Two Beautiful Days

This weekend we were fortunate enough to have two absolutely gorgeous days coincide with Bruce's days off.  With the sun finally shining we certainly didn't let those days go to waste. I will give credit to Bruce for doing all the planning and research into where we should spend our days.  He found a couple of great parks: Whytecliff and Lighthouse.  It's amazing how much you can feel rejuvenated by the sunshine, I think I will be ready to face this very gloomy week just by looking back on these pictures and knowing that there is an end in sight!  Eli had such a fantastic time as well, if he could be outside 24 hours a day he would be.  As soon as we would pull onto our street at the end of our adventures he would immediately realize we were going home and start saying "no go home, go walk".  All in all we had a fantastic weekend.  This first batch of pictures is from Whytecliff Park but both parks were in West Vancouver.

Wild crocus flowers that grow everywhere!

Whytecliff Park

Some of the climbing was a bit treacherous

Eli asked me to take his picture- what a ham

In the water with Daddy

Just throwing rocks

The next day we went to Lighthouse Park with another family that we are really close to.  They have a little boy, Liam, and they are best buds.  We brought a picnic and stayed for the afternoon but I think I probably could have stayed all day.

Dan, Liam and Eli trying to skip rocks

Bruce and Eli after climbing the huge rock formations

The view from the top of the rock

The boys generally just ran around while we ate

The lighthouse

These last couple of days certainly made me anxious for summertime even though I know it is still a long way off.  The annual Cherry Blossom Festival is coming up soon though and hopefully we will be able to go and get some great pictures of all the amazing cherry trees that are beginning to bloom.

It's a Boy

Well I guess that the title of this post says it all.  We had our ultrasound appointment this week and luckily our little Chenuz baby cooperated enough that we were able to find out what we are expecting! Turns out that in July we are going to have ourselves another little bouncing boy!  Bruce and I are so excited and I think that Eli will love having a little buddy to run around with.  So far everything is still going well with the pregnancy and I can't believe that I am already halfway done.  It's all going pretty fast I just hope I will have enough time to prepare for this one like I did with Eli.  Hopefully I'll get some baby bump photos up soon but so far I don't have a single one.  Here's just one of the ultrasound pictures (sorry it is so grainy).

Our newest little man

March Messes

Well February continued to be a pretty busy month.  We had a wonderful trip to Edmonton and right now I just don't have the energy to go through all the things that we did so I have decided to save that for my next blog entry.  Today I have just a few choice pictures of Eli being a crazy kid.  Lately, it seems like every time I turn around he is making another mess.  Whether it is opening a jar of sprinkles and spilling them all over the kitchen, or somehow finding our stash of gum and taking a bite out of every piece and then spitting it back out onto the couch, I am constantly cleaning up.  I did get some pictures of some of the funnier messes so here they are...

He was being a very big helper when I was making pizza dough the other day. He unwisely decided to rub it all over his face.

What a mess!

A couple of days ago I tried to get him to take a nap so I put him in bed, sang a couple of songs and left the room.  I could hear him playing with his toys but after a few minutes he quieted down. I was so happy because I thought that he had finally fallen asleep.  I was wrong.  To help with his dry skin I had mixed up a batch of Glaxal Base and Vaseline and put it on his changing table, apparently I did not put it high enough.

Looking appropriately ashamed of himself

The vaseline made his hair so greasy I had to wash it 5 times to get it out!

Just an extra shot of my cool kid