Saturday, November 14, 2009

The Promised Video

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Winter in the 'Knife

Well winter is here for keeps now. It hasn't been above zero for a while and we have about a foot of snow. It is actually kinda cozy. It has been between -5 and -20 for the past few weeks which is very tolerable. Especially with all the snow, you don't want it to get too warm or everything turns into a slimy, slippery mush. Sorry for the long gap inbetween posts. Let me fill you in with what's been happening.

Caleb is now standing on his own and has taken one or two steps. We aren't sure if we can really call it walking because he always falls down right away. But walking is probably very close. However, Caleb has discovered that the 'bear' crawl (on hands and feet) is very fast and scoots around the apartment in no time. And speaking of apartments, although we love where we are living it has become apparent that we need more space. So we're moving... down the hall. Yep we are moving to a 2-bedroom apartment in the same building... it's even on the same floor. Which mean moving will be a breeze (no stairs!!!) especially since it's freezing out. The layout in our apartment is a little bit better, most importantly it has an eat-in kitchen which means our table won't be on carpet anymore. This is especially important because Caleb has learned how to dump his food over the edge of his tray.

Well that's all the important news. Here are some pictures for your enjoyment


Caleb loves the laundry basket. I was trying to get a picture of him perched on top of it but he slid off just as I was taking the picture.

We decided to see if he loved be under the basket as much as he loves to be on top of the basket. Not so much.



This was Caleb's Halloween costume. We were just trying it on here. He was 'Super-baby'.
You can't really see in these pictures but he has a bib on for a cape.


This morning Caleb said goodbye to Daddy and then just sat by the door for a few minutes waiting for him to come back. I wanted a picture of it but of course, as soon as he heard the camera turn on, he forgot everything else and came to get it.

On November 5th, the Olympic torch came through Yellowknife. We went to the celebration in the evening. It was lots of fun. We got some great SWAG (glow sticks, cow bells, tamborines, coke bottles etc.)

Posing with the torch. For those of you who don't know... I LOVE the olympics... I am very sad that I moved away from Vancouver three years before they were held there as I would have loved to be part of it. But this was pretty great too.

They had a huge tent set up as a warming station. It was kinda strange because all the snow had melted inside the tent and so there was green grass and it smelled strangely like summer.

A picture of the mitten holding the torch.

Caleb's new favorite game... knocking over the ottoman in the living room.

When I looked at his picture after I took it, I thought 'holy cow, he's huge'. He really is getting big. I can't believe that big boy was my little baby.

Here Caleb has a little toy octopus in his mouth. He loves to suck on the head and have the legs sticking out of his mouth. Sometimes when he is trying the get the head in his mouth, one of the legs goes into his nose... his facial expression is priceless.

Another octopus picture.

You may be wondering how we keep Caleb warm in the stroller when it is so cold out. Well first we warm it up before we go out. It is stored on our porch so it gets pretty cold. About an hour before we go out I bring it inside (this takes lots of muscles) and open it up. I put my heating blanket into his cuddle bag to warm it up.

Caleb wears a hat, a coat and wool socks. You can see in the picture above that he has a pretty serious cuddle bag in his stroller. It is made out of an old down parka. It is actually so warm that if it isn't too cold (say -10 or -20) and I put him into his snowsuit and into the cuddle bag.. he get really really warm and sweaty. So today, it was only -13 and he only needed a jacket.

Then Caleb gets buckled in...


...and zipped up tight. When we arrived at the library he was nice and toasty. Hopefully we will be able to walk in all sorts of weather using this system.

Sorry, no video today. As I said before... Caleb loves, loves, loves the camera. When ever he hears it turn on or sees me holding it he crawls (really fast) to try get it and then cries if I won't let him hold it. So all are videos lately are of him crawling to the camera and then crying. I'll try to get something better.