Happy New Year! Santa was good to us, and even brought a new camera, so I'll hopefully be back on track. We had a busy holiday and are pretty glad to be back to routine, although we miss all the family we got to see over the holidays, and we are sorry to have missed seeing some of our dear friends and family--but onwards into 2009! Some pictures since Christmas Eve, when the new camera came:
Christmas morning, Cadence and I opening presents. After a pre-Christmas gift exchange with my dad, we learned that less is best with gifts for Cadence--he just wants one thing and to play with it right away. He did a great job, helping bring people their gifts to open. We snacked on sticky buns, and had a really lovely Christmas morning.
One of the best parts of Christmas morning was the wagon that Nana & grampa Ron gave Cadence for Christmas--it came with skis for winter, and this actually was what got him playing outside on Christmas day; otherwise I don't think we could have gotten him out at all.
Examining the tree train he got for Christmas from Grampa & Gammie.
One morning after Christmas, enjoying his daily fruit smoothie--Drew makes stellar smoothies for us almost every morning.
Trying out the new wagon/sled on our road, Christmas Day.
Right before heading to Toronto during the holidays, we got a mild spell of weather...perfect for making a snowman! Here's ours (the thaw was quite extreme so he only lasted a day...)
Whenever we travel, the first thing we look for is a nearby playground. Cadence & I had lots of fun playing at the one near Nana's house in London. Especially since our playgrounds are all buried in snow & so generally only a summertime thing...what a treat to go to the playground in the snow! (and much safer :)) Plus the slides go super fast when they're so cold.
Playing cars on Nana's living room floor. Here is Cadence being a big hill in a park (the green blanket indicates grass). The cars are driving all over & up the hill, etc.
Hanging out & laughing like crazy at Nana's house with Daddy & Uncle Neil, and showing off the Cars shirt & tow truck he got for Christmas from Uncle Neil.
Buckets gifted to Cadence for his first birthday from Aunt Tracey, Uncle Brian, & Hallie & Emillie are great in the snow too! Here we have an entire setup of hand drums, in Nana's driveway.
One of the highlights of our trip to Toronto was the subway. Cadence had been asking for months to go on the subway. When ever we would mention Toronto, he'd talk about how that's where the subway is. So one of the first things we did was take a trip on the subway to the Carrot Common, so mommy & Daddy could do some shopping, & Cadence could have an adventure! Was super fun, plus we got the added bonus of the moving stairs, which are now mentioned with almost as much reverence as the subway when we remember back to our trip.
3 comments:
Yay more fun pictures!! I like Cadence's smiley smoothie face.
Thanks for posting!
Love Aunt Tracey
Hi from Hallie too.
what an awesome wagon! oh christmas, i miss you already.
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