Here are some of our week’s photos and some cute video clips of Edzèa on her little ride’em toy.

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Go to the above link if you’d like to see more of our family photos. I am looking after two babies all day today. I’m hoping to get them to nap at the same this morning-that may be a challenge! I’ve set up the playpen in the spare room/office for Mackenzie. I’m going to let them both cry it out at the same time instead of having one on the verge of sleeping and the other one wailing.  So, I’ll just wear my ear plugs for 10 minutes and hopefully they will both conk themselves out.

We have beautiful weather today! I would love to go outside but I don’t think I’ll be able too as Mackenzie has a cold. Oh well, so far, so good. They are playing well and it’s looking good so far!

We will be hearing this morning on the counter-offer for the house…we’ll see what happens!

Here is a small sampling of the family photos we had done this weekend. This was Tim’s Christmas gift from me. We are getting all of the photos tomorrow. Enjoy.

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We’ve had a great Valentine’s Day so far. Tim is now bathing Edzea while we wait for Uncle Allan to come and babysit. We are going out to Bullock’s for Valentine’s dinner.

Today, we went to Mackenzie’s birthday party. See pics. Edzea got quite cuddly near the end as she was pretty pooped from all of the excitement. Enjoy the pics of our little Valentine.

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For all of you who aren’t tired of watching, here’s another little clip of Edzèa crawling from today. Only “certain” things motivate her.

We went to the doctor’s today for her 9 month check-up. She is now 19 1/2 lbs and 28″ long. I knew she had lengthened but that’s 1 1/2 ” longer than she was a month ago so she’s had a growth spurt.

The doctor calls her a bouncing baby girl. She’s still in the 75th percentile for weight and 25th for length.

I am almost fully over my flu. Edzèa is still fighting it and Tim is sick again. We’ll eventually get to leave the house again!

Nothing else new. Enjoy the video!

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Last night over dinner we asked Allan Ross to be Edzèa’s Godfather. He accepted! He has been looking after her for us since she was…well…born…and he’s been a great friend to both of us. We think he’ll be a great surrogate role model father. Thanks Al! He even liked her during her fussy stage!

He brought us some very expensive Chocolatier chocolates to add to our dinner with him last night. Yum. We’ve eaten most of the box already.

Here’s a pic of Allan with Edzèa when she was heavily teething last month. She really liked his finger!

So my laptop was taken away for a few days as we might be exchanging it for another one so I’m behind on my posts. Today we had our third swimming lesson. Edzèa likes it more and more each time. She was also happy just to play with Daddy for a change too. Normally she fusses a bit until he hands her over to me. So we are making progress! We stayed in the pool longer than 20minutes today. In the past, we have 20 minutes of lesson time and then 10 min. of free time. Edzèa is always a little chilled and shivering by this point so we always take her out. But today, she was happy to stay in and play a little longer. Click on this link to download a short video. We’ve also added some more swimming lesson pics to the gallery.

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Yesterday we went to our song and story time at the Centre for Northern Families. Edzèa loves music and songs so we had a good time and then they provide us with a free lunch afterwards. Tracey and I and a group of other Mom’s hung out with the babies for another hour and then headed off on our walks. The weather was considerably chillier yesterday. It was about -4 and we had about 5 minutes worth of snow.

Tracey and I have a tradition now of going to our local church flea market on Friday afternoons. This Friday they had the greatest old-time wooden sled for sale for $8. I really wanted it for Edzèa but I wasn’t going to be able to take it back with the stroller. Luckily they kept it for me until I could pick it up this morning. Tim says it’s in great shape. All it needs to have is some screws tightened and it’s good to go. Here’s a picture of it:

I’m off to a Mom’s night out at a friend’s house. Will submit the trip to Cameron Falls post tomorrow. G’night.

Tonight while I sang Edzèa her lullabies, she nodded off to sleep. It was a truly magical moment for me. For three weeks, we have been letting her cry herself to sleep and it’s been painful for all of us. Tonight, it was like she finally knew the routine, was pretty pooped and just wanted to be sung to sleep. These are the moments that you dream of. So, I just thought I’d share that because it was lovely having her nod off in my arms and be at peace in her sleep.

Here’s another picture of her sitting up today. She is pretty proud of herself.

I had a great afternoon shooting pictures around Yellowknife while Tracey babysat. I hope to eventually do some paintings from some of these shots. Look under our Northern Pics tab to see what lovely weather we’ve been having.

Tomorrow, if the weather continues to co-operate, Tracey and I and Mackenzie and Edzèa are going for a walk out to Cameron Falls. We’ll drive about 60km to get to the trail and then hike with the girls in. It should make for some more nice fall pictures.

This morning, we walked downtown on the Frame Lake trail. I wished I had brought my camera.  The water was still and the light was perfect. Hopefully another day.  Today, some tourists on the trail asked me if the trail would take them downtown. It seems funny really. Yellowknife does have a downtown but it’s all relative. It takes about 10 minutes to get to downtown from anywhere in Yellowknife and it’s so far from being a downtown in a big city that it’s kind of laughable to call it downtown. But there you have it. The shots I took today were mainly in Old Town and on the shores of Great Slave Lake. I’ll take some of *downtown* in the future. Enjoy.

Click on the clip below to see a short clip of Edzèa having dinner. I know this is only a clip that a parent or grandparent would love!

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Yes, our girl is getting bigger and more advanced as each day passes. Yesterday, she had to sit with her back to Mommy’s tummy. Now, she can sit on her own. She only topples over to the side occasionally.

She also has two teeth surfacing. One is about 1/3 of the way up now. The second one is just at the surface. This is an update for the grandparents/aunts/uncles.

She also loves green beans. We tried green bean puree today and it was a hit. Who would have guessed??

We did get Mommy out of her Spin class today though. We lasted in the gym daycare 40 minutes today and then decided it was time for Mommy to come back. Edzèa actually had her arms outstretched towards me as I got off my bike and went over to her. They *bring* your screaming child to you if they don’t behave in the daycare room. Such service!

Other than that…pretty uneventful day. Looked after Tracey’s daughter Mackenzie for the afternoon. Tomorrow, Tracey gets Edzèa. This is our weekly arrangement so that each of us gets an afternoon to ourselves to do what we want.

Weather was +9 C. Crossing our fingers it stays this way!!

Edzèa went to the polls today too. They wouldn’t let her vote but she went with Daddy to his station anyways and put her two cents in! She was wondering why there wasn’t a Purple Party for her to vote on???!!!