ACK!!! december? where did the time go?

Well it's December now, I'm about 11 days from crazy morning and ACK!!! I'm not ready. Nothing else is going on. I did have a b-day in November and I'd post a picture of the cake buttttttttttttttttt it has my name on it. Soooooooo there went that idea.

october, I know I'm behind, and so is my behind

hi to anyone out there in Cyberland that is reading. I had to say that cause I feel like a dork writing to myself. LOL.
October, time for ghosts and goblins and Birthdays! mralmsot5 will be mr5 by the end of the month so the prep is on for a Birthday party. I only do every other year because it gets crazy trying to fit everyone in and pay for it too! We are going with a Halloween theme this year, it's his first Halloween Themed party, it should be fun, he's into it now and not overly scared of halloween like he's been before.
School for Mr5 (I can't hold on to that almost anymroe can I? this clsoe to the 5)
is going soooooooo much better than it did the first of September. He was all about the testing the teacher. Does she really mean what she's saying? surely she must be talking to other kids, I'm special right? mom says I'm special so I must not have to listen like the rest? so on to the sticker chart mr! and he's on his 2nd week of 7/7 stickers, the agreement was 4/5 schoolday stickers = time with daddy and the playstation, he's really getting good at the Sponge bob game, and he's a happy dude, the teacher seems happy and when the teacher is happy we are all happy!
Mr7 is well 7! he's learning about personal space, he's a hugger and a cuddler and other 7 and 8yrolds don't want to be cuddled and hugged by their friends so that's an adjustment,
Mrbabe! well I've held off for almost 20months but it's time to trim off the mullet, I love long hair on my little guys but I must cave, he's starting to look like a girl!!! and I have 3 boys not 3 girls. WAHHH!!! I want my baby back!!!! Where did the time go? I can't believe this huge count off to 2 is on, February seems far away but when you count it down it's but 19-20wkw away and that just reminds me how short pregnancy is, for him half a pregnancy away and he'll be 2! right now he's stacking my livingroom coasters and dancing to Gover.
MEEEEEEEE well now here's the kicker, it's been a year and I'm still at the same weight! yep I'm working out but not consistantly and that bothers me, bcause when I go on a straight stretch I rock, I feel better, I look better and I feel like more than just a mom locked in a cage of a house. I feel less depressed, and trapped when i'm out and moving, I must saying not being 80lbs over weight is great, but still being about 30lbs over weight is still a strain on my body. I need to be healthy, I have a hernia that was repaired a eyar ago and it's out again, I have 3 boys that don't stop! and I really really don't want them to stop. I need to get things moving and grooving. Lastnight I did 45minutes on my stationary bike but I also had 6points (yeah I'm there!) of halloween colored smarties that we bought for the birthday cake, and treat bags for Saturday's party. I need to get to Saturday, right now the candy is all in the crock pot! it looks funy all that black and orage candy in bags but ugh I need it to stay there. Someone put a mousetrap in my crockpot? and why is it I can practice control over what my kids eat but not me? oh well just questions in my head that keep going on. :)
OHHH in other news, I'm using Linux now, so email addresses are flakey, they don't auto spell themselves, I miss that, I'm getting old my memory can't handle that... yeah b-day for me coming too... maybe someone will have me a party?
OK signing off must make the baby look like a boy, see I keep saying baby... toddler seems way too old?(as he talks and walks and has major conversations with me and the cat while the older boys are at school)

Another Thursday 13...

