POM Monday

This is fun: go to Face Your Manga and do up a picture of yourself.

So here I am!



And here's Scott:



By the way, I found the manga maker at www.sarcasticmom.com , one of my favourite blogs lately.

Pics.

Only a couple of weeks until Auntie Sheri's famous Pirate Party! Can't wait!




Well, instead of a pink Sharpie, we found a purple Bic permanent marker at Gramma's...way more vivid colour, as you can see. Holy smokes, that's some purple hair. It washes out after a couple of shampoos. Oh, we went to get Kylie's hair fixed today and the stylist was so nice about it. It was just one of those Supercuts places...Kylie's hair looks so much better today. I'm really happy with it and so is she.






We found this really cool 3D puzzle at Dollarama, of all places. Jake had so much fun putting it together today, and then playing with it. So many little airplanes, and they all come off for play :D . We have to go back and get more, it was a lot of fun.

What we're listening to (or what we're watching, I suppose)

Haven't done this in a while...YouTube is wonky, a lot of stuff got pulled so we're spending more time at myspace videos. But here goes...


My favourite lately, Hold Me In Your Arms by the Trews. Now really, who uses a cowbell???

Metro Station
Sorry, I couldn't embed this one. Shake It by Metro Station is Kylie's favourite right now. I'd like to sit all of these boys down and comb their hair.


Jake's favourite, Holiday by Green Day.


And Sammy Sunshine's favourite, Big Comfy Couch. We watch it most nights with her...she waves at Molly and giggles, it's so much fun LOL.

Busy week!

Whew...I can't believe August is half over already. Unreal.

Jake has been at daycamps all of this week through his after-school program and he's having a blast. They have gone swimming, made ice cream and cookies at the John Walter Museum, played at different parks and today they discussed bike and skateboard safety. He gets to play with so many kids during the day and is super, super happy :D .

Kylie and I have been doing a few things together, like shopping mostly LOL, a few crafts, and she has been spending a lot of time with her friends. Yesterday we went to get her a haircut, where she chose a chin-length bob. I asked the stylist to layer the ends a bit so it wasn't so blunt, but Kylie flat-out refused!!! What do I know, right? Well, I should have put my foot down...now everyone is asking her if *I* cut her hair, it looks so awful. Today she is swimming with her BFF, but tomorrow we're going to get that mess fixed. Kylie wants pink streaks for school, so I'm going to look through my junk baskets for the pink Sharpie. Good thing that girl has blonde hair, streaking is easy and cheap :D .

Sammy has learned a new skill: how to shush people LOL. She lays her itty bitty index finger alongside of her nose (instead of over her mouth) and goes "kisssshhh" instead of "ssshhh" LOL. It's really funny. Sometimes her finger actually ends up in her nose while she's shushing me.

It was freakin' hot this week, the hottest it has ever been. Well, it felt like it anyway. Monday was like 35.7C or something...crazy hot. Unreal hot. We stayed inside all day long, except for when we had to go pick up Jake from his daycamp. Thank God for air conditioning. Now tomorrow is supposed to be something like 14C, and I heard that some areas of the province are at risk of frost already??? How can that be???

I'm going to make soup tomorrow if it kills me. Chicken broth I can do, but I'm talking ham and bean soup. With dry beans. Those buggers better cook tomorrow, I'm telling you. My mom has a pressure cooker, her dry beans are cooked in 20 minutes. With my luck, I could cook them for days and they would still be as hard as rocks. My mom and I went shopping today, and she showed me what bones to buy for soup. I hope this works...usually about this time of year, I go to Superstore and buy 4 flats of soup to last throughout the fall and winter. I don't want to buy prepared soups this year if I can avoid it.

Today is my sister's 49th birthday! Happy Birthday Sylvia!

Well, that's all for me. Scott is working late tonight so it is just me and the kids for supper. I think I'll have a salad with some chicken in it...Jacob wants corndogs. Ew.

Pieces of Me Monday

My hair...I actually really like my hair. It's been dark brown, chestnut brown, streaked blonde, straightened, etc. Now it's pretty close to natural, although I do throw a close-to-my-natural-colour rinse on once in a while to cover up those pesky greys that seem to be appearing lately. Sammy has my curls, and Jake has my colour. Kylie has *nothing* of mine LOL. She complains that she wishes she had curly hair, and I tell her that if she had curly she would wish for straight hair LOL.

Hmm...

What colour do you think these eyes will be? I thought that eye colour was generally sorted out by the time a baby was a year old...these eyes have me confused. They're brown in the middle and hazel around that. Kylie and Scott are blue-eyed, Jacob and I are brown-eyed and I just can't figure this one out.

I googled it the other day, and some sites say that it can take up to age 3 to determine permanent eye colour. Hmmm...

Oh, and Sammy still isn't crawling. She has figured out how to get from a sitting position to a crawling position...and then she will 'walk' her hands out so that she's laying down on her tummy. I guess that's a start.

And she's cutting 5 teeth, all at the same time. Last night she slept like an angel for 11 hours, but the night before she was up every hour screaming, even with a dose of Motrin. Poor girl, I hope those teeth cut quickly.

Some pics.

Wow, looks like a wild party in my basement. Kylie was supposed to be sleeping on the couch, but looks like she sorta fell off...and you can only see Megan's toe sticking out from under the blanket.


This is how Sammy falls asleep every night. But first she pretends she's sleeping and then she pokes her head up and yells "Hi!" and then lays down again, laughing LOL. She does it every single night.


Jacob fell asleep on nice, cool floor after a really hot day. Sammy just laid down beside him to watch TV.







The pirate dress, ready just in time for Auntie Sheri's Pirate Party. She throws a big shindig every year in honour of International Talk Like a Pirate Day for the kids, and it's so much fun. This year it will be held a bit early, in August, so that the kids can have some water fun outside :D .