Official First Steps!

Over the past few weeks, Rachel has been taking a couple of steps here and there on her own - mostly from the coffee table to the couch. However, yesterday we were in St. Catharine's visiting Lora, Owen & Ashley and she took 4 steps in the middle of the room! How exciting!

When we got home, Ron & I tried to get her to take more steps by herself and she did! We actually got it on video as well so I'll have to try & upload that to YouTube one of these days after I edit the video (It's way too long). She stands on her own for quite awhile now as well. I'm thinking she'll be walking by her first birthday for sure! YAY!!!!!!

Pictures! FINALLY!!!!!

Rachel should be waking up from her morning nap any minute so I'm going to keep this short & sweet. I'm just so excited that I can finally upload pictures again!


This kid of ours is just plain crazy sometimes. A few weeks ago, this is how she drank her bottle before going to bed. Yes, that's right - Ron is using his head to balance the bottle for her!

We went to the new Bank of Montreal Grand Opening in our subdivision on Saturday and Wendel Clark was there signing autographs. I'm not a huge Leafs fan or anything but when I was first pregnant with Rachel, I had won tickets to a Leafs game so we bought this little onesie while we were there. Rachel is about 4 months old in these pictures that we had Wendel sign for us...

Below is my new 'favourite' picture of Rachel making her funny face. I know she's mine but I still think she's the cutest little thing!!

And finally, her 11 month pictures from the studio. Nancee wasn't around this time so Rob did the pictures but they turned out pretty good.

Rachel is very close to walking on her own but not quite there yet. I didn't want to encourage her to walk - I wanted her to figure it out on her own but now that I have less than 3 weeks at home with her before I go back to work, I really want her to walk! ha ha We'll see - a lot of new things happen on a daily basis so I guess you never know.

Other than that, I'm just getting ready for her 1st birthday party. I made all the invitations a couple of weeks ago and they went in the mail. I've figured out the 'goody bags' and actually, they're all done and sitting on the dining room table (thanks to my Mom for helping me) and I've figured out the menu as well so now it's just a matter of baking the cake and decorating it and then the party itself! I think it will be a wonderful celebration...and then the next day I go back to work! Wow!

That's all for now. Hopefully Blogger will cooperate on a regular basis now and I can get back to posting more often!

Blogger is really pissing me off!

I've been trying to upload pictures for HOW long now???? Still can't - it just craps out on me and I'm beyond frustrated now! It may be time to look for a new home for my blog.

I took Rachel for her 11 month pictures this afternoon. She was a little ham for the camera. It wasn't our regular photographer but Rob did a great job so I can't complain. There is the cutest little face on one of the pictures - I can't wait to get them back tomorrow...but then again, who knows when I'll be able to post them here??? It's great that they have all of their photo packages on sale right now at RCSS....$10 off each package - you can't go wrong!

In other news, Rachel has attempted to climb the stairs...but she fell down. Poor thing - now she won't go near them. I guess that's a good thing for now though. Other than that, she's still crawling everywhere and cruising the furniture or even the walls now. She loves to walk behind her one little toy - the music was starting to drive me nuts though so I was a bad Mommy and turned it off! ha ha Rachel doesn't seem to mind so far. She's quite entertaining with her piano now. The other day she was standing at it, playing away while kicking her one leg out. It was hilarious! The faces that she makes while she plays crack me up as well.

I made Rachel's birthday invitations last Wednesday night and put them in the mail on Thursday. We are planning on having her party on the actual day of her birthday since it's a Sunday. We were going to have it on the Saturday but with us having to go to Cambridge on that Friday for her dermatologist appointment, I don't know how long we'll be and then I'd be doing all of my running around Saturday morning before the party. I want to make the cake myself, too so by having the party on Sunday, that gives us all day Saturday to run around and do what we need to do.

4 weeks today & I'll be back at work. Unbelievable! I am ready though - the change will be good. As some of my friends have said 'Work is like a vacation' :)

In the meantime, I'll continue to enjoy this AWESOME weather we've been having...and my naps! ha ha

A lot of catching up...

It's been awhile since I've posted here - we've been super busy and I just haven't had the time to post an update.

Rachel is one little busy girl now - she's into EVERYTHING! She crawls everywhere, she's cruising around the furniture and getting comfortable enough that she only uses one hand to support herself now. She LOVES walking around with her one little toy and she's even having fun with her 'ride on' toys. It's cute to see her move her little legs to get the toy moving.

We took Rachel out with us on our anniversary. We just went to Jack Astor's for dinner but she had a blast! Of course they had to sit us near the bathrooms so everyone that walked by stopped to smile at her or make a comment....and Rachel LOVED the attention.

We had a busy long weekend. Ron & my Dad finally put up the swing set we got for Rachel. We were playing with it on Saturday morning and Rachel was having a blast. It was too hard to use the slide though - she needs to gain more muscle control and balance for that but the swing is definitely a hit! On Sunday we went over to my parents for a bbq. It was great to see everyone - basically the Christmas Eve crowd - and we had a blast. Then on Monday we went to visit Mark, Sally & Luke in Bayfield. They are borrowing a friends trailer for the week so it was nice to visit & relax. Rachel was a bit of a bully around Luke because he's not crawling or moving around yet. She would go up to him and take his toys or try to crawl over him, etc. I guess this is her chance to do that now because one day he'll be doing that to her, I'm sure! :)

I've tried to upload pictures but Blogger is not cooperating right now. I'll have to try again later.