to climb stairs but she would go up a couple and then back down but never did anything more than that. Then one day on the 14th of October while Mommy was doing dishes, Amma was upstairs cleaning out the bath tub and Daddy was in the basement working. Mommy thought Nadia was just at the front door playing with the zipper on her bag as Nadia had been going through a zipper phase at the time..... where she loved to unzip and zip things back up. So anyway, Mommy thought things sounded a little too quiet so she went to check on Nadia at the front entrance. No Nadia. Mommy started to panick but was not in a frenzy just yet...Mommy opened the bathroom door with horrible visions....still no Nadia. Mommy ran around everywhere on the main floor searching for a little Nadia...all the while screaming Nadia's name like a crazy person. Where could she be...she was just here a minute ago. Then rushing upstairs to see if Amma brought her upstairs with her....Amma came out of the bathroom saying no, Nadia wasn't with her....then all of a sudden this little person appeared out of the guest room. So mommy grabbed her and still in a state of panick and relief asked Amma again if she had brought Nadia up....nope Amma didn't bring her upstairs....then it finally dawned on mommy that the only way she could have gotten upstairs was by climbing the stairs herself. So we went back to the bottom of the stairs and put Nadia down and let her loose....and there she went back up all 14 stairs like she'd been doing this her whole life. We were all so glad that she hadn't gotten hurt but now we always have the gate up blocking the stairs going up.

Nadia got a wagon from Amma and Gido for her birthday! She loves going fo rides in her wagon!!

The shirt says it all!!!

Mommy, Amma, Auntie Karen and Uncle Sebastien also got to go to the broadway musical CATS! Which had excellent dancing and singing and although it was a good show, its one of those once you've seen it you don't feel compelled to see it again.

The days of Nadia sitting still or sleeping on me seem so far in the past. This was a really special moment to have her sleeping in my arms and as I don't get to hold her for long periods at a time cause she's always on the go and so busy I definitely appreciate these special moments alot more!!!

We just had our first snowfall the other day and here is Nadia out in the snow in her new snowsuit. It's a little big as its for 18 months but it should last the whole winter!!! Maybe if we're lucky, next winter too!!! The other picture of Nadia holding the box of lego is so cute...I guess its kind of hard to see but her hair is permanently sticking up. It's so fine and has now grown to a length that it's sticking up, but not yet long enough to stay down. Only a matter of time!

Nadia is such a loving and cuddly little character. It's really hard to get her to sit still in one place but if we turn on the tv and give her a little friend to hold, we may be able to get a few minutes out of her.

We were sad to see Amma leave back home but we'll see her again in no time at all! Only 3 1/2 more weeks!! See you soon Amma and Gido!!!! Thanks again Amma for the special visit!!

So Many Changes!!!

2007-11-02T15:44:00.000-07:00

Nadia beginning September

Nadia end October

I've been meaning to give some updates on key milestones of Nadia and our family. I know I've been very delinquent on keeping the blog up to date. Who knew life could get so crazy!!! So much has happened over the last few months!!! Nadia's first birthday is probably the biggest thing but I'm going to dedicate one of my next blog entries to that. Nadia has really grown up over the last little while. I've now gone through her drawers 3 times to get rid of things that are too small and to fill them up with the next size of clothing. I have to say it certainly doesn't get any easier. So many different clothes with so many memories. It's hard for me to believe how much she has changed!! Everything comes with its excitement and sadness. I'm always excited for her different firsts but then brings the sadness of her lasts. It was so exciting when she was taking her first steps!! We were so proud of her and cheering her on!!! She started taking her first couple of steps in early September and then on 17 September she took her first five steps in a row. She still did quite a bit of crawling at that point. Her walking was more of an experimental thing and she was still quite a bit faster crawling so that was her preferred method of travel. Then as the month progressed she was doing more and more walking and then the beginning of October she decided she was just going to walk. She even went a week without playing with her toys cause all she wanted to do was walk to the front of the house and then to the back of the house. It was as though she had just made the greatest discovery...which I suppose she did....why God gave her two legs. Walking was this new and incredible thing that she just couldn't get enough of. She even tried running at first but her poor little feet didn't know how to do that yet and so she fell. But she always kept getting right back up. Now, she's a great little walker and has even started running. But as I mentioned before, as exciting as this was, with it came a last....the last time she would 'really' crawl...sob....sob.. I can't believe how Nadia's really growing up into such a perfect little girl!! I love her little teeth filled smile. It was so funny how her front teeth didn't come in at the same time and she looked a little lopsided, but around the last half of September her other front tooth came in and balanced everything out!

A video of Nadia's first steps in September

The next thing was the changing of the car seats as she had grown too long for the infant one. We did this nearing the end of September. She now rides in her big girl car seat!! We still have it rear facing though and will continue to keep it that way till she either reaches 37 inches or 30 pounds. She'll definitely reach the height first before the weight. I don't know what it is but this kid can eat and eat and eat and I have no idea where she puts it in that little body of hers. She has the cutest little belly though after she's finished eating. It's like a little minnie pregnant belly!! So cute!!! Again, another last, the last time she'll ever ride in her infant car seat.

