Gingerbread House Building and Decorating

We decided this year was the year to start making gingerbread houses. :) Paisley's really into helping with baking and decorating (and building and fixing), and pretty much everything. She's also very into posing and saying "CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE"













She was very good about using the candies as building materials rather than eating them, too. We snacked on leftovers when construction was complete.

YAY!

Ok.. now blogging became easier again. Since we got back from our trip, my iPhoto wasn't syncing properly with my Flickr, which is what my blogging program uses for my photos. Way easier that way. For the last few posts I've had to manually upload the photos, one by one, resizing them as I went. Which is a tedious task.. I'd get one uploading (and it'd take a whlie), so I would walk away and do something else... forgetting... so I was uploading 1 photo every few hours.. hehe. Now it will be swoosh, and I can finish the trip photos.. and tackle the rest of the "since the trip" photos (and a few batches from before we went even).

Ok.. back the trip..... where was I? Right.. we talked about Paisley and the beach. She keeps asking me "we go to the beach?" about every 2nd morning still.

How about some "who was there" shots.. family pics, and lots of awkward family poses...


The anniversary couple.... (Grandma and Grandpa)



We're in Mexico!




A couple night-time family shots





Some out and about photos:

Grandma and Grandpa



Grandpa and Auntie Melissa



Posing on the beach:

Our family



Auntie Melissa and "Uncle" Matt




Grandpa and Grandma


Uncle Matt??? No photo of Uncle Matt Y by himself

(Maybe a good point to say that Paisley has 2 Uncles... and an honorary "Uncle". All are names Matt.... Matt Y, Matt S, and Matt O... she'll be very confused one day..)


Everyone:







OK... it felt VERY cheesy doing the last shot... but so worth it!


Oh.. this is a great one... loitering outside the washrooms...



Uncle Matt and Grandma:




Grandma, Grandpa and Paisley:



That's all I have for posed photos for today... but guess what? I'll do another post tomorrow... that's right!

2 posts in 2 days... Most definitely!
3 posts in 3 days.... probably
4 posts in 4 days... I'll try
5 posts in 5 days.... I'll maybe try.

Laying Low

Well I had figured I wouldn't get around to blogging today.  We're laying low today due to Paisley having a fever.  She's been sleeping a lot today.  I also didn't have any pictures to share.

Today I sat in on my first Etsy Virtual Lab, kinda like a virtual classroom.  Someone presents a topic, and you can ask questions as they go.  Paisley was up for about 30 minutes while it was on, so she sat and watched too (she's very cuddly today... and that's SOOOO not like her). 

This is where she realized there was people saying hello, so she waved and got excited:

This is where she's relaxing and just watching the "tour"

And finally a shot of her where she can see herself on the screen:


Not a very exciting day, but that's alright. We ended up canceling on a playdate, which I'm glad we did, because what little time she was awake, she wasn't very happy. Tomorrow is playgroup, and it's at our house again. SO I need to get things organized tonight.

Slacking

Yes I've been slacking. But really I have nothing to post. We haven't really left the house since Friday, and we haven't come across any new developmental milestones. So thus, you get a boring text post.

Josh has been sick all weekend, with fever/chills, nasty cold. So he's been in bed a lot. He also took Monday off, and worked from home (so I guess technically that wasn't OFF, but he did have a 3 hour nap).

Paisley's just been playing, eating, and sleeping. Not so much of the sleeping. She hasn't been napping really well. But that may be because we haven't been leaving the house. We've switched her over to cow's milk now, and she's doing very well on it. And she eats what we eat for meals, mostly, I just top her off with some more pureed foods (not really pureed, but mushy. Something I can spoon feed her).

As for me, I've been sewing mostly. Made another rag quilt, and 3 mini rag quilts, as well as a baby sling, and some bean bags (well, actually lentil bags). Currently making a doll, but have been procrastinating finishing, because I need to embroider the face, and I've never embroidered before. Have fabric cut for another doll, and another rag quilt, as well as an apron. So those will be my next projects. I think I'm going to take a week, and just sew a bunch of summer clothes for Paisley, but that will have to wait til April.

We've also been making a list of household jobs we want to get done in the next month or so. Lots of little touchup, etc.

Now that I think about it, Paisley and I did go out for most of Saturday, we went looking at a few open houses (about a dozen). Didn't find anything that we liked though. I did see a house a couple weeks ago that is still on the top of my list, and I've also seen listings for a couple more I wouldn't mind going to see.

It's Monday!

Well, despite it being very difficult to get up this morning, we're up. Josh got home at 2 am, his luggage is still in Chicago. So they said they'll send it to Calgary today, then send it Air Canada to Lethbridge and call us when it gets here. You pay $15 to check a piece of luggage, and it doesn't show up. Oh well. They had some major delays traveling home yesterday.

Paisley and I were in Revelstoke for the week, so yesterday we drove home. It was actually a good drive, roads weren't bad at all, and I got even further caught up with the nearly 300 podcasts that are waiting for me. Only about 375 to go after listening to them on the way there and back.

Merry Christmas!!

merry christmas, originally uploaded by tyeoca.

First snow fall

paisley-5, originally uploaded by Joshua Schroeder.

Paisley saw her first snow today! She thought it was neat.... then looked up and got it on her face.... which shocked her. But then she was happy again.

On mom's lap

On mom's lap, originally uploaded by Joshua Schroeder.

She just knows she's cute!