I love Ice Cream, Mommy!

"Daddy's favorite ice cream is strawberry."
So, Olivia helped make strawberry ice cream today with mommy.
Here she is getting ready to help flip the switch once it is ready to start.

This is Olivia enjoying the last drops of her strawberry ice cream.

This is ice cream face, "I love it mommy!"

Birthday Fun

Olivia went to her friends birthday party this weekend and had a great time. They ate popcorn, cake, cookies and all kinds of yummy kid stuff. I did manage to get her to eat 2 pieces of cheese. Anyway, it was fun and here are some pictures of all of us on the party day, at the party and whatever...

Olivia's busy week

This week Olivia went on an over night trip with Daddy to see Grandma and Papa. One the way there, they stopped off at Uncle Gordon's.

Gordon had quite a time keeping up with Olivia, as soon as he would get to where she was going, she would head off in the other direction again! But I know he had a great time with his little visitor. Olivia found lots to do...

She ran up and down the path out in the back yard...

She sat in the BIG M chair...

she played shuffle board...

she ate oreo cookies...

and one of the biggest delights was the Grandfather clock that chimmed every 15 minutes. Who knew Uncle Gordon's house was so cool!:)

For some reason there are no pictures from Grandma and Papa's house. I think they were having too much fun. Grandma and Olivia played the piano and Olivia explored in the motor home. She was really tired when she and Daddy got home, but she had LOTS to tell!

As I wrote a few weeks ago, we were working on building a play house for Olivia. The work has taken awhile, Ian has been really busy with it: planning, measuring, and getting it all just right.

Here are some pictures of the work in progress, and Olivia enjoying it while it was going up...

And...the final product, complete with basketball hoop, slide, chalkboard, and picnic bench/table, pirate's wheel and flower box. So fun to make this, I think all we are missing is the roof.

And, by the way, Olivia picked the colors!! I LOVE IT!!!

Rain, rain go away...

Its still raining. Luckily, Olivia is happy to wear all the proper gear that goes along with it.

If it would ever stop raining...

Ian could finish his project of building Olivia a little "fort" or "house" as she is calling it.

This is what we did the one nice weekend we have had. Otherwise we have been inside making the best out of rainy days...

Olivia put her babies and Lucybear in the "car" and went for a drive, then she decided they were bad and needed to sit in the timeout chair while she rested.

Rascal pulled the life out of a blue Carebear that Olivia found for him at the neighbor's garage sale...

And, Olivia entertained us all by walking around with a bag on her head.

Please let the sun come out soon, we are, as you see going stir crazy!!!

This past weekend Ian's cousin got married so we had lots of family here and lots going on. Olivia helped us get the house ready for company by mopping the kitchen...Best for us, we had an opportunity to get a little family pic at the zoo where the wedding was held. It was a really beautiful wedding, too bad the rain didn't let up for us to visit the animals which Olivia was most excited about. Family pic...
Now that the weather is looking better, I hope we have lots of pictures to share of some summertime fun!

Way too much fun...

Last weekend was just packed full of fun. From the water park, to getting to push the mini grocery cart at the store, to the amusement park - Olivia had a great time and so did we.

For some reason we were without the camera for our first adventure to the water park this year, but I am sure we will have many more chances to get some pics of Olivia running through the fountains this summer. Also, no camera at the grocery store, only the camera phones which neither one of us have figured out how to actually get the pictures off of yet.

But we did take lots at Calaway Park, Calgary's answer to amusement park fun. Its kind of a funny little place, but the kids enjoy it and there are lots of rides for Olivia's size...I think at least 20!

The airplane: yes she wanted to ride it, yes she had a look of fear when she was riding it, yes she wanted to go again. What did she say when I asked did you have fun? "Oh yes Mommy, it was fun!!" I wouldn't have guessed by the look on her face that's for sure...

Olivia had great fun driving the old-timey car with Daddy.

It was a great family day, a good time was had by all!

Sunny Days

We have finally been blessed with beautiful weather here in Calgary. Its about time is all I have to say. This weekend being our Victoria Day weekend and thus the first long weekend of the summer, I decided to take an extra day off on Friday and enjoy some time with Olivia. We spent the morning at the park with some friends and the girls had a great time playing. It is so much fun seeing them together, running, jumping, tickling and screaming - you can't beat the little girl screams of delight!

Thomas the Train

We were so lucky to get tickets for the "Day out with Thomas" here in Calgary. I wasn't sure what Olivia would think of it all. Leading up to the big day, she would say, "we going to see Thomas? Yep." So, I figured she was excited about it.

The first sighting, I think I was more excited than Olivia, she was more in awe.

Then we actually got to ride on the train. The rumor was to sit on the caboose so that we would be able to see Thomas actually pulling the train. So that was cool.

Then we got up close and personal! This was so much fun, really! We took like a thousand pictures!

Then there were activities...running through the maze...

getting a Thomas tattoo...

pictures with Sir Topum Hat...

face painting!!! So very fun, who is having more fun here Mommy or Olivia?

Next came the carousal ride...

and the jumpy thing.

It was definitely a fun filled day. The weather was finally nice enough to be outside and enjoy the day. We finished off with a nice Mother's Day brunch at the park where all this was taking place. Olivia and her friend Trystan were tired after but still wanted their picture taken under the moose!
Olivia made it home before falling asleep and slept a good 2 hours in her bed with her little pink kitty cat face. I was thinking she wouldn't ever want to take it off, but she did because the baby sitter did it instead of mommy that night!

Mommy's new hair...

Ok, so its my hair for "shows" for belly dancing, but it sure looks cute on Olivia...