More Halloween Fun

It was cold and dreary here today and everyone seems to have the flu so I took Natalie to Market Mall for some Halloween fun. They had a great Halloween display with tons of pumpkins and a little maze. Natalie loved it, she zipped through the maze and tried to kiss every pumpkin she saw.

Here are some pictures of the fun. And there's more Halloween goodness to come, tomorrow it's Babies Go Boo at the Library and a Halloween dinner. Then Saturday it's a community Halloween party followed by trick or treating with the Abbotts. I can't wait!

Talking up a storm

Natalie has been gabbing up a storm lately so I thought I'd pull together a photo with some of her favorite words. Just a cute post for the day.
I promise to post a video of her walking tomorrow :)

Wendy, Dan and Natalie

PS The heart is homemade playdough that I made for us to try out - notice the missing bite!

Natalie is completely brace free!

Natalie had a check up with Dr. J today and everything looked so good that she said Natalie doesn't have to wear her brace anymore... at all... el finito. What a happy day!

We celebrated with a trip to Tims and a chocolate timbit for each of us. She was in heaven and so was I.

And as if that wasn't wonderful enough - Natalie decided to try taking her first steps tonight! I managed to get her to do it again and got it on video. I'll post it tomorrow.

Bye for now.

Getting ready for Halloween

We took Natalie to the Calgary Corn Maze this past weekend for some early Halloween fun. It was the last weekend for their pumpkin patch so they had a bit of a Halloween party.

She had a great time as you can see, cruising around in her ladybug costume. She climbed the hay bales, played on the slide, pet all the animals and played with the pumpkins.

I can't wait to take her out trick or teating!

Snow Day!

Natalie had her first official day of playing in the snow today. After 20 minutes of pulling on ski pants and boots, tucking in mittens and zipping up jackets we were ready to hit the snow. We pulled out her sled and rode around the yard, the back street and even did a little sliding down a very small hill.

Once we finished with our sledding we built a wee snowman and then headed back into the house for some hot chocolate. All in all a great afternoon.

Here are a few pictues, including one of Natalie wearing my apron. She saw me pick it up and decided she wanted to wear it around the house for an hour or so. What a cutie.

This snow is fun and all but I could definitely use a few more days of Fall before Winter officially hits.

Wendy, Dan and Natalie

Playing with Picasa

I've just started playing around with Picasa and I love it! I did some cropping and a little color editing to create this picture of Miss Natalie (taken during our trip to Cape Breton this summer). Here's what I started with...

I also played around with the collage feature and did this in about 20 seconds..

Tomorrow - I'm going to try and wrestle Miss Natalie into her Halloween costume and see if I can whip off a Halloween collage!

Ciao for now,
Wendy

Big news!

Natalie is brace free!

On September 15th we visited Dr. J and after checking Natalie's hip x-rays she decided that Natalie would only need to wear her brace at night. Hooray! I was so suprised and relieved that I cried. It was a fantastic day.

Here's a video of her walking her bike just two weeks after her brace came off. She's so proud of herself -and so are we.