K: I keep thinking tomorrow is March 1st, but it's not. I forgot that it is February 29th.
D: Yeah, that's why they are having a special frog day at the zoo... 'cause it leaps, get it, get it?
K: Too bad Caleb is only 7-month old, I would totally take a day off work and go check out some frogs. May be in four years...
D (thinking about an appropriate age for Caleb to make sense of the would-be excursion): May be three...
K (puzzled looking): ...
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Caleb's Walking
Okay, the title is a shameless attempt to get you to sponsor me for my 5K Mother's Day walk. Caleb will be with me, but enjoying the ride from the comfort of his stroller :)
Proceeds will benefit the Calgary Health Trust, which funds the Neonatal units and Special Care Nurseries in hospitals in Calgary. Caleb spent time in the Foothills Special Care Nursery when he was born.
Check out more information [and donate :o) ] here: www.mothersday5k.blogspot.com
My goal is to raise $726 (Caleb's bithday, 7/26).
Thanks for your support!
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Bath Time :)
Caleb has started to eat "solids"...
He's doing pretty darn good actually. I just keep telling him, "it's okay, mommy's new at this too!" We make quite a mess between the two of us; I have given up on trying to scrape the spills off of his chin with the spoon because it just confuses him; he goes for the spoon every time, no matter where I am putting it, he's dipping and swerving to get it closer to his mouth... so yeah, pretty messy but he's up to about 3 TBSP of oats twice a day. He's not sitting really consistently yet, so I have switched him into the bumbo seat for now. You can see in the pics that he's kind of tipping over, and in the one that I am in the shot, I'm holding him up by his right arm so he doesn't tip :)
We started swimming classes! He's quite a little fish; he loves the water and doesn't even mind getting his ears under and laying on his back on my shoulder. He's a social butterfly too; he just loves looking at the other babies, and grins his big gummy smile at them until they smile back. Sadly, they won't let us bring a camera in to the pool area at all... I will have to get one of him in his little swim suit though, he looks so cute!
I've been having fun with my new breadmaker... my first couple of batches of buns were a bit dense but edible. I was quite pleased that I could find multigrain bread flour.
Valentine's Day was great... Karl has been working so hard on painting the basement that between spending hours down there every night and working from home, I was pretty sure he'd forget that Valentine's Day was even coming (it doesn't help that he totally didn't grow up with the tradition!). But, he impressed me by booking his folks to babysit (last Saturday; we celebrated early) and taking me to a restaurant that I've been talking about going to since I was there this summer with my mom and sister (the Brava Bistro on 17th ave for you Calgarians). He also had a thoughtful card and box of my favourite chocolates (ferrero roche) on Valentine's Day itself. The best part about the chocolates was that he had wrapped them in a brown box and tied it with string... because I just watched The Sound of Music for the first time so we've been singing the favourite things song quite a bit these days!
Here's some fudge that I made. I gave a plain piece to Karl at his computer and went over to my computer... this is what our grandparents (parents?!) would roll their eyes at and think, "what is this world coming to?!" ... because I had only sat down for a couple of minutes and had a new email notification... from Karl. I opened it up to find this photo and a cute little love note. So techie eh? Hey, I'll take a high tech love note any day ;o) The funny part is that our computers are only about 10 feet apart, but blocked by a wall of storage boxes (that are usually in our basement... another story...)
[in case your monitor is a bit dark, this is the fudge I made, with "KD" inscribed on it by Karl]
Basement updates coming soon... I may let Karl do the honours on that one. He has a few little update video clips and may do another one tomorrow as they are spraying the ceiling. Next to decide on flooring... anybody have recommendations on what flooring to put in (or what not to) and/or where to buy some for a good price? We're thinking laminate...
Caleb has started to eat "solids"...
He's doing pretty darn good actually. I just keep telling him, "it's okay, mommy's new at this too!" We make quite a mess between the two of us; I have given up on trying to scrape the spills off of his chin with the spoon because it just confuses him; he goes for the spoon every time, no matter where I am putting it, he's dipping and swerving to get it closer to his mouth... so yeah, pretty messy but he's up to about 3 TBSP of oats twice a day. He's not sitting really consistently yet, so I have switched him into the bumbo seat for now. You can see in the pics that he's kind of tipping over, and in the one that I am in the shot, I'm holding him up by his right arm so he doesn't tip :)We started swimming classes! He's quite a little fish; he loves the water and doesn't even mind getting his ears under and laying on his back on my shoulder. He's a social butterfly too; he just loves looking at the other babies, and grins his big gummy smile at them until they smile back. Sadly, they won't let us bring a camera in to the pool area at all... I will have to get one of him in his little swim suit though, he looks so cute!
