may your heart always be joyful and may your song always be sung... B. Dylan
Wishing Aunt Sarah, Uncle TJ, and our sweet little Brocky the safest, quickest, easiest move ever. I'm not sure how I would have survived the last few months without you Sarah!!!! (but we won't talk about that now, sniff, sniff). Lots of happy thoughts for your happy new house! Here is Brocky's first kiss for Miss Sylvia about 3 yrs ago - too cute:
Sooo many milestones came so fast little girl! Just before Christmas, on the day you saw Santa for the first time (and smiled your little heart out), Aunt Sarah noticed your first tooth. You were about 7.5 months, and Santa just loved you, even though you tried to pull his beard off - it was real honey!! That was also the first time I heard you say "Mama" in your babbling way on our way to cookie decorating :) 
About a month after that you started clapping and in the last month or so, you suddenly have three more teeth, with another that is close. Aunt Sarah found a few of those too - she is good at that! After months of crawling backwards and other unsuccessful ways, you finally got it all together about 2 weeks ago (age 9.5 months), and you are an expert now. You are also getting pretty good at walking with a walker, and you just love to stand up and let go of things for a few seconds at a time. "Look Mom and Dad, no hands!!"
You were sick for the first time last week. No big deal, thank goodness, just a bit of a fever and a rash. I'm pretty sure it was Roseola, and I'm pretty sure Sylvie had the same thing at your age. We had your regular doctor visit last Friday, and you are 28.5 inches long and 17.12 pounds, which is only 11% in weight. Really, I do feed you. Actually, they were a little surprised that you don't feed yourself yet. We need to work on that one little peanut - ok?
Good-bye February and everything you brought with you! I am soooo glad to see March, especially if the weekend weather was a sign of things to come. Friday, although sad because we know who is moving away soon, was lots and lots of fun. We hung out at Aunt Sarah's with Auntie Mo while Sylvie and Brock played in the "summer room" (Sylvie's name for the Sun Room). Later, everyone came over for sushi / game night. It doesn't get any better than that. We played Quiddler while Sylvie had a blast hanging with "her Brocky" and convincing Pop-pop to read every book on the shelf.
Just before I took that picture of Stella, they both had been on the blue thing and laughing hysterically. After that, Sylvia and I went outside, drew on the sidewalk, and she played on her tricycle as she searched for piles of snow to shovel with her little sand rake. Welcome, welcome spring. The project of the day was to decorate an old black clock I had. 
John and Sylvie got a book that teaches time at the library, so they wanted to make the perfect clock for a little girl's room. He helped her paint it and sparkle it, and I helped her add lots and lots of stickers. We all love the end result. I think everything in our house will eventually end up pink with sparkles. 
Later, John installed a new car-seat to replace Stella's carrier, because even though she is relatively light.....I am weak. Thank goodness for the new car-seat! Bath time was fun, as always. Stella lays on her back most of the time, and kicks as hard as she can with both feet. The whole bathroom is soaked when Miss Stella is done. Sylvie had some art time in her bath (she is no longer interested in sharing a bath with Stella, now that she realized how much little sis splashes!), and apparently drew a T-rex dinosaur [grrrrrr.......]. I was in the other room at the time, but there are pictures to prove it!! 