Marshall in his Swing

When Ora was visiting us last week we borrowed Kip's camera to capture some Marshall moments. I was getting frustrated with our digital auto focus camera. We have a decent camera - a Canon Powershot S410. Let's face it - they're great cameras for still or slow subjects but if you're trying to capture children or pets, all you get are blurs. This is a shot of Marshall taken with Kip's Nikon D70 using a 50mm @ f/1.4 "prime" lens - with a flash. Not too bad considering most flash photos are really harsh.

Lots of Visitors!

We had a busy Sunday. Ora and Cheryl overlapped their visits by one day so there was plenty of activity for Marshall.

Gung Hay Fat Choi!

Happy Chinese New Year! Marshall is doing the "Gung Hay" gesture with his hands (well, sort of). He's practicing the greeting for next year when he'll be old enough to pick up a red envelope on his own. Happy New Year of the Dog, Good Fortune and Good Health to All!

Enjoying a Book

Ora and Marshall were reading together earlier this week. To Ora's surprise, he started turning the pages! I think he liked the large photos in the book - the poems were kind of dry :^).

Aunt Ora and Marshall

Guess who's in town? Aunt Ora! Marhsall LOVES his aunt Ora. He beams when he sees her and this photo shows it. We may have to plan a trip to Ottawa to visit her and Uncle Greg!

Another Bunch of Babies

This photo was taken on January 14th. I meet with a bunch of moms once a month and these are our babies. Click on the photo to enlarge it - can you spot Marshall?

Diapers Galore

Marshall is so excited - he can't stop kicking his feet around! He's surrounded by a warm batch of diapers straight from the dryer. Marc and I have been using cloth diapers on him from day one. The only exception is that he gets a disposable at night. We haven't had any problems with diaper rash and the diapers make great burp cloths.

Bunch of Babies

This is a photo taken a week ago. Marc and I took childbirth classes in August and September and these are the babies of the parents in our class. Marshall was the only one that didn't start crying - he loved sitting on the couch.

Marshall and Bella

I've never blogged before, so here goes! Marc suggested we start a baby blog for Marshall since everyone is always asking for photos. We thought this would be a great way to keep our friends and family up to date with what's going on in Marshall's life.

Marshall turned three months old a few days ago. His most recent discovery has been his hands. A few days after Christmas he started to use his hands to grip things and to try to pick up toys. He likes to babble and he will laugh and squeal with delight when we play with him. We'll try to capture that on video and post it as soon as we figure out how to do that without taking up too much bandwidth.

I'll try to post something once a week. It's difficult to find the time to do this but it sure beats separately e-mailing everyone huge photo files. Till next time!