Fall (Part 2)

I forgot to put any videos on yesterday's post, so here they are...

Fall

It's been a while since I've posted, and all of a sudden it is fall, the leaves are falling, and Maiya and I are getting ready for our big trip out east!

Maiya has started eating some solid food.  Here she is trying out the new highchair that I scored off kijiji (I love a deal!!!).

Trying Avacado

mmmm Potatoes :)

On October 2nd (Maiya's 6 month birthday), my friend Lori and I ran the Calgary Harvest Half Marathon.  We're both on maternity leave and training for this race has been our summer project.  We both rocked the race and came in under 2 hrs.  My stats were:

‎215 (place overall) 24/156 (place in my age category) F3039 F 488 Terry Toffelmire Calgary 1:56:50 5:33 (average pace)

Lori and I with our training partners

Maiya and her buddy Liam

Maiya and daddy

Happy October everyone!

I just added another post with some videos... here

I love the feeling of a finished project!

I'm cloth diapering Maiya as lots of you know.  So far I love it, it really doesn't take that much time and feels so right, no throwing out all those diapers.  Plus it is cheaper, and I love me a bargain!  I was having a problem with her night time diapers though, she was getting rashy and I was trying to figure out if the problem was with my diapers, laundry, or what.  After some research another cloth diapering mama suggested I try breathable covers.  I went out and bought one wool and one fleece cover.  I started by using them with some prefolds and was quickly sold.  Then when my parents were here a few weeks ago, my mom made me a bunch of fitted cotton diapers.  My parents also brought me some wool that they had leftover from projects. 

I've spent the last week or so knitting a wool diaper cover.  Now I've known how to knit for a long time, and started many a project (mostly scarves) but really haven't finished anything worth mentioning.  I'm pretty excited that I've finished the diaper cover...

And here are some other pictures of life this past week or so...

Maiya fell asleep in her bouncy chair sucking on her Sophie... seriously that Sophie is the best toy ever!

Bad bath hair!

It is seriously impossible to get a good smiling picture of this kid... so this drunken pirate face is gonna have to do for now.

Sophie

Maiya is just starting to become interested in toys in the last week or two.  It is fun to see her get more interactive.  This past week I gave her the Sophie the giraffe toy that a friend of ours gave us as a baby gift.  Apparently they are all the rage for babies right now!  I wouldn't have had a clue...  Well Maiya loves her Sophie, she chews on her legs and will hold onto her.  I also made her giggle and laugh out loud one day playing with it.

Maiya's Great Grandma Toffelmire also visited this weekend.  It was great that my Grandma got to meet Maiya!

I also took some requisite bath photo's... these will be safely locked away until Maiya's wedding day :)

The happiest baby on the block...

I've read many books on babies over the last few months.  The latest one that I picked up was "The Happiest Baby on the Block".  Since reading this, Tim and I often joke about Maiya being the happiest baby on our block - and perhaps the only baby on our block.  She often gets more vocal when she gets a bit tired...  I took a video the other day of her talking to me.

Also, Lori and I finally got the dogs out for some field training... Tim came along to watch the babies for us...  I have more baby pictures than dog pictures for a change.

We we very happy we brought the bouncy chair as it made a great place to nap!

Lori and Liam (looking happy as always!)

One tired, happy pup!  We gotta do this again soon!!!

Jasper with my cousins!

We spent 3 days in Jasper (and enroute) this past week.  It was gorgeous!!  Maiya got to experience lots of firsts, first time on top of a mountain, first time in a canoe, first time cliff jumping (ok well maybe she didn't cliff jump but her cousins did)...

Here are some highlights.

Moraine Lake:

We saw a bear on the side of the road:

First time in a canoe:

Napping on a rock:

The lake where Mom and Dad were married (Bow Lake):

And a couple of videos of the boys cliff jumping:

Back to blogging

I've decided to revive the blog so that I can post video's and pictures of Maiya... so here goes!

Tim's family is here from NH for a couple weeks. We've been busy with lots of family activities, the zoo, heritage park, etc. Here are some highlights!

Of course our only video from the zoo is of ... Hippo's!

Here's a picture of mom and Maiya at the zoo...

And her with cousins at the zoo...

Here's one of Em and Maiya...

Maiya turned 3 months old on the 2nd... hard to believe that 3 months has already gone by... here she is trying out her jolly jumper for the first time!

And one more video of her in the jolly jumper - warning, it is long... I still need to figure out how to edit the videos...