Our Girl is Three!

Maeve is now "tree". It is hard to believe how much she has changed since she came into our lives. That little baby has grown into a young lady--mostly. Sometimes she is still that scared, vulnerable infant. But mostly she is a confident little dynamo that her two old folks can barely keep up with. At 36 inches tall and 31 lbs she is getting hard to lug around. Luckily I have stopped aging--at least in my mind. My creaky old bones and paunchy belly tell a different story.

This was a big weekend for our Maeve. It started on Wednesday when PoPo and GungGung came to visit and lasted until this morning when they left. PoPo called when they got home and Maeve said "I miss you!"

We had a birthday party on Saturday. Maeve was sooooo excited about it for the week before. It was mostly family and a few friends. Maeve loved having all of her family around. She was especially happy to have her youngest cousins here to play with. We let her stay up 2.5 hours past her bedtime so she was a bit off on Sunday.

Monday was her actual birthday. She took some peanut free cupcakes into daycare to share with her friends. They had them for afternoon snack. You know, sugar 'em up and then send them home to their parents... One of her little friends bumped her head just before snack, so Maeve spent snacktime holding an icepack to her friend's head with one hand and picking the sprinkles off her cupcake with the other hand. We have a little multitasker on our hands.

Monday night we went out for a nice dinner with Maeve's four grandparents. It has been party party party for days now!

Preparty pics:
Here she is on St. Patrick's Day a dress from her great aunt Dolores in Ireland.

Trying on Mom's shoes.

Reading the paper with daddy @ Starbucks.

Party poses:
Cooking up some fun with cousin Bram
I found these cupcake dresses at a local craftshow. Aren't they adorable? www.sewfunky.ca
Maeve and Robyn decided that the new makeup table would be a good hair salon. I guess she really enjoyed that first haircut!

She's really into Disney Princesses these days. So her birthday was Princess themed.
Blowing out the candle.
Complete with a castle in the sky...

Birthday dinner:
With PoPo and GungGung

Birthday kisses from Mom and Dad.

With Grandma and Grandpa

Birthdays are so much fun

Where's Mommy?

I haven't been at home as much as I'd like lately. It has been busy at work, but I also took on an extra project which finished this past weekend. A few of us from my company entered a contest in support of the local food bank. We had to create a structure out of cans of food.

So we raised about $4000, which allowed us to purchase over 4500 cans of food. With those cans, we created this


It is a BIG fish tank. There's a fish profile on both sides and a face on either end. We named them Finn and Gil.

There were many other great builds and lots of cans were purchased to help kickoff the food bank's spring drive. Lots of other teams used wood, packing tape and even magnets to build their structures, but we tried to keep our structure "pure". So there is a wooden base, some bristol board and a little bit of cardboard in our structure to even out can heights, but for the most part it is just cans.

Here are a few of the other structures:










My favourite (after our own) is the basket of fruit. The use of colour from the labels was really striking.

My First "Real" Haircut

We took Maeve for her first professional haircut on Tuesday. There is a place in town called Cookie Cutters that specializes in kids cuts. I thought Maeve would be more comfortable in that environment.

She was super nervous and wouldn't speak or smile the whole time. She just sat there with a grimace on her face. She was very good though and didn't move except to follow the hairdresser's instructions. I held her hand the whole time.

So when we arrived, she looked around a little. They had a climbing apparatus with a slide. Each cutting station had a different vehicle for the kids to sit in. There was a little red airplane, a motorcycle, a firetruck, a green bug car, etc. Maeve was too overwhelmed to pick, so we chose the pink convertible for her. Each station also has a video player... but again, she was too overwhelmed to choose a movie so we picked Elmo Goes To School for her.

She was real trooper and was all smiles once she was done and we all raved about how beautiful her hair looked.

This morning she asked if she could go get her haircut again. I guess it wasn't that horrible an experience for her!

These are the many faces of Maeve from last week. You can't really see it, but she's got quite the mullet going.


Here she is getting her haircut.




The happy girl afterwards!

Sooooo much better than the bang trims that mommy gives her!!!