I've been having fun with my new breadmaker... my first couple of batches of buns were a bit dense but edible. I was quite pleased that I could find multigrain bread flour.
Valentine's Day was great... Karl has been working so hard on painting the basement that between spending hours down there every night and working from home, I was pretty sure he'd forget that Valentine's Day was even coming (it doesn't help that he totally didn't grow up with the tradition!). But, he impressed me by booking his folks to babysit (last Saturday; we celebrated early) and taking me to a restaurant that I've been talking about going to since I was there this summer with my mom and sister (the Brava Bistro on 17th ave for you Calgarians). He also had a thoughtful card and box of my favourite chocolates (ferrero roche) on Valentine's Day itself. The best part about the chocolates was that he had wrapped them in a brown box and tied it with string... because I just watched The Sound of Music for the first time so we've been singing the favourite things song quite a bit these days!Here's some fudge that I made. I gave a plain piece to Karl at his computer and went over to my computer... this is what our grandparents (parents?!) would roll their eyes at and think, "what is this world coming to?!" ... because I had only sat down for a couple of minutes and had a new email notification... from Karl. I opened it up to find this photo and a cute little love note. So techie eh? Hey, I'll take a high tech love note any day ;o) The funny part is that our computers are only about 10 feet apart, but blocked by a wall of storage boxes (that are usually in our basement... another story...)
[in case your monitor is a bit dark, this is the fudge I made, with "KD" inscribed on it by Karl]Basement updates coming soon... I may let Karl do the honours on that one. He has a few little update video clips and may do another one tomorrow as they are spraying the ceiling. Next to decide on flooring... anybody have recommendations on what flooring to put in (or what not to) and/or where to buy some for a good price? We're thinking laminate...
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Friday, February 01, 2008
Weekly Awards
It's been a long time since we did the weekly awards; they're back!
- Best Martha Stewart moment: homemade marshmallows!
(these were not too difficult to make, but also could have won an award for biggest mess ever made in the kitchen... a story for another time; I'll leave it to your imagination for now. Let's just say it involved boiling sugar, corn syrup, and gelatine... nobody got hurt, but kids... don't try this at home alone!)
- Best DIY-er:
Karl working on the pantry part of our basement development
- Best frost in 2008: January 25...
- Understatement of the Year Award: "Karl's Happy To Be Working From Home..." January 28: -49*C with windchill. Yes, this photo is of the inside of our front door, 10am, with frost on screws of the metal lock. We didn't leave the house for a while!
- Best Sleep-fighter (he sleeps well at home actually, but fights it when there's action to be had, plus I was really just showing off his cute "bearly sleeping" Hatley sleeper that Grandma Jacquie got him in Kananaskis! Came with a hat too, so cute.) Caleb discovered his fingers in the middle of this photo shoot and they were much more interesting than the camera!
- Best illustrated health warning: DON'T SWALLOW YOUR GUM!
- Best January Date Night in Calgary: Zoolights (if it's warm out!)
- Easiest step you'll take to becoming environmentally friendly: freecycle! Freecycle has been my best friend over the last several weeks. It's an online, nonprofit movement of over 4 million people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free. "...It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills..." Basically, you post whatever it is you want to get rid of, and whoever wants it emails you and says, "hey, pick me! pick me! I'll come by and pick that up tomorrow..." and you put it on your front step and it's gone the next day! Lovin' it. Did I mention we're developing our basement? Yeah, we had some stuff to get rid of!
Incidentally, you can also post "wanted" ads on there. So I am the proud new owner of a free bread machine! I shouldn't brag too much yet though, I need to see if it works first :) Anyway, freecycle is all over north america, so check the site for a group in your town; if there isn't one yet, get one started* (*keep in mind that this would likely cease to be the "easiest step" you'll ever take to becoming environmentally friendly! This award only refers to the act of keeping something out of a landfill by giving something away or picking something up.) - Creepiest supper dish (click for a wonderful close up):
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