Tonight's funny story stars Lucas!

We popped by Odette's today for a play after supper. It was nice to see her, Lucas and Baby Adriano for a bit. After the kids played outside for a while, someone ended up tracking up some dirt inside. Lucas saw the dirt, said "dirty", popped up, ran into the storage room to get the Swifter/vaccuum thing, cleaned it up and put the vaccuum back!!! What a good kid!!!

Someone who lives in my building drives a Mustang. AK made sure that I noticed the "big horsey car" today.

I thought AK seemed loud today... turns out my hearing aids were turned up. Ha!

AK is really getting into the habit of putting her food into her kitchen. I asked her earlier where her sippy cup was and she hollered "in the kitchen!". I think she would rather have real food in there than play food. Looks like I have some extra pantry space now :)

Oh, and I got to sleep until 645am today! What a treat! I even woke up before AK today. There were no tears at daycare either. That's a pretty good morning!!! xo

Out of the mouth of AK...

Some of you may remember AK zipping up my sweater while we were on holidays, and pinching my chin or neck in the zipper at the top. She was zipping me up again today and shouted... get ready for this...

"WATCH YER NECK!"

Monday morning smiles :)

A couple more stories that popped into mind this morning:

- AK loves to make "A BIG MESS". I am spending far too much time singing the clean-up song and cleaning up. AK will pick up one or two things and put them away, then gets distracted by something and starts playing again. She'll learn!!! She has to up-end EVERYTHING in EVERY container. What a mess.

- AK up-ended all the toys in her bathtub container and was wondering where "Dora" was. A million and one toys, and the only one she wants is the one that's missing. I have no idea where Dora has gone off to... maybe on an adventure with Diego? Will be keeping an eye out for her.

- More kitchen stuff - AK was eating an apple this morning and put it in the fridge in her play kitchen. I am really going to have to keep track of what she's eating and where she's putting it!!! I'm sure there will come a day when I find something "interesting" in the fridge!

Busy Sunday!

AK dissed every choice of clothing I offered her to wear today and came up with this gem of an outfit on her own. How did she know that the 'Riders had a game today and that they would win???


We had quite the day once the sleepyhead woke up! We went over to Odette's for a very quick visit to take a casserole and to meet Baby Adriano ("Baby Ano" per AK). We came home and headed straight to the pool!

I wish I had taken a picture - AK had on her pink polka dot bathing suit, her yellow high heels with flowers, and her yellow life jacket. What an ensemble. It was a magic outfit as AK spent most of the time swimming on her own!!! At first, she had to hang on to both of my hands to swim, then just one, then just a finger... when we got to this point, I would keep my finger just out of AK's reach, forcing her to swim towards me! We did countless laps around the pool this way. AK would swim until she reached the ladder on the far side, then climb out, run around, come down the steps, and start all over again. We were outside for over an hour and a half! We both worked up quite an appetite for supper.

You know how I mentioned earlier that AK was saying "a big one" about her spoonful of yogurt? She will say it for anything applicable now... including a poopy diaper. Ha ha!

Today, AK has managed to pinch me by playing with my chain or headbutted me in the mouth. Both times, I said "ow" and actually had tears in my eyes for the headbutt. AK was very concerned and kissed my owie better both times. I also thought it was really cute when she was listening to the closing Barney song "with a kiss from me to you", she came over and gave me a big smacker :)

And I'll leave you with that. Good night, sweet dreams xo

Getting back to normal

Well, it's time for church but AK was so tired she went back down for a nap at 10am. No church for us today - sleep for AK is more important!

She had an amazing supper of chicken, potatoes and carrots last night... and what's amazing about that is that she almost never ever eats potatoes. I found out that if I make a game of it (show mommy how you can put the potato on your fork, show mommy how you can put the potato in your mouth), she will actually eat a few bites of potato. It's a start!

When AK scoops up yogurt on her spoon, she will say "a big one!" then tap off some of it until it's "just right". Pretty cute :)

AK's cousin Nolan taught her that chocolate milk is "coffee". I got some weird looks from people in public when she's asked me for coffee. Today I gave her some chocolate milk in a new sippy cup, that is shaped quite like a travel coffee mug. It was really odd to see her drinking out of this cup and saying "coffee". I am trying to correct her but it may take a while for her to unlearn that!

I will have to keep a close eye on AK's sippy cups... I asked her where this one was earlier today and she opened the cupboard on the play kitchen and there it was... imagine finding something like that a day or two later... yuck.

I really should go rest while AK is down. I'm feeling much better but I think the antibiotics are making me a bit headachy. We are hoping to visit Odette's baby boy Adriano later today, and perhaps meet up with Jess and Hunter to play as well. xo

Sick and Tired and Busy :(

This week is flying by, but painfully... I am pretty sure that I have a sinus infection as I'm still suffering from the sinus issues so I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow. I hardly slept last night as I was feverish. It doesn't seem like any drugs I'm taking are helping. Thank goodness AK is with her daddy this week so I can just take care of myself.

But unfortunately taking care of myself means working like a dog, and coming home only to sleep!!! Yikes. I am partly working this hard to ensure I won't have to work on the weekend, and can rest up instead. Between not having to work, and whatever great meds the doctor will give me tomorrow, I should be on the mend soon.

Angella and Alex are going to come over on Saturday for a visit with AK and I. I am excited to see them, and I know AK will really enjoy seeing them. xo

We're back!!!

I have so many photos and stories to share from our MB holiday. I will have to do them in instalments though, and if anyone has any memories they particularly liked, please email me with them so I can remember to include them! I should have taken notes while we were gone... my memory is failing me in my old age!

Unfortunately I have been sick since I got back... my sinuses feel like they want to explode and sinus pills are only helping so much. I will head to bed shortly and hope that a good sleep will help a lot.

AK's daycare is closed this week for cleaning and training and so AK is spending her days with Matthew and his nanny Lanie. Jenni emailed some pictures of their day today... I'm thinking this nanny gig is working out well for AK!!! I can imagine she and Matthew were pretty excited to see each other today.

Playing trains

Two explorers getting ready to go!

Lanie managed to get into a photo too!!!

Snack time!

Don't these two just absolutely melt your heart?