Wordless Wednesday...Throw Back Baby Cordelia 0-12 months.

Heading home from the hospital

 

Enjoying snuggles with Nana..aka my Mum.

 

 

 

Ready for church

  

Partners in crime

Cordelia's 1st Christmas

Cordelia's 1st birthday

Weekend road trip to Delaware! Part 2.

We didn't have any concrete plans while we were visiting Ben's Grand-Mom other than actually going to Rehoboth beach, we've been to Delaware several times and always stayed close to "home". On the drive in I saw a sign for a community yard sale just a few blocks away. Cordelia and I were up early and after she finished her 1st breakfast ( a bowl) of cereal we headed to check out the yard sale. We spent a grand total of $1.50!

I wasn't looking for anything in particular but found these few gems-healthy toes-toe stretcher, twlight, chutes and ladders and a small flower saucer! I was most excited about the toe stretchers, which sounds a bit torturous but is apparently supposed to be really go for you. I see them advertised in my yoga magazine and they've caught my eye several times. They usually run around $30.00 but I was able to get these for a $1 and got the book and flower saucer for free. I had already read the twilight series (before it was all the rage) when I was pregnant with Cordelia. But I had borrowed the first two books and have always thought to add them to the last two books in the series I own.

Before we left to check out the garage sales Grand-Mom had promised eggs and bacon for breakfast. We were only gone about an hour but half way through Cordelia complains that she wants to leave before Ben eats all the eggs and bacon! She cracks me up.

Once breakfast was done we headed to the beach. On the way we stopped to check out a thrift store 

(I found some great jeans) and Ben and Cordelia noticed a little amusement place that had go karts. So Cordy and I hoped in one and Ben in another and we were off! So much fun!

 

 By the time we reached Rehoboth beach and found parking-it was suprisingly busy- it was lunch time so we stopped at a place called Nicola Pizza. The service was great and the food was yummy.

We were finally ready to head to the beach. It wasn't that warm out, though there were plenty of people in bathing suits so I figured we would just pull up our pants and just dip our feet in the sea. After a few minutes and Cordelia thoroughly enjoying it Ben suggested Cordy put her bathing suit on. I figured she'd be okay without it. Well I ate my words with the very next wave. Cordelia decided she didn't want to run away from it and she got soaked up to her waist!

Needless to say out came her bathing suit! And this is when I realized I hadn't put her change of clothes in our bag. DOH!

Cordelia sassing the waves!

After getting soaked it was times for ice cream and to head home for dinner. Cordelia had to travel home toga style with a towel wrapped around her waist, but she was thrilled that she got carried back to the car and didn't have to walk.

Cordelia was wiped out!

Once we got back we helped get dinner ready and relaxed while it cooked. We traveled home on Sunday after hanging out with Grand-Mom and Uncle Joe in the morning and enjoyed lunch with them. Thanks for having us!

 

 

Weekend road trip to Delaware! Part 1.

So we had made plans this past weekend to visit Ben's Grand-mom in Delaware. She is only a few hours away, so we loaded up the family in the Jeep and hit the road.

 

 It was a little crowded with 3 people, 2 dogs and 1 cat. But we made the best of it. We played "I spy" and the alphabet game. The alphabet game started off a little slow, it took us about 15 minutes to find the letter B but it was so fun! Cordelia was so excited with every letter we found. However, the novelty wore off by the time we got to F or maybe G!

  

 Juju wasn't so pleased riding in the Jeep, though she did a lot better this time compared to previous trips. She choose to do this half hanging off the seat thing, leaning on the bags that were on the floor.

 

 We finally made it. We hit a little traffic and with having to stop to get dinner it took a little longer than it could. Everyone was happy to arrive and get out of the Jeep!

Wordless Wednesday-JuJu

Bowled Over

This weekend was lots of fun. Cordelia got to spend Friday night and some time on Saturday with her Pap-Pap and Grammy. While Grammy worked Cordelia and Pap-Pap had to entertain themselves so they decided to head to The Garden State Discovery Museum! Cordelia had a ton of fun, but did get some blisters from her sandals, which, she is still "recovering" from! But that didn't mean the fun stopped there. When she was finally ready to come home and after Ben and I had had enough slogging away rearranging the garage we decided to go bowling!

Its been awhile and its not like riding a bike...it took some time to get back into the swing of things..sadly I didn't even get a strike! But we had a great time hanging out together.

Cordelia's turn-don't drop the ball!

We had to wait awhile to see how many pins she'd knock down as the ball didn't move very fast.

Yeah!

Fun times!

And you guessed it-Ben won the game! Way to go honey!

Alissa's baby shower

So not this weekend past, but the weekend before Cordelia and I got to attend her second cousins baby shower. Now on Cordelia's Dad's side of the family the cousins get very confusing, very quickly as they range from 35 ish to 6 months with this one on the way. I believe Cordelia is great grand baby #16. You do the math! 

We got to enjoy lots of good food and everyone's company. Cordelia of course had a ball. Here are a few pictures taken by another second cousin Malisa.

Time to open presents

Cordelia and her Mom-mom (aka great grandma)

Making instant friends

You can barely see it but that is a hair band in her hair..it lasted 5 mins : )

April come back!!

So I really don't know where the time went last month. after my birthday celebrations its seems May arrived and I could not get a blog post in edge ways! That pretty much summed up the end of April for me. Ben and I weren't able to finish our movies that we put on without crawling to bed 15-20 mins in, I didn't have a chance to meal plan or even get to the grocery store...it was bad! And now I think about it I have no idea what stopped me from getting things done!

Okay, maybe I remember a few things...

Cordelia and I got to enjoy a wonderful Mother/daughter activity at church. We made necklaces from washers, nail polish and ribbon. We made flower pens, note book covers and enjoyed doing some zumba together. Oh and as there was nail polish around we painted our nails!

Cordelia painting her nails "all by herself"

My pendant drying.

Painted nails!

Cordelia enjoying Zumba...I joined in shortly after.

Oh, but before we left to enjoy our night out, I nearly had a heart attack. Ben had left a few minutes before Cordelia and I, so I let the puppies out so they'd be set until we got home.  Well I go to let them back in and only Jada was in the back  yard! Where was my Bella Boo?? I check the side gate and it was wide open! WHO stole my Bella Boo? Hang on a second...no one could steal Bella without me hearing her bark them into next week. So where could she be? I immediately call Ben, hysterical, and he of course immediately heads home. Our great neigbors across the road hear my frantic calls for Bella and head over to help me. Cordelia was still in the house so I couldn't leave to look for Bella. As I'm walking in to the house I hear our neigbors calling Bella and who comes bounding out of the woods! BELLA. I was so relieved. I called Ben back to let him know he didn't need to come home, he kindly informs he that he had left the gate open! WHAT!!

Bella after galavanting in the woods