Today again it's things I need to do...
1. write in my blog, I know you're all waiting for me to say "something" :P
2. get sheets on mr7's bed washed,
3. get bedroom carpet, only room with carpet that hasn't been removed or replaced, vacuumed, dh is not having good nights sleep. kitty is invading with her hair and dander deposits...oops
4. Find a job... yeah well... ahhhhhh hard to do that sitting home with a 18month old...
5. Find rules for making resume that shows a 8yr hole of no work, and some other "information"
6. make supper,
7. clean oven this is a work in progress, got it soaking now in baking soda spray...
8. move laundry here there and everywhere...
9. bake again, seems when you make 12 of something everyone in this house want 5 of them... hmm.mmm well not me I've only had 1 of each.. mom is last again
10. wait for mralmost 5 to get home form school and see how his day went. FABULOUS!!! got 2 stickers because he didn't hurt anyone, listened to the teacher anddddddddddd made a friend. (psssssssssstttttt it's a girl... ohboy...)
11. rotate out some of the tiny baby toys that are not being played with and really are too young and get ready yard sale in 2wks...
12. sign kids up for bowling on Saturay mornings, I take it I'll be taking them to bowling while dh stays and sells sells sells? or maybe the other way would work then he'd have 2 kids and I'd have 1 who may just nap while I sell sell sell, BUY NOW, PAY LOTS :)
13. sell crap for school sales thingy, ick!

My version of Thursday 13

Thirteen things I will try to accomplish today, or before next thursday (OK that's call procrastinating excuse #1)
1. dishes, OK so far so good, even if I'm out of dishwasher detergent tabbies, 3 found...
2. empty dryer, fill washer, done
3. feed kids bfest, done... 5 eggs gone!
4. go buy more milk and eggs and bread, got to have the staples,
5. put baby for nap... ok good. we're really on a roll.
6. fix Out LOOK on computer not life.. that wont change much
7. practice dailing hubbie number at work, yeah that will have his boss calling me a few names.. better wait on that one until after hours and fill up his voice mail with love messages?
8. play with kids, LOVE THAT ONE! and we can get excerise too,
9. exerise
10. put names on new school supplies nad jackets and extra close for mr almost 5 going to school Tuesdy for the first time!! ACK!
11. write in baby journals, updates on dr stats,
12. feed kids lunch (yeah that's a bit behind today we're waiting on the napper waking
13. make hamburgers for the BBQ for supper, meats out defrosting must go line up ingrediets, and the buns are defrosting too. no not my buns the hamburgerbuns... msut go find BBQ sauce in the dreaded bottle

August, it's almost over

So I finally got my butt ingear here and decided it's time to update! lots of update. We had a busy July and now august is totally in full swing and every weekend is taken up with something. We went "camping" (I use the word losely since it was a cottage, with a stove, and fridge and BBQ and beds, tables, bathtubs and showers, and even a TV with VCR. So the word Camping is a very lose discription. My family is 19 people now on my side, all 19 of us went camping, The place we went to was perfect. The weather was good because itw asn't ovely hot or cold at any point that weekend. The beach was 1mile away, great for walking ot driving to and the kids had a great time. The pool was perfect if you didn't want to deal with salt and sand and my kids were pleased as punch. There ws freedom for them as my dh said they can only go 1mile this way and 2miles that way, so although we did keep a close eye they didn't have to be under our thumbs.
Each family of my mom and dad's 5 kids had a cabin of their own. my boys got a a pull out couch each and my little toddler had his playpen. He slept really well for a little boy out of his normal routine, almsot better than home.
This weekend it's "company BBQ" for my dh's company and we all went, I ended up taking 2 of the boys home with me after I developed a headache and upset stomach but it was still a good 2hours before I left and Dh came home with AJ all happy and excited about his time with daddy, while MJ napped for 2hours, and so did I and TJ got to relax his upset belly. For some reason my boys and apple juice do not mix. They eat applesauce, apple pie, and apples but the juice has them "running" to the bathroom. I felt bad that TJ missed the rest of the BBQ but next time he'll know to ask "is this apple juice, or does this have Apple juice in it?" when he takes something to drink. learning experience!
Now if they could just learn to cooperate with each other a little bit more. I know they are brothers and it's ingrained in them as "boys" but what happened to my sweet cuddly boys? Now it's computer games to argue over turns, legos to turn into guns, turning stuffed animals into "targets", and talking of blowing up whatever is close. they were on the sofa this week and I hear "Get off the sofa it's going to BLOW" and the scramble of little boy feet running to the other side of the room. I guess the navy might want them? between the water and the guns?
August is also the month of "getting ready for school" so there is that balance i'm trying to work on to keep the boys happy that it's summer and Happy that they will be going to school this year. I'll have 2/3 in school I'm still in mental age shock over that one. Where did my babies go? why is it I'm planning a day of shoe shopping for 2 boys for indoor and outdoor sneakers, and winter boots, and notebooks and papers and boxes of kleenex for the noses, where did I get 2 school kids? I've only so far managed to pick up 16/24 duotangs, I'm still trying to figure out why a 7yrold needs 20duotangs? seems excessive? I will keep them home and send maybe 8 since I really don't think any 7yrold will use 20 duotangs in 1 year.
So August will be the balancing month, trying to stretch those school free days of summer and trying to propell them into growing up and enjoying the age they are. I think I'll enjoy the fall with 1 little boy for 5hours a day but I know I'll miss 3 boys home competing for tv time, videogame time and sofa space before "it's going to BLOW abandon sofa!!!" :)