Nadia has also really developed intellectually over the past couple of months, in September she started playing with the shape sorter the way its supposed to be played with, to putting balls in the intended tubes, to playing peek-a-boo with her own hands, to more recently in October tickling everyone, finding their belly buttons and of course her own. She is also obsessed with learning how to buckle her highchair belt. Nadia has a great sense of humour. No matter how unhappy she is, if mommy puts a diaper on mommy's head (an unused one) it always makes her laugh!!!She is also quite the little chatterbox. We have no idea what she's saying and its almost as though she thinks that we should understand so she talks louder thinking that by increasing the volume we'll know what she's saying. She has a few words like mama, dada, ba (for bath), she pants when you ask her what a puppy says....and for a kitty too even though I've tried explaining to her that a kitty meows. But that's fine, she'll figure it out later. A couple of weeks ago she started saying this one thing 'tkoy tkoy'....only thing I can think of is that it must be Ukranian .... like 'chici, chici'. She's only recently started saying 'tickle, tickle' I think that was Amma's influence on her during her recent visit.

Nadia loves to empty everything!! Like the tupperware drawer, her toy bin, her toy drawer and the shelves in the living room that are dedicated to her toys. Of course she also likes to help mommy with the laundry by unfolding clothes and pulling them out of the basket and onto the floor! What a great little helper. So we've just started working on showing her how much fun it is to put things away!!! I've heard that kids usually catch on by their early 20's.

Nadia's favourite colour is blue. A couple of months ago Nadia could always be found carrying something blue with her. Whether it was her soft blue ball, hard blue ball, blue phone, blue ring, or blue shirt with a picture of minnie mouse on it. She doesn't do this as much lately as she has discovered other favourite items such as the two little green tupperware lids.

Probably the sadest 'last' of all was mine and Nadia's last day together just the two of us before I had to start back to work in September. We had so much fun that day, we went to the park, we danced together and then we cried....okay....maybe it was just me. Then the following couple of days I took her to the sitter's for half days to work her into going to the sitter's in phases. She cried her first two half days. So did I...especially the first day. I guess I don't have a very good poker face as the sitter could tell that I was having difficulty leaving that first day and reassured me as I was walking out the door that everything would be okay. Deep down I knew it would be, but leaving my baby with someone else was still not easy. Especially since from that day on, things would never be the same. It was kind of funny...even before I had left I was sitting in the living room with Nadia, the sitter and one of the other little kids and this little girl kind of asked/told me 'aren't you supposed to leave'....it was kinda cute. Kids are so honest.

There are so many other things about Nadia and what she's been up to that I could talk about forever but I think I'm just going to finish up this entry and start a new one!

Just a quick update about Mike and I, so I've been back to work since 17 September and things have been going great. It has been very tiring balancing everything but I'm slowly getting used to it. I also celebrated my 5 year reunion since graduation from University in September. Time sure passes quickly! It was nice seeing various friends again. Especially, Angie and Sonya!!! The three of us had not been together since about 3 years ago. Mike is also doing really well with his Masters and his exam routine is quickly approaching!

Busy Month!!

2007-09-04T22:25:00.000-07:00

Where did the month of August go!!! From settling into our house, to going to a wedding, to having visitors it sure has been crazy but lots of fun!!! Nadia has been busy growing teeth these days. She now has six teeth!!! She just cut her sixth tooth about 5 days ago. I'm also still nursing her.....and I'm going back to work in less than two weeks!!! I plan to nurse her for as long as she wants so hopefully by the time she's in Kindergarten.....hee hee....well hopefully before then!!

Nadia loves going to the park!! She loves watching the other kids running around. A couple of times she has attempted to get closer to the action but as they are a lot older and bigger I have to hold her back so she doesn't get trampled. Other moms are really good and continuously warn their kids to watch out for the baby. Its funny cause to me Nadia no longer seems like a baby...but its all relative. Nadia's favourite thing at the park would definitely have to be the swing! In fact if I'm not pushing her and she's starting to slow down she starts to shake the swing as a means to communicate "faster mommy!!" I think she's going to be a real thrill seeker!! She likes to go really fast and high!!!

Nadia loves to move all of our furniture around. She has turned everything into her walker. She moves the chairs around (luckily they don't scratch the floor) she loves moving her highchair around and climbing on it. It's actually pretty dangerous but we've learned to make it safe by locking the wheels and lowering the seat. As she has tried to climb the highchair by trying to do a pull up using the tray. She has a shirt that says "Looking for Trouble" and that definitely suits her!!! She has also figured out how to escape me when I'm chasing her. She simply has to go through her secret passage way between the couches and I can't get to her cause by the time I crawl around our couch she has already gone through the secret passage way again. So then if I really want to get her I just get up on my feet and run after her....she can't beat me that way! She's also learned how to get down things safely. This is still a work in progress but she has learned to go feet first and how to go down a step at a time. Despite the fact that she is not allowed on the stairs. This is also a handy skill for getting off of the couch. Nadia has also become our little duck. She has a few toy ducks and whenever she is playing with them she goes "quack quack" it's so cute!! Nadia has also just recently started to stand all by herself. For the longest time she has been standing/walking around the coffee table, couch, walls, etc always needing to touch something with at least one hand but the other day she decided to clap her hands while she was standing and so she just did it. It lasted about 15 seconds or so but it felt like time stood still for a moment while she did that and I was torn between watching the moment and running for the camera....I chose to watch the moment and it ended with her placing her one hand back on the couch. Since that moment though she has been going between the couch and coffee table without going down and back up which is progress. She also stands by herself when she is crouched down on her two feet playing with something. She'll also stand from the crouching position and then grab onto something after she's stood up. So we know it won't be long before she is running around the house!!!

