Pieces of Me Monday

Today, you get a 2 for 1: pics that include both Sammy and me (that is my foot and my shin in the background). Because really, she looks exactly like me...except for that fact that I'm 35 years older and overweight.

Gawd, that living room floor is really a mess. I'm going to fire that cleaning woman if she ever has the nerve to show her face around here again LOL.

Huh???

OK, I just looked through Jake's baby book. He was 11 months and 1 day when he crawled for the first time. Sammy will be 11 months tomorrow, giving her 2 days to learn how to crawl!!!!! Although, I realize that once she starts crawling then I have to really be careful and make sure that Jake picks up his Lego, Kylie doesn't leave her precious books laying around, etc...it's just one of those milestones that lets you know that your child is developing properly.

Ack! She is pushing herself backwards, sliding all over the floor right now. I wonder how much longer this will take???

Miquelon Lake

Man, I love this beach. Today was 32C, and although it was deathly hot (blech), the breeze coming off of the lake was soooo nice :D .


My husband the rocker :D .


Scott is the best moat digger...all the kids at the beach knew it :D .




Dirtiest feet *ever* .




First feel of sand. Sammy would pinch a bit of sand then look at her fingers, not sure what to make of it. Then she would find a little rock on the blanket, pick it up and go, "Mmmmmmm...." and try to stuff it in her mouth before I could catch her LOL.


First dip in the lake. Looks like she likes it :D .

Thursday :D

Well, Scott's holidays are slowly coming to a close. We didn't quite do all the things that we wanted to do (World Waterpark is still on the list) but we came pretty close. Kylie complained that our holidays were too scheduled and she was missing her friends, so we spent a couple of days around the house. She has been pretty good at playing with Jacob, either video games or on the trampoline, so he hasn't been too bored. Man, I wish there were some little boys living around here. I know, I've said that far too many times this summer I'm sure.

Today we went to Chuck E. Cheese, our annual summer trip. Holy crap can that place be expensive. We had a couple of coupons, for cheap pizza and 2 for 1 tokens, so that eased the cost a bit. Still...$40 doesn't go very far there. Good thing it's only once a year. But the kids had a blast...my favourite is the sketch booth, for some reason I love getting those pictures of the kids. It just captures that moment in time when Chuck E. Cheese was so enthralling to them. I love having those sketches on my fridge :D .

The community health centre just called to tell me that someone turned in the diaper bag that was stolen out of our van last weekend...it was found in the alley one block over from our house. Whomever turned it in found Sammy's immunization record in the pocket (oops) with the health centre's address on it. They didn't leave their name or phone number so I can't thank them...that's too bad. It was really nice of them to take the bag to the health centre. Although I'm not sure I want the bag back after someone rooted through my baby's possessions :( .

Sammy is napping and when she wakes up, I will take the kids to the library and then I think we will take the van for a bath. It's supposed to get up to 32C today (yuk), but good thing the sun is going down earlier...makes for cooler evenings.

Later, tater.

New concept!!!

Okay, I have an idea. Monday 'round these parts will now be known as:

"PIECES OF ME MONDAY"

...where I will post a picture of a me, albeit one that will never truly give you a good idea of what I look like. Someday, with persistence on your part, you will be able to piece together all of the pictures and when you see me in the mall or whatever you will screech, "Oh my gosh, it's Kylie's Mom!". Of course, a couple of you have already seen me, but I'm fairly sure that it was very forgettable.

So the first installment in Pieces of Me Monday:

This picture is two-fold. First, it lets you know what my fingers and forehead look like. Then it points out the huge purse that I now carry...complete with a spare diaper, cheerios, wipes, re-usable shopping bag, wallet, etc. I didn't want to carry a diaper bag, so this does the job. My purse used to be fun and sassy...now it's dull and matronly. I think I'm going to draw some skulls and crossbones on it with a silver Sharpie.

Some pics.

Mini-golf at Whitemud Amusement Centre. It was really fun, although there were a lot of people there. I golfed the first nine holes with the big kids while Scott looked after Sammy and then we traded for the last nine holes.


Getting ready to go-kart. Kylie was having no part of it, so we sat out and watched while Scott and Jake went for a ride.


Library Lips. Kylie got to pick a noisy prize at Stop 7 for the library game (after you read every night for a week, you move your game piece on a giant game board at the library). You're supposed to read for 15 minutes per day, but Kylie hasn't taken her nose out of her book for 3 days. She got 5 books in one anime series and has been reading non-stop since Tuesday.

We've been swimming lots this week: O'Leary, Millwoods and ACT Pools. O'Leary is my favourite, lots of toys and fun for big kids and little ones. Millwoods is dirty and the kiddie pool is too small and not near enough toys to go around. I don't know how anyone keeps track of their little kids in that retarded wave pool...I was really disappointed. Especially because we drove all the way across town to go there.

Today is Sunday, and it's my MIL's birthday. I have to go get her a gift (because Scott knew about it all year and FORGOT until today LOL) and then Sammy and I will go walk the mall, I think. Scott has taken Jake to play tennis, and Kylie has gone with my mom to the Heritage Days Festival. I remember being dragged there as a kid...I hated it. Too many people, lineups for food and drink way too long, super boring...but Kylie enjoys it so she will keep my mom company today.

Have a good day, everyone :D .

Sunday.

Well, I just went to the van to take Kylie and my mom to the Burns lot where they will catch the shuttle to Heritage Days...and I realized that my van had been broken into overnight :( . But the jokes on them...I don't own anything of value so they didn't get anything good. Still, there was a back-up diaper bag hidden under the baby seat with a few diapers and a sleeper in it, they got that :( . And I realized that all 3 kids immunization records were in there. And they got my Superstore loonie from the ashtray }:( . Big dummies...like Jake would say. We've been having trouble with the electronic locks lately, every time it rains they short out and then they lock and unlock over and over again. So we never actually know when the stupid doors are locked.

Now Jake is scared to go in the basement because he's scared of the bad men (probably crack heads). A new hurdle for us to overcome.

I am trying to focus on all the things that I have and how lucky I was that these losers didn't try to steal my van or vandalize it in any way. Of course we have every insurance known to man, but we all know that I wouldn't get what the van was worth if something happened.

Still sucks.