July

Not much to post this month, just out and about and trying to keep my boys on the go go go. The more they go the less they find to "discuss with loud voices" between each other. I'm sure I'll have more to write later in the month but right now nothing is at the front of my mind. TJ turned 7 this month, I'm amazed how fast the last 7yrs have whizzed by.

A few questions in my head

How normal am I?

When do you all do your supper dishes? with or without the dishwasher.
I remember growing up my mom did them EVERY day right after supper, or rather she got me to do them every night after supper so now that I'm the kitchen manager of this hear establishment, I have no desire to do dishes and I hope I can remember not to force my boys to do dishes they really really really dont' want to do every single solitary night of the week, including their little Brother's scheduled nights.

When do you do laundry? is it a everyday thing?
I'm starting to get to an everyday point because 4boys, I mean males make a lot of dirty clothes.

When do you clean the toilet?
this is another one of those too many males in the house thing, they totally trash the bathroom! I'm really really really getting tired of being the only person in this house that can use a toilet brush, I mean really you don't have to "touch" anything like when I was growing up and there was no toilet brush in the bathroom! I totally remember there being hands and cloth diaper involved. ick!

OK next and finally "am I normal" question, Dusting? do you do it, or wait until the dust bunnies come to find you? (I'm just saying...)

Now June don't "ju Ly" (ju lie) HA! just laugh

So it's June but let's not go and get all excited and rush on into July yet, I'm going to try very hard to keep the month moving at a slow and gradual pace, but not too slow in the excerise department. My Ass is leaving it's going, I can feel less of it, I can still see if but for the month of May my loss totalled 3lbs. I see it in my face so I'm hoping next week will show 2 more lbs lost for ever, and so on. I hope my ass listens. Dh bought me 4 bikes! yeah I know, cna you tell he's motivated? actually I asked for a bike but he went to an Auction and well he's a bit of a "compulsive shopper" so he got 4 bikes for an average of 12.50 each and took them home to fix them up. GREAT! I said, I picked out the 1 I wanted for me, and he scrumbed and oiled and put on new brakes and a new seat and I've been disappearing a few nights a week for a ride. It feels good it brings back the freedom I felt when I was a kid and you got on your bike and you just took off, the wind in your hair and off you went. Of course the wind in your hair part is also the reward for plugging away to get to the top of the hills! OHHHHHHH Those hills look high when your at the bottom.
The following saturday dh was out 'compulsiving yard sailing" with 3.00 to his pocket and picked me up a excerise bike, soooooooooo for the no wind in you hair nights when it's raining or whatever I have no excuses. So now my activity options are bike, walk, DDR and excerise bike oh and that clothes rack over there, the Stepper! the Stepper was my baby when I lost 80lbs the last time, but it isn't holding my interst thsi time arround.
OK on to more news. AJ is going to take over the world. He's been up to a "Few things" with eletricity and water experiments. He did not eletrocute himself but the thoughts in my head of what he could have done are heavy on my mind today.
TJ is down to the last week of homework, YAY!! I'll be on homework vacation soon, YAY! ME, I mean TJ!
MJ is being 1, walking and talking and putting on his hat and heading for the door saying "bye", that makes me nervous so we're back to using the chain locks on the doors to keep adventurous little people in the house. Being a Parent lately is getting scarier by the day.
I'm hoping I will be writing more this month we'll see how that goes...

