She is too cute.

So this blog post is just to show off Naomi as she is toooooo cute.

The first photo is one of my new favorites. Does everyone remember Elmer Fudd? I would like you to meet "Gnomer Fudd."

This is Naomi's new dress that Aric's aunt Ruthanne gave her for Christmas. It is just too cute not to take a picture of.

What a little lady

Naomi loves her "nacks"

Here she is so intently reading. She loves to read books, which are very happy about. maybe she will be more like dad in that department.

Seriously she loves hats. This is one that Ruthanne gave me for Christmas, and she has pretty much adopted it.

So this week we have been working on our talking and animal sounds. She repeats a lot of words that we say. Someone asked what words she knows, and it was hard to remember them all. She has picked up to many.
She is so helpful too. This afternoon just before nap time she had a dirty diaper. I asked her to go get a new bum and some wipes. She toddled over to the diaper bag and brought a diaper and wipes. the once we were done. I asked her to take the dirty one to the garbage. She takes it into the kitchen, lifts the lid to the garbage, drops it in there, then closes the lid. I hope this helpfulness will continue in the years to come.
On Sunday, on the way to church, we start to really teach her the sounds some animals make. Here is the link to a video I posted on facebook showcasing the mad skills this little one has picked up.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10151195934935004&saved


For those who are interested in how Aric's work is going, he is doing just fine. He has decided that he just has to do everything the Principal says to impress her. That's all he can do really. And we really don't think that she would deny him a contract as that would look badly on her as well. She really is trying to get him to be a better teacher, and he recognizes that. She may be a little more sticky on what she wants and how it is done, but ultimately she is looking to help him out. Although Aric has pretty much decided that he would like to teach FSL instead of immersion. Fair enough. He is doing such a good job, and the kids and parents just love him, which makes him so happy.

I myself am doing well. The baby is kicking a lot now. Sometimes too much for comfort, but that will only get worse from here on in. The heart burn is back full swing! Gotta love it. Really I hate it. One of the worse symptoms I get during pregnancy.

Well I think that is all for now. I hope you enjoyed.

Christmas, New Years and more.

PEEK-A-BOO!

Christmas has come and gone and we have rung in a New Year. Christmas was great. The break wasn't long enough for Aric by any means, as we were babysitting my sisters kids for 11 days over New Years, while they were on a cruise with her in-laws.
It was a challenge, but all survived... and the kids still like us :)

Naomi sometimes likes to snuggle into the shoes and play around and make a mess. Weird child.

Christmas morning. Naomi sporting her new dress that daddy gave her. She has enjoyed her new toys immensely.

Playing with her Marbleworks Castle. It has 3 balls that jingle and go down an obsticle course to come out the castles draw bridge. She just loves it. Behind her you can see her new chair that she loves to sit and read her books in.

Christmas night we had a house full! Graham and Jacqui and kids, Chelsea and Daniel and kids all came over for a visit. We had a chance for all of us to chat with my parents in Samoa on the computer. It was bit caotic, but we loved it. Here McCoy is sporting the new hat and scarf that BJ made for Graham.

Naomi joining in on a game with Auntie Jacqui, Uncle Graham, Daddy and Mommy.

McCoy got into his mom's make up... ha ha ha. He needs to work on his aim and application technique I think.

Enjoying her new chair, with a book near the Christmas tree.

Naomi and her hats :) She might be like me in the hat department... but she definitely takes after Aric in the food department. She loves carrots, fish, raisins and orange juice!!! Gross!

She ran away from bath time and then peed on the floor!!!

Sporting her new hat that her auntie Sharleen made. So cute!!!

So today Naomi decided that she was going to start using her fork for the purpose that is was designed. I took a video of it. On the same video is Naomi showing us where her eyes, nose an mouth are. She doesn't show by pointing... I think you will get a kick out of it.
Follow this link to the video on Facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10151142465495004&notif_t=video_processed


link #2 is just the little one playing with a pot
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151142661550004

Our little cage fighter. This is our little girl after her cousin got a hold of her. WHAT A CHAMP!!!

As Christmas draws closer we are getting excited, and enjoying celebrating the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. We have taken opportunities to reflect on the true meaning of this season, and less on the commercial aspect of it. Just over a week ago, Aric and I went out for the night and enjoyed the Millwoods Stake Choirs rendition of Handel's Messiah. It played for 2 nights, so we made a switch with Chelsea and Daniel. We babysat for them on Saturday night and they babysat for us on Sunday night. What a wonderful production. I missed seeing my mom up there singing. In Calgary she would sing in it just about every year.

The next night for Family Out Evening we headed to The Bethlehem Walk put on by the West Edmonton Christian Assembly. We invited Chelsea and family to join us. It was quite neat. We started outside the gates of Bethlehem with the shepherds and watched as the angels announced to them that Christ was born. Then we got permission from the city guards to enter the city. Once inside the city it was very interactive. Shops of every kind were set up. We got to try the bread made withe dead sea salt, honey, dates. There was a petting zoo... and right next door was the butcher shop. I got a kick out of that. There was all sorts of things for the kids and adults to look at and partake in. I didn't do much as I was trying to maneuver the stroller through the mass crowd. Eventually we make it to a large building and from there were were herded into narrow corridor that lead to the stables. We saw very large cows, sheep and of course Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus. Looking at that made me think back to last year when Aric, Naomi and I played those rolls. That was special a very event for us I must say. Well once were out of the stables we entered their big amphitheater to "enjoy" some christian rock, hot chocolate and cookies. Over all it was a fun evening. it definitely helped to bring the focus of Christmas back to Christ.

