Digital Photo Time Capsule

What were we doing a little more than 1 year ago?? Interesting finds on Chance's digital camera!

We were still living in the Millrise house!



Learning what life was like with a new baby girl!

Feeding that little girl food in her high chair!

Going for walks in our new neighbourhood! Life looks different from a height of 3 feet!

Say "cheese", Mom & Karin!

Chance's photos

Chance inherited my old digital camera...we dug it out of his toybox this weekend to take photos of the the parade. He ended up taking a photo of everyone except the cat....Daddy...

...Grandma Lillian...



...Grandpa Maurice...

...interesting view of our house...

...and even a photo of Karin!

Catching up with last 3 weeks!

Chance with Canadian Leaf at Fort Calgary Canada Day celebrations. Big hugs!

Karin thoroughly enjoyed the petting zoo. She called all the 4 legged animals (goats, sheep, pigs) "puppies". She called the baby chicks "PEEP PEEP PEEP!!!!"

Karin has been introduced to corn on the cob. There's a good 2 minute squall when you take the chewed up cob away and refuse to give a new one (in this case, we had finished all of them...she was very upset!)

Chance and Karin taking a juice break.

Two of my four kitchens have been finished. The square one has made its way to a home for foster children (our friend works there) - the other I'm hoping to donate through a group that I've volunteered with before.

Cripes!

Wink, wink!

Can you guess where this is going??


Probably not...brace yourselves!

CRIPES! 2 mosquito bites and this is what Karin looked like on Sunday. She got the mosquito bites on Friday at 5 PM, somewhere between the daycare and the Green Park, which is a 7 block bike ride. When I took her out of the Chariot, she had two bites on her right cheekbone, and I thought "Oh this is going to swell up"...but I had no idea! She is much improved now (Benadryl, Benadryl, Benadryl) - but her birthmark appears quite dark and dry...I'm thinking from the swelling/stretching of her skin. We'll see what happens with time.

This is Saturday morning....bad enough, but Sunday morning was the worst. New nicknames: Hugo, Lumpy, Taz (this one fits more because of the language she's been spouting lately...she sounds like the Tazmanian Devil from Bugs Bunny).

Auntie Jen Visits

This is what Jen managed to teach Chance in the week that she visited us in May. He still does it, more than 3 weeks later.

Piano time!


Cuddles with Auntie Jen.

This was a pretty good photo!

It could definitely be worse!

Rainy Week

Finally finished decorating the kids' play room. I bought some curtains, new duvet cover for the futon, a yellow japanese lantern (envisioning it as a paper mache solar system one day), and a bunch of light plastic-paned frames (if they fall they won't break) and hung up a selection of Karin and Chance's artwork. I'm pretty happy with how it looks, and Chance liked it too. Karin was oblivious...

Blowing bubbles in the back yard last Friday. We had sun on Saturday too and since then it's been raining. Looking forward to more bubbles one day!

Vocab Explosion

Karin's newest words:

Bapple (Apple)
Mee mee (Milk. Give me milk. Or whatever you're eating, I want it.)
Lookitdat! (Look at that!)
Koo koo (cookie)
Cha (Chance)

She has also starting to pair words together like "Bye bye Dada" - when she really means "Hi Daddy!".

She is responding very well to simple commands, like "Go get your shoes." and "Give this to Mom." Not so much with very simple commands, like "Sit" or "Wait". Oh well.