Here we were fortunate to grab a photo with the Newlywed couple of Erin and her Mike. It was such a wonderful wedding and it was so nice to see Erin again after all of this time!!! Congratulations again to the beautiful couple!!

These smaller pictures were taken by Nadia's Grandpa and as they are just so cute I just had to post them!! In one you have Nadia getting into a drawer at Grandma and Grandpa's house, then you have Nadia reading an instruction manual....Grandpa always says to read the instrustions first, playing with a ball looking cute and then Nadia enjoying bath time!!

Here Nadia got to meet one of mommy's friends from University. It was really great to see Laura again!! The last time I saw her Nadia was still in my belly!!!

We were also very fortunate to have an awesome visit with Angela and Leandro while Angela was out helping Leandro get all settled in!!! We even got to visit with Angela's parents as they were passing through while taking their summer vacation!!! Nadia is such a little performer and loves to dance (I wonder where she gets that from?)!! Angela taught her a new move "wiggle wiggle wiggle" It was priceless!

We've also been fortunate to have other friends over! Here Nadia is hanging out with Dave. He's a friend of Mike's from university and work.

In other news, I can't believe that I'll be back to work in a week and a half and Nadia is starting daycare tomorrow. Mike has also started his Masters in Electrical Engineering. I think that he's really going to enjoy it! His courses sound like a lot of work but all very interesting!!

As well, I would just like to wish Ariel a Happy 3rd Birthday!!! I can't believe how quickly she is growing up!!!

And for your watching enjoyment here's a short clip of Nadia hugging her little baby. This little baby doll was actually mine when I was little. It's the perfect size for Nadia right now! Also, to look at additional photos (and some of the same ones posted here) you can click on the More Nadia Pics link that I've added!!! (Note how loving of a mommy Nadia is at the end of the clip!)

All Moved In!

2007-08-06T18:40:00.000-07:00

Moving Day!!!

Our lives getting loaded onto a truck!

Nadia and Mike (one of our old neighbours) hanging out at the beach the day our house was being loaded up.

It's hard to believe that we've already been in our new house for just over 3 weeks!!! Time sure does fly!!! We will certainly miss our old home but we're really happy with our new home!!! Nadia's favourite part is all of the space that she has to run around especially her new play room! Mommy's favourite part is the dishwasher and daddy's is the bigger garage!!

Here Mike is hanging out with Nadia at the hotel pool while we were waiting to move into our new house!

Our New House (Well the living room anyway!! still containing some boxes....this picture is about 2 weeks old though)

It sure has been really busy over the last little while!!! We were also very lucky to have grandma and grandpa helping watch over Nadia during the move while we were busy overseeing and supervising the packing, loading, unloading and unpacking!! We've pretty much gotten all settled in now. Only the basement still contains some boxes and requires some organizing but other than that our second floor and main floor are all organized!!! It's so nice being able to move around the house without having to walk around or step over boxes!!!
Our new house is definitely more baby friendly!! Nadia has lots of room to crawl and get around she even has her own little fun secret passage between the couches and end table!! She loves it cause she thinks that she is so sneaky!! We have also baby proofed the house with wonderful safety gates and hooks on all of the cupboards and drawers. At first it was frustrating but now I've become quite good at accessing things. Oh the nice memories of just simply pulling a knob to open a drawer. I guess its going to be quite some time until we enjoy that again!!

Here mommy and Nadia are playing in Nadia's tent in her new playroom!!

Nadia has also really grown over the past month and she just started feeding herself with a cup!! Or rather...mommy finally let her try to do it by herself and Nadia showed me that she is capable. Which is good since she won't take a bottle or a sippy cup...we're still working on the sippy cup though as it would be alot cleaner!! She has certainly become quite a good little eater though!! She'll eat just about anything (except formula she hates it)!! We've started to feed her quite a bit more different things like plain yogurt, egg yolks, a variety of different meat stews (which she loves!), any vegetable, she'll eat cut up grapes, cheese, bananas, she loves cheerios!!, this one rice snack called mum-mums...so whenever I think she is calling me mom I think she is really asking for one of these snacks!!, and rice cakes. She really has the chewing thing down....but she tends to stick way too much in that mouth!! It actually looks kind of funny and I keep thinking she's going to choke but she seems to manage just fine somehow. She also started walking with her red car about a week ago and she grew another tooth! She also has another tooth just starting to poke out. It's exciting but I'm really going to miss that gummy grin!!! She's also gotten into this shaking her head no thing..it's kinda funny! She definitely keeps us entertained and busy!!! She also loves stories!! We have this one book that has different textures to feel and she likes touching all of the different things and her favourite part of story reading is getting to turn the pages!! She's often a little impatient though and turns the page before I'm even done!! She also loves imitating us!!! Like if we make squealing noises, grunting noises, blowing through our nose noises, and she started copying waving. She also gives hugs and she's so cute when she hugs her little baby!! It's amazing how quickly she's growing up!! I hate to think in another month and a half I'll be back to work and missing all of this cool stuff!!! Sniff...Sniff....

