Going Shopping?

She’s got my wallet, so she must be!!

Good Morning!

Cheetah

This cheetah did her own face painting at daycare today! Not bad!

Late Lunch

Our flight back from Kelowna arrived at 1:00 which made lunch a tricky thing. I had a brainwave and we ate at the airport before heading home (my mom had done the same with J one time thing spring, but it never occurred to me before). It meant we had a pleasant drive home and no one was cranky! I’ll do that again for sure!

Corn Shucking

Everything about being in Kelowna made this little lady happy! She was the best corn shucker tonight and she was so excited to eat corn on the cob.

Watching…Carefully

Stack Of Stuff

This is the stack of stuff I brought with me to Kelowna…I bet I don’t even touch any of it!

Universal Love For Woof

J brought Woof out this morning for Baby C to play with. She grabbed a hold and didn’t let go. There is something about that puppy because even in its well loved, threadbare, mangy state, kids gravitate toward it.

Room For Two

Baby C is almost too big for the little crib we have in our room for her, so it was time to get the big crib out of storage. This is the girls’ room. It will do for now…it’s a bit tight, but everything fits and really, J spends most of her time playing and reading in the living room anyway.

Treasure

I found these as I was packing our stuff. The ladybug and the star are from Fifers when we were kids and I found the arrowhead when I was about 11 or 12.

Goofs! Both Of Them

Happy!

We have discovered that if we get to the water park about half an hour to forty-five minutes before it closes, there is hardly a line up for the slide. J would hop out, tear up the stairs and slide down again …with a wait of maybe 5 minutes. The other great thing? She’ll be exhausted tonight and she’ll sleep really well!

Splattered

J went to her cousin’s birthday party today. They had to wear old clothes and shoes because they were making a large splatter painted canvas. J is actually relatively clean compared to some of the kids!

On The Move

She’s only going backwards, but she’s moving. She was definitely on the blanket when I put her down!

The Baby In The Mirror

Baby C has just started sitting the Bumbo seat. She loves to sit in front of the mirror and talk to the baby in the mirror and look at its toes! Check out the funny tuft of hair on the top of her head!

Biggest Grin Ever!

Shiny New Car

We just barely made it here on Friday…the transmission in our car went as we pulled into the boarding school parking lot. The cost to fix the transmission relative to the actual value of the car made it a bit silly to fix, so we opted to go home in a new to us, bigger than our reliable little car mini mini-van. We’ll miss the little car, but it was time to move into something bigger now that we have two kids and one wants to have friends come over and three carseats/boosters don’t fit in the back of a sedan.

Girlie-Girls

My Girl And My Grandma

Mama is 80 today! I feel very fortunate to still have my grandmother and I’m so very grateful that my little girls get to have the chance to get to know her. I grew up with two great-grandmas and I know I was very lucky to have them.

Future Basketball Player?

J is in heaven. We have arrived at my grandma’s 80th birthday party and most of the family – four generations – are staying in a dormitory at the local boarding school. J has cousins to play with and there’s basketball and pickle ball and she can go in and out on her own.

So very happy to be here!!!

Tiny

The Park

When the rain comes back, I will need to remember this picture of J, so happy to be at the park and the city looking so amazingly wonderful!

And here’s C at the park…she wanted to get out of the stroller and see what was going on!

All Tuckered Out

Hopscotch

On our way to the park this evening, we found a very elaborate hopscotch drawn on the sidewalk. J stopped for a while to play.

Helper

J has been asking to help feed Baby C since we started her on the bottle, but Baby C was so finicky that we waited a bit…maybe we should have let J have a go from the start…C took that bottle from her no problem!

New Haircut

Today J and I had a day without Daddy or Baby C. J was pretty thrilled. First we went and had her hair cut. She still has her curls, albeit they tend more to waves than ringlets these days, but she insisted that her hair be dried as straight as possible. After her haircut we went and found a snack and got J some awesome new sandals. I hope her feet don’t grow too much and the sandals last until the end of the summer!

Soothing

This is how we do soothers at our house. This, or we spit them as far across the room as we possibly can.

I See The Sky!

I’ve mentioned that we like to get out of our warm apartment in the evenings. We’ve been staying out late enough that the sun starts to go down. We’re usually home a bit earlier than this and the sun is usually still up. Well, tonight we were able to push the cover back on the buggy and C was so excited to see the sky and the tops of the trees!

Peek-A-Boo!

Chatting With Daddy

Happy Canada Day!

One happy girl today…she got to go to the water park and go down the slide, she got ice cream and she got a maple leaf tattoo on her cheek. What a day!