our Mission adventure

Mike and I had a very interesting weekend. It was of course, Adam and Sarah's wedding--which was very nice and a lot of good times. Keiran stayed with us on the Friday, and then we left for the wedding early Saturday morning. I wasn't prepared for what I saw when I arrived at the banquet hall. Keiran, Mike, Adam and his family were all banding together to hang and construct this extremely interesting "chandelier" that Adam had created. When it was done though, it was actually beautiful (me being the scatter brained nut that I am didn't bring a camera to the event) and everything seemed to come together nicely. Sarah's wedding dress is my dream dress, and my plan is to break into their house and steal it...and possibly Otter...I love her.

It was also a nice (but short) vacation for Mike and I. Heather stayed at my mum's Friday and Saturday night, which was nice. I had Friday night to myself. I watched some movies, put my hair in pin curls, danced to Lily Allen and ate some Manchu Wok (which I later regretted...as usual). My hair looked nice when I left my house, but by the time the wedding had started I looked like crap. Brannen has the pictures to prove it.

So we are back now, and getting into our same old routines (which to some degree, are not good routines). Heather (I think) has a cold or allergies right now. She hasn't been sleeping that well the last couple of days, and she is extremely cranky. We don't really have plans for the rest of the week. The three of us are going for dinner tomorrow night to celebrate our 18 month anniversary. Then I believe I may have plans with different people the rest of the week. It's nice to be home, and thank god the last two days have been nice.

Well I am off to make butter chicken, without the chicken. Should be interesting. Maybe I'll take a picture of it and copy Louis...no, that would just be embarrassing for me.

**I missed Heather so much, that the minute I stepped into my mum's house and saw her I started crying. I'm such a softy.

It was a great day...the cherry blossoms are blooming!

Here is Heather decked out in all green with her green balloon for St. Patrick's Day. Not only was it her first St. Patrick's Day, but it was also the first time she's ever come in contact with a balloon...

...needless to say, she loved it. She wouldn't stop trying to bite it and burst it. She's our little Scottish/Irish baby.

Heather and I spent most of the day together. She woke me up at 630am, and we fell asleep on the couch. At about 9am, she ate squash for the first time...big surprise, she didn't like it. Then we walked to Capilano Mall. We shopped, ate lunch and walked back. The sun was out, but it was still chilly. The wind was blowing rather harshly, and it was a freezing wind. Even Mike said it was cold, and he's constantly complaining that it's too hot. The whole excursion took about three hours. She is soo good in public too. Many elderly ladies came up to us and complemented me on having a beautiful baby boy (she can be wearing all pink and still they think she's a boy). On the way back the sun was right on top of us, and it was so nice...I even took the long way home so that we could walk underneath the cherry blossoms. It was a perfect day. We haven't had one of those in a long time.

Here is a funny, but cute picture of Mike and I. I don't post a lot of pictures of us together. We went for a walk after dinner with Heather, and we had a great time. The sun was just setting. It couldn't have been more beautiful...the wind, the sunset and my two loves.

Patsy on a billboard

This is a billboard in downtown Toronto. The billboard has a picture of my brother's friend (ex girlfriend) Patsy on it. I've known Patsy for 14 years! I just think it's hilarious! I'm just proud to have a friend on an billboard that isn't advertising safe sex or VD (I'm looking at you Eric).

Our Aquarium Adventure

an update

For once I will agree with my mother, Heather is going to die of heat during the coming summer in this apartment. It gets so hot! I guess that's what we get for having an apartment that is almost completely windows and faces south east, directly at the blazing morning sun. I shouldn't complain that much...at least it's a nice day today! Everyone has been complaining about the rain over the last couple of weeks (myself included), it has been miserable but now because of the excess rain and melting snow from the mountains, the north shore is seeing some serious flooding.
Heather is sleeping with one eye open...no she's not gripping her pillow tight (that's for all you Metallica fans out there). It creeps me out when she does it, she's so pale too and her mouth is slightly open. She looks ghostly.
My mum came this morning to look after Heather, while Mike and I headed to LGH to get my tests done. It wasn't horrible at all, and I surprisingly finished before 4 hours. It all depends on your metabolism; I was worried we'd be there all day. In the last xray they didn't see anything, which is good I suppose. I was hoping they would find something (nothing too serious, just something) so that they could cure it, and I could start feeling better! When you've had an unsolved medical issue for longer than 15 years, that puts a huge burden on your life, you sort of want to get things sorted out and be able to move on. I'm still having pain in my c-section incision scar. I hope that it'll go away by itself, because there is nothing anyone can do. Oh listen to me, complain complain complain. I'm so self loathing all the time. How does Mike live with me? Oh for those who care, the barium wasn't quite as disgusting as the stuff I had in Halifax. I could actually drink a large dixie cup full of the stuff and not gag.
I think I've hunted down a good marriage commissioner. I just have to talk to her, and see if we mesh well and all that. Once I get that sorted out, all I have to do is find a dress for Heather and myself, and get the menus selected for the Sequoia Grill and Cheers then I think I will be done...oh and invitations, can't forget those. I am also so excited about Adam's wedding. Keiran is coming to stay with us (he shall be our fifth guest that has stayed her...Louis being the first) for the friday night and then we leave for Mission in the morning. I've begged my mother to look after Heather an extra day (the friday) so that we can hang out with Keiran, and just be worry free. I am of course going to miss Heather, and worry about her, and most likely have a panic attack being out of the same city as hers, but it's a lesson I must learn and an adventure I must experience. Of course, I'll be calling my mum every 20 minutes to see if Heather's ok. I'm also excited about wearing my dress and putting my hair up in pin curls.
I really wish Heather would wake up so that we can get on with our day. I have to travel to the Quay to see if I can find a nice shall/poncho. Mike's asleep too, I think he had about 6 hours of sleep, and I had four, however I just got up from my nap and am feeling great. Hurry up baby, mummy's got some shopping to do!

