Challenging

Adara has been... shall we say challenging the last few days. Big screaming fits, refusing to do things, asking for things then throwing them at you when you give them to her. Three days of this now. Last night after battling with her for an hour to get an extraordinarily dirty baby into the bath tub, I just started crying. She stopped crying, brought her naked, very dirty self over to me, patted her chest and said" Me baby". Patted my chest and said "You mamma, no crying" and smiled. I'm not sure if the message really meant 'Mammas don't cry" but I'm choosing to take it as more of " I love you, so don't cry". It's a better message for me, and the angelic smile suggests that that's what it meant. She then spent the next 20 minutes telling me "baby jokes' which mostly consist of pretending to hiccup, burp and fart to cheer me up. A sweet effort but there's was still no way in *&$^* that she was getting in the bathtub, tears or no tears!

Pic of the Week: Adara in her new super cape

Hello...

Hello... Sorry I've been gone so long. Len and I have been away doing shows in montreal and I was away at the PACT conference, also in Montreal. The PACT conference is when all of the theatres from across Canada get together to talk about the year gone by and discuss best practices,and see shows and drink. It's like summer camp for theatre professionals... highly enjoyable!
The gig was slightly less enjoyable, but nevertheless...
Adara spent some time with Grammy and Poppa and it sounds like much fun was had by all. Liam came and pulled Adara around their back yard in a big wagon, then she pulled him, then they threw water at each other. Essentially, the ideal kid day. Also, from the requests for "I ceam (ice cream)" since we've returned, I'd say much spoiling was done! :)

After the challenging (ah euphemisms!) gig in Montreal, Len and I stayed an extra day in order to visit with friends (Hello Anne, Luke and Amelia!) who haven't been seen for a decade and to have some time to ourselves. We slept in, went clothing shopping ( a suprisingly rare treat), had sangria and antipasto on a patio with friends and then had a gorgeous dinner.
And then, alas, hauling butt back to TO where we have to do this gig all over again. Oh yes, and in the midst of all of this, I closed a show for my regular job and opened a show with a company coming in from oversees.
Busy times, sorry for the blog silence!

Flirts and Fantasies

So last week on the subway, a really cute, athletic looking 30 year old decided to flirt with me for the duration of the ride. We had a great conversation and he was lovely even after I told him that I was married and had a baby. We talked about enviromental choices, food and the fact that he wants kids "but not for seven or eight years yet". He was lovely.
Which led me to think "What the heck am I doing here flirting with this very eligible guy?" I have all of these amazing women friends who can't find the right guys anywhere. Why can't my cell phone have a "teleport a friend" option? So I could just select a friend and teleport them into the subway to meet this guy. "Here's my friend Seraphina, she wants kids and likes to cook..., No, ok... Here's Geraldina, she bikes to work to help the environment" and so on, until I found him (and my friends) the right match.
I think that I'll call Rogers and ask them to come up with a friend teleporter.

Of Clothes and Other things

Here's some pics of recent new clothes. Adara wore a gorgeous pink cotton/linen dress for Mother's Day that Grammy and Poppa got for her. She looked really sweet and managed to go an entire eight hours without getting it at all dirty. (by the by, anyone else noticed that I managed to dress my sweet baby for mothers day brunch,but I'm basically in sweats and jeans? Oh well, I figured that she needed to look cute in case she decided to be a hellion at the restaurant)
Here she is also in a hat that I got her. Diva indeed; she's been absolutely crazy all day today. She has all four of her eye teeth coming in (one already through) and apparently this entitles one to be nasty and unreasonable all day, but also very cuddly and needy. An odd combo
Last up on the clothes, is my opening night dress, chosen by my fabulous friend Heather in about 10 minutes flat after I'd looked for several hours already. I loved this dress and shoes and they held up from 5pm until 2 am with very little pain. Plus the whole darn thing cost a total of $60 including shoes. So, of course I had to get the deep purple (eggplant) manicure and pedicure to go with. Oh yeah, and Len looks pretty slick too! Mom and Dad came to opening and they also had snazzy new leather jackets, that I unfortunately did not capture on film.

Show Opening

Tuesdays With Morrie (my biggest show to date) opens on Tuesday. Life has been pretty crazy work wise. I had 13 hour days on Thursday and Friday. Last night was our first preview with a full audience in the house and our automation systems broke, stalling the show for 20 minutes in the middle. Annoying and anxiety inducing. I'm more then a little overdone. Adara was so happy today because both Len and I were home and there was thunderstorms all day so we did a whole lot of nothing. It was very good for all of us. In other news Adara is now singing her ABC's up to 'L" and singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in it's entirety. Clearly a genius. :)

A video for the aunties

Super busy, but here's some pics

My Weekend Away

IT FINALLY HAPPENED!!!! I finally got my relaxing weekend away, no one got sick, nothing got cancelled. Jenn and I headed to Kingston so that we could see Julia and Rafa and Diego as well as having some down time. We stayed in a lovely waterfront downtown hotel with pool and hot tub and all, and were very happy! We spent an entire day on Saturday shopping, wandering in and out of stores at will and being completely unconcerned about if anyone was getting hungry or needed a nap. It was glorious!
We stopped in a beautiful tea shop and had a lovely pot of chocolate chai tea and a raspberry scone with clotted cream and fresh jam. So good! Each morning we had a swim and hot tub and a leisurely breakfast before starting the day.
We also spent some time at Julia's, dinner on Friday and breakfast on Sunday. Diego was gorgeous, he's gotten very expressive and interactive all of the sudden. Julia was putting up a new gazebo which Jenn and Rafa were helping with. Conveniently, I suck at putting stuff together and all of my friends know it, so my default position was holding the baby. Oh too bad, so sad! :)
Check out Jenn's blog at www.lifeontheroof.blogspot.com in the next few days as I'm assuming that Jenn will put some pics up (I forgot my camera). If she doesn't, oh well, check Jenn's blog out anyways.