Already Hump Day?

Mama says our week off is half over! 
I better hurry to get a few more things done...

I need cuddle time with my favourite critters
(oh, Auntie Cindy?  Uncle Tiger? Are you there?  I love neowneow with all my heart and would LOVE a Fuzz that Was lelalela (that's elephant by the way) for my birthday.  Mama told me no at the zoo yesterday and I was a bit shocked....

 Sometimes I don't like her decisions...so I pout...

And the whole climbing thing? 
She worries when I climb high structures...

maybe she needs to be closer when I'm on flat ground?

I was already really wet and dirty from my grassland mishap so we went for ice-cream
(sometimes mama has Good Ideas!)...

Tomorrow?  Uncle Matt is turning a really big number!  So I'm taking him out for Japanese.  Well, Mama's driving.

And the weekend!  It's gonna be big!  I'm meeting a couple of Hai Duong girlfriends for lunch at our favourite Vietnamese restaurant.  And getting spoiled by Auntie Kristen and Uncle Chuck and Cammy and Bob and Daniel too!  And Visiting Uncle Sam and Auntie Janice  and Baldie and the big M if they return mama's phone call (hint hint...)

Stay tuned.  Mama is still practicing with her little Canon A1100IS so there are sure to be more photos coming your way soon (she bought cheap and replaceable after the wee mishap with the last one).

36 hours of fun...

3 days down, 6 more to go.

You arrived just in the nick of time

March Break that is.
Last week was rough.
Now it is over...

We've been busy already this weekend and are off to see special friends overnight tonight and then, maybe, the zoo tomorrow.

Lovely dinner out with friends from the adoption world on Friday evening...some of whom heard about their travel dates that very day!

Ben looks happy here but there was a moment late in the evening when he gave me and hundreds of restaurant patrons a peek into the world of two year old tantrums...and it was all my fault.  Waaaay tooooo late to be out.

A drizzly day walk with our best friend Boomer.

Fun times at Kindermusik...Ben LOVES kindermusik.

He really looks forward to a bit of playtime after music class is over.  This is an Ike@ slide and he can slide on this over and over again for half an hour.

And today?  A late get up.  Play time. Bath time.  And lots of fun BOX play.  My boy adores his boxes.

Still getting used to the new camera...a bit blurry at times.

So far today...

Leaping right in

Playing with my new Canon A1100IS...

21months...time marches on

I often find myself wondering where the time goes...

last year on this day the wee one was thinking about possibly enjoying pureed sweet potatoes as we struggled with oral aversion and aspiration and reflux 

he spent hours sleeping in sunbeams

and wore size 6-12 months in the most adorable monkey pattern from gymboree

Today the dude enjoyed lunch out at our favourite Vietnamese Restaurant
after enjoying a 20 minute car nap
shopped for tomorrow's birthday party
and had a non traumatic haircut for the first time ever
(and then mama bought a new camera...explaining the lack of pictures).

Once home he had a spring roll, a huge pear (cut up of course), half a hot cross bun and a bowl of broccoli.
While wearing size 24 month pants and a 3T top. 
Still hungry 30 minutes later he found a chunk of something or other on the carpet
yelled caca at the top of his lungs
and downed it with the joy and drool he usually reserves for pho noodles...
caca is one of Ben's words "with meaning" so I of course ran OUT of the room
(to get him a bottle of water of course...)

after his post dinner carpet snack he enthusiastically tackled mama for an hour or so

 read a few books

 while periodically hiding under blanket forts (which are all the rage right now)

 shared his thirst quenching water with his best friend, taking turns like the kind boy he is

had a bath, changed into pj's
and crashed and burned.

21 months is full of fun with 2 speeds...racing and sleeping.

R.I.P...sweet little purse camera

You gave me endless gifts that will last forever.

This

and this

and this 

and this and this and this.

 

  

 

Now you are gone sweet Canon A570... 

And I must shop.

SOON!

Purse camera...any personal recommendations?