Merry Christmas!

Family tradition: go for a run to work up an appetite for a nice Christmas breakfast (if it's raining go stomp in the puddles afterwards).

If you turn the volume up on the video you can hear Ella say "oh no" after she falls... and then she says "Merry Christmas" at the end.

Christmas Dinner

We enjoyed a delicious Christmas dinner at Uncle Brian and Aunt Jan's. The girls were well behaved and went right to sleep when we got home. Here is a sleepy Ella with her grandma.

Juliette with her cousin Alex.

Ella enjoyed playing peekaboo with her Christmas hat during dinner.

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve, we took the girls to our church for the Christmas Eve service. They were both very well behaved and Ella even joined in on singing some carols.

Ella and Juliette meet Santa

They may not be smiling, but they are both looking at the camera and neither of them are crying. We will call that a successful meeting with Santa!

Happy Juju...

Christmas is near...

Thank you Aunt Kay for the adorable candy cane hats... we love them!

Christmas dresses.

Peek-a-boo!

Here's a cute video of Jonas and Ella playing peekaboo.

Turtle Car

Ella received a turtle car as a Christmas gift from Sean and Miriam. She is very excited about her new toy and the popcorn sound that it makes. Thank you!

Juju Jumper

This week Juliette went in the Jolly Jumper for the first time. There was a lot of excitement and smiles, but not much jumping yet. Ella is excited to see her little sister in the Jolly Jumper and requests for her to go in there several times during the day.

Ella and Jonas

Ella's little friend Jonas came over last week. They had a great time together. They drank tea, played peek-a-boo, went shopping with Ella's cart, and jumped on the ottoman. It's cute to see them truly starting to enjoy one another's company. Ella calls Jonas "Jonie".

Ella loves her new shopping cart!

Ella's colours

Ella's great aunt Lynne gave her a colour book back at Thanksgiving. It has been a very good learning tool for Ella and she is starting to know her colours now.

Go baby go!

Juju's New Skill

With so much encouragement from her sister, Juliette is now rolling over from her back to her tummy.

An early Christmas with Grandma

The girls enjoyed a nice visit with their grandma Jo-Ann these past few days. This morning Grandma left before Ella woke up and Ella was looking for her. She peeked downstairs to where Grandma had been sleeping and called "Grandma, Grandma..." It was very sweet. Thank you for the books and the monkey, Grandma!

"Mama's boots"

Juliette is a well fed baby!

Juliette enjoys her playmat these days!

Juju's Tummy Time

Juliette has been doing very well with her tummy time lately. Her neck is getting strong. She has also rolled over a few times now (from tummy to back). We are still working on getting this on video... and to get anybody besides her mommy to see her perform this new skill.

There is a lot going on in this video. Juliette is being entertained during her tummy time. Ella is singing 'baby beluga' to her... and in the middle of it all Juliette lets out a big toot.

Ella loves to sing baby beluga. This morning she stayed in her crib for awhile after waking up and was singing 'baby beluga, baby beluga...' We also stayed in bed and were serenaded over the monitor.

Family Pictures

Our friend Anita took some family pictures for us last weekend. They turned out really well. We highly recommend her, this is her website: http://www.purpledoorphotography.ca

We went out to get our Christmas tree this weekend. The girls have been checking out all of the lights on it, but have yet to knock it over... we'll see how long this lasts!

Mmmm, I love strawberry smoothies!