Big Feet, Little feet

For those of you who don't know...Brad is EXTREMELY tickelish on is feet. I really wanted to get some feet photos and Brad did very well to sit still for as long as he did. I think this little girl is really teaching him patience. I love it!

Just a fun size comparison.


One of my favourites!




Yummy toes! (I hope he washed those!)

Dog days of summer!

Over the Christmas season we were able to house sit for the Asher's. They are a young family that we knew from the last time we were here in Australia. It just so happened that they were going to be in New Zealand with family for three weeks over the Christmas holiday and wanted someone to watch their apartment for them while they were away. So we got to be the lucky house-sitters. You can't beat an air-conditioned apartment in this heat!

Brad and Amelia liked just lounging around in the direct flow of the AC!


What colour is the school bus Amelia?


Ummm.........Is it Blue? Maybe red? No, no, Yellow, I think it's yellow!


That's a boring game anyway! Let's just be lazy!

How do you get a baby to eat their veggies?

Any suggestions? Amelia has been eating solids for almost two months now. It's quite an exciting experience to be had on both ends. Originally I wanted to make all of her baby food. You know, do the healthy thing and steam my own veggies and then blend them up into baby food like consistency, but much to my disappointment Amelia doesn't like my cooking. Everytime I make her some food from "scratch" she gags and gags and then throws it up leaving Brad and I clueless. So we have resorted to feeding her Heinz Baby food from a jar. She likes it much better and will actually eat it and keep it down. So if anyone out there has any experience with this or any suggestions...throw them at me! I would love anything I can get right now.

Here is the process of how it works.
We spoon the food into her mouth,


And it's fun and exciting for the first few seconds,


She likes to take a minute to see if she really likes it,


Yeah, maybe it's not so bad,


Eeewwww! No I hate it!


Eeewww! It's distgusting! What have you given me?


Mom! Dad! Put the camera down!
(Amelia is sitting in her floaty she got for Christmas, which has also been doubling as a high chair! Makes for easy clean up!)


I really hate this stuff! Please get it out of my mouth!


Hmmm.....Maybe that wasn't so bad after all!


And that my friends is what we experience everytime I feed her something that I have made. I hope this isn't a sign for what is to come. I know I am not the best cook and all...but come on! Give me more credit than that!

How do you sleep?

Like a baby?!

Finally some Christmas photos!

Finally after lots of begging on behalf of family and friends we have found a way to update our blog!  Here are a few photos of Christmas for you view pleasure.  I hope you enjoy the excitement of our little girl as much as we did.

Mom...Who's Santa?

Our little happy family.  (Thank you Wacca, Kilistina, and Junior for letting us kick you out of your home for Christmas and letting us borrow your tree!)

Yeah, it's hard to get kids to look at the camera when its on a timer and they have shiny ornaments that are chocolate flavoured.

Oh wow! Is this one for me?!

Don't Dad!  I can do it myself!  (We all know how excited Brad gets when it comes to presents on Christmas!)

Oh cool!  My first teddy bear!  Thanks Auntie K!

Wow!  What's with this hair?

Oh cool a blue box from Grandma and Grandpa Wilson!

And some stacking things from Grandma and Grandpa Blunck.

Oh it even makes a good hat!  Maybe we should say "Happy Hannakah"

What?!  You mean I get to keep ALL these toys?!

And later we were off to the Smiths for Christmas dinner...and more toys!  Thanks for the cars Isobel!

But what I am really after is that Chocolate...If only I could crawl!