It’s been quite a while since we last updated the blog and a lot has happened. In February Christina and Natalie took a trip to Kelowna to visit Christina’s parents. They had a great time despite the snow and Lori’s back injury. While there, they enjoyed a great cooking class at the Mission Hill winery restaurant.

This month we saw Christina’s sister Amy head off to Bali and Thailand for a three week vacation in the sun. We’re obviously jealous, but are really excited for her and enjoy getting her emails and pictures.

Last week we had a week of visiting Grandparents. Lori came out to visit during the week and my parents visited over the weekend. It was great to visit with all of them and they had a blast with Natalie. We’re really happy that they can come and visit as often as they do.

Natalie is getting to be such a big girl now. Her vocabulary is so large that we’ve lost count of the number words she is using. Her pronounciation often leaves something to be desired, but she gets her point across. :) She is very curious and likes to figure out how things work, especially electronics. We recently bought a map of the world so that we can teach her some geography, and she can already find Canada and Australia fairly consistently. Natalie has become infatuated with watching movies, and constantly wants “Wah a Moo-wee”. Her two favourite movies right now are Mary Poppins and Wizard of Oz (which she refers to as “Toto” because she loves the dog so much). They hold her attention through most of the movie and she even gets up dances (surprise!) and sings along with them (especially Mary Poppins). Some of Natalie’s molars have come in now, bringing her total tooth count to 10. She still only has the two in the front on the bottom.