Here is a picture of Nadia swinging away at a park near our home. We no longer have a beach nearby.... but we do have a couple of parks. She definitely likes the swing alot more than the slide!

Here is a cute father daughter cuddle and sleep time. Awhhh!! Nadia is also doing great in the sleep department!! We've managed to train her to sleep 12 hours straight every night and have two naps during the day which last anywhere from 1 to 2 hours! She's been doing quite well at this for the past couple of months with a minor lapse during the hotel stays while we were in the process of moving. Its great for providing us time to get things done and spend some quality time together as a couple!!!!

Here we are out for dinner on our anniversary!!! With a special thanks to grandma and grandpa for watching our precious little Nadia while we were out! We have been together for seven years and married for three!!! Where does the time go? It seems like only yesterday we met!

Teeth!!!

2007-07-11T22:00:00.000-07:00

Well it has finally happened!! Nadia got teeth!! I first noticed something while we were on the plane on the 25th of June but as my thumb nail got caught in her mouth the day before that and I made her bleed I just assumed that I was seeing some sort of cut as a result of that in her mouth. But it turned out that she had cut teeth!! It's been just over two weeks already since then and they seem to be getting bigger every day!! So I'll definitely have to get some more updated photos posted!!

Also a happy belated Canada Day!!!! As we are in the midst of moving (house is now all packed) we did some last minute visiting with some of our friends before we leave. In the one photo we have Fiona, Nadia and Isaac and in the other Will and Nadia. It sure has been fun, we will miss you and we will be sure to arrange visiting in the future!!!

So lots has been happening!! Nadia has been changing at lightning speed!!! She has become so fast and is now a speed crawler!! She especially enjoys it when I chase her!! She also loves to dance!! She will push the doorbell on her tent that plays music and then she stands up and dances along it is so cute!! She also enjoys playing other games like Hide and Seek where I go and hide and then she finds me!! It's so much fun!! We also play ring around the rosie where her favourite part is when we fall to our bums!!! She also really started to cruise around about two weeks ago and can walk pretty quickly around the coffee table. She can also climb over most things. Like her play tent, it has this plastic door that opens and closes and although she likes to open and close it all the time she also likes to crawl right over the top!! She has also become more brave and is practicing standing without holding onto anything. Today was her longest standing without holding onto anything ever!! It felt like a lifetime to me but in reality it was probably 5-10 seconds. She has gotten better and better at this whole balance thing and she's so strong. Sometimes she'll stand for a moment and bounce up one more time before falling to her butt!!! She's so funny and entertaining!!! It won't be too much longer until she's standing all by herself!!! Then it's going to be that whole walking thing!! Ahhh!!!!! She is growing up way too fast for me!!!!!

So we were very fortunate to attend a wedding last weekend!! Nadia had another opportunity to wear her princess ballerina dress!!! She was such a hit!! People loved her so much! I was known as the girl with the really cute baby! It was funny, people that didn't even know us were taking pictures of Nadia!! I think that Nadia is a hit with most people as she is so well behaved, so interactive, has huge personality and is just full of expression!

It was a very beautiful wedding and we had alot of fun!! Congratulations Brendan and Melissa!!!

Also I just wanted to warn everyone about being careful while playing the Nintendo Wii. I hurt my finger nearly two weeks ago and have finally regained use of my finger. I still can't bend the tip and it is about 3 times bigger than my other index finger but at least I'm no longer in great pain. Long story short, I was playing tennis against Mike and went to hit the ball with my Wii remote (which was my tennis racquet) and I hit a basement light ceiling tile. I smashed that and I'm guessing the nail of my finger was torn backwards. Anyway it took about 4-5 days until the throbbing and excruciating pain subsided. Then at that point it only hurt if I touched anything....now after about 2 weeks it no longer hurts to touch anything...even water under the nail killed before....now that's fine too!!! Anyway, there is a website for people like me. It was a very fun game but I'm just warning others to Play it safe!!! The warnings on the game are there for a reason!!! Needless to say this was a very bad time to get injured...but I did get out of dishes and bum changes for awhile!! Thanks Mike!!!

Also I just wanted to Congratulate my friends Karen and Tim on their beautiful new little baby girl Grace!! She is just precious!!!! I love little babies!!!!!

Out Visiting

2007-07-02T08:33:00.000-07:00

It sure has been a busy month this past June!! We had a really nice visit with Amma and Gido!! It was hard to leave but poor daddy was sure missing his little girl!! Nadia was very fortunate to spend alot of time with Amma and Gido!! She definitely was Amma and Gido's little girl!!

