Abby wore it the whole rest of the weekend, it's especially fetching with pajamas:
And, no pictures of Grandma & I but some typically goofy ones of Abigail & her dad:
Monday, May 31, 2010
Grandma's Visit
After saying goodbye to my parents for the summer, it was nice to have the other grandparent here a few days later :) Grandma came for Memorial Day weekend. We had a nice time shopping, cooking, swimming, eating out & playing at home. We also went to Angelina's 5th birthday party where the theme was Batman & all the kids wore capes:
Abby wore it the whole rest of the weekend, it's especially fetching with pajamas:
And, no pictures of Grandma & I but some typically goofy ones of Abigail & her dad:
Abby wore it the whole rest of the weekend, it's especially fetching with pajamas: And, no pictures of Grandma & I but some typically goofy ones of Abigail & her dad:
May
So, I'm almost caught up to real-time here.
In May, we had Mothers Day - instead of our tradition of Old Town Park & ice-cream, I lay on the couch & recuperated from Las Vegas.
A few days later Abigail had her first dentist appt. I thought maybe they'd just count the teeth & talk to her about brushing twice a day but it was a full-on tools-scraping-plaque and suction-thingys & electric-teeth-cleaning appt! I couldn't believe how well she did. She is really trusting & told the dentist "I'm going to tell my dad I had fun at the dentist". She gets excited about anything & everything I take her to do after school (grocery shopping, library, swimming, errands, chores, the doctor, the dentist). It is really amazing how she doesn't seem like the same girl to last year. So brave! Sending her home with a sticker & a new toothbrush goes really far with a three year old too.
A few days after that my parents flew home for their summer. Abby doesn't yet understand that she goes from seeing them all the time to suddenly saying goodbye & not seeing them for five months. I suppose that's a good thing. She just waves them off like it's a normal afternoon. I, on the other hand, cry like they're leaving for years. Stupid! I'll blame pregnancy hormones or something?!
Speaking of pregnancy, I ended May with my next doctors appointment. All is going well. Baby's heartrate was 166bpm - which if you believe in old wives tales, means we are having another girl. We'll see in July when we have that confirmed either way!
In May, we had Mothers Day - instead of our tradition of Old Town Park & ice-cream, I lay on the couch & recuperated from Las Vegas.
A few days later Abigail had her first dentist appt. I thought maybe they'd just count the teeth & talk to her about brushing twice a day but it was a full-on tools-scraping-plaque and suction-thingys & electric-teeth-cleaning appt! I couldn't believe how well she did. She is really trusting & told the dentist "I'm going to tell my dad I had fun at the dentist". She gets excited about anything & everything I take her to do after school (grocery shopping, library, swimming, errands, chores, the doctor, the dentist). It is really amazing how she doesn't seem like the same girl to last year. So brave! Sending her home with a sticker & a new toothbrush goes really far with a three year old too.
A few days after that my parents flew home for their summer. Abby doesn't yet understand that she goes from seeing them all the time to suddenly saying goodbye & not seeing them for five months. I suppose that's a good thing. She just waves them off like it's a normal afternoon. I, on the other hand, cry like they're leaving for years. Stupid! I'll blame pregnancy hormones or something?!
Speaking of pregnancy, I ended May with my next doctors appointment. All is going well. Baby's heartrate was 166bpm - which if you believe in old wives tales, means we are having another girl. We'll see in July when we have that confirmed either way!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Mini-Madonna #TWO!
At the end of April, we had our first doctors appointment for Mini-Madonna #2. Here's our first glimpse. He/she looks like a blob that Grandma affectionately named Cookie Monster:
Abby came with us to the appt & surprised us with how excited she is:
As soon as we got back from the appt, I posted her picture on my Blog, and on Facebook & it was all officially announced to the world! Abby especially liked wearing her new shirt to school that day because she got a lot of excitement & attention all day from her teachers.
Abby came with us to the appt & surprised us with how excited she is:
As soon as we got back from the appt, I posted her picture on my Blog, and on Facebook & it was all officially announced to the world! Abby especially liked wearing her new shirt to school that day because she got a lot of excitement & attention all day from her teachers.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
School Photos: 3 Yrs Old
I scanned these off of an odd cardstock so it didn't come out very well at all. If you click on the picture, it'll explode into a bigger one that's at least a little better.
Favourite Toys
This was my all-time favourite toy: the A La Cart Kitchen. I BEGGED for this for Christmas & played with it for years (years past it's age group too).
And, what's really funny is that I'd been "sold" by this TV ad, haha:
Memoirs of a Geisha
I just finished this book. It has been on my shelf for probably 10 years (since it was a BIG best-seller that one year). I just never got around to reading it. So I read it in the last month. Halfway through it got soaked in a leaking bottle of sunscreen so it had crunchy pages. It swelled to double the size and really looks like it's been through a war zone.
As for the story, it was ... OK. It started out really good - I loved the detailed Japanese history, the landscape, the characters, and the setting up of a young girls early tragedies. But, as she got older, well, it felt too predictable, too romanticised and ultimately, unbelievable. This is a habit of a lot of English people - we just can't watch movies or read books if they're based on fantasy, or they're too glorified, or too 'over the top'. We are turned off the minute we read the part that has us thinking "THAT would never happen in real life". And that's what happened with this book for me. It got a little ... sappy & obvious. If you know what I mean by all that.
I finished it though. I had invested enough in this character to see where she ended up. But I had lost real feeling for her story. Shame, because I got a lot out of the great picture of Japanese life that was portrayed. I loved the descriptive passages on exactly how a geisha dresses, and trains for her role at school, and how life in her okiya was. I could picture Gion at this time. But an important level of emotion, for me, was just not quite there.
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