a little park time

Liv and I ventured out to the park yesterday. Not because its spring-like here, but the sun was out so that motivated me.

We left the park soaking wet, but burned off some energy.

I also couldn't pry the stickies out of Liv's hands so she played with stickers all over her. Can we say obsessed?

When we were there, two little girls had Liv following them everywhere. I said hi to their mom and helped Liv climb around with the girls.

After the park I drove through the Tim Horton's drive through and got us some lunch and Liv a smoothie. When we were driving back home I saw the little family from the park and came to the realization that we see them walk by the house multiple times a day. Its spring break and I never put two and two together. Such a weird coincidence.

a girl and her stickies.

watching in amazement.

most popular

The two most popular words in our house right now are...

"Colowwwwww"

and

"Stickiesssssss"

In english those translate to color and stickers. There are stickers EVERYWHERE. Pat went to work yesterday with a huge sesame street sticker stuck to his suit pants and it was brought to his attention from a coworker who giggled and teased that it was how he lured in little kiddies. Liv just got a big book of princess stickers from her grandma carolyn so I joked that he would be going to work with princesses stuck to his leg next. I bet Pat never envisioned that for himself :).

As we speak I am having a conversation with Liv that consists of:
"Liv get down from there"

"no, noooooo"

"ok, well then we are going to go to bed"

"no"

le sigh. This little 30lb gremlin is running my show. Naptime is definitley approaching faster than Liv realizes.

hanging on by a thread.

My computer that is. I couldn't start it all day. It is struggling to stay alive. Pat just got it up and running this evening and I immediately backed up all of my pictures on the external hardrive. I was so nervous I would lose something.

On that note, I feel naked without my computer. It makes me anxious. I'm not really sure what we are going to do about it yet. Pat is going to get a work computer so I may take over his old one or this old boot might surprise me and run for a bit longer.

We had a nice weekend. We kicked off Friday with a playdate at a place called Playtopia. It was so much fun and even had a mini bouncy castle. Liv loved it! We played there for a few hours and finished off our afternoon with lunch at Wendy's. The only complaint I have about the day was that Liv never napped...it turned out into a long day.

Other than that, we had a dinner party last night and did a whole lot of lying around today. I'm unreasonably tired though and need to go to bed early to get ready for my week. Did I mention I have a little over 2 weeks until our trip?! I can't even think about it because it makes me so excited!

I'll leave you with some pictures I took a few weeks ago...

walking inside.

Feminism

Maybe I am, maybe I'm not...a feminist that is. I have always thought of myself as independent. I know I CAN do everything that a man can do. I usually prefer it my way anyways. I have never depended on a man before...well, thats not true, I depended on my dad.

My dad is a man who takes care of all the blue things if you will. Blue meaning, stereotypical man jobs. For instance, everything to do with his families vehicles. I mean, yeah, I got my own oil changed, but if something were to break or I needed a new registration or something...my dad got it done. Automatically...I didn't even have to ask.

I am now at a point in my life, where my only option is to be a homemaker. I can't work, yet. I stay at home all day with Liv. I cook, clean, do laundry, change most of the diapers, and drink way too much coffee. My husband is the bread winner and only winner in this situation because like I said above, I can't work. That puts me in a position that I have never wanted or saw myself in.

Its taking some adjusting. This is all being brought up because the other day I texted Pat to shovel the walk while we were at a baby shower because I slipped and almost killed myself. He was doing a little working from home and didn't shovel. Of course, me being me, I had to give him shit about it. He then responded back with "this is the 21st century, why can't you go shovel the walk?"? Touche my friend, however, sometimes I don't feel it is because here I am in my homemaker role. Its very conflicting.

I am also going to renew Pat's registration on his truck today...which brought up the whole subject again. Isn't that how marriage works? So, I'm sucking it up and going to renew it for him...but I am also going to make him go get me an oil change. Its only fair right? I won't make him take Liv with him. Hello DMV, here we come!

life

We just got home from dropping Pat off at the train station.

This is our regular morning routine, wake up, get liv up, get her ready and out the door. She usually requests to brush her teeth with dada and get some juice and we're ready to go.

Now we sit here and she has some toast and juice while we watch sesame street. I love our mornings, everything would be perfect except that I ran out of coffee creamer. We need to go grocery shopping badly today...Liv's incessant requests for snacks has left the cupboards bare.

Her eating has changed a lot lately. Its growing more and more difficult to get her to eat a full meal, so snacking it is. I have also noticed my little liv is losing her baby fat, which up until now I haven't been able to say. She's really sprouting up and only has one leg roll now...its a little bittersweet.

Sleeping after her St. Paddy's Day festivities. I promise that she has a green bow in her hair and also wore a green sweater :).

Nothing was waking this girl up. She was snoring as Lily barked and I took pictures...

Saturday before dinner with mama and auntie Leslie. Auntie Dani got Liv her shirt and headband. Oh, and I made her the pillow...and its now a staple along with her sucky (cucky) and blankie (kiki)

I also took her foam puzzle off the floor. Not because I didn't love it, but because the OCD in me couldn't handle the cleaning process of it. With the two dogs in the house, a lint roller was needed to get all the hair off of them....I looked like a crazy person.

buds? not really...and sorry for the food on liv's face...I noticed a little too late.

Dancey Dance

Liv has learned some new dance moves! Enjoy :)

My Nikon's BFF

I have been looking at buying a lightscoop for my camera. I finally did it a few weeks ago.

I didn't really know what to expect, but I was hoping for the best.

The verdict: In my opinion, it helped make me look like I knew what I was doing a bit more when dealing with my camera. I would recommend it for anybody who was having issues with lighting. I have a Nikon D40 and I'm very much an amatuer. I took a bunch of pictures today trying it out and i'll leave you with a handful of them!

such a happy baby.

liv loves stickers...and loves to stick them to my nose.

lily even got a photoshoot today.