Tooth number 8.

Tooth number 8 broke through this week :) Not too much else new-- just a new video for you to enjoy.

First Snow

Well, we have had the first snow that has stuck this weekend...Friday morning, actually. It is just a small amount, but it sure changes the scenery quick...and (as Ken says) makes it hard to see our fox...the arctic fox that has decided to adopt our yard and the area under our house as his home range. We had a very busy weekend- off to Gene and Sophia's Friday night for pizza, Health Fair on Saturday (I manned a table for wildlife dept., Ken joined with Gage later in the morning) and a 58th birthday party for Geoff last night. Today, taking it easy and cleaning...and I am off to work for a little while. Our organic vegetable deliveries start this week (we have joined the co-op that our babysitter Annie started-- a delivery of a box of organic vegetables and fruits from a farm in Washington as often as once a week (or however often you want if it is less than this)). You even get to choose a lot of what you get, which is really cool...and of course, you can order other stuff too (like fresh herbs!!!). This week will be busy with propsals and yearly reports and then whaling will begin on Oct. 4. Then life will be a blur for a while. One other exciting this is that my atigi (fur parka) that I have been working on for a very long time is almost finished! Pictures of that soon :)

new pictures of our happy guy

new pics but nothing new to report except whaling won't start 'til the 4th...enjoy...

Here are some pictures of Gage from this weekend. Annie watched Gage for a few hours yesterday while Ken and I took the four wheeler out to Monument. It was a really nice day--- cold, but sunny. A nice ride...but the verdict (on whether or not we are keeping the 4-wheeler) is still out...Gage is still not crawling, but seems to be making the movements towards going...he is well off the ground and rocking back and forth...and can move, but goes backwards... not forwards! Anyhow, here are a bunch of photos and hopefully a video for your weekly enjoyment :)

Lagging...fall in Barrow

Been a while since we have posted (thanks for the reminders! Let's me know people actually look at the blog :) ) Anyhow, we spent a WONDERFUL and SUNNY long weekend in Fairbanks. Andrea visited twice during this week, now Marty has been here for the last couple of days. He was lucky enough to see another polar bear while he was here. Gage is doing great and looknig like he is JUST about to crawl. He is saying mama a lot more and seeming like he knows what he is saying....but he says dada a lot too (I like it when he says this, particularly at 6am when we cannot shut him up...I tell Ken that he is asking for him ;) ). New this week is the "B" sound...lots of ba ba ba's. It is funny- he seems to have varying interests in babies: Brenna he is crazy for, Elmo, is seems he could give or take (though he did grab her by the collar and drag her over to him when she took his mango!). Feeding is going MUCH better-- he really likes the banana cereal (though, suprisingly, he was not crazy about the bananas...but I have heard you need to try "new" tastes a few times until they take). I could NOT get him to open his mouth to peas! So, well, not even a new taste to work up to... it didn't even matter if I warmed them up! All 6 teeth are through. The right upper tooth is a bit behind the left...and he kinda looks like braces may be in order ;) But I suspect they will straighten out when more come in. We finally broke down and disassembled the swing. It hadn't really "swung" him in a month or so...(too heavy) so it was just taking up space in our living room, which is rapidly filling up with baby toys. But boy, it was great when he was little!

That is all for now. Marty and Ken are out watching birds. They have been gone a while, so maybe they are seeing some cool ones. We saw 7 tundra swans the other week-- they were HUGE. It was really cool...they were sleeping, so they just looked like big while lumps on the tundra. The white-fronted geese are surrounding our house and Gage loves to watch them from the diaper changing table :) The picture of sleeping Gage is from Annie (his babysitter)-- she has a little home studio and a great camera and lights...one of the many perks of having Annie as a babysitter is professional grade baby pictures! Thanks Annie!

PS- Siqiniq is Gage's Inupiaq name :)