A big year for the McNelson family!

2011 has been a big year for us to say the least! We welcomed Amber into our family:

 I got my P.Eng. designation:

And soon we will have a doctor in our family!

       *Picture to be posted shortly!*

Now onto the Amber update.....

This last month has been a big one for Amber too. She finally decided to upgrade from skooching:

To crawling! 

Fortunately Tim was also able to witness her first attempt :)

  Since then, Amber has been practicing her crawling techniques and has been having a lot of fun with it. Needless to say Loca is doing a lot more running away these days!

Tim also recently set up our mini Christmas tree and Amber absolutely loves it when the lights are on. Every time she sees it she points and starts shrieking. She usually likes to sit next to it and touch all the ornaments and lights on it :)

Amber is also becoming more and more independent these days. On a typical day I'm lucky if she'll let me feed her one meal with a spoon. She loves to stuff handfuls of food into her mouth and typically drops a few handfuls down the side for Loca as well. Actually, that usually signifies that she's full....once she starts feeding Loca on purpose I know she's done!

 

That pretty much sums it up for us at the moment, but there will definitely be more exciting posts in the near future!