Mother's Day Weekend...

...did not start out on the best foot.  Drew came home from school and slept all afternoon.  He was warm and not feeling the greatest.  We were at nana's, so we woke him about 6 and then left for home at 7:30.    He was still kind of slow moving, but seemed to be feeling a bit better after his nap.  We were questioning whether we should head up to the cottage as originally planned, but decided to see how he felt in the morning.  I left for my walk with my friend Kelly (which was great) and then came home to Drew and James hanging out on the couch, Drew eating some vegetables (always a good sign).  He went to bed easily and James and I packed the van (only a few things, in case we decided not to go).

Once the boys awoke, we still weren't 100% sure if we should go.  Drew did eat breakfast, but didn't really seem himself.....we were all so excited to get back up to the cottage though, so we decided that the worst that could happen was that Drew would end up in bed up there all day.....at least we could look at the water.

Pizza and apples for breakfast???  Hell yes!!

The van was packed, and off we went.  Walmart was our first stop, to pick up some groceries and then we headed on to Ikea where we bought our new table for the cottage, along with hot dogs and ice cream for lunch.....yum!

Once we arrived there, the first thing on the agenda was cleaning and then fishing.  While I was cleaning, James took the boys down to the water to do some fishing.  This was the first time that Hunter had given it a try....he just batted the water with the rod, but seemed to be really excited to do this...hey, whatever works!

Next on the agenda was the assembly of the boys new climbing thingy.  We purchased this climber at Costco.ca and had it delivered to Tony's house, who then delivered it to our cottage.  It proved to be quite tedious to put together...but once done, the boys loved it!

I tried to keep Hunter away from the assembly.  There were many screws and things that he would lose.

Drew is old enough to help.

We made quite the Thomas track.  This track is a wee-bit annoying though, as it keeps falling apart.

Hunter reading a book on our bed.

The rest of the evening was wonderful.  Drew's friend Ryan came over and played with Drew for most of the evening, he even had some dinner with us (Drew was thrilled).  Hunter had a great time trying to keep up with the boys.

After dinner, there was a campfire at the fire pit, so James took the boys down while I did the dishes and tried to clean some more of the cottage.  Just as I was getting ready to head down to the fire, I heard a baby crying, which sounded like Hunter.  Sure enough, it was.  He was covered in blood.  Turns out he had tried to take off towards the water and slipped on some concrete steps, landing face first.  When he fell, he had bit his lip, really hard.  Poor little man had a pretty bad fat lip.

Drew was a great help.  "Mommy, he needs ice.  Let's get a freezie, that'll be like ice, and maybe I could have one too???"  Very cute, but a wonderful idea.  The freezie did act like an ice pack and I think eating the freezie helped Hunter calm down.

Bedtime was easy, as both boys were exhausted.  James and I watched a movie (I think it was called, "up in the air" on the computer, on the floor.  We had no furniture as we had taken the couch to the dump last fall, and our new table wasn't put together yet.

I woke up the next morning to big hugs from both my boys and these.....

I acted surprised for the boys' sake, but James and I snacked on them while watching the movie the night before.  They are buttertarts from "DooDoo's bakery" which is very close to the cottage and sells the best buttertarts ever.

And of course, the view was pretty great mother's day morning too!

James had made me a wonderful photo montage on the computer that brought tears to my eyes.  Once we'd had some buttertarts, and I had washed my face, we packed up and went into town.  James and I wanted to get some staples in the cottage so that we wouldn't have to bring so much stuff the next time we came.  We went to McDonald's first, to get some substantial breakfast into us, so there wouldn't be any freak-outs at the store due to low blood sugar ( I've been known to freak out on occasion).  The boys played a bit (this playplace is great as it has stairs for Hunter to climb up) and then we hit costco and loblaws.  Back to the cottage we went, where we all played and relaxed for a few hours before heading back to the Glen.  We had promised Nana we would be back for dinner to celebrate mother's day with her (and papa).

Traffic was brutal on the way home, took us over 3 hours to get to the Glen.  It proved to be worth it though, when we got there, Drew yells out, "Papa fixed the trampoline!!!"  This is the story that my parents have told the boys, that Papa was working very hard to fix the broken trampoline (that was destroyed by the wind).  In reality, they bought them another one, as the previous one was pretty messed up.  While James and Drew were walking out to use the trampoline for the first time, Drew spotted something else, which was in the cover-all.  It's so exciting to play at the Glen!  Nana took Drew on the new toy for ride...his night was made.

I ran out to pick up Swiss Chalet for our mother's day dinner.  We were originally planning on going to a restaurant, but decided against it as it would have been packed and the boys were kind of cranky and restless after being in a car for so long.

We headed home fairly early and all went to sleep fairly easily.  Cottage life is tiring!

Happy mother's day!!