Baking Cookies

Amie and I made sugar cookies last week. We found a really yummy recipe.

Then, we made Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies, which were very good as well!

November 2012

Erica is now 10 months old! Wow! She's doing so many fun things :-) She can use sign language to say 'more' and 'tired', she waves bye and has been crawling and standing for a few weeks. Now she even lets go and stands up by herself for a few seconds! She gives kisses and LOVES Amie :). She doesn't like baby food and likes eating chopped up food by herself. Broccoli and cucumber are her fav veggies and she loves all fruit.

Amie is loving school and has an awesome teacher, Mrs. Fedun. She has lots of friends at school and always gets to pick toys out of the prize box for doing all her work. She's reading so well now and is even starting to spell words by herself. She loves to color and does a fabulous job staying in the lines!

Happy Halloween!

Well, winter came to Calgary! It was very chilly Halloween night, and we've had snow that has lasted for the last couple weeks.

Amie had fun on Halloween. She actually dressed up for Sparks last Monday in her witch costume and then again for trick or treating Wednesday. She wore a costume that was her cousin, Sydney's, and picked out the design of her face paint.

I think her favourite part though was sorting through and organizing her candy at the end! She took out all the candy she doesn't like and set it aside and ended up with a small pile, some of which we'll probably have to throw out at Easter!

I got Erica's costume, a little caterpillar, on her just long enough to take some pics :). We stayed in nice and cozy while Mike, Amie, Steph, and Sean went out.

The weather finally turned nicer out a few days ago, and the sunshine melted most of the snow. Amie went in the backyard to build a snowman and play with her new snowboard.

Erica started crawling a couple weeks ago and almost immediately started pulling herself up on things. She'd really prefer to stand and even lets go for a few seconds. I'm sure walking is not too far away!

 

 

Fall in Calgary

Fall comes so quick in Calgary! One minute the trees are green, the next they've turned beautiful fall colours and then the trees are bare!

We went to one of the local farmers markets on Sunday with Amie's cousin, Sydney, and snapped a couple pics. We've had a beautiful September, with some 25 degree temps, but the last few days have definitely turned cold and, gasp, we even had snow flurries this evening!

9 months!

Erica is 9 months today!! Wow! Where did the time go??! She sure is cute ;) and is surprising us everyday with new things. She is now sitting up by herself to play with her toys, can roll across the floor both ways easily, is eating chunky food, can grasp a piece of food and put it in her mouth, can clap, wave, nod her head and splash and loves blowing raspberries. I'm sure she'll be crawling soon - she's getting up on her hands and knees. She likes toys and books, any kitchen utensil, and plastic water bottles. She still dislikes her car seat and doesn't like wearing hats or adults other than her family! She loves Amie and they get each other laughing!

Amie's loving Kindergarten and has made lots of new friends She's so excited, but I can't help feeling a little sad. She's grown so quickly!

Craft Studio App

Since I am missing crafting/scrapbooking due to the new baby and our recent move I thought I'd try out the Martha Stewart Craft Studio app for the iPad. It is great! It comes with 4 sets of coordinated papers, stamps, paper punches, stickers, glitter and text in different themes that can be mixed and matched. You can also purchase other themes if you wish. Your creation can be uploaded to Facebook, printed with Snapfish, saved in your photos or emailed.

It was nice to have a little crafty fix!

Camping

For our second camping trip of the year we went to Brewers campground at Aspen Beach with the Mullens and the Cuthills. Steph and Sean came for Saturday night too! It's so nice there with lots of trees, and the beach is great! The kids had an awesome time playing and riding their bikes. We stayed an extra day, but it was rainy. We still had a good time though relaxing and reading.

Edmonton

A few weeks ago we made the trek to Edmonton since grandma Mar was there visiting and it was closer than going to Sask. even though it's only 3 hours away it took us quite a bit longer because Erica does not like her car seat! We went to Auntie Debbie's for supper and got to see Auntie Karen and Jake too, and Amie got to slip 'n slide and play golf in the backyard. Sunday we went to the farmers market and Galaxy Land at West Ed Mall and tried some yummy sandwiches that Mike's cousin's husband was featuring to promote his new food truck.