Super Cyclist

Goodbye 2011...2012, I hope you'll be good to us!

Granola

Mini Miner

Santa's Map?

J got this from Santa and she's been having a great time playing with her cars on the roads...

Lunch Out

Alex and I got to go on a lunch date...super exciting stuff in our life!

Castle Building

J and her auntie made a big castle out of the block set she got for Christmas.

Happy Christmas To All

Christmas Eve Shopping Craziness

I had to go pick up one last gift on the worst possible shopping day ever. I found the "secret" till upstairs and waited behind only one other person. This particular store is at the corner of Granville and Broadway and if you know where the tills at this store used to be, that's where the line up reached when I came down the escalator. CRAZY. I'm so very glad I knew where the upstairs till was!

Through The Eyes Of Little Miss J

We took J to see the Wizard of Oz tonight. After we had some appetizers, dessert, and beverages at the Granville Island Hotel. J wandered around taking some very artistic pictures for us...

The Christmas Story

Lallie and Bop arrived today. Lallie brought J a six book set of little books telling the Christmas Story. She gave two of them to J tonight.

Cake For Dinner

Flowers

My boss got some beautiful flowers today...

Stairs

I met Georgia for a training session before lunch today. I spent a lot of time on these stairs...

Showing Off The Tree Via Skype

The tree is up and J is very keen to show it to Lallie and Bop. Over and over and over again.

Putting The First Decoration Up

Little Miss J was thrilled to get up and see the tree this morning. She put up the first ornament - the one she made for us at daycare.

Ready To Decorate

The tree is up. The lights are on. Tomorrow we decorate. [Oh and check out the new rug!]

Ornamental

Today the daycare had a special holiday brunch for the kids and their families. All the kids got personalized mittens and the parents got special ornaments that their kids made. This is J's. She is pretty excited to hang it on the tree (which is not yet up).

December Gloom

Gingerbread

All Lit Up

The flowers showing their colours and light.

Creepy Clown

The creepy Santa we've seen a few times at the Stanley Park Bright Night, but this year we discovered that there is a creepy clown in the creepy Santa's sack.

Waiting For The Man In Red

We took J to visit Santa today. She had a blast!

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Sprouting Flowers

I got new lights for J's room yesterday and they're already on her wall...that's a new record!

Christmas Knitting

I've been busy knitting...

Frosty

J's been busy making snowmen tree decorations for her teachers.

Mommy Beluga

We met cousin C and her mommy Harmony at the aquarium today. As always J's favourite was the beluga tank.

Shopping Consultation

We went Christmas shopping today and had to consult with some of Alex's family members part way through our excursion.

Little Buddies

We went to the Santa Claus parade today with Sharla and Chris and their kids. J and I have been buddies since the very beginning and in a couple of weeks they are moving to Edmonton. J and I said goodbye to each other tonight...we probably won't see them again before they go and J has already grasped how far away Edmonton is and she doesn't like it.

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Sliding

J and I played with her cousin C and C's grandma "Glamma" at the park today. J was a little too fast going down the slide for me to catch - I got her feet and the next picture is a whole expanse of yellow slide, but no kid.

Puppets

Yesterday J got a package of puppets from her advent calendar. She and her babysitter put some of them together last night - that's her little hand clutching those popsicle sticks.

Darkness

Ready For Advent

J's advent calendar is set and ready for her to get up tomorrow morning and read her first little slip of paper and (tomorrow) open a gift! Yay. I'm excited for Christmas to be here this year.

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Docking Station

Our docking station for our iPod arrived just in time for Christmas...I love not having a ghetto blaster anymore...

Let It Snow

Oh Starbucks...I got sucked in.

Too Big

I'm making a toque for Rebecca. And I'm adapting a couple of patterns. And I swatched it three times and wasn't convinced, but made the toque anyway...Um. Yeah. It's kind of way too big.

Gramma's Shortbread

Party Musts

Smarties!

Christmas Explosion

I wandered down to our storage room tonight to extract our Christmas books and a few other things for a little get together on Saturday night. And now it feels like Christmas threw up in our living room.

Education Grad

Kelsey got her B.Ed. today. Way to go little sis! (She's not actually in this photo...)

Hard At Work

J was a busy bee with her new activity book today. Hours of fun...

The Parkade

The cars get parked in the "parkade" when J is done with them. This is a fancy-pants parkade too - it has multiple levels!

Little Parcels

Alex is going to the post office tomorrow...if you live in Toronto or England you might be getting a little something in your mail box in the next few weeks.

Artiste

Hockey Fan

Little J enjoying the hockey game.

The Stores Think It's Christmas

Tea And Candlelight

Quick Loaf

We needed bread. Pronto. So I made a quick loaf of white. And guess what, we prefer the whole wheat...

Anniversary Flowers

A few weeks late...but it's nice to have flowers!

Rearranged

It was time to scrub under the foam mats on our floor and I decided that since it will soon be time to rearrange the furniture to put the tree up, I may as well do it all at once. I love the new arrangement...it feels so much bigger in our living room!

He Shoots, He Scores

We took J to a hockey game tonight...so much fun!