Sunny stroll

As much as the clocks changing has been tiring, it was wonderful to get home from work and still feel like there was lots of time to go for a nice family walk.

Today was the nicest day yet this month. The forecast may be calling for snow on Monday but I'll embrace Spring while it's here.

Millbrook is snow-free and looking lovely and we had a great time playing outside.

Evy and Mommy and butt of random dog

Feeling fancy free without the weight of the winter coat!

Having a nice stroll with Daddy along the creek

Kisses from Mommy cause the sun hurts her eyes

Throwing rocks down the drain hole in the bridge....

nothing more fun than that when you're almost two!

Little cute troll on the bridge

I hope everyone else got some sunshine and Vitamin D today!

Diary of a delinquent blogger

Sometimes, the reason for not updating your blog can be as simple as your laptop is upstairs and the camera is in the kitchen drawer. So goes the life of the full-time working mommy, occasional blogger.

We've been having lots of fun, and are enjoying this premature (but very welcome) spring. That said, the time change yesterday has caused us some mega jetlag... Evy slept until 9:30 today which made Rob more than a little tardy in getting to work.

We had a great weekend in Haliburton with our neighbours. Evy loved being with her daycare buddies, and we had lots of fun. Here's the cottage we rented. Pretty cool, though the website doesn't mention the mud luge track to get down to the cottage, nor the 300 odd steps to get down to the lake. With the weather the way it was, we were glad to stay cocooned inside and watch Rob masterfully tend the fire.

And since I forgot my camera (doh!) you shall have to be content to see some photos from the previous weekend, when we were celebrating Jimmy's 64th birthday.

Granny and her fabulous grand-kiddies

The crazies

Evelyn wonders if she should call 911 or the psych ward about her aunt and uncle

The cousins shake on it.
(I can't tell if Jack is really excited or just pooped his pants. Probably both.)

Ben's new workout routine.
Sadly for Evy (and scarily for Jack) they weigh about the same.
How cute is that brother of mine? And his adorable bebe.

Evy checks to see if Jack will actually eat her finger.

The answer? Most definitely.

So, not much else to report. Rob's going away AGAIN this week. He leaves for Dallas on Thursday and is back Sunday. He assures me this is the last work trip until June, and he'd better be right. I'm sick of him jetting off.

Happy (early) St Paddy's Day to all my irish and non-irish friends. May the green beer flow freely for you on Wednesday, and may you have limited to no contact with screaming banshees or angry leprechauns in the year ahead.

Culinary Delights

One of the less delightful phases (other than the especially injurious phase of late) that Evy is in now is called, "Don't you dare come near me with a spoon or any food or I will karate chop said spoon and go boneless and fall to the floor and cry an amount not in proportion with the situation."

It's a lovely time, and I'll cherish these memories of food wars. I probably wouldn't care as much if she was bigger than 3 apples tall, but as it is, I get a bit crazed when she won't eat. And, she does TRULY love feeding herself, but that causes its own slew of problems, e.g. breakfast takes 4 hours and requires a sandblasting of the dining room afterwards.

That said, she eats like a pig at daycare (and even deigns to let them feed her) and she does have a whoppin' appetite once settled down. She goes back for her next weigh-in in April and dare I say she might even weigh 20 lbs? Woot woot!

Here is the madam herself enjoying breakfast at Millbrook's fine dining establishment (no, not the gas station restaurant, the other one).

I will eat this muffin one crumb at a time, so there.

Yesh, I know I'm adorable even with a mouth full of food

And here she is in the dining room, enjoying her own special "built by daddy" table and chair. She won't sit in her highchair anymore because, "duh, mom, they are for babies and I'm 20 months old now!".

And speaking of daddy, Rob's been in Vegas for yet another conference since Tues, so we've been hangin' solo again. Heck, we're old pros at it by now. Will be nice to have him back on Saturday. And then he's gone again to Dallas later in March. Hard to keep up with that jet-settin man.

Hey, it's supposed to be TEN degrees this weekend, folks. Make sure you get outside and enjoy it!

Remember when?

Remember summer? Remember when babies were just a little bit smaller and a whole lot naked-er? Ahhhh. Spring is just around the corner, right?

A bad week

Poor miss E has had a bad week for injuries. On Tuesday, she fell at daycare and split her chin open. This resulted in a 5-hour wait at the ER so they could glue (yes, glue instead of stitches) her chinny chin shut.

And then yesterday - two injuries. She had a tussle with a rambunctious dog. Then she fell while doing her pre-bedtime playing with daddy, bashed her face and split open the corner of her eye.

She was traumatized. I was traumatized. Rob was traumatized. It was horrible.

So, she's gonna have a doozy of a black eye, but the chin is healing up finally, and there was no major injuries from the doggy, so hopefully this is just a case of bad things happening in threes. Otherwise I'm pretty sure we'll get investigated by social services.

Luckily, her mood is fine, and we're looking forward to having a fun day playing outside in the snow.

A busy saturday morning

Miss E woke up this morning, bright eyed and bushy tailed and ready to make the most of a snowy Saturday morning. I pity grandma and grandpa, who are babysitting her for a while this afternoon!

She wouldn't even stay still for me to take her picture!



I think she was inspired by the birdies outside, who are extremely twitterpated due to this strange thing called 'winter'. Here they are this morning, having a feeding frenzy.

Happy Saturday, everyone!

Winter Wonderland

Well the weather outside is frightful…

It’s been a snowy week in Millbrook and environs. Which is ok with me, because this winter has been surprisingly un-wintery so far.

Here are some fabulous photos taken by Granny Al on Wednesday while they were babysitting Evy. The first two are Evy helping Penny dig for a mouse. She was very entertained by miss Penny’s antics.

And the second two photos are just a few of Al’s cardinal friends. They are so beautiful – I wish they’d come visit my feeder!

Hope you’re all snuggled up somewhere warm on this blizzardy day!