creepy crawly

Of course I had to do a seperate post about little E's first crawling adventure. We spread our blankie out on the warm sand, and it was all she needed to get moving. Here's the first attempt:


And the first fall (I love the shadows of her hands and foot):

And them more practice after bathtime:

Trying to crawl using her feet instead of knees:

She's still busy practicing and hasn't quite got the hang of it yet. This morning, for example, she was pushing herself around the living room backwards instead of forwards. But hey, whatever works, right? We're very proud of our little mover and shaker!!

FLA wrap-up

We got back from our Floridian adventure on Sunday night. The flight back was great - miss Evy slept for well over an hour. Once we landed, things didn't go quite so smoothly. The train between terminals 1 and 3 was broken, so we had to take a bus (along with the stroller, car seat, and 6 bags!). Then, Rob couldn't quite remember where he'd parked the car, but we did find it easily in the end. THEN, the normally efficient and organized Mr Jackson couldn't find the ticket to get out of the parking garage. (It was sneakily hiding in the car ashtray). Anyhoo, all that palaver took about 3 hours, so we were weary when we finally got home.

I've gotta say, we were feeling pretty smug to see patches of snow still on the ground when we landed! The weather the last 5 days or so in Florida was absolutely beautiful. (We'd had a bit of rain before that). We're really glad that we missed the last blizzard of the season, and are looking forward to Spring and some warm weather here.

We had a great trip, and loved having our friends Tanya and Jordan there too. They were a great help with Evy, and were pure entertainment and comedians for the whole week. There were lots and lots of laughs.

Miss E was pretty good too. She's still waking up 2 or 3 times a night, which is hard, but, she was in great spirits during the day, and was even in a good mood when her top tooth was coming in. And, she decided to amaze us all by crawling for the first time! (She waited until we were on the beach to dazzle us! She's gotta do everything with style, of course!)

Here are a few pics of the adventure:

The happy family in our backyard

Miss E gets a ride in Celebration, FL.

Naughty bird tries to sneak over to steal Evy's cereal.

Tanya and Sarah hitting the greens

(with Evy as my handicap/monkey on my back)

One of our friendly neighbourhood dolphins

(I took this pic from our dock).

Playin in the water at Celebration, FL.

Some beach time with Daddio

Our little house

Happy hour for two boozers

Evy enjoying her flight home with daddy

Little miss sound asleep on the plane

national geographic channel

We had many visits from wildlife yesterday. Lots and lots of birds, a few lizards, one bird that ate a lizard, and a pod of dolpins. I didn't really believe the dolphins would come in to the intracoastal waters, but we've seen them twice now and it's been amazing! Yesterday one was right at our dock and jumped fully out of the water. It was sooooo cool!

Of course, we didn't manage to get the camera in time for that sighting, but here is our heron, who we've named Gregory Peck. He was eating the fruit that fell off a tree in our backyard, and we were a bit scared he was going to come right inside - he was pretty bold!

Check out our beautiful backyard view too!

Rob had to go yesterday to buy a new camera. Sigh. Why on EARTH would our stupid camera wait until we were on vacation to break? Oh well. It's just added considerably to the cost of the trip, but at least now we'll get some pictures of miss Evy on the beach. (The pics above were taken on Tanya and Jordan's camera). Will post some more as soon as we get them.

It's chillier here today - about 20 - but it's a nice break from the humidity we've been having. On the agenda for today? A trip to Target and mini golf! Yay!

Happy Hour

A good time is being had by all.

More fun in FLA

We're still having a grand time here in FLA. We're looking forward to watching a satellite launch tonight from the comfort of our balcony too - should be coooool!

Here are a few pics from yesterday. Our camera stopped working for half the day, so we were in panic mode. We got it working again, but missed taking some beach shots. These will have to do!

good girl sittin in her stroller while we had lunch at the Cocoa Beach pier

playing with her new 'friend' in the mirror

This is her new favourite pastime

checking out the view with daddio

Chillin' in Cocoa

Evy and I got to Florida yesterday and joined Rob, who was already here for a work conference. It was sooooo nice to get here, especially after having to chisel the frost off of the car windshield yesterday morning before heading to the airport.

We're having a great time so far. Yesterday we stayed at a hotel outside of Orlando, and today we hit to road and drove east to Cocoa Beach. We've rented a condo here until Saturday, and we're right on the beach.

Here are some photos for your enjoyment:

Playing with mom and daddy in the hotel pool:





Little sundress cutie (thanks for the clothes auntie Lee!):

View from our balcony:

Miss Evy celebrating her 9-month birthday this morning, opening a present from granny and poppa (note the cheerio heap on the bed behind her):

Exploring Cocoa Beach:

check in from Florida

We just had the worst night ever with Evy.

I guess it was a mistake to think that we could share a hotel room with Evy. She was up 21 times between 7pm and 5am. She just kept crying and crying. It was awful. Finally at 5am I put her in the bathtub wrapped in a blanket. We couldn't hear her crying as much in there, but then the people in the next room complained. So then we put her in the bar fridge. It was a tight fit, but we really couldn't hear her in there. It was either that or the room safe, we couldn't decide which was better.

Happy April, Fools!