Merry Christmas to All!

Here is Calder's annual photo with Santa. I think waiting in line (almost an hour, might I add!) was more havoc to my nerves than to Calder, as he fairly ran to Santa when it was his turn. Taking a picture where he smiled, AND looked at the camera proved to be more difficult. However, I still think my little boy looks absolutely adorable in this picture.

If I don't get to post any more Christmassy pictures over the next day or two - I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!!!!

'Tis the Season!

Merry Belated Christmas, everyone, and an early Happy New Year! I hope that everyone's Christmas was bright and joyous and that the coming New Year brings peace, health and much love to you and your loved ones. I just wanted to share a few of our Christmas photos, I hope you will indulge me.

The Big Snow

I sit here in the kitchen with Calder on my lap looking out our patio doors and see nothing but our back neighbours' snow-covered house and snow drifts everywhere. I love it!! It's been great staying in all day, instead of running around doing errands. Yes, I know it's the Christmas season and I probably could have gotten more shopping done today, but I am not going to stress about it. It's been a fun and relaxing day, starting with yummy banana pancakes (Calder loves them) by the Christmas tree in the morning and just now finishing off with some fun in the snow.

Here are a few pictures from today - Calder looking out the window in all the snow to his first real experience with snow in his new snow pants. He liked it for the most part, except when the wind blew snow in his face. That he didn't like. I hope everyone is having a wonderful snowy day!!

More pictures

As promised, I said I would add some more pictures from last week.

Here are some pictures from Calder's Grandpa's birthday celebration last Saturday. Calder had such a fun time!

He couldn't wait for dinner, so he had a little snack of a banana with Avo.


Checking himself out in the mirror. It was so cute - he was waving to the reflection.


His cousin Peter put on a Dora game and Calder had a BLAST!! Doh!!!!!! (Calder-speak for Dora) If Calder could say thank-you, he'd say, Thank you cousin Peter!!


Blowing out the candles on Grandpa's cake with Grandpa and cousins Peter and Olivia.


Last Sunday we put up our Christmas tree and I just had to snap a picture of Calder and Daddy together. I have to be quick these days, as Calder moves so much and is apt to not smile if I don't get it on the fly, so forgive the photo! They're not centered!


On Sunday we also went to a Marlies game at the Ricoh Centre. It was Gary, myself, Calder and Calder's Uncle Walter and cousin Peter. This was a joint birthday gift to Peter and Walter. Calder, as some of you may know, loves hockey already, and he had such a fun time at the game. I was so proud of him - he hardly fussed at all. Sometimes I had to walk him around, but he did a great job behaving!! Here is Gary and Calder watching the players skate on the ice before the start of the game. Calder was fascinated.


Here is Mommy and Calder in out seats. :)


Last, but not least, we went to the mall today to get a picture taken with Santa. we waited quite a while - Santa was very busy visiting with children today - but got to see him. :) Calder was tired, he hadn't had a nap at that point, and cried out at first when he was plopped on Santa's lap - but was quickly distracted by some jingling bells by the photographer. I think the photo turned out wonderfully. This photo is from the Photo CD we bought - and I was expecting it to have the neat border on it that the actual photos do, but it doesn't. It's still beautiful nonetheless. :) It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!

Santa's Coming!!!

Calder is a bit young to understand Christmas but we went ahead with the Santa picture and lots of presents. Santa said he would be just as good to him as we would be. Lucky boy! Such a good boy too, not a tear or frown when with Santa. This is the best Santa I have seen, he even made me do a double-take as my inner child softly wondered, "Santa?".



Calder is getting right into the spirit of things, he is really laughing and smiling a lot lately. I think he can sense the excitement in the air as the people who love him gear up for the holidays.



Calder really loves to read. Daddy and mommy love to watch him investigate books.



One of the rituals "in the making" is the nightly reading of stories to Calder. Daddy loves this time with Calder. Especially when Calder is so interested in it. Daddy had a rough time feeding him prior to the book reading as you might notice from the shirt with formula stains. Calder calmed right down when the reading began.



Calder's mom loves to read to him too. She has much more time to do that and I am a wee bit jealous. OK, mucho jealouso. We stayed home today and daddy got to spend some precious time with Calder. We'll be seeing Denny, Alicia and Norah next week. We decided it would be too crazy to meet up on the busy shopping day of the year, so we postponed and spent time with our families. See you guys soon! And Merry Christmas! (you admitted you read the blog so I had to say hi!)



Calder is growing so quickly. It's amazing to witness. Every growing boy needs to be active! Check out his exercise regime!!! He started to roll over yesterday. Growing boy!


Here's my big man. Sorry for the quick blog, we have family over and my help is needed. I'll write again over the next couple of days.


Goodnight Calder, Daddy loves you!