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...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!

Just a quick post wishing everyone a happy holidays. Hopefully you can enjoy it with family and friends, as we plan to.

Not that we in Ottawa have seen much of the white stuff yet this year, but here are some of my favorite Calvin and Hobbes comics involving men (and women) made of the white stuff...you will probably have to click on the image to get the bigger version...

...Becoming less little...

Sign # 217 that she's growing up...



Yup, them there are a couple of teeth...really sharp ones that leave marks on daddy's knuckles when they're within chomping range.

She's not quite crawling yet...up on all fours, but doesn't quite have the whole "coordinating the movement of the arms and legs" thing down yet...

More of daddy's little girl...

One of the things that she does now that is the most fun is playing with her feet/toes. She does suck them, but I can never get a picture of it because the light on the camera distracts her. Anyway, she likes to play with her feet while eating as well...



She also likes to suck on her bottom lip...

Happy Halloween!

Not exactly spooky or EVIL, but here's our little ladybug...

...with somewhat more spooky/evil friend Tom...





I guess she's just too cute to be scary.