2011 In Photographs (And Some Words)

January 2011:

First loose tooth:

Starting cello:

The new spinning wheel:

February 2011:

The new spinning wheel, finished:

The boy’s first ever self-directed school project with no teacher input: He planned, designed, and executed a three-dimensional model of a penguin.

March 2011:

Oh hey, by the way, we’re going to have a baby around the end of July:

This is what 1.5 km of Polworth singles plied into a two-ply yarn look like:

April 2011:

We planted a crabapple tree:

Spring sprung in our backyard:

May 2011:

The crabapple actually bloomed, bless it:


Book reports:

HRH made his stage debut as bassist with the band known as Invisible:

June 2011:

The boy’s last day of kindergarten:


Sparky’s visits La Ronde, our local Six Flags amusement park, for the first time:

The boy’s first cello recital:

At which I also played, of course, and loved what I did:

Six years old!

July 2011:

We buy the boy his very own cello:

Eight months pregnant made playing in the Canada Day concert a challenge to say the least, but it all worked, even though I looked like a poster child for How To Not Play The Cello:

I knit my first real lace project that involved more than one line of pattern, a cap for Owlet:

August 2011:

We had the baby!

Who wore the lace cap:

September 2011:

The first day of Grade One:

Owlet had a tongue tie clipped after five weeks, which made nursing so much better:

October 2011:

Owlet with her owlet:

Owlet greeeeew:

HALLOWEEN!

November 2011:

Cute baby was cute:

December 2011:

Someone was a walking cliche for his sixth Christmas. Suggestions on FaceBook for snappy comebacks when people sang the song at him were, “You should see the other guy,” or “But the puck went in, so it was worth it,” courtesy of Rob:

We tested the “babies get bonuses to cute when dressed in overalls” theory:

We decorated the tree:

Owlet received a delicious Lamaze toy for Christmas from Nana and Grandad:

And a very, very special commemorative dish made by Birdsall-Worthington Pottery in Mahone Bay, a partner to the plate Aunt Wilma gave to Sparky when he was born (Sparky’s has a family of three ducks on it, Owlet’s has four):

You know what else happened in 2011? HRH finished the existing attic to give us both an office space. We’re finally assembling pictures from that odyssey; stay tuned!