Happy Birthday 3rd birthday to my sweet little girl! Just when I think I couldn’t possibly love you anymore. . . . I do! She wound up having two birthday parties this year. Neil’s side of the family was going to be out of town for her real birthday yesterday so we had an early party last week with cupcakes from Sandi’s Cupcake Creations. Then yesterday we had cake after she got home from daycare. The cake that I completely blanked on and forgot to make. Thankfully my parents and sister we on the ball and created the prettiest little butterfly cake, I actually thought they had bought it. 

Other than birthdays we have busy the last few days making the most of the time I have left before my maternity leave ends at the start of August. Almost every morning my sister and I take her boy and Cedric on a big walk on the University trails, then I’ve been toting Cedric around on various outings (Amelia is at daycare). One fun trip was visiting my parents’ plot at the Community Garden, where Cedric found two zucchinis that he claimed as his own and proudly carried around. He also investigated the peas with great interest, especially since Grandpa was picking them. There was another lady at a different plot who thought Cedric was just the cutest and let us pick some of her strawberries for a treat.

Another little outing was brunch at D’Lano’s with my parents. We kept Amelia home from daycare that day so she could come too because “pancake day” is the highlight of her week when she goes. She actually eats French toast and says no to pancakes, but to her it is pancake day.

In the evening to beat the heat we are usually playing inside, and one of their new toys arrived a few days ago (Grimm’s 7 Rainbow Friends in Bowls) It is a colour sorting set of peg people and bowls. Who knew you could do so much with these little people. Amelia used her imagination and built little scenes for them with her wooden rainbow arches and was trying to teach Cedric the colours, among other little games she devised. Cedric promptly tossed one of the little people across the room, so that took a bit of searching to find where it rolled off to. We have also read an entire library’s worth of books, built forts with our Kiico Play Couch and watched the Disney Short ‘Far from the Tree” on repeat. She adores the story of the little racoons. 

Neil and I hung out in the pool the other night for almost 2 hours which is rare because the weather is usually only nice when he is at work, and promptly turns too windy or rainy on his days off. The kids are going swimming this afternoon after naps and daycare, Amelia has been looking forward to it for a few days, but I had to hold off going in because I got the last piece of my tattoo sleeve done last week so needed to stay out of the water. 

I feel like we have done so much more, but I can’t think of anything more to add. Cedric is up from his nap – off to swim now!