Katherine Picture Update

It has been a while, so this will be short and sweet...the first pic is Katherine at about 3 months and the last at 4 (in rough chronological order). As you can see, she growing like freakin' crazy and as you may be able to imagine, she is also a pretty crazy amount of fun. She is starting to find a laugh, she can roll over onto her tummy - although gets stuck there.

Here's one of the first shots of her in her highchair...


My favourite of the bunch...


That bottom lip tastes pretty good, I guess...


In her swing (giving mom and dad's arms a break)...


With her cow/rattle/dinnertime toys...


Tummytime playing downstairs...


Having fun wrestling while being changed...


Gotta love those cheeks!

New York City

OK, so it was a month ago already, but here we go...

It was pretty crappy weather during our first day in NYC, but we came prepared and were still able to get a lot of stuff done. The rest of the trip we had perfect weather.

Not far from our host's place (Thanks again, Leigh!) was the Flatiron building...

...gotta love the yellow cabs.

The Rogalski's in Times Square!

...and only one of us is sleeping.

...and at Rockefeller Center...

...sorry Laura, no Chsitmas tree or ice skating yet.

Wonder who's getting more out of this picture at the Disney Store?


A (perhaps) somewhat less dramatic perspective on the Empire State Building.

...more on this to come...

The intrepid traveller...from Ottawa to Vancouver to New York City by the time she's 3 months old.


Even though it has been over 5 years and the site restoration is well underway, Ground Zero is still a pretty surreal and intense place to be.

This beam is pretty much all that's still stands...


Those stairs at the far end of the site (right under the far lamppost) was the last unobstructed point through which people were able to escape the towers...


View from the west (?) end of Wall Street. I had no idea it is a pedestrain-only street...kinda cool and actually quite unassuming, really.


"The Sphere" used to be displayed between the Twin Towers and has been relocated to Battery Park from the World Trade Center site, as it was salvaged (note the hole in the top), where it stood as a monmument to world peace.


Katherine just "hanging loose" while we cruised through NYC on one of tour buses.


The next few shots are views from the top of Rockefeller Center, where we were for sunset.

First northwards over Central Park...


...south with the Empire State Building lit up in the background...


...again with our host...


...and again a little after dusk.


Here's our "big" star sighting...right outside of her building, oddly enough, we passed Yoko Ono heading out...
...guess that's pretty much where her late husband, John Lennon was shot...

On our last full day, we took a recommendation of our faithful Frommer's tour book to take the subway over to Brooklyn, stop for pizza, and head back over to Manhattan via the storied Brooklyn Bridge.

Mmmmmm....pizza...


The Brooklyn Bridge, from the Brooklyn side, with Manhattan in the backgraound...


Last photo op on the bridge...


So there's a decent overview of our trip to New York City. We took the train on the way there...nice enough ride, but a little on the long side...Katherine was pretty much just hanging out the whole time...luckily for us. The 1.5 hour flight on the way back made for a much easier day.

We were there from Thursday to Tuesday, which went really fast. We had lots of fun and can't wait to go back...too much interesting stuff to do and see.

Oh yeah, there will be more recent pics of the amazing growing baby soon...