24 days

24 days will feel like 24 hours, will feel like 24 minutes. It will fly by in home reno projects and trips to the park and dates with friends. 24 days will be gone with a 10 km run and a first trip to the zoo and a Fakes-giving in Guelph. 24 days rush by with brunch with friends, piano pick ups and photo shoots. 24 days will seem like a second with first halloween costumes and jumping in piles of leaves and parks filled with pumpkins. In the last days of the those 24 we'll remember exciting moments and anticipation.

And in 24 days our baby will be one.

Thanksgiving

Just some pictures from our awesome holiday weekend, and it's not even half over yet!


my blueberries


Breakfast jammie party


Daddy pushes way higher than Mom.


Beep Beep


Shoulder rides are awesome.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Jeff's got the turkey on the smoker with hickory and apple smoke, buttermilk biscuits in the oven and the cake is frosted. We have so much to be thankful for this year; our little and big family, amazing friends, our house that becomes more like a home everyday and of course the little blueberry. I can't even remember what life was like last thanksgiving.

Have a wonderful holiday!

ps. Long live global warming. It's amazing to be hanging out in the backyard in a tshirt on Thanksgiving!

Milestone machine

Stella's 11 month birthday kind of flew by. It was on Monday and I was busy worrying about Tuesday. (Don't worry, I still had a double chocolate dried cranberry cookie from Cherry Bomb). Tuesday Stella had her tests at Sick kids as follow up to the UTI she had this summer. She had an ultrasound of her kidneys, which she didn't like only because we had to hold her on her back and she wanted to play with the cords. Then she had a VCUG which involved putting in a catheter, filling her bladder with a contrast dye and watching her pee on a camera. It went much better than the ultrasound (which was good cause only one parent was allowed in and I'm not strong enough to lasso this calf.).

Even though we were stressed, (we=me, Jeff is the rational one when it comes to this stuff), Stella manages to lighten the mood. This week she has pulled up on the stairs, clapped her hands (while floating on her back in the pool), and climbed a step (which she then fell off of). Our little sack of potatos is on the move.

Pick Pocket

We have a thief in this house. Good thing we caught her on video surveillance.



Notice she doesn't bother with cash and goes straight for the credit cards

My favourite part of the day

I love the morning. That's not to say I'm a morning person, cause it takes a good strong coffee to get me going in the morning. But I like the quiet peacefulness of it. One of my favourite moments of the day is when Stella wakes up just a little bit early (not too early), before Jeff's alarm goes off to start our day. If it's just that few last minutes, I scoop her up and we lie in bed together. There's just the soft sound of her breathing, the gentle kaka sound of her swallowing while she nurses, the warmth of over night sleep and it's peace. The three of us are warm and snug together while we shake off the last sleepy dreams and get ready to start our day.

Pull up your socks...

Our milestone explosion continues. Stella is trying to pull up on everything, she even sits and play on her knees now. Unfortunately, she's usually playing with the cable box. Naptime has been challenging, but we've got a new plan to start tomorrow.

This weekend was quite busy, Jeff and I primed the walls in the attic. Our attic project hit a big road bump with our busy summer, but we're back on track now. Just seeing that first step was awesome, it's starting too look like a real room instead of a construction site. Later that afternoon we went and met some friends at the Ceili Cottage for a beer. They had home made kettle chips!

Today Jeff put the colour on the walls while Stella and I were at a baby shower for our awesome friend Nat. It looks awesome. We have so many great plans for the room. Tonight while Stella was in the bath and laughing I spied Tooth #4 breaking through!

I can see you!