May Days and winnings...

Yes I'm still alive and I'm busting my ass, so it will disappear, I've been excerising again, I've been working out 5/6 days so far this week today is day 6, and it's early, if the rain holds off and the bugs think it's too cold I'm set! I shall now pray for the death of all Bugs! blackfly season has arrive. I'm sure after the rain today, Mosquito hunting season will be next. Yes it will happen and I will not be happy, they will hunt us humans down. West Nile Anyone? I wonder how those numbers are this year? I've been told that the mosquito is the Provincial Bird here, I would believe it and I'm sure it doesn't help that we are in an area surrounded by mini brooks and streams. Mating season for the mosquito?
Yard work is getting done though, we have our gopher condo filled in, that guy must have been there a while it's really really sunk down it took 2 yards of soil to fill it in. BTW if anyone is curious yes your husband can use your grand Caravan as a pick up truck but remind him that it's his job to lay the tarp and to shopvac the excess dirt out of your tracks for the seats he took out. He can even manage it with a 6yrold in a carseat in one of the seats still in there. It was 4 trips ot the nursery and 70.00 for dirt (that still freaks me out, paying for dirt...) and 0 for my work out to get it out of the truck, well I helped him. I was just glad I didnt' have to load the van. The soil now has seed down but I've not see any mini lawn shooting up yet, ti's been down about 8days now?
Let's see what else happend this past "month" (I know I'm bad updating you all, or anyone that is actually reading this...) I won a set of Candle holders a set of 3,from foodmomiac/danielle after this post http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/4774388 they are nice and heavy, and will definitely help in my efforts to keep the table cloth on the table now that mrbabe is walking all over the house. He's about everywhere, but his prized goal is his big brother's rooms, that's where they keep all the cool toys, you know mini legos and cars with tiny parts, and batteries.
oh and note to anyone out there with a child that likes to eat whatever you give him/her to play with. You know that company that makes the non-toxic washable markers with the felt tips? well the tips can come out if you pull them hard enough iwth your brandnew teeth and if your a real budding artist they will come out the "other end" when your ready to decorate your diaper.
In Felt Tip... Out poo streaked with felt tip, tourquious looks the same on lips as it does in the diaper. Great staying power for that company!
OK I'm off I've babbled enough if anyone is actually reading this!!

Oh look at that...

I see in the "discription" I had 30lbs left to lose post baby, and ohhhhhh look at my ass, there they are still there. I guess if I put the effort into it it would work a hell of a lot better than now. The Easter Bunny is to blame, yes he bought too much chocolate for 3 boys and well you know where the extra goes, off to work with the bunny and a few forgotten eggs here or there wont hurt, I've not lost a lbs since I started here so might as well just keep the lbs on. NO I WILL NOT do that! it's Very windy today so my plan of plopping 60lbs of kids into a double jogger is sidetracked for the moment but I WILL do something today, and no climbing the stairs with loads of laundry doesn't count, must DO MORE! maybe I can steal Dh's bike? he's not using it... (growl).
I have a meeting tongiht for AJ starting school in September! I'm not ready but this time I'm goign to the meetings instead of chickening out and sending dh to be the "strong one" while I stay home in my denial of "noooooooo my kids aren't getting older, nooooooooo not happening" (fingers in ears) September 2/3 boys in school now that kind of sounds like a dream some days. The dream where you bop all over town and get an amazing amount of stuff accomplished because you've only got 1 child to babble to in the grocerycart or carseat or even in the hairdressing chair. I can do it, I did it in Feb when dh was in the hospital I bopped all over town I can do it again, all by myself! yep did it will do it again, not sit in my rut. What do yo mean I'm sittingin a chair now on this computer, nooooooo you don't "see" that your dreaming it's a big dream... ah of only somedays were dreams, ohhhhhh if this is a dream can we add in the massage guy (AJ just came bouncing out of his bed room wearing TJ"S new Easter clothes..POP there went the dream)
OK back to the dream, I seeeeeeeeeee I seeeeee ohhhhhhhhh a drink, yes and it has a mini mini mini umbrella, I see sand that doesn't end up going down the drain of my tub into the septic, I seeeeeee fruit dishes that I don't have to cut myself, I seeeeee a salad bar that serves itself, I seeeeeeeee ohhhhhhhh look water and ohhhhhhhhhhh I think I see a wave... Oh it's just AJ coming back out in his swim shorts he got from the easter bunny. I thinik I have to work on my dreams. oh well maybe in September less interuptions... oh wait in September I'll have nap time for 1 boy, and 2 boys in school NOW that's a dream excerise time!!!!!!!!
POP! I hear water running and I dont' see 1 boy...

