A Photo Post, in honour of 10 months

Well, I may have been a little overeager in saying Heidi is crawling. She seems to have stalled at the rock on all 4s, or pivot her feet in a circle around her stationary head and hands. She has stopped snowplowing forward with her head, likely because it hurts when you snowplow forward with your head. On the upside, this has given Harrison the chance to catch up and he is now, mobility wise, at exactly the same stage. We thought he had made a big jump forward in mobility this morning when Brendan called out "look, Harrison is under the couch!". It turned out Brendan was under there with him and with further intensive quesioning we eventually discovered that Brendan had rolled him there himself. Big brothers can be hazardous to your health!

Heidi and Harrison passed their 10 month birthday milestone while we were in Port Stanley, so the obligatory Paddington Bear photo is a few days overdue.

As I write Brendan is out in the driveway practicing "tricks" on his bike to show his friends at his brithday tomorrow. He just did a fairly impressive skidding stop and was measuring how long a skid he'd left in the gravel. Like father, like son!





10 month photo





A triumphant return to Autocross after almost 2 years away - I won my class! Rob says I was the only one in it. Picky, picky. We made a few adjustments to our autocross events this year however, hauling up the camper trailer as a play/feeding/changing/napping venue. The other racers nicknamed it our "baby containment unit".





Heidi helped Dad make Brendan's birthday cake yesterday. She looks like a willing participant! (By the way, you'll notice these are out of chronological order, sorry about that!)





Two babies in a bathtub, does it get any better than that? It's actually a vast improvement from bathing the babies individually, since Heidi always used to cry through the bath. With Harrison splashing wildly, she's too amused to remember she hates being wet!





Brendan's first school friend birthday party was a great success, and it made him look so grown up playing with a group of other kids.





Heidi, all dressed up for the birthday party, came along too.





Being this cute is terribly exhausting





Heidi all dressed up (yes, that's sort of a theme in her life) for our next door neighbour Kristin's baby shower. The twins will have a new playmate sometime in the next month!!





Harrison all dressed up (ha, you see, I'm not being gender specific with my dressing kids up) in his most macho outfit!





Ok, back to Heidi, all dressed up, in her favourite fur collared outfit. Harrison just can not compete with this wardrobe...





Alright, I promise this is the last fashion shot, and then we can get back to more exciting comings and goings. It's worth mentioning at this point that one of my New Years resolutions was to take fewer pictures. It's worth mentioning I'm doing horribly at that.





Brendan had Brianna (the birthday girl previously mentioned, a fellow kindergartner who turns out to live just 3 doors down and by all accounts his best school friend) over for his first school friend "play date". It's a match made in heaven, because Brianna is absolutely crazy about trains too, and for the full hour they played in this exact position beside the track!























Harrison up on all fours, trying to race Heidi to the next milestone...





The kids all dressed up for Dad's big night, the Firefighter Graduation.





Our brave firefighter, looking very official. Also, our little goofball trying to get in the background, looking less official.


I have pictures from our first birthday weekend, but the twins are waking up from their nap, so I'll have to include them with pictures from Brendan's party on Saturday. Till then, stay calm and carry on... Nancy