Emma faces - 2 months

Growing so fast I can't keep up with the monthly faces! She's nearly 3 months now, but here she is at 2 months.

The Grand Visit

Emma's grandparents came to visit from Grande Prairie, Alberta for two weeks in October. We had a great time. While they were here we took a road trip to Ottawa and Kingston, stopping to visit some of my relatives along the way. While in the Ottawa area we took a ride on the Hull-Chelsea-Wakefield steam train, visited Parliament Hill and the Byward market. In Kingston, we stayed with my mom, who has been busy purging stuff from her house. Lucy and Paul got the freezer and we scored some venison steaks!

Baptism

While Emma's grandparents were visiting we had her baptism in Kingston at the same parish we were married in. Fr. Bob did a lovely service.

New Hat

Emma got a new hat while on holiday. It immediately got rave reviews by passers by. She looks quite sweet in it.

Where has my infant gone?!

Emma is growing like a weed. She turns 2 months old tomorrow, October 3. Already she is wearing 3-6mo clothes, is smiling and cooing and has long alert periods (too long and too alter if you ask me). She can stand and hold up her own weight with us only providing balance support. She is a baby now, not an infant.

Sniff. I'm not ready for that! She's growing too fast!

The stairs are finished!

We've always had issues with the front stairs to our house. They were tile that 1. were treacherously slippery when wet, and 2. the colour never really matched the rest of the house. Ever since moving in we've been looking for a solution to make them less slippery before someone killed themselves on them (particularly the mail courier) short of completely re-doing the entrance. It became particularly important this year as I refuse to go down those steps in the winter with a baby in my arms. It was bad enough last winter with a baby in my belly.

This year we found a fake stone product that you apply over the old surface and decided to give it a try. Doug just finished applying it and repainting the railing. I think it is a marked improvement! So far so good.

Before:


During. It couldn't not be wet while in progress or it would wash away.


Looking down the blue tunnel.


The finished product. Much better no?