Elisa’s Day

we made it though olivia’s party. fun was had by all. though i have to say, being around other people’s kids really gives me an appreciation for how well behaved my kids are. and made me hope ( oh please oh please ) that my kids are not that poorly behaved at other people’s houses.

rude, defiant, demanding…….a 5 yr old with a sense of entitlement is a truly sad thing. not all of them of course. but most of them. ( more then half anyway, at least 3 out of the 5 little girls here were pretty unbelievable )

so now it’s just a waiting game……waiting waiting. did some moderate level housework yesterday. cleaned all our bedrooms and bathrooms, vacuuming, and moved the babies stuff in our room around how i want it, it was just kind of shoved in the corner before. kind of hoping it would at least produce some BH. which it just barely did. no plans today but to do a bit of work on the computer, make some bread and chill. tomorrow is doctors appointment and errands.

i think, if there is still no baby by the weekend, we’ll go up to my dad’s and sit on his beach, the kids have been bugging to go and timing just keeps working against us.

i have a big ol’ head sitting in my pelvis………..

oh wait, i do

saw the new again doctor yesterday, said baby was definitely lower, said my blood pressure was “always low for pregnancy, which is good” and seemed surprised, probably because i really pack on the ol’ pounds during pregnancy, no matter how many people wanna say how “small i am” or how i’m “just belly” i put on an average of 50 pounds every single time. lucky for me it all comes off eventually (well not all, dude, i’ll never be the skinny wiggs i was before i had sidney, nor do i expect to be)  also said the other patient he had due around the same time as me delivered tuesday night. lucky her.

i have everything i need for olivia’s party. tomorrow i’ll make the cupcakes and pizza dough.

our day in the city started off with a meeting, which we ended up being early for. you never know what kind of traffic/construction/other time delaying nightmare you might run into, so always better to be early right? of course nothing on hipster queen street west opens before 10 or 11, so unfortunately our only option worth taking was the kind of swanky looking crepe place. some delicious cinnamon sugar crepes with strawberries and a hot chocolate is a great way to kill some time. then a successful meeting, and one more loose end tied up……nice. it’s been a long year. really. a loooong year. but it seems like now finally, all these loose ends are getting tied up all at once. it’s a bigger relief then i could have imagined.

then we headed off to spend some time with the lovely and talented bill baker. an afternoon spent with bill never disappoints. there are few people who’s company i enjoy more, and “interesting” can’t even touch the surface of that guy, for real. we had a great lunch in the market and then while ryan was getting tattooed i wandered around china town looking for some unique little thing to bring home for the girls. then back to chill at bills studio with some fresh cherries from the market, and put my poor feet up for a bit. the only thing i miss almost as much as the food, the ability to buy fresh fruit, house plants, baked goods, a mop and any other random thing you might need from practically every corner

after we wound down our afternoon with bill we headed off to meet up with some of our oldest friends, carrie and jason, for dinner. so great. don’t get to see them enough for sure. and of course some sweet thai food. nice.

all in all a lovely trip to the city. a lovely day away from the kids too i might add. been awhile since we had that. of course by the time i got home, not just my ankles, but the tops of my feet were actually swollen……yikes. but by morning they were (almost) regular sized again.

a long week of millions of things to do stretching out ahead of me again  ( and therefor a lot of early mornings driving ryan to work as well )…….i just want to sit around doing nothing, honestly, but hey, such is life

saturday. i just want to get through saturday. then i can have this baby any time please.

yesterday was our annual school trip to the peterborough zoo, annual because they do it in both years of kindergarten at the girls school. which means that we have done it the past two years with sidney and now olivia this year and next and by then hannah will be in kindergarten.

the peterborough zoo is a sad place really. last i checked, one sad old camel ( who’s cell mate died just last year, of old age i imagine, so he now has some scruffy donkeys for company ) a few reindeer, a bunch of riled up lemurs, and an empty python enclosure, does not a zoo make.  not to mention the ramshackle assortment of  remaining animals that barely compete with any small farm. oh look hannah, turkeys…..oh wait, we have turkeys at home…….throw in a rickety old miniature train ride that has the same script it has since i was a kid ( pretty much the entire zoo is the same as when i was a kid ) and involves short ride through some tress looking for poorly painted cut outs of animals. the biggest draw is the huge playground, including a giant slide down the hillside.

the school goes there because it’s free no doubt. but the zoo sucks so much because it’s free, no doubt. if they just charged a small admission i’m sure they could improve it by leaps and bounds, as it is i have no idea how they even maintain it to the pathetic standard they do.

but the kids love it all the same. and though there could have been few things i wanted to do less yesterday then get up at 5am so i could keep the car then drive the 40 min to the zoo and then walk my big, pregnant, butt around the zoo all day, that is exactly what i did. see, the huge playground i mentioned. well it’s not fenced. or supervised in anyway. and it’s big, and sprawly ( having been added on to over the years many times ) and the zoo is just open to anybody, oh yeah, and free right, so you don’t even have to fork over 5$ or anything in your master plan to snatch some kid. it’s hard to keep track of a few kids on it in the most vigilant of ways. and i just can’t in good conscience leave that responsibility up to someone i don’t know. we’re talking four year olds here. so we go. i can’t actually go as a parent chaperon, because i have hannah with me as well, but i just go, and follow behind and park myself on the playground and keep my eye on them ( while olivia’s official parent “chaperon” sat at a picnic table chatting with the teachers, a picnic table that was in no way, in view of even a third of the playground )

so another year, another trip to the “zoo” under my belt.

there’s only 3.5 weeks of school left too. this is going to be a crazy few weeks for us. a lot, a lot, of stuff going on, not the least of which of course, is you know, a baby coming. but seriously that just comes in the midst of all kinds of craziness…..of course. ryan and i are headed off to the city on saturday which i couldn’t be looking forward to more. a day away from the kids and spent with good  friends, and hopefully some good food. have i ever mentioned how much i miss city food? oh yeah….right…..only every chance i get.