My little monster is 11 months old!!

Holy crap. I'm just... baffled at how this happened.

He's 11 months old. In a month he'll be a year. I can't get over how big he is... and so mobile. He's not quite walking yet but he really wants to! He's cruising along on the furniture and changing his diaper is... well... a challenge.

As I do every month, I took his pictures today with the stuffed dog his Grandpa gave him.

At first, he looked a bit distrustful of his friend...


I did get some great smiles from him though!! Ah... but you might notice that in the first picture we have socks. In the second and third pictures, no socks.



Which brings us to our photo of this months technical difficulty. One of my little monsters favourite games is sock removal. No sooner did I get him sitting down then we went after the socks. He's a determined little man too!


Happy almost birthday, my little man!

Not the baby but another halloween post...

All right. I just had to post this. As one of the reasons I love the WB.

A while back, there was a post from someone about a rainbow cake and it just looked so cool I had to try it. I waited for quite a while because I couldn't find any gel food colouring but I decided to try it with regular food colouring. I just used a little less water to balance out the extra fluid from the food colouring.

And since it was halloween, I dyed the frosting orange and used some chocolate chips to make him a bit more halloween-y.

I know I know... sad cake decorating skills!

It's been a year?! Halloween pumpkins..

I can't believe I've had this blog for a year now! My god... this time last year I was a month and a half way from giving birth (I thought I had more time) and taking pictures of fake pumpkins because I hadn't managed to get any before they all sold out.

This year. My son's first Halloween. And I bought three pumpkins two weeks ago. Hah! Learned my lesson, didn't I?

So... since I posted pictures of my pumpkins this time last year, I need to post them again.

Although... technically... I think this post is going to show up as a November 1st.

And tomorrow? Perhaps a picture of my little man's first Halloween costume!

Pumpkin time!

God. I can't believe how long it's been since I made a post. I'm so ashamed of myself.

I did not even post my monkey's ten month pictures. EEK!

So, my post tonight is me playing with my new camera... my Canon XSI! Yay!

And the pumpkins that are going to get massacred for tomorrow night!

9 months old!

9 months old. He's been out for as long as he was in!

We had a good day. Busy, just running around, a trip to the park. Some grocery shopping.

It never ceases to amaze me how much longer every errand takes when I'm running around with my little man!






Such a handsome little man! Every day with him is an adventure!

Abandoned...

On our drive home to the frozen north, we pass a host of abandoned outbuildings along the way. I find myself fascinated by these buildings, wondering what things these buildings may have seen. What history lies within. What would the walls tell me if they could talk?

As an aside, I should mention that I have the most patient husband in the world, willing to stop along the long long drive home so that I could take some pictures!

Wide open spaces...

We went to a wedding this weekend. The wedding of one of my oldest friends. God help us, we were in Brownies together, if you can imagine. Wow... more than three decades later, she's now safely married.

This picture is not, of course, from her wedding. Can't post those without her permission. Instead, it's from our drive home from the wedding. It was a good day for a drive, a bit overcast so it wasn't too hot and no rain, despite the scattered clouds. As much as I miss BC, I have to admit that Alberta is a beautiful province.

I took some pictures of an old house on the drive back as well. I'll have to post those tomorrow.