She's Crawling!

This was actually taken about 10 days ago, but is nonetheless the first video evidence of Katherine performing the miracle of crawling. Dramatic, huh?

Katherine's First Christmas

a.k.a. "West-Coast Swing #2"

Christmas 2006 found us in High River, Alberta with Nana and Grandpappy (or Sir, as he prefers to be called). Katherine is a good little flyer and handled the 4 hours or so from Ottawa to Calgary just fine...making life easy on her escorts.

We took a little road trip one day and Katherine proved to be a more hearty traveller than mommy!


All was well, nonetheless, as we were able to lounge around in our pajamas for much of the morning...


Mmmmm....homemade peanut butter cookies. For mom only...for now.


Hanging out and playing with Uncle Colin...


Mommy showing off Katherine's "Baby's First Xmas" PJs...


Lunch time...


Taking it easy after Christmas dinner with Nana.



So after a week in High River, we hopped the quick flight over the mountains (woohoo! mountains!) to Abbotsford/Langley/Vancouver, where Grandma and Grandpa were, once again, happy to be home base for Katherine and her escorts, for a few days at least.

This is a shot of the aftermath of yet another ample spread put on by Grandma, with Uncle Jason and Aunt Pam in the background.


Grandpa and Baba spending some time with their grand-daughter.


Too quick of a trip, as always, but that's the way it goes.

At least Katherine likes to help with the unpacking!

Mmmmmm...."solid" food

Well, mid-December brought her first taste of "solid" food...rice cereal. You tell me what she thinks of it.



She took to it quite quickly, once getting the whole swallowing thing down and now quite enjoys being fed...even wanting to take over a little...