Early Christmas Present!

And I'm not really sure who the gift was most appreciated by! My parents gave Rebecca a little Fisher Price Baby through Toddler rocking chair, and she seems to really enjoy it. *I* enjoy it, because I can now put her down somewhere that she isn't going to continue to fuss while I work at my hot stove (as with last night when I was frying fish). I can also put her in it when I'm on the computer, or just when I need a break in general. Most of the time I don't mind carrying her. We have a little mei tei carrier that she really enjoys being in, and actually sleeps most of the time she is in it, unless she's really mad at me when I put her in it. But, sometimes... I just need to be able to put her down!

Anyway, here's Rebecca with her new chair. :-)





I do believe Rebecca's thrush has cleared up, as we don't seem to have had a relapse as of yet. I don't know how long it takes to know for sure though! Hopefully a week of being clear means we're done! Now we're just working on getting rid of a very odd diaper rash to which only one diaper cream we've tried actually sticks. For some reason, despite the fact that it feels dry to the touch, the creams just don't want to stick to her bottom! Anyway, I think we've about got rid of the rash now too, so hopefully we'll be back to completely normal shortly.

We decorated our Christmas tree this past Tuesday, I think it was, and took Christmas pictures of Rebecca last night. I believe we may be going to "Christmas in the Country" at a farm down on the southside somewhere tomorrow. If I recall correctly, they have free cookies, hot chocolate, candy canes, and a bunch of activities to participate in, so that should be fun... if we go. I'm not sure if Justin only mentioned it for the sake of mentioning it, or if he mentioned it because we could possibly go.

After we do our grocery shopping tomorrow, I believe I will be able to start on a LOT of baking. I need the gingerbread house recipe (please Mum??) before I can work on that one, but most everything else I can work on as soon as we have margarine and butter enough for baking. I baked one batch of cookies that doesn't require either margarine or butter-- it needed shortening, but I think almost everything else needs one of the other two.

I've now put the word out that we have baby birds available, so hopefully in the next few days we'll at least have people claiming them, even if we have to wait another couple of weeks to get rid of them. We're marketing them as a "good Christmas gift idea". :) And, speaking of birds, while we were out for a walk this afternoon (Rebecca, Cinders, and I), we saw a Bluebird! I do believe it is either the first one I've ever seen, or the first I've seen since I was maybe seven years old! At first I thought it was a Robin, but realized that it was too small, and that the bluish colour really was blue feathers, therefore making it a Bluebird instead. We had a very pretty sort of woodpecker in our back yard yesterday as well... I'm really not sure what kind it was, as it wasn't fat like a Hairy Woodpecker, and had too much red on it, but it was about the right length to be one, so I'm a bit curious as to what sort it is.

Anyway, I think that's about all the news around here at the moment. :)

Having Some Fun

Yesterday afternoon after church, Justin was holding Rebecca, and she kept tipping herself backward quite forcefully, so he would let her flip upside down, and then turn her right side up again and seat her on his lap. She really seems to have enjoyed it, because she was doing the same thing with me today! It kept her occupied for about 1/2 an hour yesterday afternoon as well, which was quite nice. :)




Rebecca got thrush, so we spent this weekend trying to take care of that. Hopefully we're done and it won't return, but I guess we'll know by the end of this week. Anyway, the first treatment normally recommended is this stuff called gentian violet, which stains *everything* purple! I took some pictures of Rebecca with her purple lips... these are probably some of those pictures that people hope won't be shown at their wedding reception, hehe...



And, Rebecca has now met and had quite the discussion with her teddy bear "Ebeneezer" (?) from Granny! She talked to it for about 10 minutes, and kept rubbing it with her fingers. I guess that means he is a hit with her!


I decided to introduce the world of toys to her... I hadn't realized how many toys we had for her until I looked at her blanket! But, she enjoyed looking around at them all, and as already was mentioned, she talked to the teddy for a while. She also talked to her pink flower, which she generally has a few discussions with daily. I guess she likes the bright colours or something.