Our Family & Our Life

Dear Diary, Our little munchkin is 7 months old today! She is a little monkey, rolling all over the place. My dad taught her to "cough" or fakeys as I call it. Dad just walks into the room and she starts "coughing". Silly girl! The introduction of solid food to her diet is improving as well. A couple of weeks ago spoon feeding all of sudden clicked and now she can't enough. Her little mouth opens like a bird, it's so cute. She has mastered cereal (organic brown rice) and vegetables. I would introduce fruit but I don't have any in the house at the moment so the next time I go to the grocery store, I'll buy a few jars. Eating solids is a messy business though. Every night I soak carrot stained bibs and pants sprinkled in peas. Yuck! She is also 50/50 sitting ~ sometimes she can do it and other times not. She's working on her balance and just like eating solids, one day it will click. The picture below shows her ability to crawl - not quite the

Dear Diary, We're not sure what happened but we no longer have access to our wyncairn.co.uk email addresses. We thought we paid for another year but apparently not, go figure.... Anyways, my new address is as follows (you figure it out and if you can't leave a comment and I'll send it to you).... All in lowercase: our surname the letter of my first name the year I was born which is 1974 at yahoo dot com Hope that wasn't too difficult to figure out. If anyone left an email after Sunday, I didn't get it and I don't know where it is... Sorry... Heather, Colin & Isla

Dear Diary, Our Oma has been blest with 95 years today! Truly something to celebrate.. As family, we got together on Sunday night at the home of my cousin Greta and her husband Ed's house. Apparently on the way home to Mount Nemo, Oma kept saying she had a wonderful time and she'll never forget it - so there you go, isn't that all that matters?! Here are some photos from the party - BTW, good thing those Aussie's couldn't come over because we would've run out of cake... what a disaster that would've been!! (ha,ha, just kidding, it would've been lovely to have all of you with us). The birthday girl with one of her great-granddaughters, the prettiest one by far!!! In my head, I have counted 34 great-grandchildren and more expected... Some of those 34 great-grandchildren.... Marg, Me, Oma and Mom - aren't we stunning!? A few lovely grand-daughters -- 4 out of the 24 grandkids (2 called Home), at least I think there are 24 of us. Oh yes, for those

Dear Diary, Today I went to visit my friend Karen and her daughter Maiya. Isla already met Maiya back in May but they haven't seen each other since. They've both grown loads! Isla was rolling all over the place and couldn't go any further than the chair but decided not to go back because Maiya was so much fun to watch... If Isla is going to be as active as Maiya is when she starts to crawl, I think I better get myself a new pair of Reeboks just to keep up. She isn't crawling yet but has gotten as far as putting her knees under her body and rocking. Soon she'll figure out how to co-ordinate all the movements together and then she'll be off. Right now I'm happy enough with the rolling on the floor... While Karen and I ate lunch, we put Isla in a excersaucer and Maiya went in a second one, faced them together and they just laughed and played together. It was soooo cute! Isla hasn't spent much time with babies her age and she thoroughly enjoyed her new fr

Dear Diary, I walked into the laundry room which is where the majority of our stuff is kept in boxes. The cats love to sit on the higher stacked boxes.... I wonder what is in the box? Shocking, it's Pearl!

Dear Diary, I came across this blog ... too cute... Oh come on, admit it, you laughed...

Dear Diary, Our poor dear Dixie has contracted "cat plaque" as I call it due to stress (aka Tasha, my parents dog!!!?). The fancy name for it is eosinophilic granuloma complex but don't worry fellow cat lovers, she is doing well. I was fearing the worst so I really did not want to take her to the vet but after a week of looking at her "wound" that wouldn't go away, I noticed it was raised and thought it best to make an appointment. A look under the microscope and a few tense moments later, the vet told me she would be fine after an anti-inflammatory and a steroid injection. A week on her "wound" has almost disappeared... sighh (of relief)... So tonight I was looking it up again (to prevent future outbreaks) and came across this artists' blog which I thought was interesting. I'm sure my beloved will tell me the day we have too much money, he will entertain the thought. Just an idea, just an idea...

Dear Diary, There was no swearing in ceremony but our little girl is now officially Canadian! She now has the documentation to prove it and it was issued in record time for which we are thankful. The only thing is it was issued to ILSA Jennifer Black and not ISLA Jennifer Black. As the lady at Immigration and Citizenship said to me, "morons"! Oh well, I will still try to get her Canadian passport and OHIP using this card before sending it back to have the correction made. A few photos for those who miss her dearly (you know who you are ;-) ) Hi Daddy, I miss you too! 'til next time, Heather, Colin & Isla