While I was at work one night, Chevy was up with da boys, drinking….

….this may explain why she spent the day on the sofa…

(actually, this is Chevy’s 1st fever.  She crawled up on the sofa by herself with her water, pulled the blanket over her and rested quietly!)

Friday’s at the Energyplex in Kelowna!

Chevy LOVES the rope swing:

“Alphabet Soup”:

Chevy is now learning to read and has already surprised us with how many words she can read in her books!!  She can recognize lots of letters and loves to repeat the alphabet with me!

Chevy was stoked for the 2010 Olympics!!

First time playing with Mama’s homemade playdo:

Playing ACDC Rockband with her Daddy:

Chevy LOVES playing the drums, here she is playing “Jailbreak” with Daddy:

Skiing with Mama:

Playing in the snow at the Apex cabin:

Having fun wearing Daddy’s hat at breakfast:

First time on the bunny hill!!

Magic Carpet ride with Daddy:

“Go-Go-WEEEEEE!”

6 runs = 3 hour power nap:

Nap attack at lunch:

This is what I get to come home to when I come back from a night shift:

Apparently it was laundry day:

and Chevy STILL loves the swings!

It may be near the end of September but the water was still fine!  We spent the afternoon at Manitou Beach in Naramata:

The “Backyardigans” were in town and Chevy just HAD to see them!:

Bikes!:

New firefighter PJ’s:

Daddy took this picture….

Grandma & Grandpa took Chevy and Mama to the IPE in Armstrong.  Of course what kind of Exhibition would it be without a Petting Zoo????:

One of many many spaghetti faces:

For some reason, all her life, Chevy loves to walk around with sandals around her arms, kinda like bracelets!:

We went to Kya Patterson’s house in Kamloops for her Daddy’s birthday.

Chevy was upset and Kya wanted to make her feel better:

Sunny walk with Mama:

walking around in Dad-dad’s checkered Vans:

My little star:

Visiting the horse that live a few streets above our house:

Marker-face:

bubble girl (sign = “pretty”):

Sleepy-bear:

Mama LOVES you Chevy!

At storytime, (Westbank Library) you were pretty funny.  You puled your shirt up over your head and ran around with your belly out.  I was laughing so hard I couldn’t sing anymore…..

Helping Mama make a cake for your Grandpa’s birthday:

At Gellatly Nut Farm. We came here last year when you were 2 months old…I think we’ll come here every year!

Checking out a nut:

taking after her Auntie Jenny, who was known for wearing beautifully adorned ice cream bucket helmets:

hand print art with Mama:

Halloween Monkey:

(lookout boys…there’s THAT look):

Picking out a pumpkin for Dad-dad:

At the Pumpkin Patch:

We took a walk with her friends through the corn maze…..dunno why she was so upset, but she was too cute to not take a few pictures:

More pumpkins:

Open House at the Kelowna Airport Fire Dept (where I work).  Chevy is checking out the airplane that we use for training (and showing her sign for “airplane” too):

My little firefighter:

Chevy had her crib converted to a BIG GIRL bed at the beginning of December:

And Chevy had another “meeting” with the big red dude:

Sweet Christmas dress from Grandma

Our first Christmas tree in the new house:

Chevy’s first Snow Angel:

Bath time at the cabin with cousin Ian:

Checking out Santa’s “Sleigh” during the torch light parade at Apex Mountain:

All tuckered out – passed out on the living room floor:

Chevy’s first snowman (Mama did all the hard work…):

Helping Mama make ginger bread cookies:

Telling me that the oven is “hot”:

and the end result:

First snow at our new house:

Chevy learning to water color paint:

Chevy always stops to smell the flowers (even if they are plastic ones and she has smelt them before….)!

Starting off the New Year with a bang….Siobhan LOVES skiing!!!

We tried the little strap-on plastic skis in the living room and she just started to walk easily around the room!

“Now… where are your snow pants Chevy??”

Time to hit the slopes ….

……and Chevy thinks it’s a riot!  She giggles, squeals and laughs the whole time!  She even says “GO-GO-GO…Weeeeeeeeee!” when she skis!

She’s also getting into her little run bike….I wonder what’s next….

With the warmer weather, we set up a little pool for Siobhan!

I think she likes it!

Some playtime with Daddy and Mama:

We went to a friend’s 1 st Birthday Party…

Chevy & the Birthday Boy, Sam:

Chevy enjoyed Sam’s slide/climber so much…guess who is shopping for one??

We went to a beach:

Visited Grandpa:

And we practiced more walking while playing in our backyard:

…and she knows how to use it (Chevy helps her mama water the garden every day!)

We went for one of many walks and checked out Powers Creek, Chevy got to dip her toes in the creek:

We got to visit some farm animals (just like the ones we read about!) that live next to Dogwood Nursery:

Someone I know turned 10 months old!!

When we visit Grandma/pa’s house, Chevy gets to play with some toys that Grannie saved.  Daddy used to play with this when he was little!

Another bike ride up to the park swings:

more fun during an afternoon at another beach!

More Birthdays!!  June has been a month of parties!!

Here is the Birthday Girl, Presley:

Chevy & Presley sharing a lei:

Presley’s cake:

Presley’s Birthday was a Luau theme at Gellatly Nut Farm,  what FUN:

More fun at yet another beach!

Someone really enjoys reading books!

