Monday, January 14, 2008
When did she get so tall?
Faith has her first skating field trip of the year tomorrow, to be followed in quick succession by two more. So, we tried on her hand-me-down skates to make sure she was actually going to be able to squeeze into them at the arena. They fit OK, but when she stood up in the laundry room on her shiny white skates, I was blown away by how tall she actually is. Yes, I am short, but I don't think Faith will be hit with the same genetic twist. According to a parenting site I visit, they predicted that she would be 5'6". So, I'm fairly sure that I will be the shrimp in the family. What else is new?
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
A big step for Blake
Yesterday, January 8th, Blake took his first step! Faith and I have been practicing with him so he takes turns walking to one of us while the other "spots" him. Until yesterday, we had just gotten him to stand by himself, but he always knelt down when he actually wanted to move towards one of us.
Not yesterday though. It was my first day back to work yesterday, which went well, and the kids and I were just hanging out after supper waiting for George to come home when Faith and I tried our walking "coaching" with Blake. To our huge surprise, when Faith let go of him, he took a step towards me! Yippee! Of course, he hasn't done it since, but it's only the beginning.
I have no idea why we want him to walk as it only means he can get into more things. Today he tried to climb up our bookcase upstairs...twice! In all the years we owned it, Faith never tried to climb the thing once. Blake got near it for the first time today and immediately found a foothold. I shudder to think what he would do if we left him alone with Uncle Duncan for a weekend trip. Duncan would have him climbing boulders in a couple of days!
Not yesterday though. It was my first day back to work yesterday, which went well, and the kids and I were just hanging out after supper waiting for George to come home when Faith and I tried our walking "coaching" with Blake. To our huge surprise, when Faith let go of him, he took a step towards me! Yippee! Of course, he hasn't done it since, but it's only the beginning.
I have no idea why we want him to walk as it only means he can get into more things. Today he tried to climb up our bookcase upstairs...twice! In all the years we owned it, Faith never tried to climb the thing once. Blake got near it for the first time today and immediately found a foothold. I shudder to think what he would do if we left him alone with Uncle Duncan for a weekend trip. Duncan would have him climbing boulders in a couple of days!
A quiet moment over the holidays
Alandra and Faith were enthralled with Alandra's new "sticky mosaics" fairies, a craft that we gave her for Christmas. It involves placing brightly colored square stickers on numbers representing different colors to create pictures of fairies. The result is pretty cool, and even better was how long it kept their attention! :)
Future driver
Blake loved pushing his new dump truck around but loved getting rides from Faith even more.
Mom and daughter
Allyson and Logan posed for this very cute picture on Boxing Day at the parents place.
Eating potatoes
For some reason, George decided that he should teach Blake how to eat raw potatoes on Christmas day. Like father, like son or something like that. Blake took to the whole project as it involved him eating and he is always up for that. Personally I found the whole thing gross, but it did make for some interesting pictures.
Trying to get a picture of all three grandchildren
This was my attempt to get a picture of Logan, Faith and Blake with Grampa and Gramma. Of the 17 pictures I did take, this one had the highest average of people with their eyes open, not crying and sort of looking at the camera. And Duncan wondered why I took so many when he did just 4. :)
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