Reflection

I've taken a giant vacation from everything.....blogging, cleaning, wearing make up, blow drying my hair, wearing socks or a coat....I could go on forever. Tomorrow we make the long trek home, and looking forward getting back in the groove before Tino leaves to Russia. I just let the cat outta the bag but ill get more Into that later....

So long Florida, We will miss the friendly Ya'll southern peeps!! eating breakfast watching the dolphins feed, miller lite for lunch, great shopping, non stop sunshine and heat!

Ottavia become's a Child of the LORD!!

I'm laughing to myself at the title of my blog...am I super religious?? No...do I believe in god and was I raised Catholic?? Yes....do we rush out of bed on a sunday to sit in mass?? No...but did I want my daughter baptised because thats just what we feel was best?? Yes!

Ottavia got baptized in Regina with her 2 other cousins. I was a little concerned about the whole situation....she's a little older so getting water/oil poured on the head was probably not the greatest idea. Also we had to sit in a LONG Easter sunday service, then 9 kids were to be baptized after...UGH..i was dreading this, it was going to go right into nap time, no lunch..it was just a disaster in the making.

That morning Tino and I explained to her what was going to happen. When church started she was VERY interested in "GUY" (priest) who was on the alter. We said that "guys" is going to pour water on your head etc. The end of mass arrived and nobody was leaving..probably because 3/4 of the church was full of families of all the kids being baptized. We had about 10 mins of madness where...Her ponies got ripped out..asking to go night night etc but it soon passed and she just sat there until it was our turn. We made our way to the front of the church...she tipped her head back, he did his thing and she smiled and says..ohhh Wa wa! It was cute. After the priest then came over and poured and ENTIRE handfull of oil on her hair and rubbed it in.......needless to say, her hair stills smells like it!

Baptism success!!

Easter!

This year we made the  VERY long trek to Regina for Easter! It had been a year since we were there so we were definitly due for a visit. I was concerned for this trip as Ottavia was still not eating and feeling good and its hard being sick when your not home. All that aside Regina was good. It was very busy with lots of cousins and such. Ottavia loved playing and having everyone around. By the end she was comfortable with greeting grandma and grandpa at the door by name, it was cute! We also got to meet new cousin Zana who is such a little sweetheart!

Ottavia did great on the drive, 8 hours, one 20 minutes stop and not a peep. Thank god for iPad with Kai lan and Dora! I have no worries for our long flight this week.

Here are a few pictures from the weekend!

Bike season!!

We've contemplated getting Ottavia a new bike. She has a tricycle but we felt she's past that stage so we were going to buy a strider bike. One morning we made a stop at sport check and saw this little bike, just like a strider! We bought it and she Love's it. This picture is right before the helmet of course! She's getting so good at it, hopefully we can skip the training wheel stage and go right to a real bike next year! As big as she's getting, her short little legs just touch the sidewalk! 

Only in Calgary do you see a toque, a bike, and rubber boots all in one picture!!

Are we done yet???

We've had a rough 2 weeks, and just when I thought we were in the clear.. BAM..I'm hit with strep throat and a chest infection. Mommy's arn't aloud to get sick, we are like the unstoppable transformers that lead house...No??

Last weekend I came home from work to a sick kid with a really high fever. Couldn't figure out what was going on and She wouldn't eat, wouldn't sleep, was totally dead on the couch. Tuesday came around and just when we thought we she was better, we noticed her face started swelling and fever was creeping up again. We went straight to the children's hospital and they took us in right away. Ottavia's glands were so swollen that they were worried about her airway..so scary. After some medication, 2 licks of a popsicle, a urine sample and tired grumpy girl, we got released that evening with a high dose of medication. She only started eating on sunday. Its so stressfull when you kid doesn't eat, I get so angry and frustrated it makes me crazy but all in all she had fun in Regina with the cousins..thats another blog...

Here is my sweet girl with her sou sou (so bad but she was sick)

So Just when we thought things were better, on our drive home I said to Tino, its freezing in this Van can you turn up the heat?? he's like..its 27 degrees in here. I had no appetite, and my throat started to hurt. By 8pm I had a full blown fever, my hair hurt, I felt like CRAP. Thank god Ottavia went to the day home, I went to the dr. and slept the entire day away. Last night was rough as well, if I wasn't medicated fever would come and back and I could harldy swallow..its moved to my chest now, and I'll I've done is slept...Now I know why My kid didn't eat for so long. I'm hoping tomorrow is better. Its a good thing this happened now before we left for holidays, but I have so much to including work that I don't have time for this...I thought wonder women didn't get sick!!