HAPPY EASTER WEEK or...

count down to chocolate, which ever suits your fancy. We're heading out to The "Island" for the weekend. Hope to see some of you there. I manged to do some of the mad dash myself today, took AJ and MJ out for hair cuts. WAHHHH hair cut for MJ it was only his bangs but wahhhhhh it makes me sad, I kept the rest the same because he still looks baby that way. I need to keep BABY!!! must get TJS hair done next.

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Marching out of the month

Wow, March has wizzed by? and it's spring!!! last week I took a picture of the green I could find in my yard, yep green in March! Apparently my neighbours are not as surprised, the last place I lived in Canada before leaving and coming back was Ottawa, known to be one of the Coldest Capital cities in the world , and there I cna remember chopping ice out of my drive way in an effort to speed up spring, and throwing the chunks out in the sun! But that was like 8-9yrs go, so maybe with age? the weather is changing too?
Age. hehehe, on the road to mid 30's and i'm talking age, and when did that happen? I've never really felt 30 or above, for some reason in my head I still feel 19, but when I see my life, 3 kids under 7, and on our 3rd house the minivans, it hits that i'm not 19 anymore. I guess if I had started earlier it could be slightly possble? or not?
Today I'm hoping to make pizza for supper, BBQ chicken pizza, and yes I will use a BOTTLE of BBQ sauce cause seriously I'm old and making sauce myself isn't on my "to do list" , make my own breastmilk? yep easy but making my own BBQ sauce, nope too lazy.
The boys are still intransed in the baby's birthday toy, I thought that would wear off by now but nope they're talking "stinky delivery" when the balls roll down the dinosaurs tail. As for the monkey that we bought for MJ, he's scared of it! I think it's a combination of the velcro noise from the hands that stick together or the fact that it's face is the same size as MJs and the monkey cannnnn wrap it's arms around his neck. I'm guessing it's scary to have this animal face "in your face?"
The voice is back I've back to talking since about 2days after not being able to sing Happy Birthday, I kept my mouth shut and I finally limited the talking here, soooo it's quieter the boys are quieter too, so I guess there was a plus of the mom having no voice for 34days? maybe?
well I guess i've rambled enough today, on with the SUN!!! 16C right now and that means 61F and shorts, in March but when it comes to 16C in September it means duvet on the bed, funny how that works.... OK sun here we come

The Birthday Cake Finally, my MIA voice and 15C in March!

