Happy 8 Month Birthday Jessie!

Today Jessie celebrates 8 months!
We can't believe it's already been this long, the time
seems to fly by so fast! We've been living here in
Thorold for almost two months already!
Below is one of Jessie's 8 month/Easter pics!



P.S. Happy Birthday Papa Doogie!

Jessie Meets the Easter Bunny!

So Jessie met the Easter Bunny today and had
her picture taken (above) with one of his sidekicks.
Don't let this fuzzy, adorable bunny fool you though ...
no sooner was the photo shoot over and we
noticed some lovely little bunny turds on Jessie's lap!

Ah well, it was still worth it ... and as usual, she
stole hearts while we ventured around the
Seaway Mall in Welland!

Teething BITES!

Jessie has graduated from her two lonely teeth to what
now totals six (so far ...) and numbers 3-6 came in just
in these past 6 days! We've tried every trick in the MANY
books and websites to ease her sore gums but there have
still been some times where we come up short. Poor kid!
(Poor us!) We've managed a couple not-so-bad nights,
but there have been a couple of REALLY nasty nights too!
Even though it's been three months since her last two
teeth came in, I kind of wish these ones would've taken
their time a little bit! It's incredibly hard to listen to her
crying when she yells out, "Mum, mum, mum, mum ..."
constantly - as if there is something MORE we can do for
her! Hopefully she'll stop after these next two pop through
- we're pretty sure she'll end up with 4 on top and 4 on the
bottom when all is said and done this go-around ... we hope ...

April Fools ... I wish ...

The Awakening

We continue to be excited and proud of mom as
she continues her artistic journey.
See her new promotional video below!


The Awakening from Andrew George on Vimeo.

The Awakening is a short documentary on artistic process featuring Fort Frances, Ontario artist Connie Cuthbertson. The video was shot using a Panasonic HVX200 and a Brevis 35mm adapter for the majority of the shots.
(Video shot by Andrew George at All Good Projects www.allgoodprojects.com)

Signs of Spring in Thorold

Well, this is something we're REALLY not used to! Growing up in
Northwestern Ontario and PEI = snow this time of year (sorry guys!)
and even in Montreal we were in for a bit of crazy, wet, snowy, sleety
weather this time of year ... but down here where we are on
the same parallel as Northern California ... we get this:

and this is all just from our very own
yard - front and back!

Almost Crawling ...

Jessie is soooooo close to crawling! Below are a few pics
of her playing at home in the living room ... showing off
to Ken and I that we're in SERIOUS trouble VERY soon ...



On her tummy ...



On all fours ...



Watch out guys ... here I come!
She does the "Roll-Around-the-Room" and the
"Backwards Scooch" and has made a few awkward,
but successful attempts at the "Sitting to All Fours"
move ... we're just waiting for the "Forward Motor".
It's going to happen VERY soon ... within the next
week or so we think!

This weekend's "Parent Project" = Baby-Proofing!

Jessie Getting Settled

Enjoying some sweet potatoes in her new high chair!
She's a very determined little girl - she always has
to steal the spoon away and lick the food off herself!
We've taken to using two spoons just so we can trade
to save a bit of time!!

Daddy and Jessie playing with her new ball together.

Her FAVOURITE "game" with Daddy right now.
Notice the missing bootie and sock?! Silly girl ...

Chillin' in her new high chair!

Jessie enjoys a relaxed morning with Mommy
playing in the living room together!

Jessie's "Faux-Hawk" as Auntie Meg calls
it ... courtesy of Jessie's winter hat!

"Faux-Hawk!"

Jessie wore all green on the 17th in honour
of her Great Nanny Faragher's birthday -
this being Nanny "Patricia" for whom Jessie
Patricia was named!

Family Comes to Thorold!

We were SO blessed to have our families here with us for Ken's Induction Service at St. Andrew's on March 8, 2009. Ken's parents flew in from PEI, mine flew in from Fort Frances, my sister came from Waterloo as well as Auntie Cathy from London, ON and Auntie Marilyn and Uncle Lawrence from Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON.

We were also extremely blessed by friends Kathy & Terry Anderson who drove all the way from Montreal, James and Pat Knott who drove from Hickson, ON and Derek, Catherine and Baby Norah from Toronto, ON. What an amazing weekend it was! Below are just a few pics from the weekend - mostly of family with Jessie of course!



Snuggles with Auntie Meg!

Papa teaching Jessie how to crawl ... or say "Papa"...

All smiles as she snuggles with Grampie!

Enjoying a slurp of Nanny's apple!

Snuggles with Grammie at Boston Pizza!

Shopping with Daddy and Grampie at Zellers!

Jessie Moves to Thorold, Ontario

Jessie was up past her bedtime one night helping
Daddy pack. She quite enjoyed her time in this box!
(Ken thought we should call this segment: 'Unpacking in
Thorold' instead of 'Packing in Pointe-Claire' ... NO this is
NOT how Jessie travelled to Thorold ... see below for our
travel pics!)

Happy Baby!

Cash quite enjoyed the piles and piles of boxes in
our apartment living room and loved as the mountain
grew and changed each day. We caught him "exploring"
on this particular day ...

Jessie enjoying her Caterpillar toy on the car ride to Thorold.
Mommy had a 100 degree F fever the day before and during the
drive which made for a loooooong day of travel, but thanks
to an amazing Auntie Meg, we were able to make the drive
on the scheduled day - Feb. 19, 2009.

More Jessie pics from the car ride ...

Having a "conversation" with Mommy ...

Thanks to a pair of walkie-talkies, we were able to
coordinate pit stops with Ken who was following us
in the Penske truck all the way to Thorold. The weather
cooperated and we were able to make pretty good time
considering the fact that we stopped at EVERY rest
stop along the way to tend to a not-so-thrilled-about-
travelling-all-day-long Miss Jessie ...

The unpacking begins! Ken is putting together our
coffee table in our new living room!

(A posting introducing our new digs will come as soon
as I have rooms organized and clean enough to take
pictures of - promise!!)

Jessie begins to explore her new home ... first the HUGE
bathroom mirror! "Who IS that other baby in there and
WHY can't I play with her fingers!?"



Caught!

Jessie grows stronger by the day - she was "scooching"
backwards when we first arrived and in these pics has
"scooched" her way right under the sofa in her playroom!

Cutie Patootie! Playing in her new playroom!

Moving to Thorold, Ontario

I know it's been a looooong time since we've posted anything on here, but it's been an incredibly BUSY time for us! We've moved to Thorold, Ontario where Ken was called to his first church - St. Andrew's Presbyterian and since arriving about 2 weeks ago, we've been busy unpacking and preparing for his Induction which was last night. Now that we're a bit more settled, hopefully we can resume our postings a little more regularly! I have a bunch of things that I'd like to post as a re-cap of the past few week and will do this soon!!