The Little Mermaid

I took Alaina to see her first play at the cultural centre with Mel & Taya and Martha & Ella. Alaina hasn't actually seen that movie but she seemed to really enjoy the play. When they told the kids to get up and dance, Alaina said come on mom! And they had a bubble machine and she wanted to run up and get them lol. When it was all done, she said, Again! The next day she asked me if it was time to get ready to go see it lol. So all and all, I think she will want to go and see more plays :)

Mini Vacation

We took the girls to Toronto for a mini-vacation. It was Alivia's first family vacation and it didn't turn out so well! We checked in and had some lunch then I had to go write an exam and Brandon and the girls TRIED to nap lol. Then my buddy Carm came and had dinner with us in the hotel restaurant, it was terrible. I asked if it was real chicken for the burger, he said yep, breast meat, it was grey processed :( It was soo expensive too. Then we got all ready to go swimming, in what was suppose to be a heated pool. One of the reasons I booked that hotel. So the water was freezing, we couldn't get in past our ankles. There was a hot tub too, of course too hot for livia so we took turns holding her with our feet in or sitting right in. There was some pre-teen girls there and alaina wanted to swim and play with them so badly. Everytime they got too hot in the whirlpool, they would jump in the icebox. We were able to sit in the hot tub, hold alaina over in the cold pool so she could kick her feet with the kids as she called them. Alaina introduced us all to them too, this is daddy right there, mommy, sister livia and this is laina right here, it was sooo cute. After we went back to our room and my other buddy Timeka and her kids came to play. Alaina had a blast! Then it was time to settle in, all in one room for the first time. It took 30mins to get Alaina to sleep. Then 30mins after that the fire alarm went off! We grabbed as much as we could, got down stairs and people in the lobby said its a false alarm and were heading back to their rooms. 15mins after settling back in, the phone rang, it was reception saying we had to vacate the building. So we grabbed the kids out of bed and went outside. We waited for the fire department to clear the building and I asked if there was really a fire, if so we were heading home, it was 11:30pm at this time. He said no so back to bed we went. About 1:30am Alaina woke screaming, I think brandon moved and startled her, which in turn woke alivia. 30mins later everyone was back to sleep. 7am, the fire alarm went off again! We grabbed the kids again (each time we were able to grab more stuff!) and part way down the hall, people were saying false alarm, well we heard that before, so we called down, they said get out until the fire dept. comes and clears it. So we did. It was false again. They thought it was someone smoking causing the problems. So of course Alaina couldn't go back to sleep, she seen it was daylight. Alivia napped a bit longer. Then we went to get our complimentary breakfast. What a joke. It was an omelette, sausage, toast and homefries. Sounds good right. Sausage was a hotdog, toast was so cold and dry it was like eating breadcrumbs, egg was cold and rubbery. Homefries were cold but edible. I was soo glad I packed a goody bag. We couldn't wait to check out, and I almost booked 2 nights. We headed over to the woodbine mall by the college I went to. It has a build in fairground. It's really neat. We met up with another buddy of mine, Marco whom I hadn't seen in 6 years! He has a baby girl Tayah, 2.5 weeks older than Alivia. Alaina really enjoyed the rides. We headed home after that and both kids were out not even 2 minutes in the car. We woke them up in london to eat supper. So it was the worst hotel stay ever but good visiting was done!

Look at my muscles!

Livia & Cyntasha - 12 days apart

Justin, Jr. & Laina

Wrestling with Jr. He's 4, and she's got 'em, that's my girl!

Fantasy Fair at Woodbine Mall

Thanksgiving

We were busy thanksgiving with three dinners, soo yummy! We took the girls to the Brigden Fair the Monday. What a beautiful day! Of course we were all overdressed. We met up with Nana and Papa Coles. Alaina got to see Dora (the line up was too long, and when it finally shortened and we hopped in, they called a potty break for Dora, so we headed home), the animals and ride a couple rides. Miss Alivia slept the whole time lol. That Tuesday after, we had Kristy and Madelyn over for a playdate. It has been a long time since Kristy hasn't started her 2nd maternity leave yet. The girls played pretty well together. At first Alaina was a bit pushy and by the end it was Maddy that was being pushy lol. Ohh the joys of two year olds :)

Giving some love after duking it out :P

6 Months :(

Alivia is now half a year and I'm sooo sad! She is getting busier and busier. She can sit up unassisted and play forever, which is nice. She is also trying to crawl!! She gets up on all fours and rocks. She can get her legs moving but not sure what to do with her arms. She scoots backwards and such. She has 3.5 teeth now, one top is in and the other should be through tomorrow. She is just changing too fast these days! She really gets going in her exersaucer now, much more than Alaina ever did. We went for her 6 month appt. yesterday and the Dr. was impressed with her strength and hand-eye coordination. Said we have an athlete here :P She weighed 14.07 lbs and 24.75" long. She's still an inch shorter and a pound heavier than her sister at this age, but I can still use all the same clothes, huge bonus! I'm looking forward to when she does crawl just too see what she will do with Alaina now, but worried about what Alaina will do with her then!!! LOL We went to our old neighbours on Sunday and had family pictures done. Way too many good ones to choose from, but here's a few, bunch :P

Western Fair

So we decided to take the girls to the Western Fair in London and visit Auntie Bailee for her 21st birthday. Alaina was in heaven! She ran from ride to ride to ride. She loved all of them, with me and by herself. It made the expensive tickets worth it, just wish we had more time there. I just got the good pictures from Bailee to post, better a month late then never :)

Photo Shoot

We had a photo shoot on grammy's bed for Alivia's 6 month photos. I got alot of cute ones, of course I had to take a few of Alaina too :) By the time I got Alivia's purple dress on to match her sister and get some fully clothed pics, they both had had enough :P