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The slide: a perennial favourite

Thanks to Ed for the recent photos.

Posted on March 26th, 2007 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

Phew! Being 14 months old can be really difficult. On occasion Thomas is no longer willing to crawl, yet he is also unprepared to walk independently… Much crying ensues …
PS March 27th.
He is no longer interested in learning to stand up independently. He communicates his desire for help standing by crying loudly.
Walkers [...]

Posted on March 25th, 2007 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

March 23rd 2007; a frabjous day.
A big welcome to Alise, daughter of Ian and Christine, born at 2:01pm today!
Thomas got himself from sitting to standing without props and WALKED & WALKED.
We sold our house!!!!!
Uncle Ben was 30 yesterday. Happy Birthday!
Tony had his first PTO day.
We celebrated with Ed and Neha by going to beautiful [...]

Posted on March 23rd, 2007 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

Over the past 2 days, Thomas has continually been practicing downward dog pose and even crawling in this spiderman manner with his legs straight, presumably as an intermediate step to righting himself independently. He also does ‘ toes’ as described in
Itsy bitsy yoga : poses to help your baby sleep longer, digest better, and [...]

Posted on March 22nd, 2007 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

Thomas and Henry at the park.

Thomas playing the utensils at a favourite haunt, Cactus.  The black beans and rice with special pineapple salsa is always a hit.

Thanks to Dari and her friend, Becky, for the photos.

Posted on March 20th, 2007 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

It’s got nothing to do with us. Fiona and Martin came to stay, and announced that ‘you have to start ‘em young.’ (They sent us the picture too, which might explain why it’s incorrectly oriented.)

It took the exhaustive efforts of both Martin and Fiona to keep up with Thomas’s destruction.

The Ergo remains our [...]

Posted on March 20th, 2007 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

Sorry.
Oranges do not come with instruction manuals.

Posted on March 17th, 2007 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

So much seems to be happening with Thomas at the moment that it’s hard to keep up.
He has just started to sign ‘more’ on occasion.
He is eating enormous quantities, though I have to say that green veggies are not a favourite. “Veggie Bootie” makes a great vessel for smuggling them into the diet.
He continues [...]

Posted on March 17th, 2007 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

Well, today was the day apparently.  With no warning what-so-ever, Thomas decided that he’d walk to his Mu(o)m when she arrived to pick him up from the Nanny.  He was hanging out by the sofa, then turned and walked over as though it was something he’d been doing all along.
Tomorrow is a new day — [...]

Posted on March 7th, 2007 under Uncategorized. Comments: None