It's a Sunny Day!

Nothing that exciting in Gemma land; every day we play and have fun and she says amazing things. It's so hard to remember because she says so many new things every day, and its not like her baby talk where she would learn one new thing and say it all the time; she has so much variety in her vocabulary now.

Something fun has been Gemma's wake up call to us in the morning. Instead of crying in her bed or calling out Mommy? Daddy? She has started coming into our room. With this HUGE smile on her face she leans in and says "Wake up! Its a sunny day!" Her eyebrows are lifted in expectation, waiting for me to get up. We then rush to the living room (she rushes, I waddle) and she shows me outside the sunny day. (which is sometimes cloudy but more sunny than night time ;) Today I almost broke her heart when I told her 'Today Daddy is going to get out of bed with you, Mommy is going to sleep a bit longer'. Total puppy dog face.

We took the MRT out to the end of the line by our house because a friend told me there was a park there, so we went and did some exploring. It was a lot like Meewasin trail, a beautiful path along the river for biking, and we could see paddle boats (or pedal boats? I've never known the right word) We walked a lot, so much she fell asleep on the MRT ride home, and I carried her from the station back to our house. Oivay! And of course she woke up within 30 seconds of getting home.

Brenda has gone through all Gemma's clothes, putting away winter and taking out summer. This is our last big box of hand me downs; after 2 1/2 years we may become responsible for clothing her! She has tonnes for the summer and still half a box for next winter so we'll be ok for a while.

Having fun...

We've had a nice two weeks together playing and having fun. I am trying really hard to be appreciative of all these last moments of only childness, although it is pretty distracting to have the other one hanging in front not knowing when he is coming. So as excited as I am for number 2 to make his appearance, just trying to relax and enjoy my Gemma time. We've made cookies, muffins, crafts, gone to the park numerous times a day, blown bubbles, painted... I am finally off biking, more for other people's sake than my own, but when I am not working we have more time so can walk places.

Gemma is having lots of fun with Baba, showing her how to get places and impressing her with all her skills. She has grown up a lot in the last few weeks, getting taller and talking talking talking. I need to focus and remember something she says because she comes up with the wittiest stuff and I forget. We were riding the bus home last week and I was holding my MRT card (like a prepay card for the buses and MRT and she said, "This you MRT card Mommy?" Last night about 1am Chris and I were just fighting with the laptop and she came out of bed, "Peekaboo!" Totally a huge grin and happy to see us. And then she fell asleep again with this huge smile on her face. It was precious.

Spaghetti!

We went to a new pasta place on Friday night and it was so awesome. Cool atmosphere, great menu, and reasonable prices. It was the first time we ordered Gemma her own dish. Her favorite things to eat when we go out are french fries and spaghetti, so when I told her we were going to have spaghetti she talked about the spaghetti the whole bike ride there, and so patiently in the restaurant for about 25 minutes while we were seated, ordered, and waited. Then she gobbled it right up, as the attached pictures will attest to.

So Courteous

I was carrying Gemma out of the bath this morning, holding her up against my shoulder and out of the blue she offered up this really sweet apology: "I'm sorry mommy!" And I said, 'What are you sorry about?' And she answered, "I got a booger on you." Sure enough, on my shoulder was a nice, fresh snot mark. Hee hee...

Rain Walk

I love these pictures Chris took today out and about with our girl...

The mind at work...

So Gemma likes to lay in bed sometimes with her feet on the wall, like she is climbing up it. Tonight she took it to a new level. She walked up to the wall and said, "Look at me, mommy!" And then she tried to climb up it. Of course she couldn't but she really thought she could. After realizing that this wasn't going to work she said, "I need a rope." :) So she went and got a rope from her toys and with one hand held it up as high as she could reach and then put the other hand on the wall as though to climb. It was a good idea, but it didn't take her long to realize that this also was not going to work. So cute!