Our Family Blog

Bok Choy anyone?

2009-02-04T10:47:00.000-08:00

Ava says "yes"! She'll eat bok choy but not broccoli? I don't get it. She must get it from her cousin Camden. :o) So the story is, since being a mommy I'm trying to feed Ava healthy things, things I never ate much growing up. Don't worry, I eat them too. I've discovered in my adult life that there are vegetables out there that I do like that I've never really had growing up. One of them being squash. I love it in soup and baked with butter and salt and pepper. I also really like sweet potatoes and yams. Mmmm, the fries are the best and a friend turned me on to sweet potato pie. Delicious! I now enjoy cooking a lot more, especially since I've been introduced to the allrecipes website. (Thanks Jessie :o) Check it out sometime.

Would someone please feed this child!

2009-02-03T18:45:00.000-08:00

Peanut loves to explore and nothing is off limits to her (or so she thinks :o) Recently I discovered I didn't close the refrigerator door all the way, and so did Ava. Soon she was exploring all the shelves that she could reach until she found something interesting. Here is what unfolded... Hmmm, what's this?...
Can't quite figure out how to get into this bag...

How about if I dump it...

Ahhh yes, there we go. Yum!

A day in the life of Ava

2009-01-09T10:13:00.001-08:00

So I know I haven't blogged in a while. Can I blame it on Facebook? Ugh, it takes up all my time. I actually posted these pictures a while ago with the intent to blog, but alas, the time has gotten away from me. So here's a typical or, not so typical, day in the life of Ava...

We wake up and have a slow morning. Here she is hanging out in her favorite chair. What attitude! :o)
Finding out what we mischief we can find with our favorite partner in crime. Someone forgot to watch the door...

A little afternoon rest with our favorite nap time friend...

A new habit. Watching Daddy come home in the late afternoon...After dinner playing with her toys.

Dinner time always the event...

2008-12-30T18:23:00.001-08:00

Dinner time around our house can be quite the event. Sometimes we're...

messy... sometimes clean...
but always satisfied...
with compliments to the chef.

Thank you! Thank you!

Christmas

2008-12-30T10:01:00.000-08:00

We had a wonderful Christmas with Peanut as she celebrated her first Christmas. Christmas Eve was spent with the Meyers family at our home. Here she is sitting with her cousin's Matthew and Sarah in front of our Christmas tree before we opened presents. Poor Matthew was such a good sport as he was so eager to open presents. He was so patient waiting for all the grown ups to finish eating and then worked so hard herding us into the formal room only to be stalled by me wanting some cousin pictures. He didn't seem to mind too much as he enjoyed holding his cousin. So sweet. Here she is with her Daddy opening her stalking for the very first time. She got some bath toys, new plastic bibs and her first Christmas ornament to start her collection.

Here she is with me opening her first present, a piggy bank. She caught on to the ripping of paper very quickly.

Here we are at my mom's on Christmas evening opening gifts as a family. Here she got a pig that walks and oinks. So cute. The theme for her was pigs this year and not something we planned, it just happened.

The pig was from her Aunt Jessie, Uncle Steven and Cousin Camden.A video of Peanut playing with her Christmas presents at home on Christmas morning.

Our Winter Wonderland!

2008-12-23T15:33:00.000-08:00

Let it snow and snow it did! We got about 1 1/2-2 feet where we live and it stuck around for 10 days. Peanut had her very first white Christmas. It was so beautiful and a lot of fun to play in. We walked around and took some photos. This one is of us down at Lords Lake by our house. Peanut did okay int he snow as long as we were holding her.The Lake was frozen.

This was how much snow we had by 9:00am on the first day. It started snowing at 4:00am or so.

By the afternoon Ty had to shovel the front walk it was so deep.

A family photo in the backyard.

Merry Christmas

2008-12-05T08:51:00.000-08:00

Peanut is wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas Season. Is she trying to call Santa?

Bedtime Fun!

2008-12-02T12:31:00.001-08:00

Everyone has their own bedtime routine for their little one and we have ours. We just don't do the book thing. After trying serveral times trying to get her interested in books and stay interested was more of a feat than a quiet, relaxing time. She just always wants to climb off the bed; head first mind you. So Ty started a new game...

Thanksgiving

2008-11-28T18:59:00.000-08:00

What a great first Thanksgiving for Peanut. We went to Grandma and Papa's house this year and she enjoyed playing and eating her first turkey and gravy (thanks Daddy :o) and pumpkin pie and ice cream! Of course we also ate too much (who doesn't). It was a great day being surround by family and Peanut enjoyed having both her Nana and Grandparents doting on her. Later she had fun playing with her cousins, Matthew and Sarah. Getting ready to eat that Turkey as Dad straps her in.

Mid meal picture (there were many)
She approves of the feast!

Enjoying her cousin Matthew and his new toy.

A dinner video

2008-11-20T09:59:00.000-08:00

"A" is for...

AVOCADO (of course!)

Play date

2008-11-19T09:51:00.000-08:00

We had some friends over for dinner and our little girls played together. Peanut had just woken from a nap and was a little groggy but she enjoyed her friend and they loved talking with each other.The leap frog table was a big hit!

The stairmaster!

2008-11-14T11:21:00.000-08:00

Peanut's first attempt climbing the stairs and while holding onto her comb! What a risk taker.

For the nervous grandparents: Don't worry Dad was just around the corner. See! I was telling the truth

Sumo Wrestler

2008-11-13T18:36:00.001-08:00

She looks like a little Sumo Wrestler!

