5 days

That's right...5 days until Pat and I take a trip together. Alone. Without Liv. It's been a long while since I've been on a plane without Liv. She has had her passport since she was 4 months old. We have travelled to Belfast, between Calgary and Michigan (at least 4 or 5 times), and Chicago. Most of these trips involved some sort of driving too. Like, say oh that time we drove from The Sault to Calgary. Which takes 27 hours....yes I said it, TWENTY SEVEN. It was a three day drive.

Needless to say, I have done a lot of travelling with my wee baby and now toddler. I find it very stressful and I'm alway an anxious wreck before a flight. So I'm really excited to have a relaxing flight. I am definitely going to have to have a few drinks! I'm obviously also excited to have a few days with my husband. We have never done something like this before so it will be nice.

I'm sure I won't be anxiety free though because who likes to leave their most precious cargo, but deep breaths because she will be well taken care of :).

I discovered that liv's sour mood lately has been bc of one of her 2yr molars....

oh bubbles, how I loathe thee

Liv loves them as much as I loathe them

Our Vacation Vol. 2

Here's the last edition to our vacation pictures. I realized that I have no pictures of Liv and my mom. Which needs to be remedied as soon as we get back to the Sault. Sorry mom. Its funny how you think that you never want to live in a small town and I'm not sure that I could, but it will always be my home and I love being there. My family is everything to me and I miss them every day. So...I can't wait to go back!

convinced auntie dani to take off her clothes for dancing.

I had the great pleasure of meeting Ellie. She holds a special place in my heart.

Getting ready to go for a walk with Gaga (my mom).

Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy?

Tara took Liv dancing in the rain.

She had to be bribed with cake to come back inside....

oh canada

21 Months

We're creeping up on the big number 2. I am totally doing something sesame this year...possibly a nemo themed party, because those are Liv's two major obsessions lately. Along with being outside. Its all we hear lately "siiiiide, siiiiide". We have spent a lot of time outside lately and usually when its time to go inside the whole event ends in tears. I feel her pain though, its taken so long to get nice out and I was anxious to get outside too.

We went to the walk-in clinic a few weeks ago for a rash....that still hasn't gone away. Gah. I need to make an appointment with her doctor like yesterday. Anyways, they weighed her and my little gremlin weighs a whopping 31 pounds. I have no idea how tall she is though. Its just amazing to me how big she's getting. Personally I think she gets cuter and cuter ;).

The talking, oh the talking....This has been the most fun part for me. I love the little sentences and phrases she makes. Some of her semi-new phrases that I die over are "oh goshhh". I was tickling her today and whenever I would stop she'd say "oh goshhh". It made me giggle. She also likes the phrase "oh nuts". Probably not the best thing she could say, but its pretty hilarious. One of her favorite things about Auntie Dani's apartment were the ducks, which she pronounces "cucks" (it sounds mildly inappropriate when she says it).  So, naturally when we were skyping with Auntie Dani today she said "Side. Side, cucks side?". She remembered! The first thing she said to Dani though was "Hi Dadeee, where Bikey?". For those of you who missed it, Bikey is my sister's boyfriend, Mike...we call him Mikey.

She is just so much fun. Which I'm sure everyone who has a toddler this age can say. She is thrilled with every little thing we do and the most simple of activities are huge hits. How could you not have fun with a 21 month old?!

Our Vacation in Pictures vol. 1

I am just getting around to downloading all of the pictures from our trip...so there needs to be more than one post on all of the action.

lots of playing with auntie Dani

a little dancing....

lots of playing outside.

lots of visiting.

we dressed up a lot.

we visited some friends....hello ari.

we did some naked dancing.

we had to say goodbye to auntie "daddeee"

oh man, liv really had fun with Dani.

Happy Mother's Day

First of all I would like to say Happy Mother's Day to all of the Mom's in my life! Especially my mom.

Pat got home last night and with him he brought my new laptop!!! I'm so excited. I still need to transfer all of my pictures from the external hard drive and get  used to using a mac. I know the basics and thats about it. I am up for the challenge though :). Pat is here until Wednesday. Then he will be gone for another week or so.

Kind of exciting news...Pat is planning a trip for us. He will not tell me where we are going, but we aren't bringing Liv and its the weekend of May 20 (his birthday). I know that we are going somewhere in the U.S. or I am about 95% sure that we are. I'm dying from the excitement of it. Immediately when Pat told me I said "Do you know how long its been since I have flown in a plane without Liv? I am for sure having a few drinks!".

Other than that, life had been pretty ordinary. Liv turned 21 months and I need to do a post on that...I will have that up this week. I hope everyone had a lovely Mother's Day :).

absence

I'm sorry I have been so absent lately. It's not because I don't want to be blogging, its simply because I still don't have a computer. Well I also was visiting my family for three weeks and now that I'm back in Calgary I won't have a computer until Pat gets home. There is some good news though...Pat bought me a Macbook Pro! Well originally he bought it for us to share, but now that he's been using it, he doesnt think he can part with it at all...so he thinks he needs to get another just for himself. I'm not going to complain though...come to mama little Macbook!

So, I'll be back to blogging soon.