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Santa Baby

I'm sure Santa himself used to wear his hat and sit in his bebe pod when *he* was little. Noemie is modeling her hat though I had to snap fast as she kept pulling it off. That white "fur" yarn is awful stuff. It flakes everywhere so I'm forever dust busting up little pieces. I can already see it will be a nightmare to get a photo of her in full outfit. Kirk will have to keep putting the hat on her while I keep the camera positioned and ready. Thank goodness for digital cameras!

I like the advice given by a few of you who commented to keep this blog password protected and I'll just update when I can. So, be warned there will be times when there are no updates for a week or so and other days there will be more.

Some Tuesday afternoon cuteness

Took this photo about 30 minutes ago! Noemie was playing on the floor and I could hear this muffled sound and I turn around and she's wrapped herself up in a blanket of sorts and is just talking to herself. I checked to make sure she wasn't suffocating herself and peeked under the blanket and she was smiling so of course I grab the camera and realize I have the macro lens on there so I went for the close up shot. She's being a good napper today so I've managed to get a few bits done.

I'm realizing that I don't have enough time to update this blog very often and it's almost becoming a "chore" of sorts. I don't want to stop blogging but like my main blog better just as it's got a variety of stuff on it. I'm still unsure about opening up this blog to the public again but then again, it's not listed in any search engines so the only people really seeing it are scrappers or miniaturists. Maybe it will be more important when she gets a bit older. I don't know. Just trying to find a way to combine Noemie stuff into my day to day blog, considering she is a huge part of my day to day.

Any thoughts from those who read this blog? I know some of you have kids yourselves and some have their blogs password protected while others don't. I hate being so indecisive!

Where did the weekend go?

I think someone stole about 48 hours from our weekend. It just went so fast. Yesterday we didn't do a whole lot. I slept in until around 9:15 and Kirk got up with Noemie (I got up with her this morning). I think I need to not sleep in as it makes the day too short. Today we went to my parents for lunch and Kirk got a cute photo of Noemie and I together. We all went for a walk before lunch and Noemie had chicken for the first time. I prepared it last night but took it with us. Noemie wasn't too convinced, more the texture than anything as she didn't spit it out or anything. She'll have some more tomorrow. Wish I had something interesting to say but I don't, so I think I'll go to sleep now! Hope you all had a lovely weekend.

Giggle

This is getting addictive. Poor thing gets the hiccups when she laughs too hard though. She still has them now, 15 minutes later! We play this game where I crouch down under her high chair and pop up and she giggles. Was a bit harder to do with the camera but we managed. Sorry it's a bit dark, we have soft lighting (weak lightbulb) in her room. I was going to save this for tomorrow but Kirk wanted to see it as he is at work and probably missing Noemie. All together now... awwwwww!

Bababababa?

She has a LOT to say today. Woke up chatting to herself at 4:30am so we ignored her and she was fine until 7am when she woke up chatting again. Chatted to herself during breakfast, then chatted herself to sleep for her long morning nap, then chatted on our walk and when the lady at Mothercare said hello to her she smiled and chatted some more. Then she chatted to the people who smiled at her at Starbucks. This clip was taken during lunch so you'll have to excuse the food all over her face as well as the shaky camera as I was trying to feed her with my left hand while filming her and found she was half off the screen a lot. Oh well... but you get the idea now! She's now in her bumbo chatting to Sponge Bob Square Pants on TV! She's dangerous on the bumbo though as she falls out backwards, sideways and face down. Luckily she finds it funny and giggles but I worry in case she hurts herself!

Edited to say I just viewed it on my blog and noticed there is a slight delay in the sound. How annoying. One of my pet peeves when it happens on TV. Also not sure why the quality is so grainy. Even on the finest setting it does this.

Another video

but the ba ba ba has been hard to capture. She seems to know when the camera is off or has run out of charge and THEN she will do it. I swear she is toying with me. I'll keep trying but for now, here is another thing she does often (which is so not lady like).

The weather stinks today with loads of rain but of course the moment it stops, Noemie goes down for a nap. I'm hoping it's still ok when she wakes up as I need to take a few things to the post office ideally this afternoon. I better go try and knit a bit while she snoozes. This morning was another of her 30 min catnaps so hope the current nap is a bit better!

Testing a video upload...

