Good Times in Ladner (part 2)

Hi Duck!

We went to the bird sanctuary on Saturday. There were so many ducks! It was a little freaky - when you step out of your car and you're suddenly surrounded by a swarm of hungry, expecting ducks...
James was initially a little concerned - he wouldn't let go of my leg. But he warmed up to the ducks and kept saying "hi", "hi", and as we walked past, "bye", "bye", not to mention all the stcks he found and then used for throwing at/chasing the ducks.

Happy 60th Dad!

Last friday we made our way up to the okanagan. Jed had a ski retreat at silver star so we stayed with my parents in Winfield. We went out for dinner friday night in order to celebrate my dad's 60th bday and all my sibblings were there...this hasn't happened in a while - great food, family, no mess to clean up, and no kids (except Eli) - made for a great time!

Nate and Jed

Elly and Tam

Bday Boy and Nate

Mel and Kev

Carey and Nic

We had dinner together again at my parents place sunday night. What a gongshow. Boys everywhere: crawling, screaming, fighting, playing, hugging, running, falling, pulling, pushing, kissing, grabbing, throwing....and this is only the beginning. Get ready Nanny and Papa for a whole lot of reffereeing!

All the grandkids (except Eli - he was sleeping) with Nanny and Papa

Elly and James with Tam and Zephyr

Good Times in Ladner

Photo Shoot

Eli had his first real photo shoot a couple weeks ago with our friend Kelly. She took tonnes of great shots - picking one for an announcement card wasn't easy. Picking five for this blog post was more fun. I can't wait to get a couple 5 X 7's or 8 X 10's for the house/Jed's office. Thanks Kelly!

What did we do all day before we had Eli??

It's strange thinking back to what I did with my time before Eli was born... I remember complaining a lot about being really pregnant...and doing lots of stuff with James - trips to richmond center, going for coffee, grocery shopping, cleaning, etc, etc. But it is sortof hard to think back to our days of just the two of us (me and James). With Eli here there is a lot more to fill our time with (when he's not sleeping) such as:
sitting in his chair and drinking tea


looking at Eli on the floor

wearing matching hats that make them both look ridiculous (thanks again auntie Maris)

snuggling up

this picture is just to show off James' new pj's - aren't they sweet!

and Eli keeps getting sweeter and sweeter too - we wouldn't go back to those days for anything!

4 weeks!

Eli was 4 weeks old yesterday. Flyin by! We went in for his check up and he's doing great. He's 11 pounds, 6 ounces and 22.25 inches long. (James was 13 pounds, 8 ounces and 23.75 inches long - but he had quite a head start, so I'm not going to say James will be a bigger, older brother... yet). The last couple of nights Eli has decided to be quite alert and awake between 3 and 5:30am. He's also quite lonely during that time and complains if we leave him alone. Not the best time to be wide awake (from our perspective) but at least we don't have a miserable baby all the time, or one who's not gaining weight, etc. Things could be a lot more stressful.
Nate and Tam made their way to Mexico last friday and spent a night near the airport. They brought Zephyr over for a visit friday night and saturday morning. It was fun hanging with the Whitehorse Binghams.
Here are some pics of our little man/men and one with cousin Zephyr:


Thanks Auntie Maris for this hat. James has just stoped being scared of it and now lets me put it on him. He's a goof.


Cousin Z and James had a great time playing. It's crazy that there is the same age difference between James and Zephyr and Zephyr and Eli.