We have forward movement!

It's not pretty, but it definitely gets her where she's going. Took her 2 days to figure out once she started shuffling forward. Still only 2 teeth through, but I'm desperately hoping the third will be through when we wake up in the morning. It's so close, and it's bothering her a lot. In the meantime, she looks absolutely adorable with just 2 teeth.

Also, the newspaper is doing a photospread of the babies born in 2006, and since Katie qualifies, we're putting in her picture. I hear from some possibly reliable sources that it is a contest, but I don't recall reading that in the first announcement and it wasn't in this week's paper. So, if you read our blog, please reply to this post and vote for your favorite picture. I've narrowed it down to three that I think display her personality very well.

Thanks!

#1 Rawr!

#2 Shredder.

#3 Aren't I adorable?

Musings from the frozen north.

I happened to find a cooking show that I didn't know was on. CBC, go figure. So as I eat my kraft dinner, I'm subjected to mouth watering video of a greek community in Montreal. A bakery with a wood oven, fresh melons, grilled seafood, fresh herbs.... Hooray for boxed noodles. I need a good cookbook with recipes from other cultures. Thai, Greek, Indian, whatever. Something with lots of spices and herbs. Yum.

I have to laugh though. We got a phone call early (okay it was like 1030) this morning from my mom. Telling us how cold it is there and they got snow! Okay, the snow is exciting, but it's not cold there. Not a chance. There is currently over a foot of snow on my truck, and it was -30 when we woke up this morning. (that's -20 for you imperialists) It's cold. If the horse didn't need to eat, I wouldn't leave the house, but I have to take him hay. So I cover my mouth with my scarf so my teeth and lungs don't freeze, and march through the yard to bring him some breakfast. For those of you who know the layout of our yard, the hay is next to the garden and I feed the horse a bit behind the propane tank. By the time I got from the house to the hay to the gate, the steam from my breath coming over the scarf had collected on my eyelashes and frozen them.

But Andrew, Katie & I are nice and warm in the house, as is Bailey, Morgan is happy and warm in the garage, and Jose is as warm as ever in his bowl (though I may move him to the table so he's not so close to the windows. Only Charlie has to be outside, and he's tough. And he's got a nice coat. Horses, after all, were designed to live outdoors in all weather.

Oops, almost forgot pictures.

New diaper!
So cute.

Katie's new favorite toy is...

Anything that crinkles.