Edited to say: Yay!!! It works! Ok, so it's not of her saying ba ba ba. The clip is from when she was about a month old and I found it on the camcorder today. We did get her saying ba ba ba BUT we recorded in on the video tape option and when I went to download it to my computer, I realised we needed to record stuff onto the camera memory in order to share. I think we can do more on Kirk's computer as there are more options with a PC but I'm too tired to figure it out tonight. Tomorrow I will try and get Noemie saying ba ba ba and upload it if I succeed! This opens up a whole new world of options for me, I am so excited!!! Can share more of Noemie in action :)

Weekend Blogger

I'm turning into a bit of a weekend blogger. The week just goes by so fast these days though and Noemie hasn't been much of a napper lately so when she does go down for 30 minutes twice a day, I use that time to eat my meals or throw in a load of laundry. The good thing is though she goes to bed by around 6:30 for the most part so I get the evenings free so I either knit or scrap. This week it's been lots of knitting as I'm racing to get the santa outfit done. So far I've got the jacket back, 2 fronts and a sleeve and now half a hat finished. I want to finish the hat today, do the 2nd sleeve and get the jacket done tomorrow so all I need to do this week is the trousers. Scrapping has taken a bit of a back seat at the moment but hopefully I'll get back into that soon.

So, what's new with Noemie. She's started babbling, her current "word" is ba ba ba ba ba. She started doing this yesterday morning. On Thursday I noticed that whenever I talked to her she would open and close her mouth, so I thought she was telling me she was hungry as the first time was in her highchair while waiting for lunch. She continued doing it in her jumperoo, in her stroller...and there is no way she was hungry all the time. It's the cutest thing. I look at her and say "blah blah blah" and her little mouth opens and shuts like a fish or something. Then yesterday morning I noticed she was saying ba ba ba ba ba a lot. She would wake up from her nap and that's what I would hear on the monitor. This morning we woke up to that as well and it totally made Kirk's day.

We were on our way home from a walk yesterday and as we passed a crowded bus stop (with several old ladies) she suddenly screamed BA BA BA BA BA. Everyone burst out laughing, including her. Lucky we aren't in Japan as Baba means old lady and not in the nicest way. I made sure to call Kirk so he could hear her and then my Dad. My Mom was out and when she got home she called back but Noemie won't babababa on command. Oh, and her little voice is so sweet. Totally a little girl voice. I have a relatively deep voice (I think?) so she doesn't get it from me. I can't wait until she starts talking so we can hear more of that little voice. I seriously need to work out how to do a video and download it onto my blog.

Time to go and get stuff done. I woke up with a bad headache and found some of the super strong pain killers they gave me at the hospital after my c-section so I took one of those. It still took about an hour for the pain to go away but now it's gone, I better take advantage and get stuff done in case it returns.

7 months old today

I can't believe how fast time is going! Noemie is 7 months old now and she wore her new Chelsea kit to celebrate. Can't tell too much from the photo but it's a proper top and separate shorts along with socks with the adidas logo on it. Course she slept through the match (she didn't miss much). She's found her high pitched scream voice lately and spent the weekend shrieking. Our next door neighbor's kid was like this at the same age and I was always like "no way am I having a screeching kid". Little did I know. We have a screeching kid. Chances are it's just a phase and hopefully a short one at that!

And another week zooms by

Really not sure how the week gets away from me but time seems to be zooming right along! My parents came over for lunch on Wednesday, Kirk travelled that night and Noemie was a sweet easy baby so I was happy. Really wish I had something more interesting to tell but it was just a good week though nothing in particular happened. This photo was taken earlier today before Kirk took Noemie out for her morning walk. The beret is one I knitted for her which Mimi modelled a while back. Still a bit big on her so it kept slipping down over her eyes. I love the outfit she is wearing as well. It's overalls underneath with a hooded jacket to match and is 100% merino wool. Nice and warm on a chilly day like today.

I have spent the better part of today cooking meals for Noemie. Peeling, dicing, steaming and pureeing 5 different vegetables and making various combinations. I figure she's tried quite a few things and not shown allergies to any of them so it's now safe to make mixed stuff. We'll try chicken next weekend I think! I wish I could get over my mental block of buying jarred ready made baby food but I figure Kirk and I don't like eating ready meals so why should Noemie? I know I have to get her to try some jarred stuff at some point in case we travel but then again, at this point I get the feeling she'll be eating normal food off the table by the time we go away so it might not be an issue. Odd how I had no problems giving her formula though huh?