Monthly Archives: May 2009

Finally!!!

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So we had our first nice day since Easter today. It was close to +12 which felt like +20 when you’ve been putting up with -7 to -10 on a regular basis!

I had Mackenzie today and I spent most of the day with the girls outside on the dead brown lawn. Edzea did not like the feel of the brown dead grass. She refused to crawl on it for the first half of the day. She later discovered rocks (gravel) and was digging in the dirt and then later decided that she didn’t even notice the scratchy yucky feeling grass after all! as long as she could climb into a flower bed and dig away. And here I thought she wasn’t going to be a kid that mucked about. Thank God she is after all! I couldn’t get my little “flower” out of the flower bed at the end of the day. Unfortunately I didn’t have my camera around for those shots.

Also, I’ve discovered that her hatred of hats has turned around. She is only allowed to go “outside” if she has her hat on. She understands this. And promptly brings me her hat continuously so my fight with the sun hat is over. Yay!

Enjoy the pics.

Edzèa’s First Birthday Party

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Well, these are a little late coming and I couldn’t put them all on here but here are some of the photos from Edzèa’s birthday party. Allan’s new girlfriend took all of the photos and she took some really great ones of all of the other babies as well but I didn’t have the time/patience to upload all of them. She also apologized for missing pictures of Tim. It seems she didn’t pay much attention to him as her new romance was blossoming with Allan!!! That’s my guess.

Edzèa was the cleanest one year old we’ve seen so far this year. She refused to muck around in her cake at all! She actually held out her hand to Daddy & I to clean the whip cream off her finger as she didn’t like the way it felt. So much for all of the messy birthday cake shots we were hoping for. This girl is way too neat! Can’t be my daughter!

Is it Spring in Yellowknife Finally????!!!!

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Quick Post. Nana Ditters left on a jet plane this afternoon after our FIRST lovely warm’ish day outside. We walked into town and back in +7 which was a high for us since she had arrived. We talked to Sarah tonight and she says it’s expected to be +20 in Vancouver for the next two days. Nana will be happy!

Here are some pics of Edzèa out on the deck in our warm weather and a clip of her on her swing for the first time.

First Swing!

So much has happened since her birthday, I’m pooped, too much to write down so just enjoy what you get!!

Edzèa’s First Birthday

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Well, Nana Ditters arrived late last night for little Strawberry’s birthday and she came laden with gifts! Edzèa’s Mommy and Daddy didn’t even have their gifts ready for her but luckily Nana came prepared.

So, Edzèa got the idea of opening gifts fairly quickly. She opened numerous gifts throughout the day and then just before bedtime had a huge gift opening. She retreated to her little chair with one of her stuffed toys near the end to tell us she had had enough. We’ve decided to give her one gift a day for the next little while so that she doesn’t go on overload! She was tired and overstimulated at bedtime. I was reminded of last year at this time when she would howl before being put down. So much for my vision of quietly rocking my baby to sleep on the nigh of her first birthday. She went down squawling!

Nana and I spent the morning playing with her and then we walked downtown and had coffee at Javaroma with her. She got a special muffin for her birthday.

Here is a sampling of Edzèa and her lovely gifts from her first birthday. Mommy is still finishing a chair that she is making for her. Nana painted her a diptych of beautiful paintings of Nana’s beautiful old teddy bear. She’s been making refinements on them since January. Edzèa’s Mommy is so grateful that Nana has provided the artwork for the new room as Edzèa’s Mommy seems to be challenged to find time to paint at present. Thank you Nana! Thank you to everyone for all of the phone calls and well wishes for Edzèa. She had a great day with her Nana and is looking forward to her big party on Saturday. 30 people and counting.

Last year seems so long ago yet so fresh as well. We walked right by the hospital and reminisced about labour last year and the godsend of EPIDURALS!!! She has certainly brought a whole range of happiness, love and chaos to our lives over the past year but we love her to pieces!

Dad’s Visit and some Updated House pics

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Well, I finally found my camera case with my cable in it after looking for two weeks. It was in a basket full of miscellaneous stuff…in the garage…which is still a mess. So, I looked frantically after a threatening email from my Mother-in-law and found it!!! She’d better be happy now!!!

These are just a small sampling of the past few weeks which has been incredibly frantic with moving/Dad visiting/Dad painting/unpacking and general chaos from moving. Hope you enjoy.

I had the day free today to unpack and then I taught this afternoon while Tracey had Edzèa.

I miss my babysitter aka Grandpa! You can see from the pics that he had a REALLY tough job looking after Edzèa. When I dropped him off at the airport and came back to the house alone, Edzèa kept looking at the door and pointing saying “Dada” looking for her Grandpa (she can’t say Grandpa so she called him Dada too).

Anyways, I’m pooped, so I’ll write more later. Enjoy the photos.