Merry Christmas from the Nelson Family

My Mom's beautiful Christmas tree, by "candlelight". My Mom didn't decorate in red for the first time in many years this year. She went with blue and silver. Unfortunately, this photo does not do the tree any justice. It was gorgeous, with silver reindeer, snowflakes and blue dragonflies.

Auntie Sheri and Grandpa Nelson having a little tea party with Lennah and Eric with Lennah's new Tupperware juice jug and cups set.

Uncle Francois and Eric with Eric's new tool belt and work gloves.

I came back down to the coast to celebrate Christmas with our families early this year as Nathan was unable to get time off work. One of those sacrifices we made when Nathan took the post in Takla and the opportunity to be home with Lennah.

We had a lovely ham dinner that my Mom also prepared for us. And, tiramisu cheese cake that Auntie Sheri made. Unfortunately, I didn't get many shots of Christmas dinner and the present opening with the kids. Both Eric and Lennah were far too busy playing with their new toys to "pose" for our photos. And dinner was far too wonderful to stop eating and take pictures!

Santa Baby

This is this year's Santa picture. As you can probably tell, Lennah was not impressed with Santa. I kind of thought she might be okay with him as Grandpa Bill had grown himself quite a large white beard that Lennah has taken to rubbing. But, there was no fooling our little girl, this was NOT Grandpa (or Papa, as she's taken to calling him). This was the only shot the photographer managed to get that was passable. If you're wondering why Lennah is right on the edge of the photo, it is because she was clinging to me. I just managed to lean as far back as I could when the photographer took the shot.

First Snow Day

The tears have already started!

Knee deep on Daddy's tailgate.

Maybe we shouldn't have tried to bury her.

I'm such a bad Mom. At least in this picture I managed to stop laughing. Lennah wouldn't even walk in the snow!

Daddy trying to comfort Lennah, too. I think this is when we decided to call it a day.

I know I've been delinquent in taking Lennah out into the snow. We've had snow since first week of November and she hasn't been out to play in it. But December 4th's conditions were perfect. We woke up to about 5 inches of new snow and then the sun came out in the afternoon. On my last trip down to the coast Daddy got her a proper snow sled that we can pull her around in. My intentions are a little selfish as I have to try and get some exercise in some way. I can't walk the dogs or walk around town here, the way I used to when we were on the coast.

~ Lennah and Nona ~

Here are some pictures of Lennah with her Nona taken when Lennah was 6 weeks old and just before her first birthday.

~ Food Fight ~

This is the evolution of the "meal" in the last year. From Lennah's first meal of solid food (with Dawson looking for some, too), to her first ever Pirate Pack, to just last night (she even got yogurt on her eyelashes!). I call it the "food fight" for obvious reasons. I should have included pictures of the dogs camped out on the floor below her chair or the floor after she's done throwing half her food on it. Maybe I'll update the collage with those shots next time.

The Camper

Here's a couple of shots of our latest aquisition. Nathan and I bought a camper a couple of weeks ago. I'm thinking it's an awfully big and comfortable dog house for Nathan. Too comfortable, perhaps?

Toques

We could not resist posting some more pictures of Lennah. Here she is in Daddy's toque. She looks like a mini-Relic from The Beachcombers.

Here's Daddy taking a picture of the two of them in matching toques.

This shot was taken after "The Terrible 2's Terrorist Camp" Lennah has been taking. I know she's not 2 years old yet, but she's starting early. When not flinging her food on the floor or feeding the dogs when she's supposed to be eating dinner, she's flinging herself on the floor throwing a tantrum. (Not too sure what she's going to do with the cell phone, though ...)