March Break

For some reason I had trouble uploading pictures to the blog, (that's the excuse I'm going to use for not posting more often anyway) But now I'm finally getting around to it again.
katie and Maya have been wonderful (most of the time anyway) playing together. They sometimes just sit together and read, play hide and seek, of some form of imaginary play. These are the moments I just love watching them and listening to them. I love that Maya can express herself so much more! It sure makes life a lot easier and less frustrating for all of us.

March Break
We started of our March break by going to Plattsville for the weekend and spending some time with Jeff's folks. It was nice to go away for a couple of nights and get a change of scenery.

Of course you can't go and visit Grandma's house without reading stories together. Katie also brought her books from school and was able to read her story to Grandma. She's really enjoying the challenge and I'm sure she'll pick up reading real fast.

Saturday after Maya's nap the grandparens, the girls and I headed to NewHamburg to their new community center to go swimming. We all had so much fun. The water was nice and warm and Katie and Maya just loved to splash and swim and jump and play. It was nice having 3 adults for 2 children so each of us got to have some kid free moments in the water as well. We'll definitely have to do this again!!

Saturday evening we left the girls in Grandma and Grandpa's capable hands and headed to Kitchener's DelDante for a nice birthday dinner (celebrating Jeff's 35&36th, and Mom and Dad's b-days and anniversary). Thank you again for a wonderful evening, Mueti and Vati (and Uncle Marc)

Since Maya was on holidays at Grosi and Grosvati's house from Sun-Wed Katie had some special playdates lined up too. On Monday we met with a couple of families at our friends' house. The day was not overly cold, but raining on and off but that didn't stop the kids at all. There were 7 kids (2 JKs, and one child for each grade 1-5) They played outside, by themselves, with hardly any issues for almost 3 hours. Us moms got to sit and chat, play a game, drink tea, chat some more... it was awesome! Then when Rhoda and her 3 kids left Katie and I got to stay for a yummy supper and didn't get home until 7 p.m. (Oh yeah Jeff was home sick but he enjoyed the quiet house, just him and the dog.) He's feeling better again, just in case you're wondering.

On Tuesday Katie and I went to Elmira to visit our friends. While I was able to have a very nice visit with Glenna, Katie and Dylan played together very well. Among other imaginative play they found some dress up clothes and played Trick or Treating. They both filled up their paper bags with all kinds of pretend treats from around the house. We stayed there for lunch and early afternoon and then headed out to get some groceries and then to pick up Uncle Marc. It was a great Tuesday!!

On Thursday we were planning to go to a park, but on they way stopped at our neighbour's farm to check out the chicken, geese, cats, horses, cattle and all the other critters Mr. Charlie has. The girls had fun exploring and finding new animals around every corner and I enjoyed a chat with our friends.

Today I was helping a friend getting her house ready to sell while the girls were at home with Daddy. They had a lot of fun going shopping (Canadian Tire, HomeDepot - you know the Daddy stores) and in the afternoon they were working hard cleaning up our back yard! And when I got home Jeff was already busy getting supper ready (BBQ Venison Tenderloin - sooo good). And tomorrow we have nothing planned other than church. It's supposed to be a wet day so maybe we'll go to an indoor play center or something. Or just stay home and not much else.

I hope you had a wonderful march break and I wish you a great new week!