Baby Whispers

Sam wakes up at 6am everyday and I bring her back to bed with me to feed. I can snooze while she eats and everyone's happy.....until she's done....then I hear her softly whisper her babble - it's so adorable.....until I feel soft tiny (and sometimes soggy) fingers grabbing my nose....then my hair....and she YANKS me completely awake! I see her wide round eyes staring back at me and a cute smile, so proud of her little self. I smile back and make 'goo' noises while I pry her tight fingers from most of the strand she pulled from my head. I'm still so tired and want to 'snooze' some more and effortlessly my eyes close and I drift off.....until the same thing happens again and again and her baby whispers become louder and louder. Now she's really noisy and happy and saying 'ba ba bop bop bop'. And suddenly I think I hear her say 'da da' (by this time Wayne had just kissed us goodbye and left for work). I repeated 'da da' back to her and she went back to 'ba ba bop' ..... then 'da da'..... then 'ba ba'...I don't know if she meant to say 'daddy' or if that's just a new consonant in her baby talk. We'll see what happens in the day.

We're going to playgroup for 1pm. We've been going on Thursdays groups and all the girls from my area set up a group of our own to meet in this neck of the woods. Last week we went for a stroller walk. Today we're going to a house just down and around the corner from us. This gets us out and meeting new people and they're all Sam's age. I might drive my car because it's supposed to go to 36 degrees today and I don't want Sam to suffer in this heat....she doesn't like the stuffy humid air at all. It's mid September....this weather's crazy! But we're lucky it's not snow. I'd take anything but snow. What a place to live....dreading each season because it's either 40 above or 40 below. One of the main reasons I want to move back to BC! Get this though....a small part of southern Alberta got 45cm of heavy wet snow yesterday! EESH!! I guess now-a-days with global warming you never know when or where anything could happen. Apparently we're supposed to be warm until November, but who knows where that came from. I heard it from someone at the gas station yesterday.

Now that I'm on a roll here and while Sam is still snoozing, I can't help but mention the news I heard last night about our other 'Great One', Mark Messier. He announced his retirement yesterday, formally ending his career and cementing his legacy into the hockey Hall of Fame. In the conference call he stated, "There was nothing left for me to really achieve."

Like many proud Oiler fans, my best friend Tracy and I were hoping he'd come back to Edmonton for one more season to make his grand exit. He was quite flattered when Edmonton's general manager Kevin Lowe, Messier’s longtime Oiler teammate, tried to convince him to return. “I don’t know that I ever really considered it. I was definitely open to listening to his offers but I knew in my heart that if I was going to play it was going to be in New York.”

Here's something I didn't know (and one of the reasons he was ready to leave). He's looking forward to spending time with his young family. He has an 18-year-old son playing hockey in Texas and a 2-year-old child and a 3-week-old baby at home. OH MY GOSH Tray, did you know that!??? All our best to ya MOOSE, we'll miss you!!!!! (But not as much as I miss Gretz....)

xoxo -Heidi