Skating picture

We went skating again yesterday. This photo is from last weekend. He's funny because he cries when he is in the stroller and then stops as soon as we get on the ice. I think I am lucky to have a child that I can pretty much take anywhere.

Ashton's first hockey practice?

I have so much more energy now that I've been more active.  I try to walk every single day whether Ashton likes it or not.  I have dance class once a week and now skating once a week.  I feel awesome.  Running up and down the stairs to do laundry 8000 times a week is getting easier too ;)

Jesse and I went skating on Sunday with a friend of ours and Ashton.  Ashton has to wear a helmet when he's in his stroller, which makes sense but the helmet perches on his shoulders because it is so huge and then it falls over his face and he gets really mad.  Jesse and I took turns with the stroller.  I wore hockey skates for the first time ever and I am used to using figure skates so it was tough for me.  I still did okay though, despite using rental skates which had short laces.  I couldn't do them up all the way so my ankle was smarting when I was done.  We are going to go every Sunday to public skating.  I love to skate and Jesse is planning on going back to play ice hockey.  We're trying to buy him skates and it's crazy because nowhere has them right now despite the fact that there is ice year round here.  There are pictures of him but they were taken with someone else's phone so I will try to post them when I can.

After skating on Sunday, we went to my parents.  It was my Oma's birthday (and Easter too) so my parents made an awesome feast with turkey and the works.  Ashton got all dressed up in his little man clothes.  At one point, he was helping me play the piano.  

Where the Wild Things Are

When I was pregnant, I was off work 4 months early.  I was not specifically on bedrest but I wasn't supposed to do much.  I have always loved the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak.  I have some of the stuffed animals.  I decided to incorporate my favourite book in to a nursery theme.  Jesse and I went on ebay and bought a clock and a light switch cover for the nursery.  I got fabric in forest colours to match for a quilt.  I haven't finished said quilt yet but it's probably a little big anyway (I did make another quilt outside of the theme for when we go out).  When you don't have a crib mattress yet (which I got when I was pregnant but after the quilt was started), you don't really think about the fact that the mattress fits in so tightly that you cannot just hand the quilt over the edge.  Of course, it makes sense that the mattress fits in like that...but I didn't think of it.  The other day, Angela got us a WTWTA floor puzzle, which is AWESOME.  I have it displayed in the box in his room.  Jesse and I went to the market and got these cool tent hangings that make me think of the book.  Not pictured is a wooden wind chime from the same market that hangs in front of his window and kind of makes me think of a sea monster.  I took pictures of the WTWTA theme nursery:

The quilt so far (over halfway done)

Ashton's reading corner with all his "Wild Things"

Roly poly

As I was logging in to update my blog, Ashton rolled over from back to front!  He's been rolling the other way since he was a month old but this was the first time going the other way!  He's not quite sitting yet, but can sit really well for 20 seconds max before he topples.  We have a Bumbo chair for him now, which he adores.  The friend that we got it from said it was great because her daughter couldn't get out of it.  Getting out of it was basically the first thing Ashton managed to do.  He was trying to look at something behind him and arched his back and then scooted his bum out and got out of it backwards.  He does seem to love the chair though.

I have been trying to get back in to shape since all I've done is walk since Ashton was born (and probably while I was pregnant too).  Not like pushing a stroller up a hill is anything to sneeze at though.  I joined a modern dance class.  I danced for 15 years or close to that anyway but it's been a few years now.  I mostly preferred modern and hip hop but I took some ballet (wasn't serious enough about it to do pointe or anything).  So I went to class and love it.  Three days later, my abs and calf muscles still are killing me, but it's a good pain.  Jesse's back to playing hockey too and after playing two days in a row, he is also in pain.  So it goes something like, "Jesse, can you lift this for me?  I hurt!" and he'll reply "I hurt too".  I'm glad that we're both getting back into shape.