Christmas New Years time warp

That went so fast! I can't believe it's Jan 6th already! Christmas in Calgary almost didn't happen. The weather was really bad before we left; we had had 3 big snowfalls and on the night we were to leave Dec 24th. there was another one the way. We had already been snowed into our drive way as the plows hadn't come all week and Tyler was walking through 2 feet of snow to work instead of driving. We actually didn't know if we were going to be able to get to the airport until just a few hours before departure. This amount of snow for the Comox valley is a once in a decade thing and a white Christmas is also very rare. Luckily, we had two great friends with a truck who took us to the airport and even luckier still we beat the approaching snow storm and flew into Calgary without any major issues.
Emmett was great on the plane, he slept and when he wasn't sleeping, he was transfixed by the TV on the back of the seats. To help his ears with the pressure change on the way up and down, i nursed him and he was fine. It all went really well and besides there were lots of other kids on the plane that were a whole lot louder than he was.

Christmas in Calgary was great, Emmett got too meet so many new faces and he was so good about it. I would put him down to sleep and he would keep waking up to new people staring at him and he would just smile back. I'm really happy he had a chance to meet his Great Grandma as he only has one left. I have pictures of me as a toddler in my Omi's lap and it's one of my favorite pictures even though I don't remember much of her. It was especially fun to watch Emmett trying to open one of his first Christmas presents..he was pretty sure he'd get that open himself and then eat it! I want to say a big thanks to everyone who made our Christmas so great for us and especially for Emmett. Thank you! I hope next year we will be able to give a little back.

As for new years eve...well..lets just say there was a lot of couch time and decompressing to do and that was how we rang in 2009...just as good. Hey at least I actually satyed up until midnight!

I haven't been able to weigh him since Dec 11th so I am guessing that he weighs around 17 lbs.. we will see. My moms group has been out of session for x-mas and returns next week so i can weigh him then. Emmett is 5 months on the 9th and is learning new things so quickly. While we were away in Calgary he learned to blow raspberries. He is sitting with less support than before though still not rolling from back to belly just belly to back. He went into squirmy overdrive and is all about grabbing anything he can get his hands on which can make eating dinner with him on my lap impossible now. He is definitely ready for something new. We are going to buy him an excersaucer and a jolly jumper in a frame with some of his Christmas money this weekend..i can't wait to try him out in them. Our camera battery died over the holidays so all the pics that we taken were from family and I will post those as I receive them. ttys