Momentary lapse of sanity

Well holy smacks its been weeks since I have posted an update here. I am truly sorry my dear fans. Lots has happened since the end of January...where to start......lets work backward shall we?

Peas on Earth AND on my plate.....
Today we started solids with Olivia! I had a great plan set out to start with rice cereal, then try one new food every 3 days until she had tried all the fruits and veggies available. She has been eating rice in her bottles on and off since she was 3 months old (now 5 1/2 months) so we knew she was tolerant of that already. I decided to start her on pears first and that went incredibly bad. I am convinced that she will never enjoy pears as long as she lives! The gagging and the faces of disgust were too much for me, poor thing hated them and I could barely contain myself with laughter. Needless to say I decided to try something else before she reported me to child services. I figured that maybe shes a savoury gal and takes after her Dad (unlike me and my sweet tooth) so I decided to give peas a whirl and low and behold they went over much better than the pears - who woulda thunk it? It was still pretty funny to watch her go and I even got it on video. No adverse reactions from anything so I would consider day 1 a marginal success!

Cough, cough, hack, hack.....
We have all had a cold now for the past week or so which has been awful. Its Olivia's first and I have never seen so much snot in all my life! We now have 3 nasal sucker thing-a-ma-bobs and they are still never around when you need them - phenomenal. I find it quite funny that she absolutely HATES anyone wiping, suctioning or touching her nose. She will go to any extreme to fight you and she yells and squeaks like mad - I'm convinced they are some sort of baby curse words. And boy, she snored before but now she rivals her Daddy!

More courses for me...
Last week I began another baking course at McCalls here in Mississauga. I took all the Wilton cake decorating courses last summer and have decided to carry on now that life has calmed down a bit, well that's not really accurate, its a little less on fire now, shall we say. I'm doing colour flow designs for cakes with an old friend (haven't seen in 15 years) Stephanie from high school. It was great to catch up with her and there were enough nut jobs in the class to keep us entertained for the whole evening. We go for the next one tomorrow night.

Jolly Ole England......
Once getting the OK to travel with Olivia from Sick Kids we booked a trip to England right away to introduce her to the the other half of her family. We got back last weekend after a 10 day getaway which was busy and fun. She was a great flyer, well except for the part where she threw up on the way back but that was not from the flight but rather from her putting her fingers too far into her own mouth - silly monkey. She mostly slept, cooed and drooled and smiled. The family all loved her and spoiled her rotten. She decided not to adjust to the time difference at all and became a night owl but at least that meant some sleep-ins for us! Due to all the excitement, she gained no weight while we were away which was not great so we have had our hands full trying to get her eating properly again this week.

Vroooooom, Vroooooooooooom.....
After an endless debate over vehicles, I finally caved and gave Ben my blessing on getting a new Volvo. We have never seen eye to eye on cars since the day we met as I am a convertible/SUV kinda gal and he is a sedan kinda guy - I only drive automatic and he LOVES standard. Come car shopping with us folks - it will be fun, I swear! His lease was up on his old Seabring and we had to make a decision on a new one. So being the great wife that I am, I finally relented and gave him my blessing, in exchange for the promise of a fancy little convertible for my 40th of course. So off we went to the dealership to buy him his dream car, a car I will never drive. We gave our other one back and well its now 5-6 weeks later and we are still waiting for the Volvo to arrive and sharing my car - what a pain in the A$$ but they promise us that it will be in this week. It had to come from Sweden doncha know.

Marathon mayhem......
Well my ever so ambitious goal of a marathon in May is rapidly slipping through my fingers. With the limited use of the car I have not been able to get to the gym and honestly all this lag time has really poured water on my fire. I now find myself compromising to a half marathon or a 5-10k walk/run - whatever I can get to in the short amount of time I have left to train. Until we get our second car back I cannot really even begin to make plans. I will just have to do the best I can with what I have left and do it as well as possible.


Well its getting late and my brain is calling last call so I had better wrap this up. I will endeavour to fill in the gaps of the last month and keep you all up to date over the coming days.