A stroll through Stanley Park

I just really like this picture. For all of you Vancouverites that are over seas, here's a picture for you. You can even see Lions Gate Bridge.

Hey Uncle Louis...this picture is for you!

For some reason when Mike took this picture, he had Louis in mind. I think it's hilarious. It's amazing how something soo cute can take such awful, yet pain stakingly funny photographs. We had all of the Aquarium pictures developed and I will eventually put together a slide show.
Heather is changing so much every waking moment. While Amanda was over, we all noticed that she's cutting her first tooth! There's this horribly jagged white knub sticking out of her gum! No wonder the poor dear has been so upset lately. It took her a couple of hours to warm up to Amanda too, which is weird. I think she's making strange now, I mean Amanda has been here from day one! Oh, and she rather enjoys yams. She was actually opening her mouth for yams. Today was pretty eventful! Tomorrow, she goes in for her 6 month vaccinations which I am not looking forward to. She'll be one unhappy camper-pain from her teeth and pain from her injections...I wish I was going out!
We're starting to get our wedding plans organized. I pretty much have the family wedding all organized, except I haven't found someone to marry us yet...that might be a problem and I should get on that. We've booked September 14th for our friend's reception at a local restaurant/hall. It's all buffet style, and dear god I hope it will be good! Adam and Sarah's wedding is coming up soon. I bought a new dress for the occassion. Woo. I'm also excited that Keiran is coming to stay with us for a night, and Heather will be going to my mum's that night...for the whole weekend! It'll be the longest she's been away from me. Oh, now I'm getting anxious.
Well, I've got an unhappy baby and a hungry husband...I should probably go feed one of them. Yay, motherhood!

My Celebrity Look-alikes

My cool celebrity look-alike collage from MyHeritage.com. Get one for yourself.

"The Amazing Book of Jordan" by Katie Sherman

This was a book that I made for my brother's girlfriend, Jordan. It is all hand done (sewing, embroidery...the works), except for the sewing around the edges, that was done by machine. It is completely made from felt...no I didn't felt it myself, even though I should've. It spells out Jordan, and on each page corresponding with the first letter there is a pin I made completely out of felt and embroidery thread (which were all hand made as well). So for example, the "J" page, well the balloon with a red "J" on it is actually a pin. It took me four days. I was pregnant though, and I had a lot of time on my hands. Oh, how I wish I could sit down and make another one.

Heather in all of her 6 month glory! Oh, and other stuff too...

I just wanted to update some of Moo's pictures. She has grown so much, more noticeably over the last couple of weeks. She is 18lbs 7oz and 25 inches long. This kid is huge now! As you know I've been feeding her carrots, and for all of those that didn't think a baby could hate a certain vegetable at this point...I have the pictures to prove it! Feeding is a fun yet very very very stressful event. More food ends up in her nose, hair and clothes, than in her mouth. We're going to try potatoes next, which is tomorrow. For three days we will try potatoes, and then after that...yams. I've actually mapped the whole thing out. When we're at Adam's wedding, my mum will be feeding her bananas, which she will hopefully find pleasing.
We've been busy since we've been home. We've been going to Mike's parents place a lot lately. I just enjoy their company so much, and they're leaving Tunisia within the next couple of weeks for over a month. Barbara (Mike's mum) is worried that Moo will forget her. She'll almost be 8 months when they get back. I also went out with Lisa on Friday. We went shopping, had dinner and went to see a movie. We saw "Zodiac" which was alright, but it was far too long. When I was pregnant I used to spend a lot of time sitting on my butt (doctor's orders, not my idea) and watching real crime shows and I actually saw many on the Zodiac killer, so I found the movie interesting and somewhat appealing. I think Lisa was bored out of her mind, and just humored me. I don't mind Jake Gyllenhaal, but I find it hard to picture him as a family man, with three kids and a wife. I feel the same way about Tobey McGuire, they just both have young faces and young bodies.
Last night Mike and I tried to have a date night. We were planning on going to see a movie, then we decided to rent a movie and get some take out...then we decided not to rent a movie, we'd just watch one we owned and still get take out...what really happened...we went to White Spot, ate dinner, came home, fell asleep for an hour, woke up and drove to my mum's to pick up Moo. Nice date, hunh? Oh, when you guys start having babies you'll understand. It was nice to not have to wear ear plugs while I slept. I drank to many Bellini's and had too much to eat. However, we did have some interesting conversations on the way to get Moo...like how Ben Affleck could star in Jaws and actually play the shark because he is that strong of an actor...Mike knew I was drunk right away. Haha. Now you all must think I've finally lost it.
Tomorrow we're going shopping for a suit for Mike. I'm hoping for something like Prince's purple get-up that he wore in "Purple Rain". I think a nice fuchsia would suit him. He needs something for work and for weddings...possibly for our own wedding.
Well, I should run. Heather is fighting the sleeping urges...it's not a pretty sight...and she's attacking her monkey.

****Heather Pictures
1. Heather in her high chair playing with blocks.
2. Showing her hatred towards carrots. I love this picture.
3. Heather with Grandpa Munro (Mike's father).
4. Heather doing "bum drops" with dad...one of her favorite things.

ewwww, carrots

Heather doesn't like carrots.

Our little Moo is growing up!

This picture was taken a week after Heather was born. Look at how tiny she is! It is so hard to believe that she was ever so small. It seems like yesterday we brought her home from the hospital. Now she is six months old, and about to start eating food! It's exciting but extremely scary. From now on...it's going to be thrilling and an adventure. We're starting her on carrots...sweet.