Mommy's birthday week

Sarah's new thing is she likes to climb up on little perches, like the box with her mega blocks in it, and play. She hasn't fallen off yet - I'm sure it's only a matter of time. She also likes to crawl into little places and hang out. I have a feeling that the tent we got her for Christmas is going to be a big hit.

     

She discovered this week that pot lids make great music and she's been having a great time wandering around the kitchen while I'm making supper banging away on them.  Fine with me - whatever it takes to keep her from latching on to my legs which makes it impossible to cook.

I had a great birthday. It was a beautifully sunny and relatively warm day (-9). We unwrapped some presents before we got out of bed (Sarah was a big help with the tissue paper), and then we went down to the market at the Forks for a bit of a brunch. Sarah had a great time wandering around looking at everything in all the shop windows. In the afternoon I went for a run while Dale made my cake and Sarah had a nap.  We had Pad Thai for dinner and I was supposed to go and get a DVD...but I was too tired from the run so we just watched some TV and went to bed.  A quiet birthday, but fun.

  

On Sunday it was another nice day, so we took Sarah tobogganing at the lake near our house. She's definitely a thrill seeker (with a Dad who parachutes and a mom who loves to bungy jump I guess it's not too surprising) - she loves being spun around in the toboggan.  Dale took her down the little hill to the lake and out onto the ice.  There was a hockey ring set up nearby, so we thought we were ok...and then Dale put his foot through the ice and that was the end of that.