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Cameron

 Cameron is 6 months old today and turning into a monster (in a good way). You can just tell that as soon as his masters the getting around that he will be into EVERYTHING!!  He can army crawl/roll and wiggle a fair distance now and enjoys throwing and then chasing after his toys. If we had carpets I think he would be crawling everywhere, but the slippery hard wood makes it hard to get traction and is (thankfully) slowing Cam down.

Teething, crawling/rolling, growing and discovering his own wills and desires means that what ever schedule we did have has now gone right out the window.  Some days he sleeps a pretty much the whole day but others hardly at all.  We have had a few nights of being up for hours on end - something that didn't even happen when he was little.  Needless to say Paul and I are feeling a bit more tired ourselves these days, hopefully with some tweaking to our own schedules and the fast approaching end of my school term things will mellow out a bit.

Fast asleep in the backpack

 

 Jolly-jumper baby

Cam just loves his jolly-jumper!  We set it low and he can practice standing and moving in it.  Surprisingly he doesn't actually do that much jumping.  He can however walk himself into a position where he can see himself in the mirror while in it, which he really seems to like. 

 

This is a really old one, but I really wanted to get it up here.  We had such and amazing day paddling in the Weaslehead with my dad, perfect weather and we even got to play in the little rapids for a while. 

Going potty standing up

Cam has turned into a major wiggler while pottying and so having him stand on the counter while he pees is pretty much the only thing that keeps him from trying to jump out of our arms. 

Ice Climbing King Creek

This past weekend Paul, Clay and myself escaped to the mountains for some hiking and a little bit of early season ice climbing. 

We are going to have to invest in some new ropes... these ones are no longer water resistant and quickly become sopping, frozen messes - not good!

 

 Clayton

 We were sure feeling out of shape, but its good to be out on the ice again!! Hopefully we will have many more days of climbing this season.

Paul putting the ropes up on a 50mish pitch of ice.  Conditions were less than ideal - lots of snow on the ice that had to be cleared away before you could make your next move and ice that shattered and plated off, but otherwise an beautiful day to be out!  It was snow gently all day, the wind was calmed in the canyon and the amazing smells and sights of winter where strongly present.

 Doug!

Urban Chicken Farmers Update

 Cam showing off all the eggs our hens have been laying! 

We haven't had to buy eggs since midsummer!! YAY!!

Our hens are doing great!  Healthy, happy and thankfully less noisy!  We just finished winterizing their coop and getting a heat lamp set up for them.  So far we have been managing to keep the temp in their coop around 10 degrees, however it been pretty nice in the city anf we will have to see how things go once it really starts getting cold!