Avocado Adventure

It's been fun introducing Sophie to various foods lately, she really seems to enjoy the process! After the initial rice cereal, we've tried carrots, yams, bananas, Perky-Os (the health-food version of Cheerios) and now, avocado. I went to a nutrition talk at Capers this week and the nutritionist told us that babies who eat textured foods when they're 7-9 months old are more adventurous eaters as toddlers. Tonight we followed her advice by feeding Sophie some soft avocado chunks. Sophie seemed eager to try this new taste but was a little flummoxed by the texture. After picking up avocado off her pants and feeding it back to her (5 second rule!) we got several spoonfuls into her. She coughed a bit, but overall seemed to enjoy her avocado experience.

All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth

And Sophie's halfway there! Just this morning, a month after her first tooth appeared, I noticed that her front left tooth has broken through her gums. This tooth arrived with much less drool and fussiness than the previous two, so I wasn't watching for it as carefully as before. She'll definitely have both front teeth by Christmastime, so I guess she'll just have to ask Santa for something else!

Downward facing dog

Our little Kitsilano baby has been developing her yoga practice lately. Now all she needs are some pint-sized lululemon pants!

Sophie's first blog post

Sophie seems so intent on smacking the keyboard that we thought we'd let her write her own blog post. HereXXXXXXXXXXXXXX2XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX goes, hope she doesn't manage to Ctrl-Alt-Delete this sucker, or accidentally delete our blog account or something...

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And there you have it. Words of wisdom, by Sophie. We had to stop her a few times, as she was trying hard to move the cursor back up into the intro, and intersperse her own comments. Looks vaguely like she's leaning towards a combination of Roman numerals and web-safe hexadecimal colour codes as a method of communication. I wonder how you say Da-da in hex?

Photo booth comes full circle

Most of you probably know that Dean and I used photo booth photos of us holding "We're Getting Married" signs for our wedding invitations. Last week, Sophie and I visited the historic photo booth where those pictures were taken and got a few new shots of our own. Enjoy!

Sophie's first hike in the mountains

After two hours of hiking, Sophie fell asleep in her new carrier


Sophie with Daddy at the look out
The Story of the Missing Look Out
While driving up to Mt Seymour Provincial Park, we saw a sign saying look out. We pulled over, expecting a spectacular view. We headed for the first trail we saw, expecting a short walk to the advertised view. 25 minutes of downhill hiking later, we realized the trees weren't parting anytime soon and we were just setting ourselves up for more uphill hiking on our way back to the car. We turned around. Upon arriving at the car, we looked to the right and discovered a spectacular view of the Lower Mainland. If only we'd seen that the first time!


Happy Hiker (she literally giggled for five minutes the first time we put her in this new carrier)


Mommy carrying Sophie in the new MEC baby carrier we got through MEC's online gear swap. Used only once and $40 cheaper than new!

First teeth

Sophie's first tooth cut through three days before she turned six months and the second followed a few days later. She now has two little chicklets on the bottom and they show when she smiles really wide or cries very hard. The new teeth may be small, but they pack a punch, I've been bitten several times and it hurts! Teething has been accompanied by lots of drooling, chewing on everything in sight, and some disruption in her sleep patterns.