Weekend Update

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This weekend gave us a little bit of a preview of the fall weather that’s rapidly coming our way!

Friday
Kyle went hunting in the morning but the girls and I didn’t get up to much. Norah worked hard on rolling over and eventually succeeded! My mom came and picked Isla up in the afternoon and had her over for a sleepover, so Kyle and I decided to go out for dinner (and Norah, of course). We tried a new restaurant and while the food was good, the service was subpar. Luckily, Norah slept almost the entire time and didn’t fuss, so we were able to somewhat enjoy our time! After that we came home and watched an episode of Longmire on Netflix before heading to bed.

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Trying to roll means wiggling her way sideways!

Saturday
Norah woke up just after 7 after sleeping through the night. While that doesn’t happen every night I’m glad she did since her sister wasn’t home! Kyle and I lazed around most of the morning and then decided to head to the mall to do a little Christmas shopping. (Awful, I know, but he has his grandma’s name for our Christmas draw and she leaves mid-October to snowbird, so we have to buy gifts early!) We came home in time for the Blue Jays game and my mom brought Isla home around 3. Kyle cooked a yummy roast for dinner and we all tried to go to bed early. (Isla and Norah did, Kyle and I failed, as per usual.)

Sunday
Norah was up around 6:40 and Isla was awake about 30 minutes later. Kyle was heading out for breakfast with his uncle but he managed to make me coffee, get Isla her breakfast, put the dishes away, and bring up the clean laundry before he left. (Best Husband Award, right there!) Norah managed to fall back to sleep for another hour and a half after she nursed, so I managed to eat breakfast, drink my coffee and shower before she woke up. Sunday is our grocery shopping day, so I got Norah dressed and we headed out to the store! After that we watched the Blue Jays play and headed outside to play for a bit before heading to Kyle’s mom’s for a visit. The rest of the day was pretty standard – dinner, bath time for the girls, and quality TV watching after they went to bed! Weekends be cray-zay here, yo ;)

How was your weekend?

What I’m Reading: The Rosie Effect

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From Goodreads.com:
Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back. If you were swept away by Graeme Simsion’s international smash hit The Rosie Project, you will love The Rosie Effect.

The Wife Project is complete, and Don and Rosie are happily married and living in New York. But they’re about to face a new challenge.

Rosie is pregnant.

Don sets about learning the protocols of becoming a father, but his unusual research style gets him into trouble with the law. Fortunately his best friend Gene is on hand to offer advice: he’s left Claudia and moved in with Don and Rosie.

As Don tries to schedule time for pregnancy research, getting Gene and Claudia back together, servicing the industrial refrigeration unit that occupies half his apartment, helping Dave the Baseball Fan save his business and staying on the right side of Lydia the social worker, he almost misses the biggest problem of all: he might lose Rosie when she needs him most.

Get ready to fall in love all over again.

My review:
I finally decided to download The Rosie Effect last week after much deliberation. It’s been over a year since I read the first story of Don and Rosie in The Rosie Project (link to my review here), and I once found myself cheering for Don. There’s something strangely loveable about him and I couldn’t help but want him to “win.”

The actions of some of the characters in this book were rather irritating, however. Rosie, who should know how Don’s brain is programmed to work, should have done more to keep him in the pregnancy loop. Granted, she was busy with everything going on in her own life, but knowing that you have to give Don specific instructions if you need him to complete a task, I feel she was too quick to judge Don for his emotional detachment. And unless I missed something – why did Rosie not discuss having a baby before, *ahem*, pulling the goalie and getting pregnant?

I’m thankful for Don’s team of friends for supporting him while he tries to figure out how to be a father and how to save his marriage. The story could have done without George though; I felt he didn’t particularly add anything to the storyline that was essential to Don’s development. The only thing he seemed to teach Don was to maybe not tell your kids to go ahead and try drugs. (Parent of the Year, right there.)

Despite my slight irritations, I still really enjoyed the second instalment of Don & Rosie’s journey, and I’m going to give it 4 stars out of 5. I dare you to read it without picturing Sheldon Cooper as Don.

Currently

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Reading // The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion. I’m about half-way through and I’m enjoying it quite a bit!

Watching // Summer TV series that are winding up, including So You Think You Can Dance (I love all the finalists and can’t pick a pony!), Masterchef (Go Derrick!), and a whole bunch of The Incredible Dr. Pol, which Isla and I have recently discovered. I thought she’d be squeamish, but she now asks to watch Dr. Pol and understands that animals get sick just like humans.

Listening to // “Hooked on a Feeling.” Actually, it’s just kind of stuck in my head because of a baseball commercial, and it really just reminds me of the Dancing Baby:

Anyone remember when that first went viral?? Oh, how far we’ve come …

Loving // Watching Norah grow! Even though I’ve “done it all” with Isla already, it’s still amazing to see Norah go through life’s little milestones.

Just a little "Then & Now" shot!

Just a little “Then & Now” shot!

Thinking // About how on earth I’m going to get started on my Couch to 5K training. Unless I wake up at 4 in the morning or start at 10 p.m., it’s going to be tough to find the time to do it. I used to go for walks all the time when Isla was small enough to sit in the stroller, but now that she’s bigger and Norah is here, it’s tough to escape the house. I’ll figure it out, I’m sure, but the motivation certainly isn’t there.

Needing // Clothes. As materialistic as it may sound, my wardrobe (I feel) is seriously lacking. Some retail therapy is definitely in the near future!

Anticipating // Isla’s entry into the next level of dance class next weekend. The classes are an hour long and she’s been begging to go back to class for about a month now!

Looking forward to // More amazing fall weather. I’m loving that I can wear jeans, flip flops and short-sleeved shirts. Some of the trees in my neighbourhood are already having their leaves change colours. I’m fairly certain fall is my favourite season!

(Fun fall fact: I absolutely do not like pumpkin spice lattes but I love pumpkin pie with ALL THE WHIPPED CREAM.)

What’s your favourite season?
And for those who have kids and run – How do you find time?