Dear Papa

Papa?
Feeling better? Leg hurt?
Muma - Papa's leg sore.
Better Papa?
Miss you. Love you. Mmmmhhhhmmm.
Bye

Lyla's Papa had a complete rupture of his quadricep tendon and underwent surgery on March 16th. This unfortunate occurrence happened out of province as Papa was at the brier with Uncle Darren. Things have been an adventure - from getting Papa home to trying to find a Ortho MD to see Papa in Ontario, but we are hopeful that Lyla's Papa will be feeling better soon.

Papa - Feel better soon. Lyla is looking forward to sitting with you again soon! We love you.

One cute girl, one pretty dress...

Almost 30 years ago this dress was made by hand for me by a very special person. My Great Aunt Margaret made this dress for me and my mom gave it to Lyla. And when my parents were here we tried it on and took some pictures. Lyla was so proud to be wearing this dress. She was so excited to show Nana and Papa. I am going to send a picture to Aunt Margaret to let her see her dress and how good it still looks.

Papa is so silly.. he was making Lyla laugh!

Here is Lyla checking herself out in her mirror.

In this dress, Lyla looks more and more like the little girl from 30 years ago...

'Snow Cows'

It may be hard to see from these pictures but a highlight in Lyla's life this February was the snow plows. Or the as Lyla did call them the 'Snow Cows'. She now calls them the proper snow plows but when she called them the snow cows it melted any snow on my heart. We would go out side to look at them up close and boy oh boy was that exciting.

Gymboree's Valentine Party

We went to a Valentine's Party at Gymboree in February and it opened to door to Lyla's love of arts and crafts. Or as Lyla called it 'hearts and crafts'. Here is Lyla making one of her art projects. Here is Lyla and Daddy at the party.

Playing the freeze game!

The highlight of the party was that Lyla got to take a balloon home. She loved this balloon more than anything..

Here are her finished art projects. Since than we have been going to arts and crafts classes and she has really enjoyed them.

Whew! How time flies!!

Here I am! If you all have been wondering where I have been, I honestly don't really know. I guess life just gets busy. February seemed to have been a bumpy month. Lyla went through a terrible phase where she did not want to sleep in her room alone. Napping was a fight and sometimes non existent unless she slept in our bed. Night time was again a fight and most nights Ryan or I had to lay on her floor for an hour until she fully fell asleep. And she was sleeping so lightly that she would wake up and notice Ryan or I not there , and mayhem would ensue. Then of course because Lyla was not sleeping, she got run down and of course got sick. She had a cold that lead to some croupy like symptoms, ended up at the doctor, steroids given and actually Lyla is FINALLY feeling more like herself now. Then Ryan and I ended up getting sick of course. I ended up sicker than Ryan - with a sinus infection, ended up on antibiotics but the best thing was a steroid shot for me and now I am starting to feel better. Then throw in the Winter Olympics in there - Yeh Canada Eh! And there goes February. As well we made a trip home to see Lyla's new cousin and to celebrate Emily's 12 birthday. So now I am back and I don't know where to start blogging.. so just hang tight and we will see where I start up again...