And, while we’re doing posts with pictures, not words, let’s link to the Flickr photoset of our recent trip to Victoria on the Clipper with Brian and Jen:

The highlight of our trip was The Tapa Bar, located in Victoria’s Trounce Alley. Foodie friends: check it out when you’re there!

I finally got the photos of Keegan’s first birthday party posted to flickr, so without further ado (or any actual blogging) here they are:

“Once-upon-a-time there was a Princess and she was lost in the woods. She found a dragon and the dragon killed her. She never saw the dragon again. Because she was dead.”

Rona and I are on the third day of a cleanse, wherein we’re not eating dairy, wheat, or eggs. Rona is also to avoid honey and zucchini, and I’m off soy and pineapple, all for the next three weeks. Both of our allergy blood tests came back as highly sensitive to dairy and eggs, and moderately sensitive to the entire wheat family, which is the same as a high reaction to the whole category of gluteny goodness. Or something like that. It boils down to us needing to avoid a lot of stuff that we like to eat, and most things sold in restaurants.

We’re actually both already feeling better, however, with more energy—and less phlegm.

And we’re not starving by any means. Two days ago I made turkey chili in the crock pot, and Rona did up some coconut rice in the rice cooker, and I must say that’s one fine combo. I honestly didn’t miss the cheese one bit, and that’s something, coming from me. Then last night I made steak fajitas, which we had on corn tortillas with homemade salsa and homemade guacamole. Also awesome. Tonight it’s freakishly hot, so it’s cold roast chicken over spinach with grated carrots, sunflower seeds, black olives, and a nice light gluten/dairy/egg-free dressing. Breakfast is the hardest for me to figure out—no more cheesy eggs on a bagel for me—but I’ll make due for three weeks with wheatless cereal with almond milk.

Coming up next, the Keegan’s First Birthday Wrap-Up, complete with photos, of course. Stay tuned!

Zoey just got her second haircut. She even got her hair washed this time. And the stylist put a little “piggy tail” in her hair. She looks so cute! We went to the U.Village Kid’s Club and then we hung out in the play area for a bit. Here are the pix:

Last night Keeg slept from 9pm to 7:30am. Woo hoo!

Keegan’s new word is “Hi”. He will peek over at you and say “hi”. It is the cutest thing! He also can eat. Yesterday he ate a whole sweet potato in two sittings. He has eaten a whole banana in one sitting. That’s our boy!

Look at those teeth!

Yeah! Keegan won.

I just want to point out how much I love it that Zoey calls a sippy cup a zippy cup. I mean, come on—who wouldn’t want to drink from a zippy cup?!

Here’s the view out our kitchen window at 5am:

That’s between 4-6 inches of snow, depending on which side of the house you check out.

Today we’ve had rain, sleet, hail (okay, I don’t really know the different between those two), sun, lightning, and snow. At one point we had sunshine and snowfall at the same time. Currently it’s just snowing, and has built up about an inch. Outside right now it looks like this:

Zoey is putting on a bunch of clothes to go outside and play in the snow.