On Monday Sarah stopped nursing. We were down to just one nurse a day and I must have run out of milk. Besides the 1/2 hour of crying after that happened, she hasn't looked back or asked for milk from me again. Weaning was quite painless for us, luckily.
Other than that, Sarah and I hosted a coffee/playgroup for my babysitting coop on Wednesday. Sarah wasn't at all pleased with the idea of having to share her toys with 5 or 6 other kids - she kept crying and asking 'up'. I thought we might get to skip that stage, but I guess not. On Friday we went to visit our neighbours over the back, Lisa and Sophia, for a playdate. Sophia is almost 3 and she and Sarah had a great time together. I guess Sarah doesn't have trouble sharing other people's toys, just her own. :o)
On Saturday I worked all day. We went to the range. The weather was really nice - a bit cold, but the ground was generally dry, so it made for a nice shoot. I shot C7 and Sig Sauer. It was my first time firing the Sig Sauer and it went well. I like it a lot better than the Browning, that's for sure. While I was working, Sarah and Dale went to the zoo in the morning and Sarah slept for 2 1/2 hours in the afternoon. She's been having really long naps for the past week or so and she's just so tired all the time. She's eating a lot too so she must be growing. She also started counting...well - she can reliably say the word '2' anyway. She's almost got '6' as well. She also added 'eat' to her vocabulary this weekend. Strangely enough she's stopped signing as she goes through this language explosion. She's done this before and then gone back to signing, but I wonder if this is it for signing for her... On Saturday night Sheri from the babysitting coop sat for us and Dale and I went to the CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival. It was great!
On Sunday we took a drive down to St. Pierre de Jolys, about 3/4 of an hour South of Winnipeg to a sugaring off festival that they have at the museum there. What a great little town. We went for a ride on a horse-drawn wagon, had a look through the museum and looked around in the Goulet house. In the Goulet house there were women making butter, traditional Acadian sashes, pet- soeurs (little rolls made with pastry with brown sugar and cinnamon inside) and bread in the wood stove. We bought some locally made maple syrup and we also had some creme sucre and some taffy, which Sarah loved. What a look on her face - she's never had anything so sweet before!
In the afternoon Dale went to Costco and I got going on vacuuming and washing the cars. What a lot of work but you know it must be Spring if you're washing your car. Yeah!
In the picture below, Sarah is watching the river below from the bridge at St. Pierre. She's wearing her new (to her) shoes - size 7 and way too big but she loves them and manages to walk ok in them.
Buzz and Buck the horses at St. Pierre
Buckets to catch the sap from the trees. They're all over town.
The maison Goulet.
An artsy photo of the tree in front of the St. Pierre museum.
When Dale went to Costco today he found Sarah a helmet to go with the bike trailer we got a few weeks ago. Now she's set for biking with us this summer. In the picture below it almost looks like she's driving using her bowl as a steering wheel! We put it on her for a small wander around the neighbourhood in her car this afternoon and she didn't try to tear it off, so that's good.
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