Edzèa (8 months) and friend, Nathalie (1 year old) competing for the cell phone at storytime/playtime sessions at the Literacy Council. See for yourself-one person finally gave up!! Also, a pic of her with the drum at Kindermusic and another one with her new balaclava made by Grandma Froehler.

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Here are some pics from yesterday. Auntie Rita took us for lunch at a grown-up (read: no highchairs) restaurant called Fuego in Yellowknife. Edzèa was not a joy to have lunch with. She wanted to be held the entire time and did not want her own lunch. Once we got to Javaroma later that day. She happily sat in the high chair there with a straw to play with for 45minutes!!! ARGGGHHH!!!

So, although it was nice to see Rita, it wasn’t very relaxing.

We didn’t make it to storytime because of our lunch date with Rita but we went to the Flea Market on Friday afternoon and I found really great cord/Osh Kosh overalls for her for 12mos and up. They were 1$ each so I picked up as many as I could. She has outgrown most of her pants now so I am going into the Alsip and Lindstrom stores at home. The apple outfit she has on is a hand-me-down from the Alsips. It’s very cute.

I’ve decided to look for a couple of babysitters to see if we can go out every once in a while without having to ask friends for favours all the time. My friend Diane Lafferty has a daughter who would like to babysit, she has 4 younger siblings of her own and Rita says she is very experienced. Then there is an older girl who’s Mom works with Tim, we will try her too. Also, I’m considering a couple of girls that I teach at Kalemi Dene as they live in Yellowknife and their full-time teacher recommends them too. So, stay posted.

I can’t wait until Tracey and Markham come home!!! I miss our Baby exchange!

I had to take Edzèa with me to my hair appt on Thursday. Miraculously, it went well.

Ok, gotta run. Birthday party number 2 today and number 3 tomorrow…it never ends!!!

Well, we arrived home last Friday to FRIGID conditions. -41 C and lower. I had forgotten how cold January can be. We went out to the first 1st Birthday party of the year on Saturday. It was a hockey theme. As you can see, Edzèa loved the blow up hockey sticks they had around the room. She was also very popular with the 7-10 yr old age group. She was the youngest baby there and so was treated like royalty …as she expects…

I made an attempt for her to be the Anti-Hockey party girl but she couldn’t resist the sticks!!! She was the only one in a party dress. Everyone else had baby jerseys etc. I’m sure those cost a fair bit!

We made it out on Sunday to the pool where we spent an hour in the water with her and she could happily have lasted longer. We played ball with her in the pool. This is the latest fun thing. We don’t have a ball at home so that is next on the toy list for her! Someone at our Storytime today told me that she had hit a milestone early by passing the ball to me. We’ve been doing this since we were at the Grandparent Froehlers as they had a ball of some sort in her room there and I would play pass on the floor with her after she woke up in the morning. Her Daddy is not surprised that she is a ball girl at all!!!

So we’ve been housebound until today when we decided to venture out in to the deep freeze and go to Storytime for our FREE book! and socializing with other babies/Moms. It was CHILLY! -40 plus. Tomorrow is supposed to warm up to -20 and Friday -9. Here’s crossing our fingers! It is so cold that my fingers get numb in my sealskin mitts from the house to the car. Our car doesn’t warm up well either so that is why we have stayed housebound. Tim’s happy as I’ve been cooking like crazy and Edzèa has been subjected to new foods too. She is having yoghurt, cottage cheese and regular cheese now. It’s becoming much easier to feed her now that she is getting more in line with our diet. She is a good eater and seems to like dairy so that’s good as I’m slowly weaning her off of nursing.

We have TWO more birthday parties this weekend. One on each day of the weekend. This is going to be nuts as all of the Mom’s that I’ve met this year have children that are older than Edzèa so we have many many parties coming up.

I am going to start trading babysitting with another new Mom that I’ve met on Mondays. We are going to meet at the pool and trade looking after the babies while we each have a swim. I went swimming yesterday while Tim came home for lunch but it’s hard for him to co-ordinate.

