May 8/9/10th, Home Sweet Canada

Sam is 9 months old! I bent the rules and took his monthly photo a day early (so we didn't have to drag bear and blanky across the continent). I thought this pose was representative of Sam's moves these days...

Samuel is an awesome little traveller! Although I must admit that my standards of how I judged a 'good' flight dropped signifantly after 10 hr of travel, 4 hrs of Sam sleep and 10 mins of Erin sleep...the last flight was a small plane (no suprise since we flew right into Fredericton) and the guy beside me was a great sport (about my age-maybe a little younger and works in a diamond mine in the NW Territories and goes to Fredericton every 3 weeks) considering that only 2 things apeased Sam by this point...tearing up paper and splashing around in a water glass...the poor guy left with about 250 mL soaked into his pants!

My mom and dad met us at the airport :) Sam and I had a 3.5 hr nap (so good!) then Michelle and Brendan joined us for some Lee's take-out with Dad and Mike. Time for some (wonderful fresh clean clear crisp) air, we headed to the park where I (finally) took some photos :)

Todat, we took it easy :) We slept til 9am, got the insurance on my car (it feels so good to drive!), napped (also felt great!), walked to the mall (yup, even with a car, nothing beats a walk and oh, I went to shop at Dollarama, perhaps you've heard of it-that ones for you, love), made supper, then went to Michelle's house. Sam had another great time watching Brendan bounce around...its so nice to hear his laughter:). Now Sam's sleeping in my arms while I type. He's been super clinging (not that I blame him, poor little guy doesn't recognize anything!), but he has fun playing with Gran...easpecially tearing at the Sears catologue...and isn't totally scared of Uncle Mike :0