The weather has really been warming up here in Vancouver, so this afternoon we decided to head out on a little walk around the neighbourhood.
There were some kids playing basketball at the elementary school across the street, so naturally, that’s where my little ball-obsessed lady led us.
You can’t go to the school without stopping by the playground, so that’s just what we did. (Notice that Grae’s walking up the stairs rather than crawling up them… She’s been working on that lately.)
Miss G is becoming so independent at the playground… She was able to get herself up the stairs, across the rickety bridge, and down the slide several times all on her own.
Satisfied with her time at the playground, we were back on our way. On a sort of funny side note – Grae was so into these shrubs that she lost her footing while sniffing them and fell right in! Oopsies. She was a little surprised, but just fine when I pulled her out.
On the way home, she tried her hand at collecting rocks. Lucky for me, these ones were a little too big to take with us… Next time, Grae. Next time.
We were playing in Gracen’s room this morning when she discovered this.
If she pulled all of the bins out of the one side of her shelf, she could fit inside almost perfectly.
She sat inside of her new little hideout for a good long while.
She was pretty proud of her new discovery to say the least.
Celebratory crib jumping was necessary afterwards. :)
Normally Gracen and I share the responsibility of picking out her clothes… She starts by picking out one item, and I’ll pick out another item to complete the outfit. But this little outfit? It is a creation all her own. She started by selecting last year’s incredibly summery Easter dress, but then paired it with a long sleeve tee and tights. Good save, Grae. Good save.
Little Miss G chose to wear her red sparkly shoes today and she could not have been more proud of them. As we ran errands, she kept pointing at her feet, announcing “pretty, pretty, pretty”, and then nodding her head in confirmation. :)
Hmmmm…. I wonder where Gracen could be…
Here she is!
This little girl adores her nightly bath time. Most evenings, she’s signing ‘bath’ before we’re even done dinner. Once she’s in there, I think she could stay in there all night. Her latest thing is having us close the sliding glass doors so that she can splash to her heart’s content.
We’re enjoying finally being well enough to get out and do the things we normally do. This morning we headed over to the Hillcrest Community Centre for their Sunday morning family social and play gym session.
After coming home and having a GIANT 3 hour and 15 minute nap, Gracen and I jumped on the Canada Line and headed downtown. We walked around for a little bit, visited Chapters, and then picked up Bradley from work when his shift ended. It feels good to be well again!
I’m not quite sure how this happened… I blame it on not leaving the house for the last 6 days. Oopsies!
Well… It seems as though we’ve taken a few steps back today. Our little lady woke up absolutely burning up this morning, crawled into our bed, and slept with Papa for an extra 3 hours.
Once awake, she plopped down on the couch next to her Mama, munched on a little chunk of apple, and didn’t move much more than that.
The rest of our morning looked like this.
The afternoon looked like this…
And the evening wasn’t much different. Maybe day 5 will be our day?
We’re still sick. Ech. Here a few highlights from day 3 of sickness:
Homemade veggie soup.
Smiles amidst the whining.
A warm bath at the end of the day.
Although we seem to have her temperature somewhat under control now, Gracen’s cough, runny nose, and congestion are in full swing now. And sadly, I’m doing no better. In fact, I’ve got all of the same symptoms, plus a wicked headache and all over body pain. We’re a sorry sight over here.
The good part is that Miss G actually spent some time awake today. The downside is that it pretty much looked like this. Uncomfortable, unhappy, and whiny.
And then there was the full-on, defeated cry.
And by the end of the day, Bradley came home to a house that looked like this. Disaster. The worst part is that I was too ill to care. Here’s hoping for a better day tomorrow.
Aw, my poor little doodlebug. Last night I got home from a lovely downtown coffee date with my ladies and heard Grae calling for me in the most pitiful little voice. It was odd for her to be awake at 11:00 p.m. and I knew that something wasn’t right. I went in her room to find her absolutely burning up. We stripped her down, put her in some summer jammies, gave her a dose of Tylenol and some water, and put her back to sleep. Needless to say, it was a rough night and we ended up with a congested, coughing little heater in our bed for much of the night.
We stayed in bed until 8:30 this morning and when we finally got up, I decided to juice an orange for Miss G in hopes of getting some extra vitamin C into her. She’s never had juice before, so we thought she’d love it, but it was actually just the opposite – she wouldn’t even try a sip.
She spent the entire day snuggled up and sleeping on us while clutching onto her cold water cup, which for Grae, is very out of character.
We ended up taking her to the walk-in clinic late this afternoon just to make sure that she didn’t have an ear infection and her breathing sounded okay. Luckily, everything checked out just fine. The doctor who saw us said that there is a nasty virus going around the Lower Mainland and that it should run it’s course in about 4 days. Let’s hope our little lady feels better soon!
Gracen absolutely adores the little colouring book we made for her ‘Christmas in January’ stocking. She loves pointing out her family members and having me tell her about what’s happening in the pictures. We’ve already coloured 4 pages today, and it’s still morning!
All we did was take some of our favourite photos of her and her cousins, pop them into Photoshop, and turn them into line drawings rather than photos. Then I printed them all on card stock, bound them, and that was it!
Here’s my cool girl helping her Mama with grocery shopping.
This is my all time favourite picture of Grae and her cousin, Kinslee, who is exactly 6 weeks younger than her.
Of course, her cousin, ‘SuperChay’, had to be in the colouring book.
And here’s one of her cousin Korbin’s pages.
The best part is that while we colour, we can talk about all the fun memories that fill the pages. This photo was taken when Grae’s cousins came to visit us in Vernon and we all visited the pool for Chayton’s birthday. I have a feeling these little colouring books will become a yearly tradition in our family. :)