A Week With Grandma

My Mom left yesterday to head home after spending a week with us here in Vancouver.  It was so, so nice to have her here!  I miss her already!  It was great for Mom to accompany Syd and I to all of our weekly activities and to meet some of our Mom and baby friends!

While Mom was here, we spent two nights at the Pan Pacific Village Suites at Whistler as Mom had never been to Whistler before.  It was a lovely, relaxing time!  We swam in the pool, wandered around the village and played with Sydney at the playground.  Mom and I had lots of time to catch up and have heart-to-heart chats after Syd had gone to bed for the night.  I miss having Mom around to chat with on a regular basis!  What a treat it was to have her all to myself for two whole nights!

Grandma always comes for a visit with heaps of great presents for Sydney and this trip was no exception.  She got Syd some new things for her art basket; a little wooden rolling pin and cookie cutters for her playdough and stickers, always a hit!  She also got the cutest clothes for Syd from Joe Fresh, sweet cardigans and halter tops and fleecy pajamas for the winter.  We've already worn some of the clothes, Sydney seems to have grown a ton lately so we were happy to have some new things to wear.

By far, my favourite thing that Mom brought Sydney was some hand crocheted clothes for her Barbie dolls.  Check out these hats and matching purses, super cute:

And these two dresses, one has little panties to go along with it!  Sydney and I will have fun dressing her Barbies up in their new clothes!

Sydney started saying "Grandma" this week while Mom was here, the timing couldn't have been more perfect.   She has been asking for her constantly since she left, sniff, sniff!

We rounded off our week together by driving down to Bellingham for an afternoon and hitting up Bellis Fair mall.  This was Mom's first time driving over the border to shop, so it was fun hitting up Target and a few other spots with her.  As usual, I got a boatload of stuff, picked up a few new clothes for Syd to wear to preschool, these cute shirts and jeggings, stretchy leggings that looks like jeans, adorable!

It was a fantastic week with Mom, can't wait for her to come back in March to spend some more great time together!