45 - Day in the life of a jet setting 2 year old

Started the day off with opening Valentine's gifts for McKenzie. Here she is enjoying a chocolate from Grandma and Grandpa, reading her new book after looking at her cards.

While I was doing her hair today she found some barrettes in her basket. She held it up and asked "What's that?" I told her it was a barrette. She said "No. Skateboard!" Hmmmm maybe she hangs around with too many boys?!? She then proceeded to "drive" it over all the furniture like a skateboard.
A close up of the 6 "skateboards" she found.

Guess she is still a girl after all. She then proceeded to pack all of her 6 skateboards into her purse, tell me goodbye and go for a drive.

The lovely flowers and vase my hubby got me for Valentine's. How'd I do with the arranging Heather? First time using a rectangular shaped vase. Would have liked one more piece of baby's breath for the centre back but otherwise thought it looked okay for an amateur arranging job.

All afternoon McKenzie asked me if we could see Maks, were we going to see Maks, is Maks here? When we got back from running around this afternoon, I saw that Kari, Lawrence and Maks were at Heather and Gords so I ran over with McKenzie and barged in on their afternoon. When we got there Maks proceeded to tour McKenzie around the house and give her a guided tour. Being the good girlfriend she is, she let him think he was showing her all new stuff and didn't tell him she had been there before. Ahhh, young love.

Showing her the fish.

They took a moment to sit and colour together.

"That's nice Maks. I like the use of colour and movement."

Cutest Crayola ad EVER!

44 - Valentine's Eve Dinner

Took a night off from cooking. Murder on the Weight Watcher's diet but nice not to have to cook and clean up.

Here are my Valentine's Eve dates:

Date 1

Date 2
Hmmm....neither of them look so excited to be here and then to make matters worse...one of them starts texting at the table!

Yum...Chinese.

McKenzie packed it away like a pro. She loved the noodles...

...though they did present some difficulties in plate to mouth logistics.

Come here you noodle!

Happy Valentine's Eve everyone!

43 - Skating!

It was a beautiful day today and I was off early so we decided to take McKenzie for her first attempt at skating.

She took to it like a duck to water. Apparently she inherited her father's athletic ability. The kid has more natural balance at 2 than I have ever had. The first thing she did was try to shake off Daddy. Here she is actually totally on her own.
We finally convinced her that holding hands was a good idea.
Skating diva.

We did have one little "bobble".

But all she said was "that funny" and kept going.

Afterward we walked around the park for a bit and when the swings were free we went for a ride.

Hi Daddy.

Weeeeeee.

42 - Forgive my indulgence

If you are bored of looking at pictures of McKenzie playing then just sign off now cause below are a few more. I love watching her play pretend and discover and learn things. I am constantly in awe of her and the way the human mind develops and learns.

Playing pretend with her houses...she is developing quite the subdivision.

Daddy and Mommy having a conversation.
Here she is trying to figure out how to get the beads in the block into the bucket inside.

Still trying to figure it out.

41 - playing

I enjoy how McKenzie takes all these little animals out of their bucket and positions them in different little groupings. It reminds me of a "party" atmosphere where everyone is mingling and moving around.

Here she is adding the eyes onto the moose we were making.
Then off to draw for a bit. Tiptoe!

She is workingon her squiggles. She does scribbles, squiggles and circles now.

40 - Your inner Einstein

Did you ever feel like you were channeling your inner Einstein ... but in the hair way not the smart way?!?

Thank goodness for hairdressers.

39 - Nice normal day

That's what I could think of to photograph today.

Not much going on here. Slow day at work, Mike made dinner, a little play time with McKenzie and then I ran out for groceries, tucked little miss in when I got home and watched Castle. Now it's off to bed and repeat.

38 - Dress Up Fun

You too...

...can be a princess.

All it takes is some princessey loot.

And a very determined 2 year old.

Mike declined to have pictures taken of the full effect. McKenzie seemed to think he made a lovely princess because she kept dressing him up over and over and over and over...

37 - Playdate

I called Kari yesterday afternoon to see if she and Maks would like to come out to Okotoks with us this morning to check out Playtopia. They were up for it! Yeah - Playdate!

Here we are all strapped into the Nagmobile and ready to go.

(if you don't know why I call the van the nagmobile check out the license plate I got assigned by registries next time I see you)

The facility is great. Very clean and well set up and only about 15-20 minutes from home. Would likely take that long to get to one here in the city when you contend with lights and traffic etc.

McKenzie wanted to start out in the ball pit. She quite liked sitting in all the balls.
She would pick one up, name it's colour, and then throw it.

She only hit someone once and she did apologize.

Next it was off to try to climb up the slides. By the time we left there were a lot more kids there so I think she was a little annoyed that they wanted to slide down them so she couldn't climb up them.

Maks mastered the toddler slide. McKenzie wanted no part of the slide though she did like climbing up the colourful steps you can see to the side of the slide.

I love how 2 year olds "play together".

Just before we left the bouncy house was not busy so we let them have a go. They seemed to quite enjoy it once they got the hang of it.

Wee!

Bouncy house fun!

Slide king!

36 - Walmart

Being that it was Friday and because Mike and McKenzie had cabin fever we decided to go to Ricky's for dinner tonight. It was very yummy if not Weight Watchers approved.

After dinner we went and ran around Walmart. We were trying to find another Pocoyo DVD for McKenzie. We did find a Toopy and Binoo video which she was happy about but when we couldn't find Pocoyo she was very disappointed and made sure everyone knew it by stopping every few feet, looking sad and giving a BIG sigh!

When we first came in she noticed this set up but as we were leaving she stopped to watch Michael and danced along to his video. She was getting right into it.
Sorry about the quality of the photos but these were taken with my cell since I did not plan ahead and bring a camera with us.