Sophie takes a walk
By harry | June 21, 2009
So I found it quite flattering that Sophie started to walk on father’s day.
It’s a happy father’s day
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Camping at Twin Lakes
By miranda | June 16, 2009
This past weekend we went on our first camping trip with the little one. We went to a family favourite, highly recommended: Twin Lakes, near Winfield. It was great, it’s a nice-sized place with mostly campers using tents. Any RVs were of the smaller variety, with a few glaring exceptions. We arrived Thursday and so we got a great spot overlooking the lake. We pretty much let Sophie crawl around and do as she pleased, just keeping the firepit and chopping block off-limits. Being out there made me realize that she has moved past the “put everything in her mouth” phase, and now she is a little more selective. By selective, I mean mostly foodstuffs, even food that has been dropped in the dirt and dust. She got her healthy dose of earth this weekend, that’s for sure. The weekend was fun in other ways too. Harry and I haven’t really camped much together yet (with the exception of the North Country Fair, but it’s different when there are lots of other people you know around). We meshed together fairly well, discovering that division of labour was the best way to go. I have uploaded pictures in the new June album.
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May Pictures
By miranda | May 22, 2009
I was reminded today that it has been quite some time since new images were added to the gallery. In fact, as yet there had been no album for the month of May. I have remedied the situation, and now there are some pictures of us from this month. Most of them are outdoor pictures, and looking at them you would think that we had a lovely sunny, warm month of May. This is just because we were only outside with the camera on days when it wasn’t snowing (brrr!). At least we hadn’t planted any young seedlings yet. I think sometime this week we can expect to get that taken care of. We bought several more strawberry plants because they seem to do well in our soil and they are one of Sophie’s current favourite foods.
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The latest.
By miranda | May 12, 2009
Our little chatterbox Sophie sure learns by example. She has taken a great interest in our portable phones, pushing as many buttons as possible any time she gets her hands on them. Lately though, she has really started to imitate our manerisms as well; she’ll push a few buttons then put the phone to her ear and make a sound like she’s saying hello? then a slight pause, then more chatter. She’s really into sharing at this point as well, as she’ll offer the phone or her toys or her food to Harry and I anytime. Mostly I think she likes “sharing” because we invariably give the object right back to her.
She’s becoming more confident with her motility, she crawls up and down stairs like they’re not even there (which is fine inside the house where there are only two of them, but a little tough on the heart when it’s the concrete steps outside). So far no accidents there, thank god. Sophie does love the outdoors. Whenever she seems to be getting restless with the inside of the house, I take her out and she sits on the lawn pulling grass and weeds while I do small tasks around the yard. I’m really looking forward to gardening this year, though I think Sophie is still too young to do more than try to subvert our growing efforts by eating dirt and pulling seedlings. We shall see, I guess.
As for the rest of life, now that we’re no longer living in a construction zone, we have had friends over fairly regularly, which has been nice. I enjoy cooking for and entertaining in small groups at our place. Very relaxing. Our home improvement plans for the next little while will be focused on the outside of the house, with hopes of some positive changes in both the front and back yards. Not much to be done out there today, though, as Alberta weather has chosen to send us some mid-May snow. I’m thankful at least that I didn’t wake up to the 4-5 inches Kim found in her backyard this morning. I welcome this only because I know that the world will be a greener place thanks to the extra moisture. I love spring!
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Ziggy on the way
By harry | May 4, 2009
Miranda and I are ”big toothy grin” happy that we have a sibbling on the way for Sophie. Our little zygote now embryo (ziggy) should be making an appearance in the first week of January (as long as we have calculated correctly). Sophie will be “big toothy grinning” soon as she is cutting her first tooth. More to come on that front…
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Happy Birthday to Me!
By miranda | April 2, 2009
Yesterday I turned thirty, and so today I am experiencing my world from a new, mature vantage point. I feel full of sagacity, it’s exhilarating. Haha. I had a great day, which started with a lovely breakfast made for me by my husband, then Sophie and I had a productive day together. We topped off the evening with a fantastic supper attended by a couple of close friends and family, paired with some special wine provided by that loving husband I mentioned earlier. All together a good way to spend a birthday, and I am now looking forward to the party on Saturday.
