Climb every mountain

I was trying to enjoy my very first Father's Day. Leiah didnt want to sit around so we set up a wall of pillows to contain her while we ate.

It didnt work - she decided she wanted to explore...

Daddy dropped the camera

I will some more updates shortly. Daddy is getting the camera fixed. He says I was doing something cute and reached the the camera to capture the moment and the little sucker just slipped out of his hands.

Just to let you know, I crawl fast, can pull myself to standing a standing position by a chair or couch, can climb a few stairs before I get too tired and still love to drool.

Love, Leiah.

p.s. I have a new pool I can splash around in. It's so big, even mommy and daddy can join me.

Bye Bye Remote Control - Here is another Toy

Being Mobile and having explored around a bit, Leiah now has another favourite toy!!

Leiah Enjoys her first Swing Experience

We start slowly and then add speed. The moment it gets going too fast her face changes and she looks slightly panicked - we slow it down.

Favourite Toy

Here we have Leiah eating and drooling over her favourite toy. We are planning on buying her a remote control that she can drool on as much as she wants.

I also see that Cami will now have directo competition as to who gets to hold the remote.

Leiah HATES Apples

Over the past few weeks we have indroduced some solid foods to Leiah's diet. By solid I mean, taking a solid food and pureeing it so that she can swallow it without chewing. So far we she has had rice cereal, ground oatmeal, oatmeal/rice mix, bananas, potatoes and carrots.

Today we got to introduce her to Apples. I love apples. You can eat them raw, make apple pie, apple crisp, have apple sauce, candied apples, etc. Today was a win, as far as I was concerned.

She wasnt super sure with carrots when we gave her the first taste but we responded as positivley as we could as to convince her that carrots were amazing...it worked.

Today there was nothing Cami could do to change Leiah's mind about the Apples...she hates them.

First Attempts at Crawling

With Leiah's love for the remote control, we were able to taunt her to move forward on the fouton.

If she is anything like her mommy, she will be the keeper of the remote control.
In a matter of a short time we will need to initiate the implementation of operation have-to-keep-the-floor-clean-at-all-times. Not looking forward to that one.

"Papa"

After having said Mama a couple of weeks ago, she now has started saying Papa. We finally captured it on the camera. The funny thing is that once she sees the camera she is completely captivated by it and cannot focus on anything else.

Listen to Daddy's little girl say Papa!

Enjoying her sippy cup

Now that Leiah is sittng up she has finally figured out how to use her sippy cup without having to be in a reclined position!!

6 Months Old

Today we woke up and celebrated Leiah's 6th Month. She is a little under the weather having a little cough but was all smiles as she woke up at 7:30am. We pulled her into our bed and tried to entice her to sleep another hour but she just wanted to play.

We told her that we would celebrate today, buy her a ball (she loves to kick them) and watch the canucks game. She replied by asking for a bike. We said that she could get a bike a little later and that she would have to learn how to walk or at least crawl first

Places Been and Things Done - (in stroller)

Walk along Railway tracks in White Rock











Waiting for a Train in WhiteRock

Playing alone out in the snow

Relaxing in the sun at Sindey, Vancuver Island.

Hanging out at Starbucks

Leiah's first walk

Going for a walk at Crescent Beach

Playing during our second snowfall

Checking out the Parliament building in Victoria

Admiring some history in Victoria

Getting Back to Easter

I forgot to mention Easter!!

It was a very full weekend. Of course we spent it around family and great food. In addition to that, we went to CLA for their Easter celebration service - Leiah was awake for all the music but fell asleep when the sharing started.

On Good Friday several of us went to Kurtis and Char's place for the annual easter egg hunt. Being that this was Leiah's first Easter she was ready to hunt for Chocolate Easter eggs and then donate them to Mommy's basket.

Leiah Figures out the Straw

Well....she finally tasted something sweet. I gave Leiah the opportunity to suck some Iced-Tea from a straw. I wanted to see if she would know what to do if she had the chance to try.

