Grand Theft Autumn

Pinterest made me homesick today.

Yes, my love/hate relationship with Pinterest continues and it's just as dysfunctional as ever.

Maybe even more.

As I was scrolling through, checking out all the new 'pins' of the day (recipes, fashion, activities for babies and toddlers, photos of cats fitting into very tiny places....), I noticed a theme developing:

it's Fall!

Every recipe was something apple or pumpkin related

Every outfit was a sweater with boots in earth tones 

Every suggested toddler activity had something to do with fallen leaves or red, orange and yellow paint

Cats had their arses hanging out of jack-o-lanterns....

I felt like I needed to find a cable knit sweater, make a pumpkin latte and go jump in some leaves....

except it's still freakishly hot here!!!!!!

So no Fall for us Lesbians (stop it) just yet 

OK maybe it's not 'freakishly' hot but it's still around 30 degrees during the day, and this pregnant lady is OVER IT! I want to go out for long walks with Eleni during the day! I want to make soup! I'm bored of summer dresses and I don't fit into any of my shorts anymore!! 

I'd definitely be able to find some dehydrated to the point of fossilization fallen leaves to jump in, but a pumpkin-flavoured anything is out of the question. I think when my fellow Canadian Valerie was still here she once carved a jack-o-lantern out of an eggplant for Halloween...it might have been a zucchini.....

Anyway, I'll stop complaining and save it for all you Albertans who just skipped Fall completely and went straight to Winter.....BAHAHAHAHAHA...sorry, really, I'm sorry about that, I don't know what came over me. But seriously though, snow in the summer? Why do you guys still live there??

Anyway as I was saying, I love it here but there's just something about the smell of the air in BC during the Fall that I love so much. Also, for me it's the time of the year for new beginnings. A new school year starts, new goals are set, everything feels fresh and new. Kind of like the air....whoah, that was deep.... I'm not in school anymore but I still feel as though September is my January. A new year is beginning and I need to get ready for it. It's time to pack away the summer, with all it's lovely careless freedom, and time to get serious about what lies ahead for the year. And of course, we all know that this year is going to be one of our biggest! 

We need to find a bigger house and move into it in the next couple months....preferably before December. We need to think about upgrading to a bigger car. And we definitely need to start preparing for the twinnies! By that I mean it's time to start doubling up on the BIG baby stuff: car seats, high chairs, stroller, swings etc; and time to start looking through the LITTLE baby stuff to see what we need to add to what we already have: clothes, hats, jackets, receiving blankets, cloths etc.

So that's what I FEEL like I need to start doing now but I haven't started ANYTHING because my internal clock is clashing with the temperature outside and it's messing me up! Bring on the cooler weather, the comfy cozy sweaters and the yummy warm drinks (pumpking flavoured or not), and THEN I can get down to some serious business!

So what's new for us this week:

I really thought we'd be finding out the gender of the twins this week but sadly, we'll have to wait until the 24th.

JUST 11 MORE DAYS! I CAN MAKE IT!

I hope...

I called my doctor this week and he said we'll do our usual check up next Friday because this week ended up being a busy one for us and we just couldn't fit it in. I have a couple of students that I've been teaching English too this summer but they went back to school this week so that changed up our weekly schedule a bit. On top of that I made some activities for one of my students to prepare him for the end of our lessons....it's not a test but an activity...he doesn't believe me when I say that. He's a very clever little boy. And poor Antonis has been having a problem with an infected tooth, so with all of that mixed in with our regular day-to-day craziness, we had to move our doctor's appointment to next week. 

Eleni will need to go for her 2 year check up with the pediatrician soon too. I'm still amazed that she's actually 2!! She just got her 2 year molars actually, without much fussing at all. So she now has 24 teeth! I wish I could go back and time to when she was 8 months old and tell myself "don't worry that she hasn't gotten any teeth yet, they're coming, they're just taking their time"....oh the things we first time mommy's worry about....

Yesterday a friend of mine, who has a daughter the same age as Eleni, posted a video on facebook of her daughter counting.....so I tried to get a video of Eleni counting too. The main word there: TRIED. As usual, Elly Bean dances to the beat of her own drum...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=estXHJkbZuE&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPDb6aAqbNM&feature=youtu.be

Isn't she a little sassy pants?!

She must get that from her father.....

And now I'll leave you with just a few photos before I go out to search all the markets for 'Autumn-like' spices....and probably fail....

Eleni enjoying spaghetti with sausage and roasted red pepper sauce

Fingers are more fun the forks

And here is an example as to why warm weather is still a good thing,

less need for stain remover....

"Mommy I just want to wear all my bracelets at the same time, K?"

Photos from Eleni's birthday again, but these are the ones I took

Again, Eleni dancing to her own drum....

The Yiayias are trying very hard to teach all the little girls a song and dance....

but she just doesn't care

This is what happens when you want a group of kids to take a nice photo togther...

hey guys, can we all sit down, look at the camera and smile?

guys?

hey guys??

ummm, really?

OK I give up!