I’ve posted a few pictures in the gallery, including some much-awaited ones of the finished product in our front rooms. Have a look and let us know what you think.
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I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet
By harry | March 18, 2009
I haven’t added anything to this blog in a while, Miranda usually puts up all of the great info of what’s up or what we’re doing. One of the greatest things that been happening to me is experiencing Sophie’s awakening awareness and her personality quarks… they are better than diamonds. One of my favorites is her need for eye contact. Some nights when I’ve come home for work and I sit her down on my lap and if I’m looking at something else for a few moments, she’ll swing her face in front of me, look me in the eyes, and when I make the eye contact she wants, she’ll give me a little smile followed by a giggle and then turn away and focus on whatever she was doing before. I just love that. Then there is the little evil snicker Sophie grunts out when she thinks she’s gonna get away with something we don’t let her do, like when she’s racing to the cat food bowl and we may not get there fast enough to pull them away from her.
Another comment I must make is that Miranda is amazing with Sophie, I cannot believe how lucky I am to have such an amazing human being in my life, this woman could do anything if she wanted to if she put her mind to it… and she’s hot to boot.
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Spring waiting to spring!
By miranda | March 16, 2009
As I write this I am sitting here peeling grapes for my little daughter. I have to put this on the public record so that she can feel appropriately grateful for this later in life. I’ve just returned from a shopping trip at the second-hand store where I picked up THE best sweater for Sophie: it has a penguin on the front! And it’s gender neutral so it can be passed around in the family for future babies, boy or girl. Sophie’s mobility is ever-increasing. Yesterday she went down the two steps to the dining room unaided and under control. She loves playing chase-me and is getting to be a pretty fast crawler (she’s beat us to the cat food bowl a couple of times). She’s also learned that she can reach even more things by standing on her tip-toes, so the baby-proofing continues apace.
I’ve also uploaded a few more pictures from happenings around the Annett household. Peruse at your leisure.
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Sophie’s World
By miranda | March 4, 2009
Sophie’s world is getting bigger and more interesting by the day. She is now quite a fast crawler and moves from room to room with ease and curiosity. This of course means that baby-proofing has moved beyond the borders of the one ’safe’ room we had previously set up for her. This baby thing is a learning process for all of us, including the cats (maybe especially the cats). They have to get used to the idea that they have been bumped down in the pecking order.
Sophie is also getting very agile with her movements. She doesn’t really sit on her bum, she’ll squat on her knees and haunches, and she’s quite happy and stable like that. It’s easy for her to go in and out of the crawling motion from this position. The cutest new thing she does is imitate us when we blow kisses at her (not with the hand motion, but with the smaking lips). It’s great!
Her eating habits are also evolving. Right now she is in a phase where she wants to feed herself everything; put it on a spoon and she wants nothing to do with it, put it in front of her and it’s hand to mouth immeadiately. So the challenge is to find lots of good foods for her that won’t make too much of a mess, although sometimes letting her smear it all over her general vicinity is fun too. Cheerios are the choiciest meal of the minute, and she’s getting quite dextrous at picking them up and putting them in her mouth.
Harry and I are doing well. With the bit of fresh snow that we finally got in Edmonton to cover up the icy ugliness from the past couple of warm weeks we’re hoping to get a chance to hit the slopes at least once this season. We want to make sure we both still know how to snowboard since it’s been awhile.
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February so far…
By miranda | February 6, 2009
Ahh, the joys of renovating when one partner is working full-time and the other is looking after a mobile six-month-old full time. Nothing is simple and everything takes longer than we thought. We are now close to being done, however. Harry and I together made the decision that we would hire a professional to install the hardwood in the living room. We were mostly sure that we could do it and it would look good, but for the amount of money that we had put into the materials, mostly sure wasn’t good enough. So it is in and it looks great. Some photos are up in a new February album in the gallery, if anyone would care to check. Sophie has done a crawling tour of it and she aproves.
And now I can’t remember what else I had to say.
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