Well, we made the
banana bread yesterday and all K stuck around for was to "squish" the bananas. It's a favourite game of his, we pretend to squish him all the time. We'll half sit on him on the couch, or with shopping carts and make squishing noises while he squeals "Again! Squish!". So I got him to help out yesterday by telling him to "Moosh moosh, squish" the bananas. He grabbed the potato masher and was going "Squish, squish" while pretty much just playing with the mushed up bananas.
But, the banana bread is done and it made the house smell lovely and it tastes awesome, especially with the chocolate chips in it.
Yesterdays adventure out and about proved exciting. We got picked up by Baby Beastie and her mom (on her school bus! We were waiting for the regular bus and they passed us, so stopped and picked us up) and had some lunch, then walked around WalMart doing some shopping. We found some glitter, finger paint paper (cause the paper roll from Ikea is too absorbent, doesn't allow for lots of playtime with the paints), and I found a cute bath poof with a stuffy seal head on it. K wanted that one cause it was blue.
A little funny, I was writing out the shopping list on Tuesday for what to get yesterday. During the day I had had to toss a couple of T's bottle nipples cause they had been chewed on so bad they had cracked. So my list started like this...
Nipples
Glitter
Heart stickers
Made Jon and me laugh anyways.
So Beastie and her mom had to go and they left us at WalMart. We finished up there, had a snack (while K climbed on the half wall by our table, laughing and smiling at everyone in the restaurant) and continued on our journey.
Which brought us to Michael's craft store. K was actually really good this whole time. I had to strap him into the stroller so I could concentrate on just getting what we needed done, and so he'd been sitting in it for ages. But, I remember now one reason we haven't been going out lots, it's that lots of slushy snow, no plowing of sidewalks and a stroller with two kids in it don't go well together. The only upside is I got lots of exercise pushing that thing around! And of course businesses don't think of leaving walkways for people using transit, so there's no paths from the sidewalks to the business, just from the parking lot into the store.
While pushing our way along a footpath from the sidewalk along the store to the front of the store, I was getting worried I might break a wheel or two off the stroller! We finally made it in and found the place in clearance mode. Lucky! So, we tracked down some heart stickers (finally), and I found stuff to work on next week's project too.
After Michael's, we were done what we needed to do for the day so we headed off to find our bus home. When we got to the transit center nearby, K wanted so badly to go on the LRT (light rail transit) trains. So we changed course and went to ride on the trains. K had a blast going "Trains! Track! Trains Fast!" the whole time! The best part was when we got off at our stop and he goes "Thank you Thomas! See you later Thomas!"! That's actually the direct translation, it actually came out more like "Ake-U Toe-Mas! Slee-lu la-er Toe-Mas!"!
Well, T is down after being up this morning for a bit, and K is playing with his tracks, having just finished breakfast. I don't know what we're going to make today yet, but I do know dinner is pork tenderloin since it's defrosting in the fridge. With what, I have no idea. Oh, maybe baked potatoes! K can help me poke and wrap them. It's not much, but gotta start somewhere.
And it's glitter day! Wish us luck!