Off to the Capital City - Part 2

Leiah slept though some of the sight-seeing. I guess there is something nice about the gentle rumblings as we push the stroller over the cobble-stone.

In any case, this is Leiah chekcing out the Parliament buildings.



A little later she wanted to sit in the sun and check out all the seniors driving their cars down the main drag.



One sweet lady sat quietly and listened to all that Leiah had to say. Sometimes they both simply sat in pleasant silence.

Leiah particularly like the sun that day as she was sporting her new sunglasses. They didnt fit too well. Either they were too loose and fell off her face or they were too tight that she was not able to open her left eye. She looked cool though.





On the Way home we all fell asleep on the ferry. It was ok becuase only the Pittsburg-Ottawa game was on the BC Ferry's big screen TV.

Off to the Capital City

The three of us decided we needed a mini-holiday so we hopped a ferry and went to Victoria. This was a weekend of firsts for Leiah. First, on the ferry, she was able to play with the other kids up on deck 6


We were all longing to get to the time-share condos in Victoria




At the Condo, Leiah got her own room. Actually it was the Master Bed. We wanted to give her something big enough so that she wouldnt fall off as well as we didnt want to wake her after she fell asleep. Cami and I slept in the living room on the spare bed.


After a great night's sleep we went under water at Victoria's Undersea Gardens. We got to see a live Scuba show - Leiah was facinated with all the fish.




In the background is the Victoria harbour and then the Queen's hotel, the Empress










Friday night Leiah was excited to wear her new Canuck T-shirt as she cheered on the Canucks. We were all dissapointed in Friday night's game.


Being in the Queen's city we wanted to have some Afternoon tea. we ate and ate - I knocked over my full tea cup. Good thing there were two table cloths on this table. It soaked up all the tea so nicely and quickly.

Tiny Olympic Swimmer in the Making

Leiah's First Day in her new BIG Bathtub

First Leiah gets ready by putting on her bathing suit - a cute 2 piece. Her "finding Nemo" swimming diaper was pretty big so it was her tiny bottoms that held everything up.

We put her in her carseat and proceeded to the new big bathtub. Of course she falls soundly asleep on our 7 minute drive so I had to wake her up and get her ready for the new expereince.


The first 7 minutes she quietly took everything in. She just looked around in utter amazement. Once she realised that she was safe and that this was a "fun" expereince - at least for dad, she began to squeal with excitement for the next 15 minutes.

Leiah's Dedication at CLA

On March 25th at the second service at Christian Life Assembly in Langley, We had a formal dedication for Leiah. We wanted to have it at CLA since we had so many friends there. It also provided a place for Leiah's maternal and paternal families to come and celebrate. Cami's dad was the one that prayed for her in the service.



It was a very special Sunday. We were both very moved in the service and back at home. Cami and I have dreams for our little girl and pray into it daily. We see how God has had his hand on Leiah from the very beginning of the journey.


When the service was over we went home for a big party. We had invited all four sets of Leiah's family. I think there were between 50-60 people in our home and we ate food and cake until we could eat no more. It was a wonderful day and a great celebration

Leiah's second set of shots

This past Friday Leiah had her second set of shots. Only three shots this time. Two in one thigh and one in the other. Again, I was the official holder. My job was to hold tightly to Leiah so that the nurse (very friendly and helpful) could execute with the needles.

Leiah has developed her lungs sinc the last set of shots - and she used them. Her recovery time was much quicker this time and both Cami and I did much better as well!!

So that we dont remember these times all too well, there will not be any pics or videos for this post.

Getting Mobile

I think she is beginning to grasp the thought of being mobile. We place her down on her floor blanket and she immediatle rolls over. Now we begin finding her facing the opposite direction from which we first placed her on the blanket. She hasnt figured out how to roll continuosly so she is still always on the blanket.

The 10 sec video shows how she rolls over.

the voice over you hear in the background is Cami asking me about vegetables while i am trying to signal to her that I am capturing a video.