A Trip to Capital X

Last Friday (July 27), T and Mommy to Draya to capital X. She played in Toddler Square, rode the ponies twice, rode the train once and slid down a giant slide. She ate fries and ice cream and her first snow cone. We had a really good time!
T took some photos on her camera and here they are...

Re-arranging the plastic chairs in Toddler Square.
She put them in a line.
And then she and Polly relaxed. Besides the chairs, Draya also played in the sandbox, on some climbing toys and with a toy car.

She really liked the ponies!




Riding the train was fun too!


And T gives the best stroller rides!

Reciting A Nursery Rhyme

I realized just how advanced Draya's speech is getting when last night, in the bath tub, she was happily repeating all of the verses from "One Two, buckle my shoe" - word for word, perfectly.
Not bad for a 29 month old.

Weekend with Grandprents, Playing Outside & Field Trip

Draya's first weekend away from Mommy and Daddy ended up going really well. Grandma & Grandpa took her to the zoo and over to her cousins. She ate pizza and other yummy things. She watched Treehouse with Grandpa and had fun playing with Grandma's quilting material. She stayed there from 4pm Friday to 3pm Sunday while Mommy and Daddy went to Jasper for a wedding and some much needed R & R.
Draya has been enjoying playing in the backyard recently. She loves making 'cakes' in her sandbox and singing Happy Birthday. She also likes making me lie down and then covering me with grass. Then we switch places and I cover her with grass.
Today Draya went on a field trip to a farm with Daycare. She saw horses and goats and chickens and had loads of fun running around and feeding the animals.
I have a bunch of pictures to download from the camera so a photo update will be coming soon...

Thespian Toddler

Daddy is going to be in a production of "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" (by Steve Martin) at Fringe this year. Here, Draya takes a moment to familiarize herself with the script. Now she can run lines with him...

The Once Again Mobile Child

Draya is walking on her own again! Yay!! It took her knee 2 weeks to get better but, as of yesterday, she is up and running around once more.
In other news, we took her to Shrek 3 last weekend. She watched about 2/3. Daddy was awesome and entertained her in the lobby so that Mommy could watch the rest. Hurray for Daddy!

Photo from July 2nd

This is an awesome photo that Auntie L. took at L & A's gift opening on July 2nd.

Hopefully I will have time to write an update and post a few more photos this weekend... if Draya lets me...
It has been a very busy 2 weeks!

The 'New' Laptop

Draya really likes the 2nd hand Mac that Daddy just bought.
She is SO a child of the 21st Century.

A crazy long weekend

Draya & Mommy & Daddy have had a very busy Canada Day long weekend...

June 29
We all went out to L's parent's acreage for the wedding rehearsal. Draya ran around a lot!

June 30
Mommy got her hair done at the salon. Draya stayed home with G'ma & G'pa while Mommy & Daddy went to L& A's wedding. It was wonderful! Draya partied at home without us. She went to bed very late.

July 1
Draya got up early. We all went to L&A's gift opening. She was pretty well behaved. Then Mommy had to work at 3pm so Draya and Daddy came along to the Sp. Grove St Fest. She HAD wanted to go home but then she found out there were bouncy tents and the festival. Her mantra as we got out of the car was "bouncy tent, bouncy tent, bouncy tent..." Mommy went to work and Draya and Daddy went to bounce. While in one of the tents another child bounced on her leg and hurt her. Not even an ice cream sandwich and kisses from Mommy could console her... she insisted on going home- so Daddy took her home. She refused to walk & put weight on her leg all evening so Daddy took her to pediatric emerg. at the U of A. There were x-rays taken but nothing was broken so they sent her home. It was an other very late night for all.

July 2
The entire family slept in until 11am, even Draya. She still didn't want to walk at all. Daddy went to a play reading and Mommy and Draya tried to go and see Ratatoui with L&P&I&G. The alien short before the film scared her and she started to insist we "go home!" After 5 min of continual requests Mommy decided that she didn't want to make the rest of the audience listen to a cranky child - so we left. The nice people at the theater were kind enough to refund my money. We went home and watched Shrek. So much for Draya's first trip to a movie theater.