July Update

In Ottawa during the summer the National Capital Commission and Alcatel partner to close a number of the larger parkways across the city on Sunday mornings until 1:00pm in favour of non-motorized traffic...walkers, runners, rollerbladers, and (in our case of late) cyclists.

Here we are a break time near the Bank Street Bridge over the canal.



The Saturday of the Canada Day long weekend we took a little road trip to the Bonnechere Provincial Park a couple of hours west of Ottawa...nice place, even though the weather didn't so much cooperate...

That's not a blurry background...it was that crappy out, but only on the left side!


Shifting gears to why you're likely here in the first place, Katherine like to catch Milo and give him a snuggle...following Mommy's lead, of course...


Mmmmm....blueberries...


My girls hanging out in the kitchen...


A slightly older pic of Katherine wearing Uncle Colin's present from Vegas.
"Awwww, lookit those cute little skull-and-crossbones!"


Just because she's so darn cute and has a smile almost full of teeth...


Mid-June in Ottawa means that Sparks Street hosts the International Chicken and Rib Cookoff...this year we had BBQ ribs, pulled pork sandwiches, and chicken...we pick it up and take it up a block to the grass on Parliament Hill to have ourselves a little impromptu picnic. I will spare you the shots of me stuffing my face with BBQ and remain on topic with more pics of Katherine.




This one's here just because squeaky-clean babies are super-extra-cute.


OK, so you've now almost reached the end of the first post in a while and I have made you scroll through all of that other stuff so you can get to here. The video.

I'm still tweaking my MovieMaker skills, but this one is montage of clips from over the past few weeks chronicling what are among her first steps...that I could catch on the camera.


At this rate she will be off a running pretty soon!


Hope it was worth the wait!

Katherine has been having lots of fun over the past 10 days with Baba Ron who has been the babysitter and I'm sure Saturday she will miss him when he returns home.

First Steps

FYI, no pics (yet) but Katherine took her first independent steps yesterday...well 1-and-a-half steps, anyway. She has been walking with help from a stabilizing hand from mom and/or dad for a couple weeks or so, but she has increasingly been exploring how much she can accomplish on her own.

She was in the middle of the dining room (since there's no dining set) and stood up, I reached for her a called her over, she took one step, wobbled, and stumbled with her second step into my waiting hands.

Cool stuff.

I'm sure I will have some video of her walking around and checking stuff out soon.