Our Winter!

Christmas!
Our first Christmas as a family of three! It was an adventure. We usually combine our two families (much easier on us, and on Andre's parents since they don't have to cook), but this year Andre's parents decided they didn't want to travel. So I suggested that we go up and visit them for dinner on Christmas Eve. It ended up being a huge ordeal for us having to lug a bunch of crap for a half day there, but I felt is was important that Emilie get to experience her first Christmas with both of her grandparents.

Emilie and her Nana

Opening her new jammies!

Giving her Grandpa his present.

Santa visited our house!!

 The next morning we spent the first part of the morning together just as our little family. Listening to Christmas carols and opening presents. Emilie was a little overwhelmed by all the gifts though, so it ended up taking us the entire day to get everything opened.

Opening her stocking.

She loved her new activity table.

Opening more presents!

 After a nap in the morning we went over to my parents house to open even more presents!

Emilie and I going through our stockings.

Our day ended (after nap #2) with a turkey dinner at my parents house. I was a little nervous about how this was going to go down with a house full of people, and two active babies in my parents tiny house, but it all went really well, and Emilie did very well.

Swimming Lessons 
One thing that Andre and I felt was really important was to have Emilie get comfortable with the water, and one day be able to swim, so we started by enrolling her in a water babies swim program at the local recreation centre. The best part was that Emilie was in the same class as her cousin Joshua!

Yay, swimming lessons!

Learning the back float with Mama.

Playing with Papa.

Fun in the snow
You'd think that living in Canada that this would be an everyday occurrence, but this year, not so much at least where we live. We did however manage to get a few snapshots of Emilie having some fun in the snow with her cousin.

How can we forget...

More on the BIG ONE later!