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Saturday, September 8, 2012
We bought a house!
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Happy Birthday Audrey!
Today was Audrey's first birthday. It's such an important day, and yet she will never remember it. I've tried to capture many moments on video and in photographs over the past few weeks as we have been celebrating, but they never do the real moments justice. But she changes so quickly that I am taking all the photos I can.
At the moment, Audrey is passed out in our hotel room crib in Langford. It's funny having an all expense paid trip to a great city, but spending your days planning naptimes and food and having Audrey back in our room by 8 for bedtime. We can't even watch TV, so I'm playing on my computer and Mike is on my iphone. It's exhausting yet I wouldn't change it for anything. This experience of motherhood is more difficult but more rewarding than anything I've ever done.
We've now looked at 23 houses in two days. We were in Sooke today, and found some really beautiful homes. Then we completed the day with dinner out with friends and came home to order a piece of birthday cake to our room for Audrey. Mike took some great shots and video of her eating her cake, like a real little Audrey Hepburn too, with an adult fork. She didn't want to use her hands or her baby spoon. She preferred the fork. It was so cute to see her sitting there in her pink polka dot dress, ribbon in her hair, making a mess of her first slice of cheesecake.
I've got a lot to catch up on from the past month. August was super busy! I spent nearly two weeks on Vancouver Island, in Port Alberni. We visited family, and my sister and her husband who were visiting from Quebec. We had a family party for Audrey at my Granny's old house. We sold our house. We had an Alice in Wonderland birthday part for Audrey and her little buddies in Dawson Creek. Then we headed down to Victoria for our house hunting trip. We fly back on Sunday and another whirlwind will begin, of packing and saying our goodbyes to some terrific friends that we've made over the past five years.
But today we enjoyed our time in our hotel room, just the three of us. We sang our darling daughter Happy Birthday. We ate cake. And now we're going to sleep.
I am officially the mother of a toddler.
At the moment, Audrey is passed out in our hotel room crib in Langford. It's funny having an all expense paid trip to a great city, but spending your days planning naptimes and food and having Audrey back in our room by 8 for bedtime. We can't even watch TV, so I'm playing on my computer and Mike is on my iphone. It's exhausting yet I wouldn't change it for anything. This experience of motherhood is more difficult but more rewarding than anything I've ever done.
We've now looked at 23 houses in two days. We were in Sooke today, and found some really beautiful homes. Then we completed the day with dinner out with friends and came home to order a piece of birthday cake to our room for Audrey. Mike took some great shots and video of her eating her cake, like a real little Audrey Hepburn too, with an adult fork. She didn't want to use her hands or her baby spoon. She preferred the fork. It was so cute to see her sitting there in her pink polka dot dress, ribbon in her hair, making a mess of her first slice of cheesecake.
I've got a lot to catch up on from the past month. August was super busy! I spent nearly two weeks on Vancouver Island, in Port Alberni. We visited family, and my sister and her husband who were visiting from Quebec. We had a family party for Audrey at my Granny's old house. We sold our house. We had an Alice in Wonderland birthday part for Audrey and her little buddies in Dawson Creek. Then we headed down to Victoria for our house hunting trip. We fly back on Sunday and another whirlwind will begin, of packing and saying our goodbyes to some terrific friends that we've made over the past five years.
But today we enjoyed our time in our hotel room, just the three of us. We sang our darling daughter Happy Birthday. We ate cake. And now we're going to sleep.
I am officially the mother of a toddler.
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