Shopping, Bath time and Other Moments of the Day

Well our week of “normal” (or as close as we get to it) has begun and slowly for me and Echo… we slept in… until past noon! Much needed sleep – although broken up every 2 hours for feedings, the added sleep helped. There is something so relaxing about snuggling with  newborn baby! And today she got her very first at home bath! Her umbilical fell off yesterday (yay!) so we are good to go to have our bath. Mini milestones.

Bath with a helper

The weather is STILL not co-operating for us  to head over to the legislature and do the fountain thing. I am going day by day watching the weather as I REALLY want to take all the kids over there just once this year. Then that leaves the conservatory to go and take pictures at (one of my favourite things to do) and then the zoo… I do love going out with Echo, she is very relaxed in her carseat and carrying around a tiny baby like her when she is done with the seat is simple. We still want to take the boys to see the dinosaurs at Tyrell Museum before too far in the fall AND go the 3 hours to see a friend who relocated to Alberta from Ontario. But there is still Ken and his schedule to work around and the busier HE gets the better for US!

My goal for this week is to get us settled so that when we do focus on our schooling the boys have a bit of autonomy. I can’t stand over them as much as I did before Echo was born and right now am concerned about getting them solid with their numbers and letters… Gavin is already showing interest in reading (I need to get my hands on the Bob Books 2nd box in the series) and Zander is doing terrific with his simple addition. Subtraction has me a bit worried but I have found some hands on rods that will help with that – if I can get the funding set up ASAP. I am rather excited about the idea of being “official”… big step for us!

Oh we did do one of our mini milestone activities last week – we stamped Echo’s feet and then embossed them. Lilac powder I had bought for a project with Trinity previously worked perfectly. They are so tiny! When she gets a little bigger I plan on doing her hands as well.

Some of the footprints

A bit late but we did manage a trip out to Michaels to shop for my belated birthday gift… coupons in hand I even managed to get a lovely paper pack for 50% off… so I got the paper pack, a matching solids, ribbon for thank you cards, adhesive (refill YAY) and two Perler bead tweezers (Trinity broke a pair way back when). This has left me with 20.00 to either get myself a little treat later OR put towards the camera fund  (which is an even BIGGER treat in my mind!).

Paper pack

Sadly because we could not set off until late the local thread store was already closed for the day. This means no metallics for me tonight, but hopefully we will make it tomorrow. Apparently I don’t only need this particular thread for the mini project but also for Echo’s stocking. Figures. I have been doing as much as I can on her stocking lately with the hopes of getting it mostly done by the end of the month. I am down to the time consuming bits.

I finished a couple of scrapbooking projects last night… the first page for Echo’s book…

Echo

and an 8×10 piece I am going to hang on the wall in Trinity’s room… this was a fun one, using the shimmery metallic paper and then a picture I just had laying around. Nothing fancy but cute enough to go on the wall. Now if I can make the decision as to which of my more artistic maternity shots I am going to use in my special album I can get started on that project. I am really excited about it!

Trinity

So now to get going again on the scrapbooking… between feedings of course!

Sisters

6 thoughts on “Shopping, Bath time and Other Moments of the Day

  1. When you decide to go to Tyrell museum lemme know and if I can make it I will totally go with you guys and help herd children.

  2. We went when the twins were tiny but that was soooo long ago! Emanuel is head over heels in love with dinosaurs right now too 🙂

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