Bedtime Discussions

Every night since we returned from vacation, we have had the same discussion. These discussions have all been spurred on by a fabulous gift Dougie received while we were there (thanks Miss Naz).

Me: Dougie, it's time for bed.

Dougie runs off to grab his elephant


Me: Dougie, Eli can't come upstairs. He has to sleep downstairs. You two can play again tomorrow. (This comes from experience - even turned off he will continually try to make it sing)

Dougie holds on tight to Eli


Me: Okay Dougie, play with Eli for 5 more minutes and then we'll go to bed.

Dougie likes to help him move his ears.


Sometimes, he just likes to listen and watch.


A few cute looks to see if I'll change my mind.


Finally, we hand over Eli and head to bed.


Tomorrow, there will be more singing about whether or not your ears hang low and wobble to and fro. Until then, 'nite 'nite Eli.

Poor Auntie Suz

Dougie heard that Auntie Suz had hurt her ankle. He was concerned and immediately wanted to hop on the next plane to California. Though I'm sure she would appreciate seeing him - we suggested that perhaps he could help more in other ways. He reminded us of his skill at removing wine bottles from her wine rack but we still thought something less invasive would be a better idea. So, Dougie settled to make her cookies.

Daddy helped




Dougie was a bit confused about the adding the chips to the cookies part


Finally, he found a few for the mouth, few for the cookies method that seemed to work (our apologies if the cookies are a bit low on chips)


You can see how full his mouth is before he was willing to pour some


Why yes, he did resort to taking them back out of the batter (don't worry, his hands are clean)


Stir stir, mix mix (don't worry, Scott's hands are clean too)


Once the cookies were done and cooled, we packed them up. Dougie thought the box we picked was a bit dull, so he decorated it.







Hope you feel better soon!

Baby Updates

On Friday, I had another appointment with my OB. Things are going along well. I'm still down in weight but I had gained a pound since last month and so had the baby. We had another ultrasound and the baby was actually measuring a bit ahead - so everything is going well.

We got more pictures which are a bit grainy but you can sort of see her face.


I had my test for gestational diabetes while I was there. I failed the first test with Dougie and had to go back for a 3 hour test (which I passed) so I'm hoping to avoid that this time.

Another Grape Stomp

Today was the annual Grape Stomp at the local vineyard. As you may recall, we took Dougie there for the first time last year.

Unfortunately, Dougie had swimming this morning so he missed the harvesting but he made it in time for the stomp!

We had to wait a while before they filled the vat with grapes. Dougie hung out with Daddy and some friends from my MOMS Club.

At first, he watched them load the grapes into the destemmer.


Then he started to get a bit bored with the wait.


More bored.


It has GOT to be time to stomp.


And it almost was. They filled the vat and the kids got going. Dougie did a lot better this year.

At first, he tried to just get his feet out of the vat.


He kept pulling the grapes off but then he'd put his foot back in it and get covered again.


He stomped a little with Daddy's help - you can see how thrilled he is.


He was all smiles again once we got him out.




He even talked his way into a lollipop from a friend of mine.


Overall, it was a great morning! I'm sure we'll be back next year.