My Little Charmer

This evening as I was walking Ryland into my bedroom for his snack and bedtime cartoon I noticed an amazing sunset and I told the kids to look outside to see the beautiful colours Jesus put in the sky tonight for us to look at. So Ry and Lexi gathered by the window and I stood behind them and Ry looked up at me and said "mommy you're more beautiful then that and that's a lot beautiful" So sweet! I just gave him a big hug, I hope he stops growing up so fast, I love that he loves me so much and wants to spend time with me, that he runs off the bus (literally) and gives me a huge hug everyday after school, that he was so excited that I signed up to volunteer for fieldtrips and then he asked if i would sit with him on the bus, the list goes on and on but it all points to him loving his mommy so much right now and i know that will soon turn into wanting to rather be with friends and him even later being embarrassed of me and Jord. I am truly enjoying it now!

Patio Blinds

My dad and Clint came over today and put up our new blinds we got for the patio door. They were very relaxed about it all and i think it took them 3 hours to do it. The instructions were horrible and they had to figure most of it out for themselves but they had breaks and Clint even ran an Olympic relay with Ryland during the whole process but it was kind of funny that it still took that long. I sure appreciate it guys, thanks again! Our other ones the kids just destroyed, they were the vertical ones so they were always touching the floor so they were constantly playing in them, it was so frustrating. We made sure we got these ones that go UP and we can also have one side up and one down if we want but it's still just one long one, although you can't tell totally from the picture.

Because you can't call you children and tell them you're sick...

well yesterday i got sick and had a fever all through the night and all sorts of aches and pains, of course Jord wasn't around so i had a crapy sleep and got woken up this morning by my sweet little Lexi at about 6:25am, thanks honey! she was so super sweet though, she lay in bed with me for about half an hour and every few minutes would whisper something in my ear..."mommy me big girl now", "mommy can me pay wit your hair?" and so on. I felt crapy still but the fever was gone by now and Sophia was awake so no more being lazy.Throughout the day i did what any mom has to do, sick or not, because like i mentioned in the title, you can't call your children and tell them you're sick, the day must go on! so i got to painting our doors for downstairs that will thankfully be getting installed next week, ran errands in wpg (so thankfully with Bo since it was raining and hailing there) and my fever annoyingly decided to come back in the afternoon but i chose to suck-it-up and i still did rolling races in the backyard with Ryland (i even won one!) but i gracefully bowed out of the running races today since the rolling did a number on my head and he nicely allowed me to be the spectaor and the person who does the 'ready, set, BANG'.The most exciting part of today was training my precious little SoBia Belle to... pee on the potty! Horray for you honey! Im so proud, she's only 14 months and already going on the potty!! we spent so much time today sitting in the bathroom and the third time she did it after about 2 minutes or so. it was so awesome! the times she didn't do anything she laughed and laughed at silly games we played, she had snack and juice while siting there and of course Ry and Lex put on amazingly entertaining shows for us in the bathtub. What a great day today , sick and all!

Rylands Sailboat

Ryland had been asking for peanut butter on toast for
a couple of days and finally i picked up some bread for him, so this morning was really exciting for him. I finished spreading the peanut butter and asked him if he wanted it cut (if you cut it and that day he wants it whole...look out!) and he said yes. For some reason today I starting cutting it diagonally (I rarely do) and as I had only just barely started he said so politely and nonchalantly "mom, can you cut it into a sailboat?" I pause, say nothing and decide to keep cutting because how in the world do I cut a piece of bread into a sailboat and who on earth asks that AND who asks that with such complete confidence in their mom to do that?? well after i cut it it came to me.....

and he thought it was an AWESOME sailboat!

He's getting so big!

This picture is actually from last month already but i can hardly believe i can just send my little guy down the street (okay it's two houses over) all by himself already! Well last summer when we moved here i almost imediately started sending him over to Angs' place to get small things for me like eggs and i found it really weird but so convienient that i no longer had to pack up 3 little ones just to go get something so small and something that would only take a couple minutes. But when i wanted to haul this thing over to Ang's I figured why not let Ry haul it over there in our wagon, he LOVED the idea, it makes him feel so big and proud. I love it to, it makes me a little sad thought too to know that he's getting so big already and i still dont know how i'm going to deal with things this fall when it becomes a reality that he will infact be in school!

Our Play Stucture!

