Amusement Park Adventure!

We experienced the "wonder" in Canada's Wonderland last weekend and it was sure a fun time!

We woke up on Sunday and Daddy had to go to work; Loralai and I knew that we just did not want to spend the day doing all the same old regular things, so we called Aunt Mindy (Loralai's Godmother), packed up, and headed to Wonderland! Loralai just did not know how to take in everything all in at once. It actually brought a tear to my eye about how excited she was! She just kept pointing at everything with a huge smile on her face.
I had a couple of reservations about her going on some rides by herself, I was hoping that she wouldn't cry, and she didn't! She loves rides!


Every time that you would take her off a ride, she would take off like a bat out of hell the opposite way because she wanted to go on again! Loralai did not really understand the waiting in line part, and we had to really talk about waiting out turn every time we stood in line for a ride, but by the end of the day she was much better!

All three of us had such a great time! I bought a season's pass for 2011 so that we can go more often, and she will be 3 and will be able to ride on even more! :) Can't wait!!

Weekend Memories and Mommy Vent

Loralai being a model for Mommy and showing off the new headbands I now have in my shop! These pictures were taken shortly after she got a slam dunk at the indoor play place! Woot Woot!


So Loralai has been a handful lately and I still have not quite figured out what works yet. Right after she gets into trouble for say: climbing on the drawer handles to get onto the counter, or running onto the road, or climbing onto the glass side tables so she can jump onto the couch, or when we are in a department store she will take off and hide. I will start to speak to her sternly and she start naming off the rule to what she just broke; for example: "no running", "no hiding", and today she said to Carrie "no nonsense"! lol...she is so smart but we have to make sure that we redirect her energy!

Do not get me wrong it is only when she gets board that she for the most part will start to be a handful, and that makes sense, I mean she is just 2. But it does make Mommy crazy sometimes!

One awesome thing that she does listen to is when we are in the parking lot and I have to rearrange something in my hands, or dig my keys out of my purse, I have her place her hand on the car, and she has always just kept it there until I tell her it is ok to let go!

I also make sure for all the "Loralai don't touch, be careful, we listen with our ears, time out, no, put that down, don't climb, etc" that I tell her that I am proud of something she has done! I think it is important to highlight her accomplishments because sometimes they can get lost in the shuffle, and she certainly needs to hear them!


By the way, check out my website since I just listed some new items I am excited about!

Loralai's room Part II.

I have added some new additions to Loralai's room over the last couple of weeks. I hung a line across the one wall and added some pictures, I wanted to be able to change them up from time to time. We bought the flower night light, and I covered her light switch with the same fabric as her bedding. Oh and if you notice in the first picture, my new addition to the shop "Lola" the owl! :)

New Room (in progress)!

Check out bits and pieces of my new big girl ROOM (in progress)!

We have been wanting to make Loralai a big girl room for a while now, but because of lack of funds we have not been able to create what I have envisioned for her space. Although it definitely is far from what I would like the end product to be, it is starting to take shape.

So last night I went to Winners just for a little retail therapy after a stressful day, I stumbled across this bedding and I fell in love! It is bright, vibrant, fun, and incorporated all the colours I wanted in her room. I also did not want to get her bedding that was too toddler like and that could grow with her for a while. It was a fabulous deal as well, it came with 9 pieces: the comforter which is reversible, two pillowcases (that I actually sewed together because she has a body pillow), an over-sized pillow with pillowcase (she is sitting on it reading her book), the sheet set (the top sheet I actually made a curtain out of), the wall stickers, a pink blanket, and a hamper, all for $80. You would think that for that price something would be lacking, but the quality is fantastic as well!

Eventually I would like to paint her room purple or green, put up wainscoting, and of course pick up her bed which is a hand me down from her cousin Charlie (Thank you Lissa!). Although the mod vinyl circles were not something that I necessary wanted to incorporate, she definitely needed something to spruce up her plain walls. I would like to get a book shelft, and I also ordered a couple of prints courtesy of Etsy! Which will look a little something like this:

Obviously the first picture will have all of Loralai's pertinent information and instead of a flower and ladybug will have a owl and a bird! If you like this is it by a talented local Etsy seller named Potatopatch. The 2nd print is from a talent Etsy seller Sugarfresh.

Did I mention Loralai loves it! She was so excited and was running around like a crazy little lady all day!

Hope you enjoyed your long weekend!

Push and Pedal!

It is very cool here yesterday to start off the last long weekend of the summer. We have had a heat wave for the past week but of course when Saturday rolls around we only had a high of about 16'c. But even with the cool weather we were productive and we had fun!

Loralai showing Mommy the tomato that she picked from our garden. There is also a large green pumpkin that is growing great and should be orange and ready for its debut by Halloween!

Now onto the reason for this post today: Loralai rode her tricycle correctly the first time last night! YAY!! Up until now she has sat on it and used her feet to move her around, we have kept encouraging her to use the pedals and push and last night she did it!!!

Other funny Loralai stories:

Loralai came running out from her room yesterday afternoon saying "egg egg", of course I walk over to her and she is pointing to her bum, so I asked her if she went poo and she replies "no, egg egg" lol. So of course I explained that she did in fact go #2 and there was not an egg in her diaper...lol I love the randomness, she just cracks me up!

Loralai was at the sitters on Wednesday and it was a beautiful day so the 2 little kiddies Ian and Ethan (both 2yrs old) wanted to run around the backyard naked, Loralai was hesitant but then decided that it looked like fun, so she also joined the boys bare bummed. Well when she walked outside the two boys looked and pointed at her and said "look", (I am assuming just thinking oh she is naked too) Loralai looks at them covers her chest and says "no my boobies!" haha too cute!