Olivia's absolutely hilarious "technique" while making a snow angel!
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Turkey Day in Banff
The rest of my family flew into Calgary and we all met in Banff. We stayed at the coolest place, Castle Mountain Chalets. Each family had their own cabin with a full kitchen and the best part, a wood burning fireplace. It was an absolute blast. We had such a great time together. We actually had Thanksgiving on Friday because the 20 pound turkey (that is ~10 kilos, which caused some confusion for our chef :) was still frozen and everyone wanted to go skiing on Thursday. Olivia and I hung back with Ducky and Pong Pong, as they baby on the way was not quite up for snowboarding!
Pong Pong and Ducky with all of the grandkids
The older kids putting pennies on the railroad track near our cabins
Olivia's cousins with Castle Mountain behind them
Mike, Tim and Matt on the mountain
Getting advent calendars from Ducky and Pong Pong
Peek-a-boo
With Emery and Delia
About to hike in Johnston Canyon with Uncle Matt
Aunt Jenny, Cousin Delia, Cousin Emery, and Uncle Tim with the frozen waterfall behind them
We didn't have a big Thanksgiving table!
Licking Emery's "popsicle" (an icicle)
Got my own!
Giant icicle Mike found
Babies enjoying some music courtesy of Olivia
Awww! Love my cousin Aiden
FREEZING in Lake Louise
On frozen Lake Louise
Uncle Matt and daddy helping Olivia with her snow angel technique
Uncle Matt, glacier behind him
Olivia off to find "A good spot for snow angel"
Pong Pong and Ducky with all of the grandkids
The older kids putting pennies on the railroad track near our cabins
Olivia's cousins with Castle Mountain behind them
Mike, Tim and Matt on the mountain
Getting advent calendars from Ducky and Pong Pong
Peek-a-boo
With Emery and Delia
About to hike in Johnston Canyon with Uncle Matt
Aunt Jenny, Cousin Delia, Cousin Emery, and Uncle Tim with the frozen waterfall behind them
We didn't have a big Thanksgiving table!
Licking Emery's "popsicle" (an icicle)
Got my own!
Giant icicle Mike found
Babies enjoying some music courtesy of Olivia
Awww! Love my cousin Aiden
FREEZING in Lake Louise
On frozen Lake Louise
Uncle Matt and daddy helping Olivia with her snow angel technique
Uncle Matt, glacier behind him
Olivia off to find "A good spot for snow angel"Cousins!!
The entire Stobaugh clan came to Canada for Turkey Day!! My brother Chris, Heather, Haylie and Aiden came a few days before everyone else to stay with us in Edmonton. Haylie and Aiden had really only seen a little Texas snow and had never experienced true snow like we have in Edmonton! We actually had some of the coldest weather that even Mike and I have ever experienced while they were here. One night it got down to NEGATIVE 23 degrees. That is COLD! Despite the really really cold snap, we had such a good time and are so glad they came early. Olivia was soooo excited they were coming. She adores her cousins.
Silly dinner time with cousins!
Olivia now loves Dr Suess books
One night she set up her chairs from her playroom, in a row, and put a baby on each chair, leaving one spot for herself!
We took them to the cool Royal Alberta Museum. Uncle Chris showing Olivia the fish
A moose!
Silly dinner time with cousins!
Olivia now loves Dr Suess books
One night she set up her chairs from her playroom, in a row, and put a baby on each chair, leaving one spot for herself!
We took them to the cool Royal Alberta Museum. Uncle Chris showing Olivia the fish
A moose!Friday, December 3, 2010
Shoveling Snow and Sledding with Daddy
Olivia can't get enough of the super cold weather, apparently! It doesn't seem to bother her as long as she is bundled up enough. I, on the other hand, can't stand it this year. The weekends are then, by default, Daddy and Olivia outside time while Mommy stays inside "growing people" :)
Shoveling the porch
Mike was so excited to get Olivia a sled this year and take her out. For their first adventure, I suggested just going in the back area behind our house instead of venturing too far out. Good thing. It started off well. Olivia seemed to be enjoying the sled. About half way around the little lake behind our house, I look out and first see Olivia out of the sled walking around in the snow. A short while later, I look out and see Mike carrying Olivia around the rest of the lake, pulling the empty sled!! Hilarious and so typical Olivia..."ok, done with this, carry me" :)
Ready to go with a baby inside
Okay, ready to get out!