Here Nadia is hanging out and spending time with Gido!!!

She also got to see quite a bit of Auntie Julianne! Julianne showed her the best way to get really messy!!! Nadia loved it!! Mommy on the other hand had a difficult time with this and even Mommy isn't all that picky when it comes to cleanliness while eating. I can only imagine what Grandpa Howie would think of this (He's a bit obsessed when it comes to babies and maintaining a food free face, hands and area while eating)!!

Here Nadia's giving Auntie Julianne a kissy!!

Nadia also learned some other vital skills during our visit like giving wet kissies, clapping her hands and chin-ups!! Now we can play pattycake!! Yeah, the chin-ups were not intentional she had been standing holding onto the coffee table and sat down still holding on and managed to go too far under the coffee table and tried to pull herself back up to the standing position but her legs were too far under so all she did was lift her little body with her arms...it was kind of funny and surprising as I had no idea she was that strong!! I guess I need to take lessons from her as I'm not very good at chin-ups! But we quickly rescued her cause she was crying. Amma really wanted to have her walking before we left but I think we'll have to save that one for daddy!!! It's a little early for that anyway!! She is already way too mobile and getting into everything!! At the same time we've been having all kinds of fun! One of her favourite games is peek-a-boo and a variation of it where she stands holding onto the coffee table and I go on the opposite side of the table and I go under and she follows me and then I go up and she follows me...She's so funny cause she thinks she's so clever and it always makes her laugh!!!!

We've also had the opportunity to do a bunch of visiting with some of my friends and family! Nadia got to see so many people while we were out visiting!! She got so much attention from everyone..even strangers!!! Maybe we'll get to skip the making strange phase all together!! Here are some friends of mine that I went to school with. Jenn, Angela, Mommy, and Alicia with Nadia.

Here is Nadia with her Great Baba!

And here is Nadia with mommy's friend Briana.

We also got to go and visit Great Auntie Carrie and her little boy Hayden!!

We also got to go to one of my friend's weddings!! It was a beautiful wedding with a very beautiful bride!!!!

Nadia was also a hit in her cute ballerina princess dress!!!!

Here we are with Mommy's friend April and her handsome little guy Joshua in a suit and everything!!

Awwwhhhh aren't they just way too cute!!!

We had such a fun time at the wedding, visiting friends and family and especially spending nearly three weeks with Amma and Gido! We sure are going to miss you and all of your wonderfully noisy toys!!!! We can't wait until our next visit!!

I love you Amma and Gido!!!

Meeting Uncle Jonathan!!

2007-06-15T18:35:00.000-07:00

So lots has been going on over the last little while!! Nadia finally got an opportunity to meet her Uncle Jonathan!! She took to him right away! Here is a pic of Nadia and Uncle Jonathan!!

Nadia has also officially started continuous crawling!!! Everything was all happening at once!! So basically, she started really crawling on Friday the first of June and then Saturday after the wedding she decided to pull herself up to the standing position, Sunday she started to do this kind of waving thing with her hand...mostly an opening and closing motion and then Monday she started saying mamamamamam and bababababababa. It's crazy!!!

We had a really nice time at my cousin Stephen's wedding!! It was absolutely beautiful and it was especially great that we got to see so much family that we hadn't seen in quite awhile!! For more pics and videos be sure to check the website!

Nadia was such a cute little ballerina princess that day!!!

Here Nadia is bonding with cousin Katrina!! It was so cute to watch her!!!

Here Nadia is driving around like a big girl! She looks so grown up ! I'm not ready for this..sob..sob.. Below Nadia got to go on her first carnival ride!! I thought it was a little fast but she loved it!!!

Nadia also got to visit and meet lots of different family members while we were out visiting!! Everyone loved her!!

It was so sad having to say goodbye to Uncle Jonathan. We can't wait to see you again!!!! Nadia loved hanging out with him and she hardly ever fussed with him but even when she did Uncle Jonathan was able to apply his own daddy skills and made Nadia happy again!! Thank you Uncle Jonathan!!!

Nadia on the Move!

2007-05-25T14:08:00.000-07:00

Nadia is learning all kinds of things each day and she has developed more efficient ways of moving around other than just rolling! She still isn't crawling just yet but I know its only a matter of days as she is pretty determined! Of course the first thing that comes to mind is safety!! So we have set up a little fenced in play area to prevent her from getting into stuff when I take my eye off her for a minute or two. So far this has been working very well! Of course she still loves to jump in her jumperoo but now that she is getting around a bit more she is loving having playtime on the floor.

Nadia has also made quite a bit of progress on her eating!! She is finally eating like a little person....she still gets quite a bit on her face but she actually eats now! As they say 'practise makes perfect'! We still haven't ventured outside of the different cereals just yet but I think we'll look to try something different tomorrow! We'll see what she thinks!

Nadia has also developed a love for electronics! I think she gets this from her daddy!!! It started with the Future Shop flyers (so bright and colourful!) and now she loves to type (or randomly hit away) on the keyboard so if we have her on our lap while using the computer we now give her her own keyboard so that it doesn't mess up what we're trying to do. As well, she loves remotes, phones and especially webcams!! I can just hear her thoughts when she sees any of that stuff..."Must touch webcam.....must touch webcam"! She's so funny and entertaining to watch!!

