February Adventuring

Although I have felt very unspectacularly unbusy this month, we still have had some good adventures this month.

We made a group date plan with 3 fam groups of our friends to try out the new play centre at Fleetway. Because children are little germ magnets, the Osbornes couldnt make it but Chels and War and kids were in and Emily and James and kids were in.

It was amazing and really big. I was a little timid to leave Logan to fend for himself in the massive playground, but he fended for himself really well and wasn't afraid at all. There were several points where I couldn't even keep up to him to go through the playground with him!

And for the grown people, the best part: pizza. Deep dish to be precise. My filled with pizza face here exactly represents how happy my pregnant self was to devour this goodness. I like this deep dish more than the one we had in Chicago (although it may be the magical deepfryer...). Logan ate about 3 bites of the $9 mac and cheese we specially bought him because we knew he wouldn't eat the pizza then he ran away to play because he firmly believes eating is a waste when you can be playing.

Making Valentines with Logan is awesome. It brings back all my childhood memories of giving and collecting Valentines! I was prepared well in advance with Peppa Valentines (obviously), some festive straws for his friends and a special gift for the best daycare provider ever.

He actually did better with customizing his Valentines last year. This year, he only coloured on the Valentine for Justine and refused to do anything for the other cards. He prefers to call the shots.

Logan all ready Valentines morning with his present for Justine and his friends and suspenders and a coloured shirt for good measure.

He really needed to see the picture I was taking here... before I took it.

The lovely face I get when I ask him to stand to pose for a picture. But that face!

The snow is now melted, but last week there was heaps of the stuff! Enough so that this friend was built in the backyard by Logan and Aleksy (I came outside to take this picture... it's too cold when it's winter). He was very excited about sticking the sticks and rocks in t he snowman.

















The next morning:

And family day weekend we had an impromptu visit by these 2 little guys. Add a Logan to the mix and they're basically triplets. They played so well together at our place while Chels and War prepared their house for pictures to go on the market and all the while 20 timbits were consumed (and I swear I only had a couple).

On Saturday of the family ya weekend, Brooklyn and I went out for lunch (tried out the Zoup place!) and then on a shopping adventure at White Oaks mall. While walking through the mall, we were given one of these cards each! Random acts of kindness day and a free drink at starbucks!

Only one day after knowing baby in the tummy is a girl and I couldn't even help myself at the mall. Can't wait to dress her in sweet little girl clothes!

Sunday, we day tripped out to Cambridge to visit the butterfly conservatory. Logan always points out the butterflies in his books and we thought he'd love to see a whole greenhouse filled with them!

As you can see, he was really excited when we first got there with the butterflies fluttering around.

But then this happened: game changer. The butterfly landed on him and it freaked him right out. From that moment on he was looking to avoid the areas where the butterflies were gathering and wanted no part of them coming near him.

They also had an insect "petting zoo" for the family day weekend, and Logan wasn't really feeling those bugs either. He wouldn't touch them. Honestly, I get it...

Butterflies landing on everyone... Aleksys head and all.

The waterfall: one aspect of the butterfly conservatory that Logan was really into!

We went through the place twice and both times were pretty quick so our morning with butterflies was actually about an hour and a half!

So with having extra time since we left around noon, we headed to a diner nearby for some brunch. Logan's current obsession: pancakes!!