A Busy Week

Well, this week has been quite interesting! No joke! Wanna know what I've been up to? I'm sure you are all just DYING to find out, right? ;)

Anyway, on Monday we decided to purchase the 2005 Extended Montana van from the dealership... and I love it. I can hardly believe we have a van! And it's nice! It has less than 80 000 kms on it, is in super condition, has a DVD player (which will be good for when going on road trips, which I LOVE to do), etc etc. I figure that in the end, figuring the monthly payments on it, the registration costs, and the fuel, we won't really be spending any more on this vehicle than we did on the car we were leasing... and it will be OURS after 3 years of payments! I'm thrilled with that!

The first couple of days this week I spent working on finishing a few Christmas gifts I'd started (I'm now done 7 of 15... although I haven't started wrapping any), cleaning house, doing laundry, etc. I also had to pack for the Annual Dairy Meeting we have this time of year. It's a three day conference of sorts at a hotel in the city. My husband went to all the meetings while I watched our lil munchkin. I tried to make it for one of the meetings, but apparently that one started early so I only got in halfway through. They had a daycare there, which was nice for the banquet itself. We had our lil one there for two other meals too, as she enjoyed being with all the other kids.

The first day, supper with my in-laws... Baby M was thrilled.

We were supposed to arrive Wednesday at around 12:30 for lunch. I still had M's swim lesson, which usually ended at 10:40... and a chiro appointment at 11am. It takes about an hour to drive to the hotel from our place. I got to my appointment 10 minutes early, and sat there for 40 minutes before leaving... without having my appointment. I could NOT wait any longer than that... we had to be somewhere. I don't understand what took so long. There were only 2 other people in the waiting room when I arrived, and usually I'm in and out of there in 15 minutes. Only when you need to be somewhere... right? We did get there a bit late, but still in time for lunch, which was much needed.

Meeting Mooky.

M was able to see the kids a little that evening as I figured it would be nice for her to see the daycare a bit with me around still. Mooky, the Milk Mascot (which I didn't know existed until that day) arrived on the scene. They were all a bit disappointed that all the kids except M had left to go swimming, but soon were thrilled to see how M loved the big costumed cow!

Sharing toys

Mooky, M, and Grandpa.

I couldn't resist. One of the guys there thought it was a shame they didn't have a video camera, when I piped up that my camera had the video option on it, and was in my bag right there. So, he took this little video... I never thought my little girl would love cows so much!

Later that evening, while waiting for my husband to come back from chores, I wandered around the showroom with M. We happened to walk past one of the side doors where she spotted Mooky in the hallway, coming towards the front door to the room. She was off to see the mascot once again. Mooky didn't notice her until she had chased her down the hall and partway into the showroom... and it was 'Mooky's assistant' who noticed and warned the person in the costume of the little baby running up behind her (you can't see too well in those things I've been told). Baby M wanted to show Mooky the squishy cow she had received from one of the business displays.

That was the good day. That night, Baby M did not sleep well. The hotel room was hot and dry (my husband turned down the heat, but that didn't cool it off soon enough for us, and the air was terribly dry), and while she normally sleeps well, even in a different place, she did not that night. She woke crying every single hour. We held her, put her in our bed with us, cleared her nose (she had a bit of a runny nose this week), tried putting a wet cloth near her playpen, put a wet towel on the register, gave her children's Tylenol, checked her diaper, gave her water... whatever we could. She would not sleep. Finally, at about 6am, she fell asleep and stayed asleep till 8. My husband and I went to eat breakfast in shifts... we were NOT going to wake her (and were not going to sleep that night either). Everyone could tell she had a bad night (most other families had bad nights too, for the same reasons). She was red eyed and not herself, even with two very full, very good naps. Thankfully, she slept all night the following night. Could be that running the shower before bed and adding cups of water around the room helped.

The weekend was busy too. Saturday we spent shopping. I had to get a few more craft supplies for a couple of the gifts I'm making... not to mention some ingredients for Christmas baking. I loved watching Baby M play in the play area with the other kids. And playing and dancing to the music in the Disney store. That was priceless. Oh... and she got to see Santa for the first time! We couldn't take pictures, but we were allowed to take video... she didn't care for sitting on his lap though. Poor guy. Next baby didn't like it either.

Today we went to church before heading to a gathering. I put Baby M in her new Christmas dress... she is SO cute in it!

She loves grandma's earrings... they have little bells on them, and she wanted to hear them ring.

She had a ball at the gathering... running around when she was done eating. And... she moves too fast to get a good shot when I forget to put the flash on, ha ha.

Well, that's our week in a nutshell... or a post... depends on how you look at it. I hope you had a wonderful first week of December as well! Oh, and as for snow? We finally got some on the 1st that decided to have staying power! How awesome is that!?