Lunchtime at the Wongs.

Ryan ate 1 whole homemade pizza (whole wheat crust, with a ramped up veggie bolognese sauce and tex mex cheddar cheese), then he polished off a whole bowl of spaghetti bolognese with tonnes of grated parmesan. Emma ate butternut squash with garlic buttered spaghetti noodles. She loved it!

Many Milestones!

It's been a week of major milestones for Emma. On the 18th she cut two more teeth giving her a total of six. Four on top and two on the bottom. There are two more bottom ones coming as well.

Emma wants grown up food. She also likes to feed herself. She adores avocado and likes it so much that she even let her Daddy feed it to her on a spoon last night. Her new favourite... She gobbled up about eight organic sweet potato oven fries. She also started drinking water from a sippy cup this week. Last week she starting giving kisses... Big wet open mouthed ones... I forgot how much I loved those from Ryan! She is just way too cute!

Emma has been standing up every now and then for the past two weeks but as of the 22nd she not only started standing up everywhere but she also started crawling. Yesterday she mastered the art of sitting down from the standing position and today she's even trying to get from couch to table and from table to toy. She's determined to catch up to her big brother and fast!

Lunchtime.

Emma loves anything that Ryan eats. But Ryan doesn't necessarily like everything he eats. I got Ryan to eat peas today with his favourite pasta of carrots and chicken tossed with garlic, flat leaf parsley, olive oil and finished with a heavy grating of reggiano. Mmmmmmm... Good!

Sunny day at Granville Island.

First sunny day in weeks... We went down to Granville Island and walked around the seawall, Ryan rode his bike, played at the playground and then we went to Earls for some lunch. Great day!

Started out at Bridges.

Had to hold onto Ryan's hood, Bridges patio was a sheet of ice.

Perfect day for pictures.

Ryan sizing up the cool bumpy boardwalk he was about to ride on...

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Playground fun.

"No, I don't want to go."

Someone didn't want to leave the playground...

Big tears...

A face that makes a parent's heart melt.

Trying to explain why geese eat grass.

Trying to explain to Ryan why there was so much poop on the grass.

Look but please don't touch or chase for that matter.

Give me that thing.

Dad says,"Ryan, are you sleepy?" Ryan says,"No!"

Emma Versus the Lemon — Part II

The First time wasn't good enough... Emma needed to find out if it was actually indeed that sour.

Emma Versus the Lemon — Part I

"When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade." – Dale Carnegie

Or in Emmas case... Make a face worth a thousand words...

Ryan's 1st Haircut with Angela.

Ryan got his first haircut with Kim's hairstylist Angela today. He was a superstar and loved sitting still for her.

"Hmmm... Angela, I think you do a better job than my Mom."

"Bottled water please... Shaken, not stirred."

"Not too much off the top... Please."

Patiently sitting... What a grown up little boy.

Even this bib tastes better than that food.

There was more food on Emma's bib and floor than actually consumed. Today it was organic pureed prunes with some small bits of banana that she could feed herself.

Emma does love our food... Over the next month we'll slowly start introducing her to small, safe mushy bits of sweet potato, banana, avocado, poached apples and pears, pasta etc.

No, absolutely no, no means no, no baby and I don't mean maybe...

Emma is a carbon copy of her brother... Teeth are all coming in fast and furious, and the desire to have any kind of 'baby food' is on her list of 'things that she never needs to experience in her lifetime'.

Today she was OK with the idea of prunes, but not on a spoon. I tried rubber spoons, plastic spoons, melamine spoons, and even 'grown-up' big brother spoons... And the answer still is... 'No!'

Comfort is where the fingers are.

A Little Privacy Please...

Like father like son... a bounty of reading materials... His favs at the moment; Style at Home, Food & Wine, Bon Appetite, Vancouver Magazine and a few Thomas the Train books to keep his juice within comfortable reach. Nothing ground breaking as of yet... One step forward and then sometimes two steps back. Nonetheless, extremely cute!