Let’s see, what’s been up lately? Well, on Sunday we went to the Mama’s and Chicks Spring Show. I managed to get a free ticket from the woman in front of me who had an extra one. Hubby went in ahead of me while I stayed behind to fill out ballots for the prizes, but when I joined him I thought it was funny that he said ‘everyone’s trying to sell me stuff’. Well duh. That’s sort of the point of the show. I really wanted to get a wrap to carry baby D around, but was told numerous times ‘absolutely not!’. I have gone the sling route before and been totally unsatisfied with them. While I was still pregnant I got a ring sling, which I found fairly complicated to use and just didn’t feel confident enough to be hands free. So then I got a snuggly type of carrier which was seemed too small even though baby D is on the small size for his age, so that was out. Finally I saw a hip carrier at Walmart on the cheap so I tried that one and found that the strap was cutting into my neck so I returned it. The wrap at the show was a ‘Cuddly Wrap’ and hubby was not about to shell out $65 for a long piece of fabric. We did however manage to pick up a couple of things: a ‘Gertie ball’ the ones with the nubbies all over, a travel placemat, and a pair of SqueakyFeet. I love these shoes, as I am slightly baby shoe obsessed.

They have little squeakers in the heel so that with every step you know where your child is (or at least have a rough idea). The squeakers can also be taken out if/when I get sick of hearing that much squeaking.

Monday we all (our little family of 3, plus my Dad and my brother and his wife) went out for dinner before my Dad left for Germany. I’m not much for Greek food, but since my Dad likes it that’s what where we went. It was actually very yummy. I wasn’t overly impressed with my brother and his wife. But then I rarely am. They just seemed so distant. When my Dad tried to talk to them they didn’t seem interested.

Yesterday morning I got a call from my friend Nancy to meet her to go shopping. I didn’t have very long since my Dad needed the car to go out for his weekly lunch date with the guys but I did manage to meet her for an hour. I really wanted to get those foam puzzle mats for the deck since it’s pretty old and I don’t want baby D crawling around and undoubtedly getting a splinter. I had in my mind that they would be multi-coloured, but the store only had 1 set of blue. Nancy mentioned that she has a set of mats with the letters on them and would bring them to our parenting group on Thursday.

As for now, I’ve just gone over everything that needs to be done around the house with my Dad. He (mr. generous) is actually giving us $80 to buy plants for the garden! So we are just about to take my Dad to the airport where he’ll be flying to Germany and staying for 5 weeks. It’s so weird every time he goes though. We get really close just before he leaves. Like we’ve been doing dinner together (our 3, plus Dad) for the last 4 nights. Then over the 5 weeks he’ll be gone, we get into our own routine. Like free car for me – yahoo! And when he finally gets back, the relationship is a bit strained. Hope we can plow through that this time around. Anyway, off to the airport…

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Confession time. I have a shoe fetish. Not your average shoe fetish but a baby shoe fetish. It all started when I bought a lot of baby clothes off ebay. In the lot also came about 10 pairs of shoes. They were so cute I couldn’t believe it. Since then I have been hooked. My current favourite pair are these.

They look like lace-ups but they really close via velcro. They are so easy to put on when baby D is wriggling around. I have also recently bought these from Darling Shoes:
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Unfortunately they are still a little big so I’ll have to wait a while for baby D to wear them. The turtle (velcro) shoes above are getting a bit on the small side so I went back to the store they came from to find another pair. For some stupid reason they only come as a full outfit (you can’t buy them separately) and they don’t come in bigger sizes. For what it’s worth I even wrote an email to the company requesting that they make these shoes available in larger sizes and without having to purchase them with the outfits. I’m sure it will come to nothing, but it made me feel better. Instead I settled on a pair of Robeez which I hear are pretty good too.

And they even came with a pair of matching socks for free. Oooooh Ahhhh

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