Archive for August, 2005
Vancouver Vaction
Other than us all being VERY tired we all made it here in one piece. 
John and Meals having a good giggle
Brian, Uncle Bob and Our Little Family
Sami and Meals having a leisurly Sunday morning
A Meeting of the Minds (Poppa and Meals)
Laura and Meals Friday night 2 comments August 28, 2005
Gone Fishin’
Well maybe not but we are off to Vancouver for the next 10days, yipeee!!! I’ll try to post some pics while I am out there but I am not sure if it will happen.
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4 Months Old
Well Saturday Amelia hit 4 months, what a difference a month makes!!! She is so full of personality and energy these days. She is a pro at rolling now and depending on where we are she will roll a round in a sec in order to get a better look at us. She has also become very good at caterpillar-ing around her crib and her play mat, she gets her bum in the air and she gets her feet/knees under she and she pushes herself along on her faces. It is very funny to watch but also means that she usually pushes until she reaches one of the corners of her crib then just pushes into the bumper pad, not so good and creates very interesting hairstyles. We just went for her 4-month doctors appointment (the reason my post is alittle late today) and everything is a-okay. She is still in the 75th percentile for head and weight and the 90th for length. She weights 14.8lbs and is 64.5cm long (still not out of her infant seat yet, yipeee). I found out that most of my concerns (runny poo, congestion and this new thing where she bats at her ears) is all related to her teething, man is teething every hard on the little things. We are still aiming to keep Meals on milk until 6months and then start adding rice cereal etc. I also asked Dr. Vickers about sterilizing and how long I have to continue doing it and low and be hold she tells me I can stop, yipeeeee. For the last 4 months it seems like a microwave is constantly going. This is even better news cause it mean a few less things I need to pack for Vancouver, yipeee!!! Of course the visit ended with Amelia getting two shots, this time I was a very bad forgetful mom and I didn’t give her Advil before we left so there were big tears, poor thing. She seems okay now though and is upstairs having a nap.
Amelia is getting a lot stronger, when she feels like it can almost sit up on her own. There is also a noticeable difference in how she sits in her exersaucer, now she stands up more than she sits and she doesn’t need her arms for support. In the last little bit she has also developed more of a temper. If you take the bottle away to wipe her face when she isn’t finished I either get a grunting noise or the puppy dog whimper, both of which are somewhat annoying and somewhat funny. Speaking of bottles, feeding her is becoming more and more of a challenge, bah!!! Her hands are constantly pulling on my hands or the bottle or are being stuck in her mouth at the same time as the bottle, what an adventure. The one thing she has figured out though is that if the bottle is in front of her at the right angle she will grab it and shove it in her mouth, it is my entertainment and compensation for the trails of the rest of the feeding.
This Friday we went to John and Jen’s for a BBQ with a bunch of the guys from my class at Waterloo. It was very nice to see everyone and catch up. All the other babies were very good sleeping like little angels but Meals on the other hand thought it was party time and was not impressed with going to bed. She end up falling asleep but then she woke up when we moved her into her car seat then out of it when we got home. She was rather overtired and didn’t get her usual 12hr sleep so Sat she made up for it and other than the trip to Plant World with us in the morning she slept most of the day away (one big nap from 9:30am to 2:30pm, I kept having to check to make sure she was alive). As I said we went to Plant World on Saturday morning, they had a big end of season sale so we went and bought our remaining plants/trees for our backyard. Finished planting the trees and shrubs and we put down the soaker hoses, then today the mulch was delivered. Here are the before and after pics of what we have been working on, we just have to finish laying the mulch in the bottom level…
before
After (everything is still pretty small but it will grow in)
Saturday night we had a friend of ours from Jeff’s engineering class for dinner with his wife who is from Perth, Australia. We hadn’t seen them in about 3yrs and it was great to catch up.
Sunday Rich, Jeff, Meals and I went for a trip to the Toronto Zoo, I must say the Toronto Zoo is my all time favorite zoo, the fact that it was build in the woods makes is seem like you are way out of the city. There were a number of highlights this time, this was the first time I have seem the polar bear move and even better it went for a swim!!! We also saw a 5 month old gorilla which was about the same size as Meals and finally we saw one of the hippos moving!!!!! Okay I have abit of a fondness for hippos, some people like camels, some like penguins but I like hippos. Much to my disappointment I have never actual seem them in action and as usual this time the two outside were just standing in the water doing nothing (well one did move its ear) but then we went inside one of the pavilions and saw the pygmy hippo… Now the pygmy hippo I usually find even more of a disappointment cause like the two other guys it usually is lying like a lump but it doesn’t even have the impressive size to make up for its lack of activity and it actually looks more like a pig. This time the pygmy hippo was out to impress, it totally up staged the lumps out in the pond and the pygmy hippo was swimming around at high speed and flapping its ears (my favorite part) it was sooo cute. For the most part Meals was relegated to her stroller for most of the day but she was sprung to see some of the animals, the jaguars, the lion (not so interested) and the ever so lovable orangutans. It was another great, although busy day at the zoo.
Rich throwing Melie to the Lions
Last night we had an AMAZING Sunday night dinner at my parents, it is Richard's last before he heads back to school so they went all out. Daryl made beef tenderloin with this amazing coffee chilli rub and topped with these to die for wild mushrooms, mouth watering!!! I am going to be so sad to see my brother go, I have loved having him around this summer.
Well off to Vancouver on Thursday for 10days, I can’t wait!!!!
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