Last year we gave our children a play stucture for their christmas present and their birthday present, (their birthday that was closest to that christmas)we figured it is so huge we can use it for 6 gifts! And little do they know they will be sharing more christmas gifts as we slowly add on to their structure. hopefully this christmas we can add a tire swing on to it for them. it was so exciting to finally put it up, i kept telling Jord that i was more excited for it then the kids were. i've been wanting one since Ryland was about 2 already. i didn't know it would be so much fun putting it together though. we made it a big family project and we all had a great time. Ryland was drilling, Lexi was so proudly giving Jord the scrap pieces of wood, Jord trusted me enough to measure and mark the wood and then taught me how to use the skill saw or circular saw or whatever that thing is called so i could then cut it for him and Sophia cheered us all on. Jordan's dad stopped in on day 3 at the perfect time...when the roof needed to go up so that was a great help, other then that we as a family put it up (Jord doing most of it but the rest of us doing our part none the less).

we even stopped to have a tea party with the girls in between! I told Jord when we were all done that i was a little sad because i had so much fun putting it together with him, i was so focused at first on it just being up so that the kids could play on it i never expected the process of it going up would have been part of the fun of it all.

Crash Test Mommy

okay, who out there watches Crash Test Mommy? for those of you who don't its a show designed to let people know what motherhood is like. There is either a friend to the mom, a sister, cousin, sometimes even the husband, someone who thinks they can do her job better and is given 48 hours to prove that they can infact do her job with greater ease...they never can. I love watching it! There was one episode where the dad thought if he would be home the house would be cleaner, well he found out that it's not as easy as it sounds, he tried a simple task like vacuuming the livingroom, one he thought should take just a couple minutes but then he had his potty training toddler pee on the carpet so he had to clean that whole mess up and then he picked up the vaccum cleaner to give it another go and his baby boy pooped his diaper and while he was changing him on the couch some got on there and i think before he finished that "little 5 minute job" he had to go pick up his other kid from school. It's so funny that even a father would be oblivious to fact that you can't just do a job like that in peace when you have little kids and it does take a whole day of cleaning just to have the house look exactly the same as it did before they left for work. I know when I haul out the vaccum cleaner I have 2 little ones that always need to have a turn 'helping me' and then they all 3 love it when I 'suck them up' so I do their arms and cheeks and tummy, so doing the little carpet we have takes a lot longer then one may think. Or take for example the amount of time it took me to make a simple lunch today...I started at 11:00 with making some biscuts and within about a minute Lexi was in the kitchen wanting to help me so I gave her a very important job, to be in charge of the baking powder until I needed it and then she could help put the 4 tsp into the bowl, she was so happy and that made her feel so big. when they were on the baking sheet it was time to pack up the girls and take them to pick up Ryland from pre-school. When we got home Lexi went straight to her room because she was having one of her famous tantrums and I proceeded to the kitchen to make the soup, after that was started I went to check in on Lexi and she was hiding behind her door and thought it was so funny that i 'found her' since she was apparently hiding on me was laughing away so I said she could come out and she could play outside for a few minutes till lunch was all ready. By the time I was back in the kitchen which was hardly a minute and a half Sophia had already half emptied a cupboard all over the kitchen floor and was already at the patio door soaking wet after finding a water bottle that didn't have the lid on very tight and was now completly empty, so instead of just getting out bowls and plating up lunch I had to clean up Sophia, the wet floor and the scattered dishes she placed everywhere. After that I had her sitting at my feet and pulling on my pants and trying to pull herself up on my legs which makes it impossible for me to move so I then straped her into her highchair and gave her some finger foods to snack on till lunch was cooled off enough for her. I of course had a phone call from Ang and then my dad showed up wanting to pick up the farmer sausage he was storing in our freezer since last night. He was there at lunch so Robyn could help him but I found 2 spare minutes to load them up in his car before Robyn was back from school (my dad broke his foot so he needed some help). After that i called everyone to the table and we had an awesome lunch together. It lasted just a couple minutes before the kids hurried off and left me with a huge mess, but it was so awesome to be able to have that lunch with them, i enjoy it so much. The bonus today was that Lexi didn't have to go to the bathroom the second she sat down! I am not one little bit complaining here, I LOVE that Jordan's job allows me to be a mommy who is able to stay at home and I had an awesome day today with my little ones it's just funny that people without kids think that moms can just make lunch and do things around the house in the same amount of time it takes them and that is so not true. After Ryland and Lexi ran off from the table today Robyn asked me what was wrong twice and said that I looked like I was mad and I said both times absolutely not, I'm having a great day today and I told her all the good things that had

happened so far but the second time she asked me I just said no i'm just tired from today and making lunch was such a long process but i really am having a really good day today with the kids. And really I was in a good mood i was just thinking of how long that would have taken me to make lunch if I could have 'just made lunch' but in the world' of motherhood you can't 'just make lunch' or 'just vaccum' there is always someone that will need your attention in those moments and I was just thinking to myself while trying to get lunch ready how funny this is that I am constantly getting inturrupted and then the show Crash Test Mommy came to my mind so i thought i should blog it!