Big Girl Bed for Big A

Pretty monumental event around the Polischuk house.  Big A  aka Amelia finally moved into her big girl bed. BTW 'Big A' is an ironic nickname given to our petite girl by her dad.  The big girl bed has been months in waiting.  We literally have had this bed since last summer but Big A was still just doing so well in the crib, we left her.  It is kind of exciting and sad all at the same time.  The transition went pretty smooth and the girl seems so BIG now, tear.  I picked up some fabric this week to make Amelia a quilt for her bed, the hearts are cute but don't really go with her room. Oh an of course a throw pillow or two. Yahoo sewing project :)  I think Miss Stella is also pumped to have some space to roll around, bye-bye cradle hello crib for baby girl.

Love the lady's face and the pride, also the shy 'ok enough pics' hands over face moment is pretty sweet too! Love this chick!!!



The sisters seem to make a Polischuk party happen in any bed, at anytime.  Pretty happy they like each other.  And goodness, we really like them.

~ Momma P



Dating the Husband

I am a fan of dates with the hubs.
I love my little ladies but it is sooooo nice to spend time with the hubs, without them!!!  We always come back home saying to one another 'man you really are fun'!!!  I love how dates remind you that hey you like one another.  When the girls are grown and gone I am pretty sure we are still going to be fans of one another.  I also read that a babysitter is cheaper than a divorce...ohhh.  We have awesome sitters and feel totally comfortable leaving our ladies with them, even when our babe is being Stella-rific.

For Christmas I scored a date with Mr.P and Coldplay, it was great!  Perhaps the most entertaining concert, the crazy stuff they did just kept a coming.  Shooting confetti, balls bouncing in the crowd, wrist bands given upon entry that lit up, just a bunch of coolness going on.  Love that they thanked us for coming out on a Tuesday night. Ten years ago when I was in university they played the SHAW and I was sad to have missed them but a decade later filling REXALL, it isn't surprising.  I really dig artists that express appreciation, a band that has been around and accumulated some great tunes.

Weirdly cool!  Played part of their encore in the audience, pretty rad!

 Fun night with Mr. P

~ Mrs.P



Easter

It was a busy but good Easter weekend. Lots of extended family time!

Mia and I made these Easter lilies to discuss the concept of the Resurrection. These flowers are buried in the ground as bulbs and then in spring they bloom.  This is to remind us of how Jesus was laid in the tomb and then came forth Easter morning.  We found an Easter board book, read it and made these lilies to remind us that the holiday was not just about chocolate and the Easter Bunny.

The Easter Bunny did visit and left some sweet goods!

Both Mia and Stella were excited.  The Bunny brought Mia her first Barbie, a Cinderella doll and her first nightie...such cuteness.  Stella was spoiled too with some new books and a ball.

Sadly no pics of the ladies in their Easter outfits (they had two each because I couldn't resist). Each meal we had was kind of a gong show as our babe Stella is teething.  Good times though, good times!!!

Love the faces as they check out their loot!

- Momma P



Egg-cellent Activity

I think that I have written this before but I'll say it again, creating traditions with my own little kidlets is something that I looked forward to and now love about motherhood.  It warms my heart thinking and hoping the Polischuk Peeps will grow and cherish the things (sometimes dorkie) things we do as a family.  So with Easter almost upon us I picked up a few supplies, boiled a dozen eggs and we spent some time decorating.  Amelia really enjoyed it, Stella watched intently at a safe distance from any dye or breakable eggs.  Mr. P even got home in time to catch the tail end of our egg-stavganza, consequently I am even in some pictures!!!

We used some bags and poured in some dye...tie-dyed was the supposed out come.  Our not so much but still fun and totally contained the mess AND could mostly be done by little Miss.

Elastic band and then soak in the dye aka food colouring. This was less her, more me and resulted in dyed fingertips. Pretty cool.

Oh the classic crayon then dye.  Pretty popular, except she kept wanting me to do the colouring.  She may be a tad bit of a perfectionist.

Oh sponging on the dye.  This technique/supplies came in a kit and was messy but very doable and hands on for our lady.  She really got into it, but sadly we only had a few eggs left to do at this point.  Good to remember for next year.

The end result.  I have them in a pretty basket on our kitchen table now. We are pretty proud of them.

We only had one casualty which occurred early and was recycled into an egg salad sandwich.  It was a success. Pretty pumped up for the egg hunt this year...thinking Amelia is going to totally be into it!!!

I love this pic of Stella, little pointer out.  She was watching and spent part of the time chomping on an extra plastic cup.  A fun day!

Mrs.P

Pumped Up!!

Last week the ladies of the house were down and out with colds n fevers, this week we are all back ready to tackle life again.  We are pumped up!! I am thinking we feel this way for a few reasons....We had Mr.P home for 3 days this past weekend and it was wonderful to have his help since everyone, including myself was a sickie. Just love this dude, love having him around and love to simply spend time with him. We purged out our garage and storage room to help our house show better, it felt awesome to get rid of stuff!!!  We also watched General Conference from home, which is a world wide broadcast our church does twice a year.  I just love, love, love sitting on my couch in pjs and being spiritually enlightened. Two of the awesome insights gained;

It is also mostly SPRING outside, hardly any snow! Yahhh

Easter is also just around the corner and this makes me happy.  I have been thinking about how we will talk to Miss Amelia this year about the real meaning of Easter, it is pretty heavy stuff. 

Life is good!

~ Mrs.P

Boxes vs Toys

Oh why do we get sucked in spending a ton of money of expensive toys when really they are so happily amused with boxes. Such fun was had with these boxes.

~ Momma P

Baby Board Book for Sweet Stella

Stella is 10 months old, THIS IS CRAZY to me!!!

The time has flown by.

She is a lot like her older sister, diggin the books. This makes me smile.

When Amelia was this age the online scrap booking program I use, Heritage Makers had a special on board books. I freaked out because they were sooooo cool.  Of course I made one for our Miss Amelia. Sadly, two years later they no longer offer the books :(  Luckily I found another company, Pint Size Productions that does.  The books are very different, but my girls are different and it turned out just as nice.  Stella likes it and that is the important thing! We were very excited to get these in the mail. I always get two copies of each book I do, this way the ladies can 'handle' them as much as they want and I don't stress it because I have another pristine copy safe in my bedroom.

I just love, love that they each have 'Their Story'.  When I was younger I loved hearing the story about the night I was born.  My parents had gone to a Barry Manilow Concert (my dad grudgingly attended last minute when my mom's friend couldn't go), the tickets were in my baby book.  Later that night my momma's water broke, dad asked if she wet the bed...nope!  My mom shaved her legs and they headed off to the hospital, later I joined the family.  LOVE MY STORY!

Amelia's book is totally different and equally lovely.  I had fun creating these for our ladies.  It is something I hope that they will continue to enjoy, I know I do.  Each time we read them together I am reminded of special the circumstances surrounding their arrivals.  They are our precious miracle babies and we totally cherish them.

~ Momma P