Today is Ada's Aunt Melissa's birthday, but Ada will have to give birthday kisses to her in 2 more weeks when we see her since she's not in the country right now. :) Happy Birthday Melissa!

Ada had her own birthday celebration last week, celebrating her 3 month birthday with a beer, as usual.



Jonathan and I had our first night out just the two of us on December 2nd. It was Jonathan's work Christmas Party, and my lovely friend Pamela offered to babysit for the night. You know you have a good friend when she offers to babysit your 3 month old for the first time while simultaneously putting her 17 month old to bed on her own. And since Ada recently went funny about taking her milk from a bottle, Pam couldn't even use milk to keep her happy. But Ada was (thankfully!) a good girl and didn't make it too hard on Pam. And Jonathan maintains that I was also a good girl and managed to have a nice night out. I didn't realize how much we needed a night to ourselves until we went out, even though we missed her like crazy the whole time. And to prove that Ada didn't scream the whole time we were gone, Pam made a video of Ada happily kicking away on the floor to show us when we got back. Thanks to Pam for being such a wonderful babysitter!

Ada and I have joined another moms group through the internet, called the New and Expecting Toronto City Moms Meetup Group. So far we have went to two demos - Salsa Babies and Wee Hands. The Salsa Babies was a lot of fun. I strapped Ada into her Baby Bjorn and I learned Salsa steps for about 45 minutes. I'm hoping to join up to a 6 week course in January. The Wee Hands demo was also very interesting. Jonathan and I are planning on going to an 8 week course starting in January where we learn some signs to do with Ada so that she can communicate with us before she is able to talk. Signs such as more, please, milk, change, all done, etc. The demo was great, so hopefully the classes are good too.

And we've had a breakthrough today - Ada has finally accepted a bottle and nipple combination to take her milk! Hooray for Playtex Orthodontic Nipples! Cross your fingers that she continues to like them! It just goes to show that she can go from beer bottle to milk bottle. That's my girl!