Shoveling the porch
Mike was so excited to get Olivia a sled this year and take her out. For their first adventure, I suggested just going in the back area behind our house instead of venturing too far out. Good thing. It started off well. Olivia seemed to be enjoying the sled. About half way around the little lake behind our house, I look out and first see Olivia out of the sled walking around in the snow. A short while later, I look out and see Mike carrying Olivia around the rest of the lake, pulling the empty sled!! Hilarious and so typical Olivia..."ok, done with this, carry me" :)
Ready to go with a baby inside
Okay, ready to get out!
Royal Alberta Museum
We were bored one weekend and on a whim decide to go to The Royal Alberta Museum. We are so glad we went. We all really enjoyed it! It is small, but really well done. It was pretty interactive for kids. It had tons of taxidermy animals and birds, all native to Alberta on display in dioramas. It also had a huge room of live insects! It was really cool. They also had the all important dinosaur area which was, of course, a HUGE hit!
Coyotes
Canadian Grizzly bears, which we learned are half the size of Alaskan Grizzly bears.
Climbing up Ankylosaur's tail
Coyotes
Canadian Grizzly bears, which we learned are half the size of Alaskan Grizzly bears.
Climbing up Ankylosaur's tail
Olivia's Recent Happenings
Olivia is one busy little gal. She is always working on something! Right now she is consumed by her babies. She loves to put them "night-night" with kisses, change their diapers, feed them, sing them lullabies etc. She just loves it. Her babies have acquired some interesting names along the way. We have Bald Baby, Stinky Baby, Big baby, Little baby, Chaser baby, Stella and Strawberry Baby.
She still loves all of her puzzles and spends lots of time doing those, "all by myself" as with most things these days. Elmo still holds a special place in her heart and is even subjected to walks around the house on a leash. I decided to give poor Maya a break from "walks" Olivia takes her on around the house and gave her the idea to take her stuffed puppy for a walk. That turned into taking Elmo for walks!
Another strong interest...color coordinating "blankies" (dancing scarves from Gymboree). Red for Elmo, Blue for Cookie Monster, Green for Caterpillar, and Red for Minnie Mouse.
She loves to "rough house" with Daddy. Swinging "up-high" is a huge favorite. A large tote bag I just got makes for super duper fun "up high".
She is still not a big eater. I guess she has more important things to do. She will consistently eat most breakfast foods: oatmeal, eggs, french toast and pancakes. She and daddy get up most Saturday and Sunday mornings and make blueberry pancakes. I am still pretty particular about what she eats (although I have laxed about many things) and I don't let her have syrup. We told her it is hot sauce! When Mike and I are dousing our pancakes with syrup, she says, "That Mommy's hot sauce. It so spicy". Yep! Hopefully we can get away with that for a bit longer.
We are still rooting for our Longhorns, despite our dismal season! She figured out how to make the Longhorn bottle opener work with a metal fork. She loves, "The Eyes of Texas" and we got to hear it on repeat for quite a bit of this day.
She still loves all of her puzzles and spends lots of time doing those, "all by myself" as with most things these days. Elmo still holds a special place in her heart and is even subjected to walks around the house on a leash. I decided to give poor Maya a break from "walks" Olivia takes her on around the house and gave her the idea to take her stuffed puppy for a walk. That turned into taking Elmo for walks!
Another strong interest...color coordinating "blankies" (dancing scarves from Gymboree). Red for Elmo, Blue for Cookie Monster, Green for Caterpillar, and Red for Minnie Mouse.
She is still not a big eater. I guess she has more important things to do. She will consistently eat most breakfast foods: oatmeal, eggs, french toast and pancakes. She and daddy get up most Saturday and Sunday mornings and make blueberry pancakes. I am still pretty particular about what she eats (although I have laxed about many things) and I don't let her have syrup. We told her it is hot sauce! When Mike and I are dousing our pancakes with syrup, she says, "That Mommy's hot sauce. It so spicy". Yep! Hopefully we can get away with that for a bit longer.
We are still rooting for our Longhorns, despite our dismal season! She figured out how to make the Longhorn bottle opener work with a metal fork. She loves, "The Eyes of Texas" and we got to hear it on repeat for quite a bit of this day.
She loves the playground at her school, Springhill, regardless of the freezing weather or the fact that the slides are covered in snow now! One day a dog named Peanut came up to play with all of the kids. She adored this dog and still talks about him and asks where he is.
We could not have asked for a sweeter, more child friendly dog. While she does not particularly like Olivia, Maya gracefully accepts all Olivia puts her though, which is a lot! Here Olivia is using her vet tool kit and putting Maya through an extensive check-up. Maya looks thrilled!
We could not have asked for a sweeter, more child friendly dog. While she does not particularly like Olivia, Maya gracefully accepts all Olivia puts her though, which is a lot! Here Olivia is using her vet tool kit and putting Maya through an extensive check-up. Maya looks thrilled!
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