Due to circumstances beyond my control, we waited 2wks to have MJ's birthday party. I started baking the cake yesterday morning and it was ready for lunch but we went out driving and came home and had it for supper. MJ is now 1yr and 2wks old so he totally looks 1 now. While we were out driving we picked up MJ's birthday gift, it's a Fisher Price dinosaur thing that uses the Rollem's the ball like peekabloks,it was a hit, TJ and AJ couldn't be removed from it's entertaining "pull" (eye roll). It amazes me that a 6.5yr old would be interested in a toy rated for 6m+. I'm guessing it's the "newness" factor more than the toy itself?
So on went the day, a nice Sunday drive, a trip to the BulkBarn to pick up the candy that would finish off the cake, I used licorice for the eyes and a different Licorice for the mouth, and Miffy was the cake of choice. MJ loves to dance when Miffy comes on TV, he has no interest in the show only the song for the start and end of the program, but hey it's something for a mom to say "OK this will be a birthday cake idea!"
I'm sure there are others out there that can do a better job on evening out icing but I'm still learning that technique. Actually TJ said he didn't want the icing, so I scraped his off before I put piece in his lunch today with his leftovers from supper. That made lunch making super easy today.

As for the voice, well that's still MIA ,today is 30days since I last heard my own voice, but it's getting better. I can't "eeee, eee, eee" like a Monkey or "aahahahaha" for "no don't touch that" but soon if I keep my mouth shut it will come back. Yes you heard it from me myself and I, I talk too much.
OK I'm off to enjoy the day. OH must also mention it was 15C yesterday! Yes it was the 12th of March, and my rink is a swamp and I can almost see small "GREEN" blades of grass popping up over the Very well watered lawn. "DH" is getting a bit nervous that his lawnmower isn't completely back in one piece and ready for a full season of lawnmowing fun after I pointed out the little green bits but a 15C day is a good day to get the finishing touches on that job!

alone but different

The feeling of being alone in your own home with your dh down the hall asleep is such a different feeling from having your dh 15minutes down the road at the hospital for a week and thinking that his heart isn't working. We had a totally weird scare this past week, dh drove himself to the hospital last Friday morning with "chestpain". I hate that symptom and it's so scary when the ER tells your dh that he wont be going home until 6pm, then you get a call from dh who says he'll be there all weekend, then you do get him home on Sunday and he's so dizzy he can't stand up and you have to drive him back from his "day pass" to stay at the hospital until Wednesday. Everyday comes and goes with no sign of a specialist and it's Thursday 4pm before you can get your dh home. I'm just so happy that he's home.
I'm not a very "go go go" kind of person, since I've had MJ i've settled into a trend of letting dh do all and almsot everything, taking TJ to school, dealing with the School, getting the groceries, paying all the bills, putting AJ to bed, and TJ and I've been left with MJ, so I've gotten myself into a rut. This past week, I demolished the Rutt. I drove myself to the hospital, used the parking ticket machine, paid for the parking, gotten babysitters for the boys while I went to visit dh, drove TJ to school with MJ And AJ with me and by Thursday we shaved 5minutes off our personal best from Monday morning. Wednesday we all slept in, thinking that dh was coming home and because TJ had a 1/2 day it wasn't a big deal. Thursday I even handled an emergency pick up of TJ after he tossed his cookies at school, ICK! I then took all 3 kids with me to pick up dh at the hospital, puke bucket and all. I guess this is just a normal day for most mom's but for me it felt like I had branched out of my rut.

the rink/flooded frozen lawn

I went in and did some editing today, I had deleted some pics from this post when I was using Photobucket, forgot I used them here. oops! I went in today April4, 2009 and tried to make it look right. :)



the most middle at the bottom of the patio steps, I tried to make an ice path off to the right part but silly mild winter isn't cooperating, I'm going to get 3 days of +C temps so either that will melt out the bumps or evaporate my ice, maybe if I water it over night it will refreeze? I'll just experiment this is my first year trying this.


The smoothest end to the right of the patio

the middle and off to the left, a bit grassy
<----- this is where I was skating lastnight from that line (where the wood used to be when we had sides pre-january crazy melt season)

and this was last nights blah blah
Last night my rink was more frozen so at 821pm all boys in bed, and dh lazying arround, I took off for the ice. I was only out there for 15minutes, my socks weren't in my skates right so my feet hurt, but I was alone to think and just skate. I could hear the sound of my blades on the ice and it's just a great feeling, I'm getting more stablized out there, I've been out 5 times in the last 2wks, but being out there alone with your thoughts, the sounds of the scraping ice and the trees in the wind, it's these days I really really enjoy living "out in the woods". I'm not that far from town and my neighbours are a 2minute walk from door to door if that but it feels quieter, homier and safer than all the other homes we've owned.

