Our Little Thinker

She's definately thinking hard about something....

Our day....

You might wonder what Lola and I do all day. Generally, we work at a fairly relaxed pace as Lola's needs and requests(when I can figure them out) seem to change daily. Having the ablility to be home with her is so wonderful, I can't imagine having to rush off to work when she is still so wee.

Lola usually gets up around 7:30 after what was(hopefully) a full nights rest. By this time, I'm usually up, showered and ready to snuggle in for some breakfest with Lola. After some quality play time, she is usually ready for a nap by 9:00. If I'm lucky, she'll sleep until 11:00, at which time I am running around the house like a mad woman, cleaning, cooking, doing laundry or emailing. If I'm not lucky, she will usually sit in her chair with her toys while I finish off which ever task needs to be completed that day. Then, lunch, some more play and off for our afternoon walk. With Christmas coming we have been making almost daily trips to the PTC to do our shopping. This is a great walk for me, Lola naps and by the time she wakes up( if she does) we are inside the mall where there is lots of interesting stuff to look at. Plus all the people stopping us to tell me how sweet she is. That's always nice too.

By the time Wil gets home, she has usually had dinner( and maybe another short nap) and sits in her chair and "talks" to us while we eat. She really likes to watch what we are doing and smiles and giggles while she looks first at me then at Wil and back again. We can't wait until she is big enough to sit in a high chair so she can be at our level while we have dinner. Nights are tricky, they are either really good or really bad. Wil steps in and does countless loops around the house, plays and shakes with her toys for endless hours and reads her stories or takes her to watch her mobile spin. By 9:00 she is usually ready for bed( after a nice warm bath). Getting her to fall asleep involves more laps in the baby sling, and rocking and nursing. But if we doing a really good job.... I get to sleep until 7:00 am so it is definatley worth it!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Lolas' first trip to see Santa was today. I couldn't resist putting on our blog right away. She's not too sure what's going on but that is ok. At least she didn't scream in terror as I saw a few other kids doing.
And isn't he a great Santa?

When all else fails...

Lola loves to watch the mobile spin and spin and spin. She loves those little animals and laughs, giggles and kicks like crazy as they float by. I love it too as it provides great distractions when I need to get a few things done( like get dressed!).The only thing is, I have to keep running back to crank the music box again and again. But sooo worth it for both of us!

Loads of smiles

Lolas days are filled with smiles and giggles these days. She loves her catapiller rattle best of all, closely followed by her turtle, penguin and bugs. Each time she sees them it it like it is a brand new toy. AMAZING and hysterically funny when she looks so shocked that these toys have appeared in front of her.

The past week has been filled with activity. We took a "quick" trip to Ottawa that was suppose to be only 2 days and turned into 3. As is typical with Wil and I, we learn through experience and so we have to live all these bizarre situations out rather than just hear about it from someone else. Our car broke on the way to Mike and Nat's party. Lucky( there really is some greater being looking down on us) for us, it was about 50 feet before we got on the Queensway, and Wil pulled into the only restaurant on that stretch of road's parking lot. Lola was well bundled in her lovely pink Ewok snowsuit and we just signed up for Roadside assistance a week ago. Thanks to a speedy pick of from Daphne we were back at Jane and Jays in no time. Wil continued on the the party and dealt with the tow truck and car. After some thought, Jay had the brilliant idea to rent a virtue car and head to the party for a quick drop in. I was sooo glad we did as it was great to see everyone. Plus Lola really needed to meet the Ottawa crew. After a day of dealing with Crappy, I mean Canadian Tire, we found out are car was actually still under warrenty. My every diligent and brilliant husband decided to call GM for a second opinion. BOY are we glad he did as the quote at CT was for $900.00. Can you imagine?

Just when we thought it was all going to be easy, we hit a terrible snowstorm near Coburg. I mean BAD, and growing up in the valley I have seen my fair share of snowstorms. I'm talking white out conditions for about 1 our of driving. I was scared as all we could do was follow the headlights in front of us and hope THEY didn't drive off the road. I was sooooo happy to be home in our own house.

And Lola you ask? Well, SHE slept through every incident that happened. Lucky for us, as it could have been much worse with a screaming baby in the mix.