Happy New Year To All

Christmas eve in my fancy gold dress and sparkly shoes.

My first pair of jeans. Thanks Meme & Pepe.

The Christmas holidays were very special this year. At the Christmas eve potluck and gift exchange Lily was the main attraction, she opened a few presents and was thrilled with her Smurf and Mega Blocks. She was more fascinated with Cousin J.'s iPhone and ended up calling one of his buddies in Alberta, our girl is a technical whiz. I am not kidding, I have discovered a few tricks/functions of my laptop from her constant playing with the keyboard while watching her Baby Einstein dvds.

There were a few times during the holidays when she was overstimulated and did not nap well, pretty sure she was not the only toddler out there that was a bit cranky and whiny by times. Having said that it was wonderful to finally have Lily with us at Christmas.

She is now 19 months old and has started to show us affection by kissing us and blurting our bellies, really very funny. When we are in the master bedroom Dale will ask her: "Where are Meme and Pepe?" She points to my family photos and blows them kisses, not sure what we laughed at before she came into our lives.

All the best in 2010. N

Sledding fun

Turns out Lily does not mind this winter weather as long the wind is not blowing too hard. Thanks Great Aunt D. for finding this toasty warm snowsuit a couple of years ago, I look adorable in it...

Ho Ho Ho!

We took a few Christmas photos this evening. How adorable is Lily in her Santa suit? She looks like an little elf. I have always enjoyed the Christmas season but this year, of course, is extra special.

May your home be filled with love and happiness this Christmas. N

Different wheels

Above is Lily going for a ride on Poppie's walker. Cousin M. was over playing with little miss and decided to see if she would enjoy a little scoot around the house on their grandfather's walker and of course Lily did loved it.

Yesterday she received three immunizations, poor gal, she was definitely out of sorts last evening. Attempted to go to play group this morning but she was having not part of it, I decided to let her win this morning because she still may be feeling the side effects of the shots. She is a warm weather gal, I think it is going to take a while for her to embrace our winters. Someone gave us a cute little plastic sled a couple of years ago so I will dig that out this weekend and see is she might enjoy sledding in the back yard. Thanks Pooh.

Tomorrow will be her first Christmas party, hope Santa does not scare her too much!

Baptism Day/storm day

Thanks L & J for being the proxy "Godparents".

Dale looking dashing, daughter looking darling.

Today was Baptism Day, unfortunately it was also our first storm day. So we had several family members and friends not able to attend because of terrible road conditions, you were all missed.

We almost rescheduled for next month but thought we should proceed, we could run into this kind of weather for the next four or five months. Lily as usual was in good humour and did not mind horribly when the other families were invited to make the sign of the cross on the forehead of all the children being baptised today (four other cuties).

Afterwards family members attending popped over for some refreshments and snacks, a very good day overall despite the weather.

18 Month Check-up & China pics

This was the view from our hotel in Nanchang. We have told since we are home that the owner of the building died during it construction and no one has taken over and it is full of squatters. I did see a lady walking on the decking in a dress and thought it was pretty strange to see a dress blowing in the breeze on a construction site - lol.

This is the last minute panic to purchase formula and rice cereal just before we received the babies in Nanchang.

The soil of Lily's province is red - isn't that interesting - just like here at home.

Travelling to Nanchang from Beijing. Please note I am lugging all of CAM's luggage - ha. A photographer has to have her hands free to take these great shots.

The above is from the evening we arrived in Beijing. Exhaustion and excitement all wrapped into a not so pretty package - lol.
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Today was Lily's 18 month check-up with our family doctor. She is now 17 pounds and 8 ounces and 29 inches long, grow Lily grow!

She also received a regular seasonal flu shot, she was a brave little trooper again, of course there were some tears but they dried up quickly and she received two stickers from the kind nurse to compensate for her pain. Dr. H is great as long as she does not actually try to touch Lily, then Lily gets quite scared and clings to Dale.

Lily's crib is a Storkcraft and there was a major recall announced yesterday. I have been trying for a day and half to get a hold of someone to order the replacement kit and no luck, very frustrating. I have been calling the 1-866 number and trying to reach them on-line. How can I let her sleep in that crib now that we know about the recall, even if it does seem very sturdy? Lily flops about during her sleep so obviously we cannot let her use the crib till it is fixed, this is definitely not going to help the afternoon nap issues.

CAM sent us a couple of disks of pics from our trip to China, I thought I would post a few(tried to make them appear at the bottom of my post but I did not succeed). Thanks again C, they are amazing shots and you are too talented. N

Two fisted eating...

She loved the yellow and green beans we had at dinner. To date we have mostly used bottle veggies because she only has six teeth. This photo cracks me up. Maybe Auntie S is right, her new nickname might have to be "Pork Chop".