We also had our last set of needles and appointment here in our soon to be old place. I'm not sure but I think Nadia actually knew what was about to happen to her. She actually started crying when she was placed into position to get her needles, but she did very well and only cried a little bit afterwards. Everyone is going to miss her there! She has also grown quite a bit taller for her weight....she actually jumped off of her growth chart line that she was following! Maybe she's going to be tall like her daddy!!! I guess we'll see!!

Mother's Day!!!

2007-05-17T19:25:00.000-07:00

So Nadia and her daddy were really good to me this past mother's day. Nadia gave me the gift of a good sleep. It's funny cause there is no greater gift that a baby can give their mother than sleep at this age. Strangely enough pretty much every new mother that I have talked to has said that their baby gave them x number of hours straight of sleep. How cool is that! Babies are so smart!! We love you all! Also, I was very lucky to be served homemade waffles and strawberries in bed!!! Along with a little cutie Nadia. She even gave me a mother's day card (she had some help from daddy picking it out) with her own drawing/signature on it. It made me cry! (see pic below)

So one thing Nadia likes to do is get up on her knees and bounce in a front to back motion. I guess she is starting to get geared up for crawling or something. She is also such a little twisty kid and it is becoming impossible to change her diaper!! She always needs to twist and reach for something other than the toys I'm trying to distract her with. Usually its a tag. She is obsessed with tags!!! I think when she sees a tag her brain must be thinking...must touch tag....must touch tag right now!!!! Also, she has become much stronger over the past couple of weeks when sitting on the floor. Although she could sit for awhile, she used to use her hands for support and she would also tumble fairly easily. Now she sits perfectly like she's been doing it her whole life and it is her preferred position when being bathed no more lying down! This way she can play with her bath toys better.

Funny thing, the other day I was reading her a story before bed time. I was reading Runaway bunny and she kept slapping the book closed while I was trying to read it so finally I just gave up and pulled out another book, Goodnight Moon. So I read this book and funny enough she didn't slap the book closed anymore. So I'm sure this was pure coincidence but it was funny cause it was as though she had a preference of the story she wanted before going to bed!! Anyway, speaking of bed I should get going.

Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'

2007-05-12T23:50:00.000-07:00

Well Nadia is a crazy rolling kid these days (If you're interested in seeing a video just visit our website)! She used to hate being on her stomach but all of a sudden about a week and a half ago she decided she liked it and ever since then she has constantly been rolling onto her stomach, pushing herself around and reaching for things. It was such a big change! I used to be able to plop her down in one spot and come back and she would still be there...now I plop her down I leave the room to do something and when I come back she's under the coffee table or wedged in somewhere else. It's crazy cause I'd be watching her and I thought she moved around so slow...but as soon as I would leave the room and come back it would be like..bam...she'd be in a new spot. Then last week she just decided to start rolling and rolling and rolling so now she moves even faster. So now we have to watch her even more closely!

We've had some nice visits with Nadia's newest friend Aiden. He's such a little cutie!!

We started feeding Nadia solids about 2 weeks ago. She didn't really take to it so we've since taken a break and restarted working at it again. The picture on the left is from the first time that we tried it. She appears to be okay with it but immediately following this photo there was much head turning and fussing. Even after a break she still doesn't like it but practice makes perfect so we're just going to keep at it and hopefully Nadia will like food eventually. I hope she's not going to be a picky eater!!

Above is a more recent photo of Nadia eating. She is still not loving Rice or Oat cereal but she never passes up an opportunity to pose for a picture. I'm not sure if its just the angle of the photo but she looks bigger in this second eating shot as her head is higher. Kids sure do grow quickly!

Here Nadia has her tongue hanging out. She started this about 2 weeks ago. She really is our little puppy dog. She's so funny!!!

Growing up so Fast!!

2007-04-22T17:20:00.000-07:00

Here is Nadia when she was just a new little baby not even two weeks old yet and she looks just tiny and so precious. Then in the picture below she is about 5 months old. Where the little hat no longer even fits! You can hardly even tell that its the same person! I know the angle of the picture is slightly different but I had tried to recreate the same picture (minus the crying part). I can't believe how much she has grown and changed over the past 6 months. She has gone from not being able to do much of anything except cry, eat, poop and sleep to all the wonderful noises that she makes, laughing, smiling, rolling over, bouncing, sitting and grabbing anything insight (and pinching too...ouch). I know it will only be a little while longer and we'll be running after her and dreaming about the days when she just laid there. I love all of the things that she can do and its so much fun to play with her now! Its fun just to watch her playing with toys, listening to the sounds they make and of course giving them a good chew. We're so lucky to have such a wonderful little girl! Even though we're starting to wonder if she is part puppy...as she makes these little puppy like whimpering sounds, she pants when she is hungry and she likes to chew on everything. I just think that she's growing up way too fast :-( (I don't miss the sleepless nights though)

Happy Belated Easter!