Here is Siobhan making a sign for “book”:

We’re moving to PEACHLAND!!!

Here we are checking out our new park:

Siobhan is helping Grandma clean out the fridge in the old house:

…and here Siobhan is helping me pack boxes:

Striking a pose:

And finally, the picture of the month!

….note: this is Chevy’s first real boo-boo!

We had tons of friends stay for the long weekend!!

It was Chevy’s first sleep-over at her house – Kainoa, Kya and Jessamy came to play!

We had about 20 guests and a sea of 8 tents in our yard:

Lots of riding!

…and a baby tossing contest:

We got the van stuck at the top of Mt. Kobau:

…and here’s why:

Marcie making a huge gap look small:

Sarah railing a wooden berm:

Girls only ride down 2.5 on Powers Creek:

More mayhem:

General summer time FUN:

First modeling pose:

a bathroom wall messaged returned:

Charlie Brown’s Kite Eating Tree does exist…it’s in Peachland!

Daddy’s girl:

Siobhan could hardly contain herself!!

Going for a walk (Mama got a sunburn!)

Got the pool set up on the back deck:

Lucky girl, her own private pool!

Pretty dress:

Pretty flowers:

Big shoes to fill!

Checking out the tire pressure:

Exersnoozer:

Really cool shirt Chevy’s Great-Auntie Nora bought for her:

Sharing with Friends at Baby Group:

We went to Jessica’s First Birthday party:

Hanging with Harley-dog, checking out her nose:

and playing with Grandma’s dog, Jewelie:

Jewelie kisses:

Hanging out with Mama, being goofy:

Reading about Uncle Brett Tippie:

Mirror fun:

First time playing at the beach:

Playing with her friend, Kya:

Kya’s first “sand”which:

Helping Mama out:

“What’s for dinner Mama?”

And finally, picture of the month:

My baby turned 8 months….getting bigger every day!!

We had a little party with Siobhan’s friends onthe last day of the play group we went to every Thursday.

Here Siobhan is with the girls (Jessica & Kiera):

And then the whole group:

Siobhan REALLY loves her dog and can even sign the word dog now!

Siobhan graduated from the Little Red Potty to the BIG potty!

Harley even takes her turn at potty training Siobhan:

Harley keeping a watchful eye on her baby:

Siobhan spending the morning helping her Mama in the garden:

Crawling was soooooo last month…..

Now the girl is walking with furniture, people, dog or whatever is handy at the time:

In the middle of April, we went up to Williams Lake to visit friends, Papa Shreddie (Chevy’s Godfather) Grandma Lenora and of course, to ride bikes!

This is Jacintha on Prime and Endless:

One of the boys:

The snow covered climb up (it was worth it!!):

Grandma Lenora, Mark and Siobhan, the Shuttle drivers:

Hanging out between runs in Farwell Canyon:

Siobhan playing in the dirt:

Playing with Guinness:

Guinness really wanted his stick back, but was very patient with Siobhan:

Siobhan and the canyon:

Chevy’s Mama on her bike:

Now drink up Chevy so we can do another lap!

(Her father’s daughter):

Siobhan playing in the bike box (insert rude “box” comments here)

Peek-a-boo!

Chevy loves this little pink run bike!!

Hmmmm, I wonder who’s getting a bike for their first birthday???

We took a really rad, scenic route on the way home.  You can see it from the highway across the Thompson River between Ashcroft and Spences Bridge.  We’ve been looking at the old wooden church from afar for a long time.  It’s high time we checked it out!

And along the way we saw this:

Beautiful wild guy:

See you next month!

To begin, Siobhan perfected her crawling technique!

and  earned these red knees:

In general, Chevy always has FUN everyday!!

Wearing the Team colors:

Then I got pretty sick one Thursday afternoon.

In the middle of the night I went to the hospital and ended up staying for 3 days. Turned out that my appendix was about to burst.  Daddy and his daughter were real troopers while I was at the hospital and I got visitors everyday!

The nurses had some trouble getting  my IV in.  Normally my veins are easy to find, but I musta been pretty sick & dehydrated….

Once I finally got home I was feeling way better.  A  little setback when one of my incisions became infected resulting in a day at the hospital (mostly waiting) and having a small procedure to take care of the abscess.

But things went quickly back to normal.

We have Chevy’s friends and mama’s come over for coffee and sweets:

WE played on the swings at the park:

And we hung out with the firefighters at the Ellison Firehall:

and we found Chevy’s twin:

Hung out with friends at our playgroup:

Visited the Firehall at the Airport:

Here she is with Uncle Neil:

and with Uncle Darrell:

We also went bike shopping in Penticton at Freedom.

New helmet for Chevy:

Trying on a run bike for size….almost fits!

Can we buy this one Daddy???

It’s only $88 bucks!!

Chevy got a couple new kilts.

She makes kilts look good:

More goofing around:

Peek-a-boo!

Watching “In the Night Garden” with Igglepiggle:

HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY:

Chevy turned 7 months old:

Got the Chariot all ready to rock and we rode to the park for some swing time:

Went skiing for the first time!  Went with Daddy and Auntie Jenny (Mama was still recovering from surgery…)

…and lastly, now that Chevy has mastered the art of crawling, she has figured out pulling to a stand and furniture creeping:

Stealing a kiss from Daddy:

Finally, TWO pictures of the month:

See y’all next month!

=D