This morning Edzèa and I headed out to our weekly Friday song/story time at the Centre for Northern Families. Here are some photos of Edzèa sharing her kitchen toys with her friends Mackenzie and Mathieu. These *toys* are a big hit with the babies. The colander is the big one that they all fight for. It cost me $.25 at the Sally Ann. They love to chew on the wooden spoons as well. They were playing *after* song time had finished. We have lunch at the Centre after the songs are done and today in the lunch room there were about five Dene women who were eating and had cooked the meal for us. They were passing Edzèa around like a hot potato because they thought she was adorable. She was smiling for all of them and they kept pinching her cheeks. As soon as they learned that her name was Dogrib, she became *extra* special. She loved the attention of course!
Edzea also ate more solid food than she ever has for lunch today. She loved the mix of carrots and peas. I tasted it and it tasted like solid peas! She liked it more than the apple puree that I gave her for the first time today. I had thought that apples were going to be a big hit. Everyone told me to let her dictate when to stop feeding her. I finally just stopped as I was worried as she went through 3/4 of a jar. She’s only ever eaten a few tablespoons of solid food before but she liked her peas and carrots!
Before we left the house this morning, Sadie showed a lot of interest in playing with Edzèa. She has figured out that baby=toys and some attention. She doesn’t mind having her hair pulled and she certainly finds Edzèa’s toys interesting. Here are some pictures of the two of them.
This afternoon, Tracey babysat Edzèa for a few hours and I went to the Flea Market and then went home and did some cleaning up and some odds n’ends. I picked up some great stuff at the flea market today. Great dresses for Edzèa for the future and a cute little Santa sleeper with a hat. I found a big set of foam jigsaw mats for $4 for when she starts crawling/trying to stand/falling etc. plus I got some more plastic kitchen utensils aka toys. Tim thinks we need a budget for my flea market’ing now as I come home with new (old) stuff every week. I am just planning for the future! He says I should only be allowed to buy clothes for 6 months in advance for her…whatever. I get some great stuff!
Tomorrow afternoon, we are all going ( friends with babies) to the Hagwarts Haunted House that one of the local highschool’s does for Halloween. They are making it more baby-friendly for the afternoon session. Not sure if we are dressing the babies up in their costumes or not. We also have our fourth swimming lesson tomorrow morning. I’ll post pics if we get some more!
G’night.
P.S. I was asked to work on an interesting day project when I get back from holidays. The Prince of Wales Museum in Yellowknife is hosting a Youth Forum with Aboriginal youth on climate change and effects on the land. As a part of this forum, they are hiring artists to work with the youth to have them do some artwork in response to this investigation. They will be painting on the blades of wooden paddles. Some of my students from CJBS will be participating as well as all of the students that I have been teaching at Kalemi Dene. I’m looking forward to seeing my students again as well as my friend/old vice principal, Tammy Steinwand who is now the Culture Co-ordinator for CJBS. Tracey is going to take Edzèa for the 6 hour period for me and I will do an exchange day with her. They offered to have me bring the baby but I decided that it would be more conducive to be sans baby!