Elise has been practising her "animal noises" lately...She is now using her deep "growl" voice ALL the time...pretty cute!
Monday, June 18, 2012
Almost there...
Friday, June 15, 2012
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Elise's First Birthday Party
I'm sure a lot of people would think we were crazy for making a big deal of a baby's first birthday. Some would argue that no one remembers their first birthday, (or is even aware of the concept of a birthday in the first place) and it is really just about the parents anyway. Some cultures however have grand scale celebrations of their child's first year: perhaps dating back to a time when many babies didn't survive that long, so a year was really a reason to celebrate. For our little family, we have reached many major milestones: getting pregnant successfully was one thing to celebrate, making it through a healthy and relatively uneventful pregnancy was a major reason to celebrate, birthing and meeting our babe one year ago was a huge reason to celebrate, and now here we are one year later with a little human living among us, who is becoming more and more of her own little person every day. From our perspective, we have a lot of reasons to celebrate; so much to be grateful for...And let's face it: I'm on Maternity Leave, I love little projects, and we love parties...Hence: THE FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY!!
Both Dave and I have Winter birthdays, which tends to mean indoor parties. We were so excited to have a June baby: thoughts of barbeques, pool parties, and bonfires. Sadly, June in Calgary tends to be pretty unpredictable, and pretty rainy, so our "summer" party looked very similar to our November and December parties: indoors. Luckily our house accomodates large groups pretty easily with our large open basement, and Dave was still able to BBQ in the rain. It was a great day: Elise is a party girl, and loved having friends over to share her day. Here are a few of the highlights:
Elise enjoys her birthday balloon (June 5th)
Getting ready for her party
It is so amazing to see our little girl growing up. For those of you who were able to join us for Elise's special day, thank you so much for making it so great! For those of you we missed--hope you enjoyed sharing "virtually"
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Catching up...
Just wanted to apologize for being so behind in posting the last few months. It seems there are too many types of technology competing for my time and attention, and I was finding uploading to take forever on this site...I recently figured out that it's actually been updated and is now pretty fast (thanks Shannon Fox!) so I'm working on some backdated posts. Please keep checking back over the next few days (weeks?) for older posts. I will try to keep adding photos as I get the chance...
Happy Birthday Elise!
Happy Birthday to our sweet and silly baby girl. She makes us laugh and melts our hearts every day. Can't believe she is already a year old (but can't remember life without her!).
Sunday, June 03, 2012
Butterfield Acres
We made our first trip to Butterfield Acres on Friday: a "playdate" with my friend Michelle and her little girl Ella. Elise loves our cat Greyson, and any passing dogs we see, so I figured the "farm" would be a hit and it was!! The "petting zoo" doesn't really work when you're not quite walking yet, but Elise loved looking at and "waving" to all the animals, and especially loved the wagon ride...not sure if you can tell from the video, but she was "dancing" the whole time! 
In the playground
On the wagon
Making friends with a baby goatLittle helper
Elise has been such a good little helper in the garden. (What almost-1 year old doesn't love playing in the dirt and water?)
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