She is napping well right now and sleeping well at night FINALLY! I couldn’t believe I had an hour and a half free this morning while she slept. It is soooo nice. I hope she keeps it up.

Here are a few more pics FYI. She received a blow up hockey stick in her goodie bag from the party this weekend. Believe it or not she also received a RUBBER ducky with a hockey stick and in a hockey jersey and helmet. Hmmmmm…this will be a re-gift for some unsuspecting hockey fans who have a baby I think!

She is almost crawling now too! She can creep forward to get something and she rolls herself all over the room now. It’s only a matter of time. We’ll keep you posted.Oh, there is one picture of her being pushed in her stroller by Haydon. I was in front of her and I couldn’t figure out why the stroller was moving forward but soon discovered the little man behind.

Here are a couple of pics with Edzèa and her cousins from Calgary.

Edzèa and Sadie are good buddies. Sadie is extremely patient with her although I never leave them unsupervised. Sadie is starving for attention because Edzèa pulls really hard! She comes out with clumps of fur and Sadie does nothing. One day, they will play better together but Sadie constantly puts herself on Edzèa’s play mat so she can’t hate it. She must be desperate.

Today, we are going to Movies for Mom’s/Dad’s. I have a bad cold. Edzèa is pretty much over hers but I don’t want to miss out.

This week has been pretty uneventful. Mostly, we’ve been sick and stayed at home. We did go to Kindermusic yesterday morning. She is the MOST excited baby there. It is her happy place. She LOVES music and singing.

She falls asleep in my arms for her afternoon nap now while I sing to her with my horrible voice. It’s amazing she can fall asleep.

Ok, off to feed her lunch and then to the movies. Enjoy the pics.

Well, we started off the morning with our blueberry cereal which is going over well. It’s extremely messy but she seems to like blueberries. We are trying to add some variety instead of her usual BANANA fixation.

We were up on and off most of the night as Edzèa caught a cold and wasn’t very comfortable. Then Daddy had a big work problem and didn’t sleep at all. He worked all day today too and is still working. So, we went to see Santa Claus by ourselves. The Festival of Trees is a Yellowknife fundraiser and has a visit from Santa for the kids along with crafts and goodies. Edzèa wasn’t overly impressed with Santa so she pulled hard on his beard and gave Mommy a very dirty look for leaving her with this strange man!

We were also given a sheet of decorative Christmas paper with Santa’s address on it to write to Santa. We plan to do this tomorrow! Today was busy without Daddy to spend “quality-time” with us!

Here are some pics of her in her Snowgirl outfit that I picked up at the flea market last year.

And finally, a pic of Mommy and Edzèa at Javaroma with the other Mommies after our visit to Santa.

Oh, I forgot to mention, we are going to have to lower Edzèa’s crib. When she sits in her crib, she has discovered that she can manoeuvre herself to the side and…AAAAAHHH!!! She shocked me on this one. I was sitting doing something in the chair in her room when I felt “someone” staring at me….

On a side note, I was supposed to paint a Holiday Christmas mural for SSI Micro today but I was counting on Daddy to “parent” his daughter which didn’t happen. So, next Sunday, I’m painting a winter landscape for SSI for their winter promotion. I’m looking forward to it as I haven’t had a chance to paint…since before she was born!!!

Just a quick note while the two babies I’m looking after (including Edzèa) are sleeping!!! I wanted to post some quick pics of our cutie and her Cheerio fixation right now. She loves trying to put them in her mouth. She gets one or two in at a time. I will try to update the blog in the next week if I can. It’s been busy since we got home. And we are leaving again in two weeks! We are all heading off tonight to a Christmas party at the gym that we go to. Our friend Troy is babysitting the two girls while Tracey, Markham, Tim and I go out. I’ve had Mackenzie all day so I will have about 15minutes to shower and get ready tonight but THAT is the life of a MOM!!!