Saturday, December 31, 2011

Super Cyclist

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

Friday, December 30, 2011

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Santa's Map?

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

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Lunch Out

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

Monday, December 26, 2011

Castle Building

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

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Christmas Eve Shopping Craziness

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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!

Friday, December 23, 2011

Through The Eyes Of Little Miss J

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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...

Thursday, December 22, 2011

The Christmas Story

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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.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Flowers

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My boss got some beautiful flowers today...

Monday, December 19, 2011

Stairs

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

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Showing Off The Tree Via Skype

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

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Putting The First Decoration Up

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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.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Ready To Decorate

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

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Ornamental

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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).

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Monday, December 12, 2011

All Lit Up

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The flowers showing their colours and light.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Creepy Clown

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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.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Waiting For The Man In Red

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

ETA link

Friday, December 9, 2011

Sprouting Flowers

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

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Christmas Knitting

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I've been busy knitting...

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Frosty

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

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Mommy Beluga

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

Monday, December 5, 2011

Shopping Consultation

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

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Little Buddies

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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.

ETA link

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Sliding

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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.

Friday, December 2, 2011

Puppets

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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.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Ready For Advent

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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.

ETA link

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Docking Station

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

Monday, November 28, 2011

Let It Snow

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Oh Starbucks...I got sucked in.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Too Big

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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.

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Friday, November 25, 2011

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Christmas Explosion

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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.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Education Grad

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

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Hard At Work

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

Monday, November 21, 2011

The Parkade

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

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Little Parcels

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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.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Friday, November 18, 2011

Hockey Fan

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Little J enjoying the hockey game.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Quick Loaf

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

Monday, November 14, 2011

Anniversary Flowers

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

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Rearranged

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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!

Saturday, November 12, 2011

He Shoots, He Scores

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