For those of you who haven’t heard yet…Edzèa has her first tooth coming up. It began to surface about a week ago and is still slowly ascending to it’s peak. Here are a few photos of it with her Mummy’s finger in her mouth. If you look REALLY hard, you’ll see it!! Seems that the teeth are genetic. I had my first tooth at 5 months too. Not sure about Tim.

Today someone called my baby chubby!!! We were at the movie theatre for the Moms and Babes movie matinee and as we were all introducing ourselves in the theatre, one couple asked me how old Edzèa was. When I said that she was 5 months old, they laughed and said that their daughter was 5 months too. They then said, “Wow, she’s big, what a chubby baby!”  Their daughter was the same weight as Edzèa at birth and weighs 13lbs at 5 months while Edzèa is almost 17lbs!

It turns out that their daughter was born 8 days after Edzèa at Stanton Hospital. When I mentioned that I was still in the hospital when their daughter was born they asked if my Mother had been there with me?  It seems that they had met her in the halls and remembered her as a very proud Grandmother who liked to sing. I said that must have been the right woman!

Great weather in Yellowknife for October. Record-breaking temperatures…could we be so lucky for it to last a few weeks longer???!!! I don’t want to jinx it but this is a great town when the skies are sunny and the snow hibernates. +12 C today and it has ranged from +10 to + 17C for the past two weeks. It’s a *real* fall for a change.

We are heading down to Grand Prairie for the Thanksgiving weekend to get a key cut for our car. LONG STORY!!! 10 hour drive each way so it should be nice in the lovely fall weather. We’re back on Sunday for Thanksgiving dinner with our friends Tracey & Markham.

Tracey’s a true Yellow Yellowknifer! I learn so much from her about the North. The other day she and I walked our girls on a walk through the boreal forest beside Great Slave Lake. She pointed out a few skeletons of houses that used to house the old miners when Con Mine (one of the Yellowknife mines) was in operation. She was lamenting that the city had torn the majority of them down for “environmental” reasons and was remembering her highschool Grad that was hosted in one of them. She’s a true Northerner. She has a daughter 3 months older than ours named Mackenzie Aurora. She’s named after the great Northern River.

Tracey and Markham go on fishing trips all of the time and bring back Lake Trout and Whitefish for us. I now have something that they want for a change!! I was given about 80 lbs of caribou meat that is sitting in my freezer in a rubbermaid tub waiting to be cut into useful pieces. We had Tracey,Markham & Mackenzie over for dinner last weekend and I made caribou stew and bannock. The bannock was delicious but the caribou stew was so-so. I need the recipe from my school as they make it perfectly!

Ok, gotta go and get some sleep…Yoga with daycare tomorrow. Tracey and I love it as the girls love the daycare at the gym that we go to and we LOVE the break!