Santa and the Tooth Fairy

Well, Christmas is all over. We had a fantastic time here and in St. Albert. Santa brought Paige a few new toys and some outfits. For Christmas we went to Grandma and Grandpa's house for some lunch and presents and then over to Leslie's house for dinner with everyone.

Then it was off to St. Albert to stay with Auntie Jen and visit the rest of the family and friends. We had an 8:00 flight which got us into St. Albert at around midnight local time. Paige had a few naps along the way so she was able to make it till such a late hour without going completely ballistic. When we got there I was feeling a bit weird, but attributed it to being tired and having a long flight (not to mention a few hours of playing Nintendo DS on the plane). To make a long story short, I was sick all night and then fainted in the morning from dehydration. What a fabulous way to start a vacation! You know I was sick when I had THREE naps the next day! The illness put a bit of a damper in the plans, as I was sick for the turkey dinner at Grandma Val's on the 27th. I quickly got better though for the next day and was able to visit with Lisa and Cadence, and Andrea and Emmerson, and then The Barr's for dinner!

We had a couple of visits with Grandpa Jerry, saw Amanda and Angie, and had a visit with Janice, Lisa, Gordon, Sarah, Katie, Colin, and Lisa's mom. On the 28th Grandma Val babysat for a few hours while Mike and I went to a party at Janice's house.

All in all, the trip was fabulous and we had lots of visiting time with everyone. Paige was quite good natured considering she was cutting TWO TEETH!! She had a few bad sleeps and was sometimes a bit cranky, but we figure she could have been a lot worse. She also got a lot of practice with her crawling. She is not crawling yet, but she performed a precursor to crawling with doing a few bunny hops forward on her elbows and knees, as well as a few backward scoots.

Paige made a few new furry friends. She laughed hysterically at Abby (Beagle) when she jumped or barked. She also was semi-amused by Austin (tiny thing), but he was smaller than her so the jumping didn't make quite the same impact. Riley (golden retriever) was huge, so she didn't seem to quite understand what he was.

In terms of these teeth, sometime between this morning and about 2:00pm, her first tooth broke through. I know because I have been feeling around in there continuously. There is now a tiny little sharp point in the place of her bottom left incisor.

Oh--she also tried Oatmeal cereal today, and she didn't seem to notice anything different from the rice cereal. And, she is sleeping her face off after her week as a party girl.