Bible Class Brunch

We had our Bible Class Christmas Party

last Friday, and everyone brought lotsa yummy food. My contribution? I made the coffee. Mwahahahaha.

Doctors, Ducks and Darlings

Thursdays are always a little busier

just because I have to start cooking much earlier in the day ( while tending to everything else ) to make the 5.15pm dinner time over at my FIL's for Letti Thursday. Yesterday I had to start cooking way earlier so that I could finish by 1pm. Jaxon had an appointment at the pediatrician's for his second H1N1 shot and we had some stale duck bread that was just calling out to be fed to the ducks. I forgot to take some pics of the food, but here's the rest of the day.

Jaxon the co-chef playing with some of my cooking utensils and trying to watch Daddy make his morning coffee




Nestled in mummy's jacket, waiting for daddy




Waiting for the nurse to come give him his shot ( eekus ) He cried for only a couple of seconds, but was a little bit cranky the rest of the afternoon. Thank God by night time, he was back to his normal self




Watching Daddy toss bread to the ducks




"Look Mummy, DUCKS!"

Tan-Clan Babies of the World Unite!

I'm not quite ready ...

to go through the whole rigamarole again right now,

but Jaxon's expecting a cousin next June!

Congratulations, Marsha aka JumbledMind :)

It was a dark and stormy night...

Well, not really,

but it was drippy and cold all day yesterday. We had intended to go downtown after Taco Tuesday so that Jaxon could see the Christmas Parade and Lighting of the Tree ceremony, but later decided that it was too cold ( temperatures were in the 30s F ) and the roads were wet and slick from all that rain. David and I felt a little bad that Jaxon had to miss the parade, but we knew that safety came first. Besides, the kid fell asleep on the short drive home from the restaurant, so he might have been too sleepy/fussy to have enjoyed the festivities anyway. ( Or is this a guilty conscience trying to rationalize things?)

When we got up this morning and looked out the window, we saw that it had snowed the night before, our first snow of the season. David later said that it had started after I had gone to bed, and there was definitely an inch or more of snow on the ground. I didn't try to get Jaxon outside to see/touch the snow because it was slippery - the sun had come up and the snow on the steps etc was melting - and muddy. So, we settled for opening the door and letting Jaxon see the white snow that had blanketed everything in the night. I don't know if he was impressed or not. :)

Anyway, by the time he had settled down for a nap and I could get out with my camera, a bunch of the snow had melted but I managed to catch a few pics of what was left..

Ooo I'm so excited

I can hardly stand it!!!

First of all, our baby turned 8 months yesterday. EIGHT WHOLE MONTHS! In the past couple of weeks, he's started crawling commando style on his belly, dragging himself along with his arms and pushing a little with his feet,

but what's gotten me all agog is that, I've been using baby sign language with Jaxon for simple words like bath, milk, more, cat ( our cats are majorly intriguing to the boy ), "all done", water, diaper, mummy and daddy, among others as we go about our daily activities since he turned 6 months. Imagine how surprised and excited we were when today at Taco Tuesday, as we were leaving, we said "Jaxon, say bye bye to 'so and so'", AND HE WAVED BYE BYE!!! He did it several times to different people too!

We could hardly believe it, so tonight, after I had changed him into his PJs and it was time for bed, we went out into the living room to say good night to daddy, and I said, "Jaxon, say bye bye to daddy", AND HE WAVED BYE BYE AGAIN!!!! Seriously, my heart can't take all this excitement. :)

He might not understand fully what bye bye actually means yet, but he's learned to associate the sign with the word and actually MAKE THE SIGN! I'm know that he knows a bunch of words by now and that in the weeks to come, he will learn to associate more signs with words and start attempting more of them..... Ah, our boy is growing up so fast, it's exhilirating! Waving bye-bye might not seem like much to some, but when you have watched your little baby's development from the time he was born/brought home from the hospital and could not do anything but sleep, nurse, cry and poop, any new thing he does is a major event.

For now, mummy has to brush up on her baby sign language ( Thank you Carter and Winnie for the baby signing book! MWAKS! ) and er, teach them to daddy :)