Weekending

This past weekend was Mother's Day weekend, along with a whole lot of other stuff on the go: Steph's 30th, run for Ovarian Cancer and Maiko's 5th birthday. We are pretty good at packing lots of fun things in a weekend.

Friday, we had Aleksy's parents lined up for babysitting and a night planned to go out for supper for Steph's 30th! We went out to Bourbon St Grill for supper and had some crab cakes, which were awesome and I had a salad with scallops which was not so awesome. The scallops were vinegary. And in efforts of trying to be healthy I skipped dessert and had another glass of wine instead.

We got Steph her bottle here - her favourite: H2O. Such good gift givers.

And because we wanted to keep the party going, we moved the party over to Palasad for one more drink before calling it a night. We were home late to relieve the babysitters - just after midnight but it was such a fun night!

Saturday morning blueberry oat pancakes. This guy lives for these... with extra blueberry jam on top. He usually eats 3-4 pancakes like a machine.
And I don't feel too heavy after these pancakes since there's no flour - just oats. I even ran 6 km right after eating them!

And Saturday afternoon we left to ehad to Kitchener to Love, Laugh, Play indoor playground for Logan's friend Maiko's birthday. After a pretty decent car ride considering goober was awake the whole time, we got there right at 6pm when it started and Logan got right into the playing. He loved it.

We also participated a bit in the playing and we also loved it. And the kids watched in confusion as we did so. If this activity didn't draw so much attention to the small children, it was fun enough that I would have swung a while longer...

Logan's happy place - One of his favourite things are "trucks" and all tractors are also "trucks" so this was very exciting to play in.

The party was complete with pizza and Logan's favourite: fruit. He's basically a fruitarian. He may have had a couple bites of pizza.

I love his little smile for Daddy in this picture!

Tabi made this crazy elaborate cake and the map underneath it... and that's a boat beside the castle. And in case the cake wasn't enough, there are also cake pops underneath to the right - in the shape of the bullet/bombs from mario! Such a sad thing to watch her cut (but then eating it immediately makes it all better)

Logan made it all the way to 830 and still wasn't complaining about being tired because he was having too much fun! He fell asleep on the way back from Kitchener and was easily transferred to bed afterward!

And Sunday was Mother's Day and I woke up to Logan being adorable and bringing my Mother's Day gifts to me. He had made a craft gift for me with daycare and some crafts with Aleksy too! Those are the best kind of Mother's Day gifts!

Then at 10am, we headed to Springbank for the Run for Ovarian Cancer. This was my second time running it with Amanda. We got there a little bit late and ended up starting with the walkers because the runners were already gone. We got caught up though and finished in just over half hour!

 Aleksy and Logan came along and got some action shots of us running to the finish. 5k completed in about 33 minutes. It was a good temperature for the run too - not too cold and perfect for a tshirt.

After the run, we headed downtown to try a new cafe that Aleksy had found - the Ritual Cafe. It was kind of a healthful, natural type cafe. I got a blueberry smoothie, Aleksy got a cappuccino and we got Logan a treat: a banana loaf, which he proceeded to spit out and then all over me. He wasn't a fan of the walnuts in it I guess and could tell it wasn't a timbit.
But he was a huge fan of the brownies that one of the employees gave us a bag of to say Happy Mothers day - they were the ends so they were free but just as delicious!

All my goodies for Mother's Day. 

And Mother's Day evening, we had my Mom and Paul and Aleksys parents all over for a Mother's Day supper!