Still not crawling

Elodie has been close for over a month now. Bum scooting, reaching, getting on all fours and rocking. You would think that her busy bee big sister would be motivation enough to get mobile. I guess not. She is now at the point where she is almost pulling her self up onto furniture (she tries and gets about half way up before she gets "too tired") Maybe she will just bypass the whole crawling thing.

Beating the heat at the Splash Park

I LOVE Stampede Breakfasts!

There is something about free pancakes and sausage. I could eat/find a new stampede breakfast every morning if I wasn't so inclined to steer clear of the big city traffic.

That's a huge strawberry.

And a lovely string of spit.

Easter Weekend

This year Blair, me and the girls all took off to Saskatchewan to visit family. The girls did awesome in the car, not much in the way whining or crying and on the way out we stopped in Drumheller at the Royal Tyrel Museum. Turns out they were having their annual Easter egg hunt. We ran around like monkeys trying to spot all the hidden eggs among the exhibits. At the end Kaiya received a plastic egg with a toy dino inside asa prize. A for effort. She was thrilled.

Our first stop was my Aunt's house. We got see a lot of family that we haven't seen in almost a year and some got to meet for the first time my sweet little Elodie. Though she wasn't really sleeping well and pulling a few fussy's I think that she won their hearts with her chunky monkey smiles.

On Sunday morning the Easter bunny hid little eggs all over my aunts house for Kaiya to find and a Lalaloopsie doll in her basket, what a lucky girl. We have been eating chocolate for days and there are still bunnies galore. After the hunt we headed out to my Grandparent's farm where Kaiya got to visit the cows, chickens and horses. She loved the cows but not as much as the Quad ride that Papa took her on. It was cold, toque and mittens cold, yet she did not want to come in. The next day she again got another Quad ride and the Easter bunny miraculously left more eggs around the yard for her.

Although we had a blast Kaiya is at a very trying age right now, she was driving me crazy with her lack of listening and her inability to calm down. She is sweet as pie and does and say's the cutest things but she also spends a great deal of time in time out's. Learning your boundaries is so hard! Now for a major photo dump:

Kaiya prepping for the Easter bunny with a little craft.

At the museum, being her two year old self. If you squint you can see her horns holding up that halo.

Finding hidden treasures left by the Easter bunny.

Easter Eggs filled with Playdoh, great alternative to chocolate.

What an awesome stash!

My sweet Elodie practicing her new sitting skills.

Cousin Carson finding Easter eggs

My cousin Katie giving Kaiya a hand.

The girls

Kaiya is beginning to interact with Elodie a lot more. She wants to hold her, change her bum, play with and most importantly, she wants to make her laugh. Here she is trying to hold her, Elodie just adores her so she doesn't mind how rough she gets.

Miss Elodie playing on her matt:

3 month check up

Elodie had her 3 month check up today with the doc. She of course passed with flying colors. Her head is still in the 50th percentile, her length is in the 75th measuring in at 25 inches and her weight, well she is my chunky monkey! She now weighs 14.5 pounds which is in the 90th percentile. She has developed the marshmallow man thighs and a couple of chins. She sure is cute and sweet. She laughs all the time, even when she is sick with the flu she barely fusses. I am so blessed to have such an awesome baby.

Here's to being 3 months old!

So they are a little late, shoot me. I'm sorry, I partially blame the resurfacing of Walking Dead (holy crap last week's episode was a good one!) and I guess the fact that I have been trying to keep my home as spotless as a show home didn't help.