Aggie Days and planting with Dad

We went to Aggie days at the BMO centre in Calgary last weekend so that Flora could get a chance to check out the pigs and any other fun stuff that they had going on. She got to see a big ol' mumma pig and her 6 day old babies which was pretty exciting. Rather unfortunately, the farmer was all about children being aware of where their food comes from so when we kindly told him that Flora loved pigs his reaction was "Yep. Bacon. Pork chops. Ham. Leather." and so on, delivered in a rather abrupt and matter-of-fact way. Lucky for me, it was very loud in there and Flora didn't seem to make the connection, or just didn't bother listening to him. Out of curiosity, I asked her what she thought about eating a pig and she was horrified.

 Later, Flora did some flower planting with Rich. She had brought a pine cone in from outside and had placed it on the stairs a number of days before this. Every morning she was pretty disappointed to see it hadn't started to grow yet. This should give her a bit more satisfaction!

"Hey mom! It's spring out here!"

 Spring returned to us, briefly, and we enjoyed a morning of sunshine. Flora had a blanket to sit on with all her buddies, and they were all covered up carefully so that the birds wouldn't get them. Good thing we got out early to enjoy it because it started to snow by noon. This has been a looooooooooong winter.

sisters in a tub

 I cant believe that she is already big enough to sit in the tub! Flora likes to have a bath with her but, as with everything, is controlling of the toy situation.

Haha! The look of love...?

 I love these little curls. They are a good couple of inches longer than any other hair on her head.

zoo-ing it up

Trip to the zoo that was somewhat enjoyable. I think the kids had fun, I did not... I lost my phone because Iris wouldn't sleep which meant a whole hubbub of moving her around and therefore misplacing my phone. It wasn't until we stalled all the fun and focused solely on that task that we ended up finding it. SIGH. Then we went for an ice cream and that was when I also realized I had misplaced Sylvie. ARGH. So I ran all the way back to security for it. Not usually a problem but I hurt my ankle running last weekend and it was a painful little jaunt. I wished I had answered "yes" when the security guard asked if we had also lost a doll, one had been turned in at the same time as the phone. Maybe he said "dog" and then I might have said yes. Then my darling Flora refused to say good-bye to Aubrey, even after I threatened to take away her ice cream. Good-bye ice cream and hello hysterics!

Joyful

moving

I would have titled this "crawling" however I am not sure that we are able to add that to the list of skills just yet! As you can see, Iris has started to move. Very slowly. She reminds me of Jesse, the crippled dog off Family Guy. I am sure that she will take this to the next level soon, she is a determined child and I think that being able to follow around her sister is very important to her.

7 months old

Still snowy and miserable here. Flora asked yesterday "when is spring coming back? I enjoyed that."