Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games and Valentines Day

The time has finally arrived. The 2010 Vancouver games have finally begun and I'm so excited!! I LOVE the Olympics so much and I'm so happy to 1) be a stay at home Mom so I an watch all the events, and 2) have satellite TV with PVR so I can record the stuff I miss. The opening ceremonies were great! Dave of course, being the patriotic Canadian, nature lover, loved everything about the opening ceremonies. He loved the nature scenes and the fiddlers. My favorite part was when they made it look like whales were swimming across the floor. I also really enjoyed watching all the athletes enter the stadium. The Italians had some pretty classy uniforms. Today Canada finally won a gold medal, the first gold medal won by a Canadian on Canadian soil. It was won by Alex Bilodeau in moguls. GO CANADA!!!

Today is also Valentines Day. We made some cherry chip Valentines Day cup cakes and went to visit Nannu at his nursing home in Brampton. It was nice to see him as usual, and Rosie had fun running around the dinning room and making the other residents laugh.

Speaking of Valentines Day, here's a cute picture taken earlier this week that is full of so much LOVE. What a nice thing to wake up to.

Also for Valentines Day, Rosie let me paint her toes pink (I told her I was giving her "princess toes" since she into princesses now).
Tomorrow is the 2nd annual "Family Day". I'm looking forward to relaxing with Dave and the kids and watching some more Olympics!

Me Ka Aloha- Elisabeth

Sleeping Beauties

My Mom is always getting into something new and fun. Once it was puppets, now it's princess dresses. It's pretty awesome because my kids have a great collection of puppets and Rosie now has an adorable princess dress (sorry Joseph, this doesn't benefit you too much). Well any way, I decided to let Rosie try on her dress and she LOVES it! I wasn't sure how she'd react but she kept on saying "pincess dess" and looking at herself in the mirror. She even cried when Dave tried to take it off of her. Now let me just say that I too LOVE the dress. It's made by a company called Little Adventures. They decided to make dresses that were washable, comfortable (no itchy fabric), and easy for kids to put on themselves. My Mom loves them so much that she's become a distributor (yay!!!) Alright, I'm getting off topic. Back to Rosie. Well she loved the dress so much that we let her wear it all day. While Rosie was eating her peanut butter sandwich, she fell asleep. This is a common occurrence in our house. She refusses to take naps and then out of complete exhaustion, falls asleep eating (why while she's eating? It's beyond me). So there she was, dressed like a princess asleep on our couch!

Later on that day I brought Joseph upstairs to change his diaper. I put him down on my bed and gave him some toys to play with as I watched him. He was playing on his tummy but a few minutes later he stopped playing with his toys and put his head down on the bed. He just laid there staring at me with his "lover eyes" he just had this look on his face like "Mommy, you're the love of my life" He laid there, not even blinking, all peaceful for about five minutes until he fell asleep. It was such a cute moment. I wish he would fall asleep gazing into my eyes every day.

I love these little moments so much! Life really is BEAUTIFUL!

Me Ka Aloha

- Elisabeth