February, and snow finally we have snow

Most of our winter has been small snows and easy melts, so our attempt at a rink this year was not going well until last week, we were about to give up when I noticed that the water that was susposed to have frozen on the tarp was to the side and it was getting thick, cue the skates! I've been skating in my backyard for hte last week. The end of last week I moved off the tarp and lookie lookie under the tarp ICE! well, more for skating nooooooooo just bumps lots and lots of icy bumps so my new plan is evening it out, and 430 yesterday the snow came but it wasn't he snow I was expecting, it was light and fluffy so easy to shovel. I shoved for 1hour this morning and got it cleared. I'll see how my backyard olympic skating competition goes tonight when I flood it all again, hopefully the snow banks might keep so of the water on the ice until it freezes again. YAY!! real winter is here, and I for the first February in my life I'm not bummed about it still being winter? odd? maybe?

donuts

I'm craving a donut.... maybe if I just write it out the craving will go away?

Happy New Year, Happy January and Happy Mommy

Happy New Year, Yep only what? 10days in and I'm finally getting to the posting of the new year? Totally skipped out on the Christmas. Christmas was fantastic, the boys were extremely happy about the fight Santa must have had in our front room which resulted in his losing I'm sure his whole sack of toys all neatly piled under our tree with all kinds of pretty wrappers. The pretty and the neat were soon disasterized with many many many small and tiny pieces of everything form paper, ribbonbows, legos, hotwheels and puzzle pieces. MJ was SOOOOOO EXCITED and I was so excited to have an older Baby's First Christmas because he totally understood unwrapping after watching the 2 older boys. He crawled himself right over and started ripping paper off everything he could find, even the things that were already unwrapped. Gift boxes yummy!
AJ was very happy with his "haul" so much for those 3 gifts, the inlaws of course seem to think they are Santa? I was sure they had their chance 20yrs ago? Didn't they get the memo? NOOOOOOOOO they decided each child needed about 3-4 gifts? TJ was also pleased as punch, the look on his face when he saw a snowboard! and then monsterly huge monstertrucks for in the house! he took lastyears trucks outside and I told him he couldn't use them in the house after they had been out offroading in my gardens, their sandbox and he many puddles that seem to attack every male creature in this house. So Santa brought new ones for the basement carpet. You all must remember the july1st? Oh BTW Santa was one smart cookie! he left thsi 31 in 1 game thing you plug in the TV, I can actually get supper started without interruption. I take it out presupper and put it away while we eat, Mj wants to try it now, AJ of course wants to let him! (oops it's out early today cause I'm trying to get my house ready for guests on the weekend) I can't be a perfect mom everyday!
Soooooooooo now that December is covered, on to January and 2006! and Down with my weight, yeah I found some cookies Santa forgot to eat and well they found my waist line too! oh the horror, but again Santa was a smart cookies (it must be the eating of the cookies that makes him so smart?) he Brought mommy a Dance Dance Revolution game and I'm learing but slowly, I'm not very good with beat and tempo and fast moves or even jumping! but I'm working it and it's working me! it even keeps a tally of the workouts I've done for, and counts of the calories, records this based on my weight and my steps. It's exercise without even trying! I'm just Dancing. :) TJ is happily back in school so that makes me happy too, yesterday I took AJ sliding with our baby monitor strapped to my waist! It was a blast, and we swept off our ice rink that is in negotiations with the weather in the back yard. The Sun and theheat are to arrive on Saturday and Sunday, so we'll see how that goes +6C isn't good for ice?
I guess that's all the news for 2006 so far, house work, exerise, carting kids here and there, and home work, yep sounds like 2006 is in full swing!