A day at Teddy Bear Picnic

CHEO's Teddy Bear Picnic was fun! Derek, Drayden and I took a shuttle bus to the Governor General's house...Drayden was in awe the whole ride there. He couldn't believe that he was on a bus. Once we arived we spent a good part of the day seeing CHEO friends. Drayden also brought Puppy for a check up at the BASH tents, doctors and nurses took great care of him. He also saw Molly Penny the Clown again. Drayden and Daddy went on the Giant Tiger train ride...and with the heat we decided to make our way back home. Drayden was getting tired, he walked all around the park everywhere and bused back to our car...he fell asleep as fast as I could blink on our way home.



Nurses giving Puppy a check-up!




Drayden helping Puppy...he's getting a band-Aid




Drayden hanging out with Molly Penny




Tickle tickle...




Train ride...Drayden was so excited!



Great Family fun...even Daddy had a blast!

Tanya

Garden talk...

So about the garden...I can't believe how much that zucchini has taken over! It needs it's own area completely, but it really doesn't matter because I can't wait to eat it same goes for the cucumbers. The first batch of radishes are now all eaten and I sewed a new row of them. I also added a row of green onions and carrots beside my radishes, as well as a few rows of spinach between the patches of lettuce (thanks to Drayden overwatering "power wash style" some lettuce didn't grow)...Hopefully they'do OK. I guess my first year of gardening will be full of trials and errors.




Zucc taken over the garden!!!



Tomatoes are doing great...see the row of radishes sprouting beside?

Patchy lettuce rows...

We've enjoyed tomatoes and lettuce on our burgers already and not to forget BLT's...so good. I'm already thinking of plans for next year!

T.

Growing so fast...

After months of on and off potty curiosity and adventures, Drayden is potty trained. Yay!!!! 

A few months ago I ordered Drayden a soft potty seat for the toilet thru Huggies-Gifts to Grow points and told him that a surprise was coming for him by mail. We would check the mail box daily. When it came in, that's when potty training was really serious for him. It became an everyday day pee-pee on the potty or toilet rather than just before bath or bed with his other potty. I was taking his diaper off after daycare and keeping him in underwear at home. I bought stickers from the dollar store and every time he would go...he was able to choose a sticker or two. He was so happy with that.
A couple weeks ago, I decided to keep him home from daycare for a couple extra days after a weekend of no accidents....Pretty good for a boy that's 2 1/2. You could tell he was ready. He was wearing the cute underwear I bought him for weeks and seemed to really get it. As soon as a diaper went on (with underwear on top...to be like his friends at daycare) he hated it, was embarrassed or got lazy and did his business in it and told me right away. Drayden's educator Monic told me he's been dry after his naps for quite a while and so she sent him home on Friday with all his diapers and wipes. He's growing up so fast and I'm so proud of him. The only thing left to work on is staying dry overnight!!!...no real rush for that though. For now, those extra diapers will do the trick.


Proud mom of a diaper-less toddler.
~xox~

Daddy's birthday cake!

Although Derek's birthday isn't until June 6th, I decided to bake him a cake with Drayden on Saturday. Plans were to celebrate it on Sunday but Drayden didn't seem to want to nap so...baking it is.

8 Steps To A Wonderful Cake

Step One: Get Drayden set-up at the kitchen table with all things necessary. Drayden had fun getting at the utensils, mixing bowl and ingredients.

Step Two: Read instructions, and direct Drayden on what to do...even if he's got a mind of his own and wants to do EVERYTHING on his own. This unfortunately, is where it started getting messy! 

Step Three: Pouring batter IN the cake pan; help needed. Again, messy situation and results in Drayden eating and licking more batter than he puts in the pan. And of course, he gets the bigger spatula?

Step Four: In the oven it goes...again Drayden seems to want to do this part too. Which intern I ended up doing it of course.

Step Five: Keeping Drayden occupied until it's ready! So we wrapped up Daddy's gift (lots of tape was apparently required) and signed a card with beautiful scribbles of love. Don't think for a minute this was kept a secret...He gave it to Daddy right away and told him what it was before even opening it.

Step Six: Icing and decorating the cake. Again this is an extremely dangerous task! Chocolate icing in more places than others, including double dipping to "try it" and if anyone knows Drayden you know he's a drooler! EWWWWWWW. And not to forget the 4 different kinds of sprinkles that obviously all had to be on the cake.

Step Seven: Add candles...sing Happy Birthday Daddy! Drayden helped blowing out candles and the joy on that kids' face was priceless.

Step Eight: Enjoy a piece of cake that our son was so proud of.

Cake Boss in the works...

That's not Cookie Monster..It's Icing-Man! 

Voilà! Our end product...looks Yummy!

Lots of chocolate icing!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Love, Mommy and Drayden xox