Well now on to the showing off of our beautiful child. She just loves to read these days. Once morning as I was getting her breakfast I set her up in her chair and she read until I was ready.

Our little scrapper is still loving things on her head.

She rediscovered her blanket this week and I put it on her head as she loves things on there. She loves to walk around in her "Mary" look. She is just too cute.

Going through a box of clothes... well playing witht he box ta

More things on her head, and looking for dad as he ran out to the car.

Our ward put on a wonderful Christmas dinner and even had Santa Claus come and visit with the kids. I'm pretty sure Naomi was the only kid who bawled!!! But we got her first official picture with Santa. This is exactly why I didn't take her to the mall Santa. Who wants to pay for a photo like this?

Well we hope this season finds you all happy and healthy. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
Love you

Odds and ends

Life has calmed down quite a bit around here, thank goodness. Aric's boss has relaxed in her expectations of Aric. He had some rave reviews after parent teacher interviews, and she couldn't ignore that. He has put some really long hours in and it seems to be paying off. As last month was Movember Aric jumped on the band wagon and stopped shaving. He grew a goatee then on the last two days of the month he tried 2 different styles. The first was the old fashioned handle-bar... super sexy. When he went to school the vice principal said "you need a cowboy hat and a picture right now.' Then the next day he took off the hooks and did the traditional stash. I called him "Merv the Perv." He was so cute. The kids in his class loved his "Mario" mustache. First thing this morning... the stash was gone. He felt disgusting wearing it.

Now comes the point of the blog that we show off the our little munchkin. Looking back at photos of Naomi and I realize how much she has grown. Her hair is getting really long. She is such a little girl now. She is walking and "talking", well more like just jabbering. But she is such a delight.

Here Naomi had stolen mommy's milk at breakfast and devoured it.


Where she learned to eat like this... I don't know, but it is funny.


Sharing her food with her cousin McKay.


She snuck a Ricola cough drop and didn't unwrap it.


We went to Calgary the other weekend for many different excuses. One of which was to see B.J. and Kyle. Here Naomi is having a pow-wow with Jo under the laundry.


Now many people in my family know me as the "Hat girl", because I always something on my head as a child. We may just have another one on our hands. She will often find some kind of hat and ask me to put it on her head. This next photo she wanted her cat hat from Halloween costume. She then squeezed herself between the two ottomans and sat to play.


She loves putting this basket on her head and walking around.


She handed me one touque... then another, so I put it on top of the other one. What a nut case she is!!! Makes me laugh.


Her new snow suit. It's a bit on the big side, but it should last the whole winter season... hopefully.



Aric sure make bath time a hoot for Naomi. He encourages her to play with the water as it comes out of the tap. Here he had taught her to drink from the tap.
My little water baby.


As for me, life is just the same. Little Sylas (in the tummy) isn't moving to much. I think I felt him move today for the first official documented moment. He is a pretty chill guy so far. I'm counting down until I'm done work again.


The following is another example that Naomi is happy to anything on her head. In case you are wondering, those are McKay's pajama pants.

Oh one more story. On Monday night we went over to our friends the Palsky's. The Boys went to the Oilers hockey game and the girls stayed in and put the kids to bed and then watched movies. Well we decided that were going to bath Naomi and Jake together. I put Naomi in the tub first and Jake followed. Once Jake was in, Naomi spun herself around so Jake couldn't see her. It seemed as though she was trying to be modest. Oh we giggled pretty good. Then later in the bath she decided that Jake needed to taught a lesson, so she grabbed on of the tub toys and started hitting him in the head. Jake just looked at her like "well this is my tub... what's wrong with you". Oh it was a fun night.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Well it is Nov 12 and it just snowed last night for the first time this year. I'm grateful that it has waited this long before snowing. It really is beautiful outside today. I'm sure tomorrow I'm going to be cursing winter. But this is getting me in the Christmas spirit. I'm listening to Christmas music as I put this blog together. I think I may break the decorations out soon too. I find that the Christmas season does not last long enough. I remember back when I was going to school in Utah, I somehow convinced my roommates that Christmas should start the day after Halloween. They put up fuss for a bit, but then they got into it and loved that the season lasted so much longer. We decorated and had the music and filled the apartment with Christmas smells. It was wonderful.

I'm really looking forward to Christmas. It is my all-time favorite holiday. Aric's is Halloween, and I love Halloween, but Christmas just brings everyone together around the world. It is such a happy, loving season. Aric is coming around.

I've got plenty of photos of Naomi to put on here. It's so hard to narrow the amount of photos that I post. She is so darn CUTE!

What is this white stuff dad?

Let's hide your belly from the cold

Umm... what do I do with the snow now dad? It's cold.

We have a mesh waste basket that Naomi has been playing with... she so cute when we put it on her head and she walks around with it. This little girl is a such a crack up.

You can often turn around and find Naomi laying around chillin out. Here she is just relaxing watching something on the TV. Once in a while she will get in that position and it looks like she is right into whatever is on. She has started to just lay her head down anywhere now too. The cutest was when we went out to dinner with Aric's mom when she was up. Naomi had had enough and she was tired so she just payed her head on the table. We quickly finished as we knew she was very much ready for bed.

Now to end the blog I leave you with a link to a video of Naomi walking. She just decided one day that she was going to walk.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150925440745004