Wednesday, January 24, 2007

January 2007

One of the few non rainy days in North Vancouver so we made the best of it and got outside. Still pretty chilly though but a brief cure for the cabin fever. Rya was sick for the last 2 weeks of December and then got the nasty cold again early January for a good week.... Well a bad week.

While we braved the nasty winter weather that clearly came from ... Ontario... We did a alot of mall hopping to have somthing to do. Rya has ridden a lot of Mall toys... and walked a lot of mall miles.
Rya is talking a lot these days. Sadly everytime a try to recorder her she stops. She is really into her animals both with speach and sign language. It is pretty cool. She knows what some words mean... but mostly she is just parroting us. It sounds cool though when we say somthing and then she says it right after.


This is Rya on her AWESOME rocking horse her Grandpa made for her. It is still pretty huge on her but it will last a long time.


And... when she is not riding her horse she rides her dogs. They have been so patient with her. She just loves them so much always giving them hugs and saying "nice Buppy.. nice Boby"

Other things tend to happen when the weather gets bad outside...


Tuesday, December 26, 2006

CHRISTMAS 2006

This was Christmas for us this year... Poor Rya was sick the days leading up to Christmas and during. She had a mild fever and nasty cough and runny nose and just plain sick. The little one tried to enjoy Christmas but it wasn't easy.
She was so congested she wouldn't eat or drink much of anything... popsicles were our only hope.

We still went ahead with all the Christmas plans and dresses... but Rya was in no mood for any of it.
The gold dress was a gift from our friend Christina... and the shoes from Teta Ramona.


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Next it was onto the green dress... a little more comfortable but still Rya was just surviving the torture.

Christmas morning and Rya was still sick but tried her best to get into the Christmas spirit.

The wooden rocking horse was made by Grandpa and should last a few years as it is a little big still. She loves her horses. The slide was from Ona and Alfred and Old Mocuite. You can hear and see Rya talking about the monkey that sat on her gift from Mocuite.

And don't forget about the awesome "horse" (zebra) from Cousin Aidan. Already a favorite.



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Not the greastest Christmas as we were all sick... it turned out to be a "surviving Christmas" kind of holiday. We were so thankful for our Family that came for dinner and games and all the great cheer... through hacking coughs and trumpet-like nose blowing.

God Bless us everyone!


Friday, December 08, 2006

No more Mullet


While she is too young to complain or know better... she has to endure hair cuts from mom.

Dad is growing his winter beard.

SNOW IN VANCOUVER!


Rya's first snow angel... with a little help from mom.
Vancouver doesn't handle snow very well... lucky for us we got a "snowday" out of the deal.



More video of our new little walker. This video was taken on Dec 1 she is now walking laps around the kitchen island.