Pre-Birthday Date with the Parents

Our Miss Amelia Ann is turning three!  I am in shock at how quickly this has happened.  As cliche as it sounds it truly seems like yesterday we were cuddling this tiny babe in the hospital in disbelief that she was ours. Now she is set to turn three tomorrow. We went out just the three of us to check out a movie, Madagascar 3...Amelia's first theatre experience.  She did well.  Was afraid of a few previews and asked to go home but we stuck it out and she enjoyed the movie, even danced during the songs at the end.  Such fun!!!! Sure love this big girl!

Much more to record, our house is bustling with celebrations.  I got weekends mixed up and so we also celebrated Father's Day at our house this weekend, hahaha yes I seriously didn't note the dates in my calendar.  Next weekend we celebrate the birthdays party style with our families. Should be good times.

~ Mrs.P

Encouraged vs Discouraged

First, smiles and sister love...they are totally my world!!  Oh and Mr.P too!

This is also to serve as a reminder to myself.

We live a life with easy access to cool ideas on Pinterest, great ways to keep in touch via Facebook, Twitter or Blogs and with Google we can pretty much find anything.  So I have adopted a personal philosophy as I use these various tools; BE ENCOURAGED NOT DISCOURAGED!

There are fabulous ideas out in the world for whatever interests you; cooking, home decor, crafting, kiddo stuff, really the list is endless.  I recently discovered Youtube for hair ideas, crazy that it took me this long to discover that (thanks Elyse)!!! 

Anyway, when we see cool things that others are doing it can be easy to feel discouraged that we aren't as good at _______ BUT each of us has our own talents, strengths, priorities and interests.  We need not compare.  I read once that this lady had taught herself to just appreciate beautiful things when she saw them instead of feeling the need to own them, bahhhh I should work on that!  I love that thought though, SIMPLY APPRECIATING the cool idea, the beautifully decorated room, the awesome hairstyle, fun kiddo activity or interesting recipe... we need not ALWAYS do it or make it! For sure there are things that we see our friends do on Facebook or follow a blog that shows something totally rad we feel inspired to do with our family.  That is the point though to BE INSPIRED NOT BUMMED.  Just a few thoughts on keeping it positive!!!

~ Mrs.P

In honour of Stella..

In honour of my baby girl...a hum...big girl Stella turning ONE I thought I would record a few things we love about her:

* she has this crazy hair that stands up - everyone loves it including her momma!
* she loves her momma most of all and would happily hang out on my hip all day long
* she likes singing, especially the song we made up about cousins jumping on the bed
* mimics a ton of sounds/words and even had her first two word phrase this week "that's dad" while looking at his skype profile pic (we are in Ontario this week with Jacey n Alyson at Ability Camp)
* this chick loves being in her walker or having us hold her hands so she can walk
* she digs most foods and has been into holding utensils lately, coolness!
* big sister still gets the best laughs from her and gosh we all love to hear them!!!
* likes routine and bathtime can't be missed even if it has to be quick
* a big time cuddle bug and will often pat our back when we pick her up...this is cherished!

While in Picton, ON for supper we stopped for a few pics down a pretty looking alley....yes it was a pretty alley with nice white walls.  Shock of all shocks my girl was in a smiley mood (like her big sister she has mastered the serious 'Polischuk face').  She has been rather unsettled being in a new place, new bed, new noises and all that jazz, but she was in a happy state so I snapped away.  These pics are from my cell phone as my memory stick was in the computer but they are DARLING!  I feel so blessed to have this sweet girl as my daughter. I hope she will always remember how precious she is to us and her Father in Heaven.  She has such spunk and I know that will be an asset in life! Love this girl!!!

~ Momma P

Stella is one!!!

We are at Ability Camp with cousin Jacey and Auntie Alyson. It is amazing to see the great strides Jacey has made in her development!   Yesterday Stella turned the big 1  and we celebrated among new friends.  It was a blast!!!  We had a potluck supper - which was AMAZING and Gramma Hudkins made a special cake dessert which we topped with a candle.  It was a super fun day!

Glad this big girl is in our family!

~ Mrs. P

Front Porch Sitting

One of the things we love about this house is the front porch (we made sure our new house has one too)!  Many an hour has been spent hanging out on the front porch in the years we've lived here; painting with water, chalk and blowing bubbles.  Our porch faces west so we can watch the sun set in the evening, it is quite lovely. Right now our tree is in full bloom (another element of this house we will miss and plan to duplicate again in the new house).  It is an ornamental crab apple tree which smells awesome, the bees were just buzzing away.  Sitting on the porch we heard a low hum coming from the tree. Sunday night was the first time this spring we were able to hang out on there as a family, yahoo Graham is actually home with us for the long weekend.  We had left the girlies church clothes on so it made for adorable pictures!!!!

 

Love hanging outside with my family.  Really need to make it happen more!

~ Mrs. P

I interviewed Amelia and received the following responses:



Meet My Mommy
Mother's Day 2012

What is Mommy's name?

Mommy Jenny Polischuk

How tall is Mommy?

Big

What does Mommy do for fun?

Plays with Daddy

What is your favourite thing to do with Mommy?

Colour

What is Mommy's favourite food?

Oatmeal

We had a little date, just her and I!  After nap we got spiffed up and headed into the city to the Horowitz Theatre at the UofA to watch a young friend (a former YW of mine) dance.  Amelia clapped and liked the sparkle costumes.  She curled up on my lap for the performance and I totally enjoyed having her snuggled in my arms, with a baby the big sister doesn't always get that.  It was such fun!  We enjoyed dinner together, bought some  new shoes and finished off our date with ice cream.  These pics were taken as we walked to our car after the performance. It was so lovely to give my little woman my complete attention and focus, we both LOVED our date!!!!





~ Momma P 

Birthday prep for our girlies

 Crazy the difference one year makes! 

Well, let the birthday prep begin!!  In less than a week Stella will officially be 1 years old and eleven days later Amelia will be the big 3, wowzers the time is going fast.  The ideas for celebrating are being put into motion and one of the first projects I tackled were these number t-shirt/onesie thing-a-ma-bobs. A little cutting, a little iron on product and a little sewing to finish them off. We started when Amelia turned one and I think we will continue until she asks us to stop, they are just so darn cute.

Oh I just love birthdays!!

~ Mrs. P