Finding Fingers

Eliza is finding out that her fingers/hands are soothing to suck on, but she's still learning how to get them into her mouth.

Baby Shower, Aunts and Grandmas

Grins

Sleeping on Auntie Lynn in the blanket she made

Gram



Thinking

Grandma

Baby shower cake and knitted dress.  The dress was knitted by my grandmother when I was a baby.

Playing

Smiles!

It's official - she's smiling. 

Sounds of the Day

Sounds of the day :)

Eliza's 1st Hockey Stick

If we have chatted about hockey at any point, then I have surely mentioned my friend Bryan Helmer! I first interviewed Bryan a few years ago when he was a member of the Hershey Bears in the American Hockey League and we became great friends. His support and encouragement has really helped my writing career. We often hear about role models in sport, well let me tell you, there's no doubt that Bryan is at the top of that list!!

I have had several talks with Bryan in the past few years about becoming a dad and being a dad... In fact, when I first held Eliza, one of my first thoughts was, "Bryan was right - becoming a dad is awesome!!"

While Dianne was pregnant, I asked him for some advice - how I could make sure that our son or daughter becomes a hockey fan too since I work with the NHL Alumni Association. His advice was that we get a mini-stick into his or her hands as soon as we can...

Eliza celebrated her one-month birthday yesterday and we received a lovely package in the mail from Bryan, Pam, Cade and Rylan. Of course, Uncle Bryan made sure to send along an autographed mini-stick for Eliza!! There's no doubt that our "junior writer" is on her way to loving hockey now that she has her first stick and I bet that she'll be interviewing Cade about his hockey career in a few years time.

Playing with Gram

 

Napping on Auntie Tanya

 

Just looking out the window

 

 

 

More cute sounds.

It's so great to see your baby sleeping soundly - and completely adorable to hear these sounds.

 

Stretching

She's too cool.

New play mat 

 

 

Video of Eliza dozing off.

She makes a lot of noises and faces as she drifts off. 
 

Halloween 2012 - our little pumpkin