The Trials And Tribulations Of The Sweet Potato

Yesterday I decided it was time to introduce Nathaniel to the exciting world of real food, since I don't consider rice flakes to be the height of culinary delight. I dug out my Christmas present from the ever wonderful Kristi on making baby food and went to work. In about an hour and a half, I had made from about $5 worth of fresh produce about $40 of baby food. I actually quite enjoyed pureeing the morning away. When I had all of my food divided up in ice cube trays and special little plastic containers, I was quite impressed by all the shades of yellows and oranges.

As I was making the food, it was nice to know no one else had touched my baby's food or added anything to it. Not to say I will never buy store bought baby food, but there was a content feeling to know there wasn't a discontented labourer in a canning factory scratching his ass while inspecting baby food jars.

That reminds me of when I had the illustrious job of being a "sandwich artist" in high school and my boss installed a surveillance camera due to a number of incidences involving employees and money missing. At our next staff meeting, he was pleased to tell us that he had never seen so many people scratch their ass and wipe their nose with their hand in a four hour shift. After having worked many years around food, I don't trust any one's hygiene while working for minimum wage.

Drunk Baby?!

The Dorks

Happiness Is An Exersaucer

Suzanne Being A Weirdo

Miss Australia

Sarah And Finn

Lousie And The Boys

Check Out Those Chins!!

Making Friends With Finn

Anna And Nathaniel Flirting It Up

PJ's

Why do babies look so grown up when they wear two piece pajamas? And most importantly, why do they look so cute with those bare feet and chubby bellies peeking out?

Never Say Never

I never thought I would be impressed by a 1980's talk show host, but I was today when I watched a re-run of "The Hour". I love when people genuinely care about something because it seems to be a pretty rare thing at times.

George Stromboulop-a-whatever for Prime Minister, anyone? Maybe if we could get Rick Mercer, Justin Trudeau and George S to run in the next election, maybe we could get Canadians out to the polls and actually care. I think ol' Steve "The Robot" Harper is getting away with more than we think due to an apathetic main press and electorate. It was just a bit embarrassing that we voted for him once so hopefully we won't follow our American neighbours by doing the same dumb thing twice.

There is my rant for the day.

Watch the clip and think about some of the things Phil said. He doesn't say anything we haven't heard before but we need to be reminded so we keep on caring.

George And Phil Go Anti-George W

Little Red Sled

Nathaniel got this great sled from Mom and Dad for Christmas and we took it for a spin up and down the driveway tonight. He seemed to quite enjoy it but had a rather puzzled look on his face as to why we thought it was necessary to be out in -15 degree weather.

Ready For An Outdoor Adventure

Check out the sweet little vest and onesie Brent and Andrea got Nathaniel for Christmas. It's rather pathetic when your 4 month old dresses nicer than his parents.

Dapper Diaper Bag

I "hired" Julia to make me a diaper bag (if she made even $5 off of it I would be surprised) since my old MEC backpack wasn't cutting it. I knew it would be nice but I must say my expectations were blown out of the water-it is absolutely gorgeous! It is so well made, very functional ( a ton of pockets and it is reversible), a great size and best of all, made by Julia. If you want to check out her other beautiful creations, click here.

Full Circle

When I was 21, I spent about a year down in Florida being a nanny for my two little cousins, Jamie and Lindsey, who were 4 and 2 years old at the time. While I was there, my aunt became pregnant with Leah. I have always thought the world of these 3 kids and once Iain and I started dating, he fell in love with them too.

Every single time they come home, the kids sleepover for at least one night (the only exception being this summer when I had Nate). They flew up for a visit after Christmas and crashed at our place last night and it was so fun to see them think Nathaniel was the greatest thing, much like how I always felt about them.

I Wanna Move To Florida