Dictionaries? Found!

Sometime last winter, I was playing Scrabble, probably with my sisters. We needed to look a word up, but you know what? I couldn't find my dictionaries. Well, digging in the dark depths of J's closet, I found them! Yay! I wonder what other treasures I'll find in there...

Dressy Puppy

Yes. That dog is wearing a dress.

That's all.

Curtains

I met Heddy for dinner tonight. There will eventually be a post on the other blog about the restaurant because it was somewhere I'd never been before! It was so nice to have a night out with a good friend!

Sorting

My mom and dad took J home with them after her party yesterday. I decided this was an ideal time to start to tackle her closet. We moved in to our place just a few weeks before J made an early arrival. There's a ton of boxes in her closet that we just shoved in there to get them out of the way. Um. She's three. It's time to go through them and purge!

Whoosh

J had her birthday party with her friends this morning. We had a picnic and the kids had fun at the water park. I forgot my bathing suit (umm, brain not functioning well...) but J made friends with the lifeguard and she was happy to take J down the waterslide (she's not tall enough to go on her own)

Last Day

Today was J's last day at her daycare -they get to blow out a candle on the "happy goodbye" cake when they have their goodbye party. She moves up a level now that she's three. She's so grown up now compared to her first day an entire year ago.

Bard On The Beach

Sweetie Belle

Music Box

One of J's teachers at daycare has an old school Fisher Price record player. Fisher Price released new ones in the States last year just before Christmas, but I couldn't find them here. I was so excited when I discovered the local big box bookstore carried them. We got J a "music box" for her birthday. I was not thrilled to find the new model requires batteries. I'm pretty sure the one we had as kids did not have batteries. Why do we need batteries for everything these days? J loves the music box and I've discovered that when she doesn't want to wake up, it's a great way to get her out of bed in the morning!

Crazy Fur Babies

We came home from J's birthday party yesterday with a bunch of gifts. One of those gifts was two of these crazy little pets. I hate them. I haven't figured out how to turn them off and they just start up and race around without anyone being near them. I was putting J to bed tonight and we actually thought someone was in our living room. Yeah. No. Just one of these insane little monsters.

Everyone Blow!

I love how the people in the background are all "helping" blow out the candle too.

Bop And His Girl

Bop drove back to Vancouver with us today - Alex went back before me and certain people were a tad concerned about me driving alone with J...they all thought it was too tiring for me. I was glad to have my dad to share with the driving. When we stopped for lunch, J asked me to take a picture of her with her Bop.

Sleeping Birthday Beauty

Tomorrow I'll Be THREE!

So Soon? Really?

I walked into this shop in the mall and the first thing I saw was the display of Hallowe'en decorations. Then I went around the corner and saw this. It's too soon for Christmas. It's the middle of August. UGH!

Buggy Glasses

J loves showing off her buggy glasses and their special trick!

Outdoor Living Room

I love being at my parents' house. This is my favourite "room" in the spring and summer!

Double Rainbow

This was actually a double-double rainbow, but I just couldn't get the camera to take the picture I wanted.

Little Farmer

J got to "drive" the tractor at the first part of our family reunion today (the nursery tour) and she was in heaven!

First Anniversary And New Teacher Cake

This is the top of our wedding cake. Apparently we were supposed to eat it on our first anniversary. We were a little bit preoccupied with a small person that day and it was in my mom and dad's freezer in Kelowna. Well, we're in Kelowna tonight and TeamHardCore finished her schooling to become a teacher today, so we had to celebrate! The cake was still so absolutely delicious, even almost four years later. My mom had wrapped it really well. There might have been TWO tupperware containers involved...Sorry about the blur factor.

Book Worm

Little miss, entertaining herself while I make dinner. This is such a huge milestone (it happened a few months ago)...dinner doesn't take nearly as long to prepare now that J can entertain herself for 15-20 minutes!

Vitals

I've become quite good at navigating two of the buildings of the massive VGH complex. I had another test today and one of the things they had to do while they did the test was monitor my vitals. The tech doing the test said he was always glad to see someone with such good vitals [the patients having this particular test done are often quite sick] These results make me feel a lot better about whatever weirdness is going on inside my body...

Pinky Pie And Rainbow Dash

J received this at Christmas, but she got soooooo much stuff that we put a few things away. Last week when I was feeling totally miserable and our days pretty much consisted of me dragging us to work and daycare, then picking J up and coming home, feeding her and collapsing onto my bed with J and her books and some toys, I pulled these out of the secret hiding spot. J had forgotten about them and loved them. They were a welcome distraction [I'm glad I'm feeling better now...we're able to go for short walks and to the park again and J likes that so much better than reading in bed...huh, I wonder why?]

Backup Fail

Sigh...all our best intentions...two sets of back ups and somehow we lost three days worth of pictures. Not just any three days. J's first birthday and TeamHardCore's Ironman Canada. I think I can get most of them from my dad, but I'm still not thrilled about it...

That Face

There's that smile again...I love her!

Boom!

J has been fascinated by the fireworks, so tonight we let her stay up REALLY LATE and went down to Granville Island to watch the fireworks. She loved it!

Crazy Lady

This strange lady found her way into our house. She's not hanging around for long. When Alex goes to the thrift store next, she will be in the donation box.

It's Thriving!

I wasn't sure if I would be able to keep this alive, but apparently I have...so far. The big test will be when I'm in Kelowna for a week...I hope it doesn't get too hot!

Koala Friend

J got a few little gifts when we were at the airport on Sunday. This handmade little koala was one of them. She loved it!

Good Sport

J has been very patient over the last few days - her mom hasn't been a lot of fun. I did go to work today but I was sooooooooo tired when I got home that J had her dinner and we retreated to my room where I dozed and J read and took some lovely pictures with my phone (this is one - her books on the bed)

Her Smiles

This smile has been most helpful over the last few days as I recover from last week's crazy healthy adventure.