this and that

My multi-tasking daughter. Watching TV, holding Lambie, her juice, and a candle she found the other day and carts around the house all while farting like a trucker (no offence to any truckers out there).

Yeah...Laundry room has walls and a floor and the washing machine and dryer are hooked up so I can do laundry again.
If you ever find yourself dreading laundry just unplug your washing machine and dryer for a week or so and watch the laundry pile up knowing you can't do laundry... you will soon be SOOOO happy to have it back you will run to the laundry room...okay maybe not run but still I was happy to have it set back up.

Not a real wood floor for those of you out there thinking we are nuts to put wood floors in a basement laundry room. It is a vinyl flooring that comes in laminate like planks that you snap/stick together. Mike put it down yesterday evening. Looks really good.

Wicker wonderland!

My friend Heather was cleaning out her spare room upstairs (at 11pm last night but that's another story) and ended up giving McKenzie this wonderful little wicker chair. It is so cute and she loves it. When she woke up from her nap I gave her a little snack and she took the snack and walked right over to it and sat down.

I moved it more into the living room for her as she was cranning her neck to see the TV. She was so quiet so I checked on her a little later and saw her sitting like this.
Apparently it is a very comfy chair too!

103/120 - Basement update

Basement is really coming along now. Drywall is done. Mudding and taping is done.

Popcorn ceiling is done.

Painting is started...well priming anyway. Not 100% sure about this colour as this is the primer and the colour we selected is a 1/4 tone darker. We will see.

102/120 - Some of McKenzie's favourite things at Grandma and Grandpa's house

For the most part, McKenzie is having a blast at my parents' house. Here are a few of her "new" things to do while here.

She loves this Nerf ball that my mom has in a little toy box she has set up for McKenzie. Mostly it is the books and toys that my brother Ryan and I still had left over. McKenzie just loves throwing and kicking this ball and the other day decided to try sitting on it. She does pretty good most of the time.

But she still needs to work on those core muscles!
Since my parents have their hot tub turned right down for the summer and it is like a warm bath temperature we thought we would see how McKenzie liked it. As you can see, at first she was not convinced this was a good thing to do.

She started to loosen up a bit the longer we were in it.

And finally decided it was not so bad after all.

My mom has been doing some canning and there are a ton of fresh fruits and vegetables. With fresh fruit and vegetables come hungry bugs. The fruit flies have been really bad. The other day my mom was looking out the window with McKenzie and went to kill a fruit fly that was on the window. McKenzie thought this was the funniest thing she had seen in quite some time.

She loves to try and kill the fruit flies with Grandma now and will pull a chair over to the window and try to get up on it until someone comes and lifts her up and helps her kill these bugs.

She is very good at spotting them. Home tomorrow. I know McKenzie is going to miss it here so much. I can't wait to see Mike but I will miss it too.

Images of Dad

My mom had these pics that she took. Here's my Dad on his tractor. I have many fond memories of "driving" this tractor on his knee with my brother complaining loudly on the other knee about my "driving" skills.

These were the images of my dad from my childhood...dad on his tractor in the hay field and his welding truck.

101/120 - Surprise!

McKenzie and I flew to Vernon this weekend to surprise my mom for her birthday. Last time I tell my dad about a surprise for my mom. She knew we were coming and got everything ready for us.

McKenzie relaxing before we go out for dinner for Grandma's birthday.

Uncle Ryan and his fancy dinner. Ryan and Bobbie joined us for dinner at the Italian Kitchen.
Grandma enjoying her dinner.

Grandpa digging in. Aunty Bobbie's arm.

Grandma opening her gifts.

McKenzie loves these singing cards.

This morning we went down to visit my mom's brother Buddy at his cabin on Okanagan lake. This is the first time McKenzie has been down to the lake.

The neighbours have a sandy area they have created and McKenzie had a blast playing there.

Sand on the toes...is there anything better?!?

Worn out after a morning at the beach.

My dad's brother, Uncle Elmer came over for dinner tonight to help celebrate.

McKenzie going to town on the corn on the cob. MMMMMMMmmmmmm!

100/120 - Hamper

McKenzie is at the stage where she loves to put things into something else and take things out of other things. Tonight, she decided to "help" put her dirty clothes in the hamper. Then she decided they should come back out...what better way to get them out than to....

...go in after them!

All the way in...
...and loving it!

Hmmmm, now that I am in here...how do I get out? Maybe I should lay down and think about it.

OHHHH, I back out.

99/120 - McKenzie's room is coming along

So in order to get the look I want for McKenzie's room I had to order some stuff from an online company Heart to Heart and it came in today! hip hip hooray!

McKenzie loved her new flower pillow/chair and sat in it right away to read books.

It is also good for laying down.

Finally convinced her to get up so we could put it in her room. Still good for reading books.
Her bed with the new smaller flower pillow and her fairy princess doll that looks a lot like the ones on her bedspread.

She loved the butterflies that I got to suspend over her bed and took this one for a walk around her room. She is also wearing the super cute dress I got her today while I was trying to pick up one more birthday thing for my mom...didn't find anything Mom so I mailed the parcel as is. Don't open it until Sunday!!!

This was so entertaining that when we had to take it away it caused a full melt down!

98/120 - nap time fun

I'm a big girl! I don't need a nap...yeah right!

McKenzie has really been fighting her naps and then falling asleep in exhaustion in the later afternoon. What can you do? We try and put her down. Leave her in her room to play for an hour and nothing. Take her out and she is lively right until the moment of collapse. Sigh. Where is that parenting manual?!?

97/120 - Catching up

So I looked at the blog and realized it has been almost a week since I posted a picture. Too busy giving Lawrence a bad time about not having posted a picture in awhile I guess! I tried to get some good shots of McKenzie and before her bath this is the best picture I got. It reminds me of the find the Loonie challenge in the Our Canada Magazine. Can you find McKenzie in this picture?

Here are some from on our way to the bath.

"Hey Mom! Put that thing down and come give me a bath!"

"Boo"

After her bath while she was naked and running around I put out McKenzie's new potty to see what she would do with it. We are not quite ready to start but I thought we could have it around the house so she got used to seeing it.

"Hmmmm. What is this thing?"

"I could try sitting on it. I have a book handy to read and everything."

"I'll sit over here thanks. Mom! Did you know that thing has a hole in the middle...makes it hard to sit on!"

Yesterday was a bad day but today was much better. Errands in the morning, lunch and nap in the early afternoon and then we went over to our friends Ed and Daphne's house to help celebrate their daughter Ashlynn's 5th birthday. I remember when she was a baby! Where does the time go!?!

96/120 - Night Night

Looking cute in her nightie. This is a hand-me-down from Ashlynn, my friend Daphne's little girl. I thought it would be too big for McKenzie but we were out of clean PJ's (apparently I need to do laundry) so thought I would give it a try.

She's cute...but...not really ladylike yet.

Good thing we haven't graduated to panties yet. Showing off her diaper instead.

In these next pictures I asked her to smile for the camera. She did stop what she was doing and look up but smile...not quite.

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She did finally smile but before I could snap the picture she took a drink.