What a weekend!

We had SO much fun this weekend!

Friday night, we headed off to Public Beach to play with Anna and Alex. We had a grand time and it was a perfect evening to be out on the beach. It was warm but not hot, and there was just the perfect breeze to keep things cool. There were no bugs and a beautiful sunset (AK clapped when the sun dipped below the horizon, that's how beautiful it was!). We ordered pizza (did you know Gino's Pizza delivers to the beach?) and I was very impressed that AK ate a half of a huge slice of cheese pizza. We had some cuddles when we got home and AK kept hugging me and saying "I love you Mommy!".

We made a big step this weekend... Mommy sleeps in her own room now! I've slept in the same room as AK for the longest time now out of fear of not hearing her if/when she cries at night. Well, I think the night-waking a couple of weeks ago may have been partly due to my restlessness and it waking AK up. So Friday night was my first night in my room. I was tired enough that I fell asleep easily and didn't wake up to worry about AK. I did wake about 6am and lay in bed, wondering when AK would wake me... and she didn't until 730am! She found me in my bed, no problem.

We headed off to Camana Bay for a coffee date and AK wasn't too interested in the fountains, which was good as the little ones were turned off shortly after we got there. We wandered over to the big ones, and found a bunch of little friends there - Molly, Jake, Hunter and Ethan! AK had some fun playing with them for a while. We headed home for a quick lunch then I dropped AK with Brent while I went to a baby shower.

She was still napping when the shower ended, so I took advantage of it to run some errands for a special event... Christie's surprise birthday party! I picked up a balloon bouquet and some booze :) and then headed over to Brent's to get AK. They all live in the same complex so AK and I were able to just walk over to the party. I think Christie was a little surprised :) but not a lot. It was still good fun. AK was hamming it up near the end of the night. She'd lay her head on my shoulder, pretending to sleep, then she'd pop up shrieking with laughter. She enjoyed looking through the Moser's garden and asking me what everything was. She would crouch down like I was and take it all very seriously!

This morning was the same wakeup as yesterday, except AK wouldn't crawl into bed with me. I think it was because she had a poopy diaper, which I didn't smell right away as my allergies were bugging me. It wasn't bugging AK as she didn't ask me to change it right away. She went straight into her kitchen to make breakfast - hot dogs!!! She was quite pleased with herself. We got ourselves together quickly to go over to Babbs' as Ben agreed to look after the kids while Jess and I went for a run. Turns out we did about 2 miles in 20 mins... much faster than I thought I was capable of going!!! Don't think I could have done another mile at that pace but that's a pretty good start!!! AK and Hunter got into our stretches with us after - it was fun to have the kids imitating us.

AK was quite tired this morning and went down for a nap very easily. She slept for about an hour and a half, and was quite chipper when she got up. We hit up the beach for a while (which I'll do a separate post about) and then went to Mike and Julie's for supper. AK gobbled up some BBQ chicken and Julie's homemade buns. She also had some strawberries for supper. She was very entertaining - singing songs, showing us her yoga moves and just generally being a ham. She was very quiet on the way home - I think the beach and all her showing off tired her out!

She kept saying to me yesterday "Mommy, you have sand!". I couldn't figure out why she was saying that until I realized that she was looking at my armpits and seeing that my deoderant was pilled up into little white balls, which she thought looked like sand. Ha!

She likes to play a game that goes like this:
AK: Mommy?
Me: Yes, dear?
AK: (holding finger up to mouth) SSSHHH!!!
And repeat, over and over again.

She's counting very well, and appropriately. She's eating very well but wants help to eat. She's getting much better at dressing and undressing herself. She tells good stories - she's got quite an imagination - she was telling Julie about the "dolphins and turtles and mermaids and fishies" that she saw at the beach... all made up!!! She loves to take baths and play with the water. She chased a bar of soap in the water forever today.