Walking

2008-11-13T18:30:00.000-08:00

Our Little Peanut is trying to walk more and more everyday. So, in the evenings we play our walking game and havePeanut walk between us. She is getting better and can now walk at least 10 steps between us. At times she'll even pause to balance herself before continuing to fall into our arms. So fun!

Finally...Mama!

2008-11-06T17:37:00.000-08:00

What sweeter words can there be to my ears. She's finally saying Mama. She went through the "Ahah", "gaga", "Baba" and "Dada" phases and now she knows how to say Mama. She also knows that those words lead her to me every time.

I fought the sleep and the sleep won!

2008-10-27T19:15:00.000-07:00

Need I say more?

Dinner time Theatrics

2008-10-24T18:16:00.000-07:00

We were sitting down having a quiet family dinner tonight and I decided to take a few pictures of our little Peanut for fun. I was trying to get angles that we don't normally get with her and these are the snapshots of our little Angel. I thought were so funny I had to blog them.

Is this her way of telling me what she thought of dinner? Contrary to what this picture shows you, only Daddy had wine tonight.
Stuffing her face. Look at those cheeks! :-o

Our little helper

2008-10-22T12:31:00.000-07:00

So this last weekend was a busy one for us as Ty put the baby gates on the stairs now that she's crawling. Peanut was too cute wanting to help Dad. She really liked his tools (humm, new toys?) Finally she settled on being the gate inspector. From the looks of it, not sure if she approves. :O)

It's official!

2008-10-19T19:55:00.001-07:00

It's official, we have a crawler in our home. She started crawling on Thursday and has slowly been getting better and faster. I feel like I'm breathing a final sigh of relief ever since the day she was born. There were the obstacles that I had to get over: Breastfeeding (can I do it?) SIDS (gotta get past the 6 month mark), rolling over (will she do it?) And crawling; I did not want to miss it. I have so looked forward to the crawling stage and now it's finally here. I know I'll still have worries and fears with her throughout her life, but at least now she's on the road to self-sufficiency.

Pumpkin Patch

2008-10-18T20:59:00.000-07:00

Today was Little Peanut's first experience at the pumpkin patch. It was so much fun. This day was something I looked forward to ever since I found out I was pregnant. Ty finally had a weekend home with NO plans (it really is unbelievable!) So we decided to get out of the house and away from the day to day chores and have a little bit of fun. The day was gorgeous. We shopped around a little bit and bought some squash, went to the little petting zoo, ate some lunch and picked out a pumpkin. Peanut did great and enjoyed looking at all the people and activities.

She loved looking at all the animals.
Here we were looking at little kittens (I think they're her favorite animal).

Our cruise

2008-10-13T08:51:00.000-07:00

I know, it's been a while since my last post. Not much happening with us except that back in September we went on a family cruise around the Northwest. The sights were amazing and it was a lot of fun to take a little mini vacation. Little Peanut traveled so well. For more pictures you can see them on our website.

We toured the beautiful Butchart Gardens...

The butterfly gardens...
and ate some delicious dinners on the cruise.
Leaving for our cruise.

Who needs toys anyway?

2008-09-10T18:04:00.000-07:00

So the other day I thought Peanut seemed pretty bored with her old toys so I went out and bought some more for her. She seemed kinda interested in them, but not really. I thought she just needed time to grow into them, but when Dad got home and took her into the back yard I realized that it wasn't toys that I should have bought, but kitchen gadgets and garden accessories.

Dad is so much fun!

Almost there...

2008-09-05T20:06:00.000-07:00

So tonight we were having some down time with Ava on our bed. We were talking and playing with her when we noticed that she was leaning to one side and we were amazed that she pushed herself up onto all fours and started rocking. I was very excited. She's making such fast steps towards crawling already. I always thought it took a while to reach this goal. We were able to get her to do this a couple of times for pictures and she thought it was pretty funny watching mom and dad get all excited and animated. We'll keep you posted on the whole crawling thing...

Our first family vacation

2008-09-03T13:06:00.000-07:00

Over Labor Day we went on our first family vacation to do what else; go camping. Although it wasn't real camping because we stayed in a cabin with electricity and heat. Oh well, it was good for little Peanut's first camping experience. We went to the ocean and to the mountains where you could see the mountain range on one side and the ocean on the other. It was a beautiful view.

The waves were huge.

You can't see the ocean in the picture but it's there, behind the clouds.

A picture of the cabin.

Hanging out by the camp fire.

Blog upgrade

2008-08-26T16:14:00.001-07:00

So yesterday my sister came to visit and she showed me how to upload page back rounds for my blog. So I spent some time yesterday and found this one. I try not to find too many girly things for Ty's sake, but hey, this is a predominantly female family...so far. So it has to have some girly things.

A new do

2008-08-20T10:54:00.001-07:00

So today I tried to see if Peanut's hair was long enough to pull back into a pony tail. It took some effort but it worked and she was such a good sport about it. When I saw the outcome I didn't know whether to cry because she looked so much older or to be happy that it actually worked.

She is turning into such a ham! :o)

Our busy Saturday

2008-08-18T21:45:00.000-07:00

What a Saturday! First we went to my mom's company picnic nearby. It was HOT, 97 degrees. Little Peanut was such a trooper. She did great, as you can see. The scenery was beautiful and there was so much good food. My kind of picnic! Afterwards we went to see Talin, a dear friend of mine. We sat outside on her parent's deck watching the sunset over the water and got a great family photo. What an amazing sight that was.

2008-08-14T12:37:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,
Welcome to our family blog. After much persuasion from my sister I finally decided to do a blog about us. I thought this would be a great way to let you know what we are all up to, especially little Peanut as she grows and changes.
We would love to hear from you about what you're up to. You can post a comment or email us. I hope you enjoy our blog.