2007-04-22T06:33:00.000-07:00

Happy Belated Easter! I can't believe how quickly time has passed! It seems as though it was just easter but it's already been 2 weeks!! So I'm a little late in posting this. We had a really nice easter with Nadia's grandparents and Auntie Karen over. Nadia even got to visit the Easter Bunny! I was a little surprised to see what the Easter Bunny really looked like as I had always pictured something differently.....a little less brown hair. Nadia didn't seem to notice though and it looks like she enjoyed seeing the Easter Bunny!!

Above is our lovely Easter spread....poor Nadia....she doesn't seem to be having fun at the moment.

On the right is a picture of the cutest little bunny ever!!! To the left is what the easter bunny left for Nadia. Too bad Nadia can't eat chocolate yet!! Oh well, I'm sure we'll figure out something to do with the mmmmm yummy chocolate!

Mmmmmmmmm......I love easter!!!

Some Firsts!!

2007-04-03T18:29:00.000-07:00

First time Swimming!

The past two Thursdays I have taken Nadia to the local swimming pool. I'm not too sure what she makes of it. She seems to love just looking around and taking it all in. She doesn't splash in the pool nearly as much as she does in the bath tub at home. I guess there are alot more things to look at like all of the other little kids and babies. Going to the pool has been alot of fun for both of us as its been a great opportunity for me to meet with other moms and visit!! I think I get more out of it than she does but she seems to have fun so I think this will probably become one of our weekly rituals!

First Time in the new Jogging Stroller!

So we finally got our jogging stroller. This was the first time Nadia got to go for a ride in it. She didn't seem to like it all that much at first as the sun was in her eyes. So we put the sun shade down but she didn't like that either as she couldn't see anything....so we bought her some sunglasses.

First Time wearing Sunglasses!

Now she loves going for runs with mommy!! Mommy loves it too as its great getting some fresh air!!! Its an awesome jogging stroller that moves very smoothly and is one of the only ones out there that you can use before the baby is one year of age! It even holds two kids which will be great for future children. Nadia loves to have her morning naps in the jogging stroller with mommy tirelessly pushing behind her. This is definitely alot more challenging than running by yourself but I'm getting used to it and so its getting easier.

Here is Nadia hanging out with her daddy. She sure missed him while he was away on his vacation to Miami, Florida...(just kidding I know it wasn't a vacation....you were working....where can I get a job like that!) Its hard to believe that Nadia is 5 months old now!!! I have no idea where the time is going!!! It seems only yesterday that we brought home this perfect little human.... but when I think of all that has happened since then and how much she has grown and all of the things that she can do it seems like a lifetime ago!

March Break!

2007-03-22T20:10:00.000-07:00

Meeting the Great Grandparents!!!

4 Generations!

At the beginning of Mike's March break we were able to get out and visit Nadia's Great Grandparents! It was a long drive for her.....the longest drive she's ever been on in her little life. The trip would take a normal person (who speeds a bit) about 4 1/2 hours. It took us more like 6 hours with Nadia. She did really well though she was able to sleep for about half of it and then entertain herself for another hour or so and then when she was just plain bored and lonely she wouldn't stop fussing. Of course we didn't realize what the problem was exactly at first and we thought that she was either tired of being strapped in (she likes to be free) or just hungry again. So since there isn't much we can do about her being strapped in we fed her and put her back. When this didn't work I decided to move into the backseat with her. After I had moved she just looked at me with complete delight and pure happiness and just laughed and laughed...I had never heard her laugh so much all at once. Of course it just made me laugh which just made her laugh more....lots of fun....so it turned out that she was just plain lonely! We had a great trip and a really nice visit with family and it was so good to see everyone again!

Here on the left is Mommy, Daddy, Nadia and cousin Tiara.

Also during the march break we went and had Nadia's feet casted for 3-D footprints. This way I'll never forget just how cute and little her feet are now. Above is the photo I selected to go with her little footprints in a shadow box. She's just so cute!!! She sure loves her little feet. As soon as they're not in a sleeper or covered up with tights or shoes she grabs them with her hands and then sticks her big toe into her mouth. She's so funny!

Last but not least we went to a hockey game. Mike and I left Nadia with her grandparents (always nice to take advantage of free babysitting) and went to an Ottawa Senators game where they played the New York Islanders. Ottawa won! It was really cool. It was the first time I ever went to a hockey game and didn't sit in the nose bleed section, we were three rows up from the ice. It was really neat to see actual life sized hockey players!! Go Sens Go!

So that about concluded our March Break excitement. It was nice to have Mike home for a week, things went by pretty quick and before we knew it, the week was over and he was back to work. Sorry to everybody who has been waiting for this post for a while and I will endeavour to keep everybody more up-to-date.

Nadia Update

2007-03-10T17:04:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone! Sorry it's been awhile since the last update. We've been busy cleaning the house and getting it all organized and ready to sell. I'm going to miss this house not only is it our first house but more importantly it is Nadia's first house ever!!!! I'll be sad to see it go. It's been a great place to live and holds many special memories!

