I knew we were in for it yesterday.  In the morning, the temperature was around 0.  When I went to get groceries around 5:30, I figured the vest I had worn to go to church would be sufficient.  Not so.  The wind was awful, and it was much colder than before.  I looked at the [...]

The other day, Jose and James were at the table.  James had a bunch of raisins and a calculator.  He pressed some buttons on the calculator, then showed Jose and said, “I’m going to have this many raisins.”  I find it fascinating that he understands the correlation between a figure on a calculator (abstract), and [...]

As you know (if you’ve read previous posts), Julia is eating solid foods now.  While she eats, she often says, “mum-mum-mum” or “mmmmm”.  I repeat the sound back to her as I put food in her mouth, so it has become associated with food, eating, and enjoying it.  When I got Julia up from her [...]

Well, it’s -20 today, and our furnace isn’t working! This winter, we’ve had some trouble with it. On the days that are just kind of cold (-10 range), the furnace works just fine. It runs, blows air, does everything it’s supposed to. However, there have been several days that are much colder (-20 and below) [...]

Today is finally Jose’s birthday.  We’ve had two pre-birthday parties, and after all that, today is going to be a nice quiet family celebration.  On Friday, Jose’s dad, brother and sister came for a visit and stayed overnight.  They couldn’t stay for the party, but it  was nice to see them. On Saturday, we had [...]

Until recently, James has always called Julia “Jua.” In the last couple of days though, he’s started calling her “Juia”. He’s still missing the L, but it’s much closer to the real thing, and further away from babyhood. I think it’s kind of sad in a way. I have a feeling we’ll be using Jua [...]

Julia had her first taste of solid food yesterday… if you can call very runny rice cereal solid! She loved it! She was very excited about it, and it was like she has always been eating from a spoon.  As soon as I put the spoon near her mouth, she opened up, then closed her [...]

We made it to 2008! 2007 was a great year, and we look back on it fondly, but look forward to what the New Year brings. Our celebration last night was low key and a lot of fun. My mum arrived in the afternoon, and our friends Ceri and Jay came over for supper. Supper [...]