Tickled Pink: Last Week Adventures!

Kyle left last Sunday for Whistler, so the girls and I were on our own for three nights. Monday, my sister came over in the morning to watch the girls while I went to a dentist appointment. I left an hour before my appointment to go shopping for some material at Fabric Land, it was so nice to be able to enjoy time to myself. Then after the dentist my sister was able to stay later so I could go for a workout at the gym. In the evening the girls and I went out for a nice walk. The weather was perfect!

Bath Time Fun!

Out for a stroll

Tuesday, we had our friends Frank and Walter over for a play date with their mom Katherine. Frank is 6 months younger than Claire and Walter is only a month younger than Abby. Claire and Frank enjoy playing together. Well Claire really just loves to boss him around but what girl doesn't like to do that with a boy. After the boys left I noticed that Miss Abby's top tooth broke through her gum. It explained the drooling and fussiness the day before. Now Abby has 3 teeth! Once the girls went down for the night I tackled the shelves in our basement office. I have various craft supplies, fabric, paper and some school materials. It was wonderful to get things organized and fixed up before our move. Don't get me wrong we still have a ton to do!

Abby's top tooth (hard to see but it's there)

The whole gang hanging out

It may not look organized but you should have seen it before!

Wednesday, we had a friend of ours, Scott come and continue working on mudding and tapping the basement. We are in the process of finishing our basement before we put our house up for sale. An interior designer, through Century 21 came over in the morning to discuss staging our house before the sale. She gave me detailed notes of what to change in each room and parts of the house. It was extremely helpful for us. The girls and I spent the rest of the day outside because the weather was beautiful! After the girls were sleeping I headed down to the basement office to work on a couple sewing projects I was trying to finish. Kyle arrived home after midnight, I never heard him come home, I was out like a light.

Abby hanging out in the shade

Claire brought her doctor kit outside

Claire throwing the ball for Makena

One of my sewing projects

Thursday, Kyle stayed home from work to spend the day with us girls. I headed to the gym in the morning while he watched the girls. I felt so energized after getting home from the gym, I have really enjoyed getting back into running and weight training. I have noticed I am more toned in my legs and arms and I run at a faster pace as well. Here is the link I used to get back into things at the gym, the workouts are quite intense so some days I break one day into two. Milk-Friendly . When the girls woke up from their afternoon naps we made plans to go check out our house in Bridgwater Forest. Kyle called ahead to have them leave the door open for us so we would be able to check out things inside. It keeps looking better and better each time we go to visit, the wiring and plumbing was all complete and they just need to finish up the ventilation before the drywall can go up. It was a little slow going these last couple months but we are still hopeful it will be complete by end of November.

We had to bring Makena to check out the house too!

Out on the deck taking in the view!

Claire always wants her sister in the crib with her

Checking out the second floor of the house

Friday, I spent part of the morning making brownies and banana bread for our friends who just welcomed their baby girl on August 10th. I also cooked up a yummy spinach lasagne for them for dinner. I had been looking forward to our visit because I had yet to meet their baby and I just love new babies. Our plans had to change slightly because Abby got really sick all of a sudden. We had given her rice cereal around 11:30, one tablespoon mixed with breast milk. She ate it all up with no trouble. Later, I breastfeed her before I put her down for her nap around 12:45. Around 2:00 she woke up and was crying I noticed on the monitor she had thrown up all over herself. We quickly went to get her and there was breast milk and cereal everywhere. She continued to throw up after we got her up so we called Health Links and asked what to do. They believed it was either an intolerance or allergy to the cereal. They ruled out stomach bug because she didn't have a fever or any other symptoms. After dinner she had stopped throwing up and was feeling much better. Thankfully she was able to breastfeed and keep it all in. Phew! I went with Claire to visit with our friends and the baby and bring them food. She was adorable and so tiny! I couldn't even remember either of my girls being that small. We are looking forward to future play dates with them. We use to get together almost once a week when we had our first babies together so it will just be like old times. Our other friends are due with their second on Sept 4th so it will be so nice having the whole group back together again.

Caught this in the morning! So cute!

Saturday, despite the rainy weather we headed over to my cousins house for a pool party in the late afternoon. They just put in a pool this spring and were eager to have us out for a swim. Even though it was raining all morning we still decided to go and believe it or not it stopped raining for a couple hours so we could go for a swim. Claire loved playing in the water with Kyle. My cousin has two kids, and they enjoy playing big brother and sister to Claire, its sooo cute!

Abby with Grandma

Claire our little water bug

Having a good conversation with Auntie Erica

Sunday, we met some of Kyle's coworkers with their little ones out at Thomas the Train at Prairie Dog Central. It was not raining, thank goodness, but it was sure mucky and muddy. Claire sure loved the activities they had there, colouring, stamps, stickers and mini train's on the railroad tables. She was hesitant about getting a temporary tattoo of Thomas but now that she has it she is so proud of it. She has been protective of it all week to make sure it doesn't get wet and come off. When it was our turn to board the train, Claire was in awe of it all. The train cars are in great condition, with the interior dating back to the 1900's. It was a nice way to get out of the house and spend the day.