Here is Nadia talking to her friend Bug-a-Boo the bear. I'm sure that it was a very interesting story!!! What a little cutie!!!

Nadia doesn't typically like spending time on her tummy but at this moment she doesn't seem to mind it and even gave mommy a pretty smile!!!! She's growing stronger everyday!! It's amazing all of the different things that she is learning to do!!! She really enjoys grabbing things with her hands and she's become very interested in my face grabbing my nose and lips....she's so funny. She also has started to gain interest in colourful flyers from the paper and grabs them and attempts to eat them.

She has also been working on sitting by herself. She can only maintain this for a short time before falling over. She's had a couple of little falls and its funny how her reaction depends on mine. The other day when she fell over on her side she looked at me and I started laughing and she ended up smiling instead of crying. She also met her first dog the other day. We went over for supper to one of our friend's houses and they have a big black lab and as soon as we came in the door he was sniffing away and little Nadia was all buckled in her car seat and he sniffed really closely to her face without touching her. She didn't know what to think. Her little eyes were opened as big as they could go and she had this frightened little look on her face and she looked like she was about to start crying but I repeatedly told her it was okay and she relaxed...no tears. I don't blame her for being so frightened though I can't imagine having a big black snout in my face. Duke was just curious though and its good practice as it won't be much longer until he has a new little baby in his house!!

Here's Nadia all tuckered out. She loves to jump!! Even when we're just holding onto her she'll be jumping in our laps its so funny. She reminds me of a little highland dancer. Well this is probably enough for now and I will try to update the blog more often. Take care!

I Found My Feet!!!

2007-02-20T18:52:00.000-08:00

Nadia has been a busy girl blowing bubbles, squealing and making all kinds of noises!!! I guess she's testing out the many amazing things that her voice and mouth can do. It's now getting hard to imagine what it was like when she was quiet....not that she has ever been all that quiet. She also found her feet and she loves to hold her toes. It comes in handy sometimes during the many diaper changes!!!

Daddy was away last week for work. So mommy had me as her special little valentine. We also got to have a special valentine's day dinner with Auntie Karen and Uncle Sebastien. The flower arrangement below is what daddy had sent to mommy. Mommy loved them so much!!!

I am also trying to work on a new hairdo. I want to express my wild side........ Wow am I ever cute. Not to many people can get away with this look!! (In case it's not obvious I have my hair standing straight up in a little mohawk)

I hope everyone is enjoying reading things about me. If you'd like feel free to leave a comment!!! Bye for now!

Hangin' out With Mom

2007-02-08T10:01:00.000-08:00

Nadia is growing up so quickly!!! She has become so interactive and is turning into a real little person with a personality! I was wondering what her first laugh would sound like and I've finally heard it!!!! It happened last week when I was tickling her, making funny noises and pretending to be nibbling on her cute little cheeks!!! It was priceless! She has also started to grab everything within reach and pulls hair now. In the picture above I thought it would be fun for her to ride on my shoulders and boy did she ever have quite the grip on my hair!!!

Here I'm giving Nadia a ride on my legs (also doubles as exercise for mommy). This was Auntie Julianne's favourite ride when she was little. She called it the 'peanut butter ride' I have no idea how it got that name.....

Oh so peaceful looking!!! Now here's what mommy could use a little more of!!!! It's funny how they say babies are supposed to sleep for longer periods of time the older they get....not Nadia...she's going in reverse!!! Last night was pretty good though she slept for 3 hours straight in her bed and only fussed for a brief moment during that time!!

Visitors :-)

2007-01-30T10:19:00.000-08:00

We have been so lucky to have Auntie Karen and Uncle Sebastien visiting us the last two weekends in a row! This has allowed Nadia to spend quality time with them prior to Uncle Sebastien leaving to work overseas. Nadia has had lots of fun playing with them!! Auntie Karen even discovered some new things that Nadia enjoys like being held up in the air and spun in a circle! Auntie Karen was also fortunate to spend some quality alone time with Nadia this past weekend while mommy and daddy went on an exciting trip to Walmart!!! Woohoo!!!! Thanks Auntie Karen!

Above Nadia is enjoying some time in her swing!!! What a cutie!!! Its amazing that after all of the time she has spent in her swing she still loves it!! The swing has certainly been an extremely important piece of baby equipment and we highly recommend all other soon to be parents to invest in one!!!! It has provided us with some relief during this challenging yet wonderful time in our lives!!!

And this photo to the right is Nadia hanging out with daddy!!! Nothing like spending time watching the hockey game on the big screen!!!! It's a good thing Nadia likes watching hockey (truthfully ... I think its the contrast of the players against the white ice that catches her attention)!!! Nevertheless its a good thing that she enjoys watching it as Daddy watches it alot!!!!

Finally!!! I've started a Blog!!!

2007-01-25T13:31:00.000-08:00

I've finally gotten around to starting a blog. So today is our first day and I thought I'd start with one of Nadia's most recent photos! This should be another great way in addition to the website to keep family and friends in touch with what is going on in our lives and most importantly Nadia's life!!!

As well, I just have to say thank you to Mike's uncle Al for the idea of the name that I used for the Blog!!!