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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...