My Week

This past week has been a bit of a busy one. Last week DH was home to work on the basement. It was so nice to have him here, though he was downstairs most of the time doing mudding and taping and sanding. Not too fun of a job and extremely messy - dust everywhere. I helped him clean up a few different days and the first day even though I had a mask on my nose and everything were still covered in the fine dust. On Sunday, we made it usable again - good thing as I NEEDED to do laundry and couldn't get into my laundry room as it had plastic stapled over the door. Anyways, now we got to start on the priming. Maybe we'll be done for Christmas!?!
Speaking of which, I still have not put up my Christmas decorations and I am beginning to get a little depressed about it. I look forward to Christmas and decorating every year and then it just seems to fly right by and this year will be even worse as it'll be 3 weeks less that I get to have the wonderful Christmas lights and pretty decorations. Oh well, we will be doing it this weekend, for sure!
Saturday my book club had their annual Girls Christmas Party at my neighbour C's house. It's always fun! We had a gift exchange and I, of course, gave something that had Tupperware in it. Apparently the ladies liked my gift as it was stolen (yeah, it was a "Chinese" gift exchange where you have numbers and can steal a gift twice) and then some people wanted to order some. I ended up having 6 people order things through my Christmas party, which is not bad at all! :)
Monday I had a Tupperware party at my friend K's house. Only 3 people besides the two of us showed up, but we had fun anyway - it was very casual - I did no presentation, we just talked, I have my stuff out and they could ask questions. It was an enjoyable evening, though I was out late again.
Tuesday I had A here for an hour and a half - C and I have begun a babysitting exchange. While she goes to speech therapy with J, I have A every other Tuesday a.m. and then she takes R the other two weeks. Then I took R to A's to put down for his nap and went to an appointment with DH, then back to A's for Mom's group. A cold has been making its way around our house, so I really didn't feel well in the afternoon at A's and when R and I came home I just rested. DH has the cold pretty badly.
On Wednesday, R and I went for chiro appointments, then for groceries. It took DH an hour and a half to drive home after picking up our Subaru at the dealership that only takes half an hour normally to drive home from. There was around 15 accidents on the road that DH heard about when he was driving.
Yesterday was interesting. It started off pretty normal, cleaning house and trying to get things down around here. Just before I was going to put R down, DH phoned to see if we could pick him up from the CTrain as his cold was bothering him so much he couldn't concentrate at work. We did and R fell asleep for 2 minutes in the car. When we got home, he talked and complained for an hour before I went in there. He was feeling hot and his nose was running, so I gave him Tylenol Cold and rocked him for a long while. I finally put him down and he cried - but I was the heartless mommy who let him and went to have a shower - when I got out 10 minutes later he was fast asleep and slept for 2 good hours before I went in to wake him at 5 (I was scared he wouldn't go to bed if I didn't! :) DH slept through everything from quarter to two until five! I got an hour sleep in myself - yeah! My parents came over for supper and then stayed to babysit R while DH and I went to a Friends Church Leadership Christmas party. DH is going to be doing some speaking at church and this was a way for us to get to know some of the people who are in leadership there. We felt it was pretty important that we go or we would've stayed home due to DH's cold - though after his long nap and some Tylenol he was feeling able to function. I am glad we went and I am thankful for our church. People went out of their way to introduce themselves and strike up a conversation with us. It made us both feel good as well as confirmed our decision to make Friends Church our home church. We are very thankful to God for our church and the people we have gotten to know as a result.
Well, I gotta go, I have a Tupperware order to put in this morning and I gotta get a hold of K to do it. She decided to go to Arizona for a week, so this may be fun!

Do what Mommy says, not what Daddy does!

Tonight at supper DH did something that made me extremely upset on one hand and made me want to laugh on the other. You know how you know pasta is done if it sticks to the wall when you throw it at it? Well, DH decided to throw a piece of fettuccine at the light fixture above our table. R was thrilled! He wanted to try too. Kept on talking about it the rest of the meal. Made motions to pick up one of his alfredo sauce covered fettuccine and throw it. I had to talk him out of it and educate him about how it is not polite nor socially acceptable to throw pasta at the table. People don't want to end up wearing food. Mommy doesn't want to clean it up. Just because Daddy did it doesn't make it right nor something that you can do.
Most women call their husband the big kid... this is one of the prime reasons why. :)

Hankie Momma

I have officially become that mommy - the one who has a dirty Kleenex in her pocket that she uses to wipe her kid's nose. I finally figured out why they do that. I have been wiping R's nose all day and it is such little bits at a time that I do not want to waste a whole Kleenex so I keep it for later. A little gross, I know, but we'd be going through an entire box of Kleenex otherwise.
Though if I start having a hankie up my sleeve, someone shoot me!

Hey, he got that from me!

I just wrote a post on R's blog that I think belongs here too. It is weird how, though I have had a bit of a frustrating day, I still have all these thoughts and desires as a mom. I guess God makes it this way so that we don't want to give up on parenting altogether!
There are times that I look at R and go, "Whoa! That is so weird! He got that from me." And then I think how interesting it is the way genetics work.
R has always had a habit of sticking out his tongue when he is concentrating on something... I do that. I have always, always been annoyed when DH coughs and his tongue sticks out. Why does he have to do that? Keep your tongue in, that just looks gross! (Make sure you imagine my nose curled up and a very judgemental face when you read those two questions. Hey, I didn't say it was pretty or I was right here! :) Well, guess what I figured out he couldn't help but do because it was genetics when my son starting doing it as a wee baby? You guessed it, stick out his tongue when he coughs! It no longer bugs me so much when DH does it when he coughs. Probably a good thing he passed it on to R.
There are other things that R does that was passed along when he was knit together in my womb. His love of all things musical, his ready smile, his insatiable curiosity.
There are things that he will learn from DH and I as he grows. And I pray these will be positive things, things that you want to instill in your child. A desire for truth, for giving and receiving love. A knowledge of God and His desire to be a part of R's life. A strong leadership ability. There are more, but not enough time and room to write them all.
I want to be the best mom I can to R... because he deserves it. And I want to look at him someday, see something that he did, some character trait or positive action he took and say, "Hey, he got that from me!"

The Groovey Roo

My son can dance! And he does it well. :) Watch and enjoy...



You can also watch this video on YouTube here.

The video was taken last Sunday, December 17th.

The Omni-Directional Baby Episode Two: The Two Towers

Our hero is due for some much needed rest and relaxation. His plans include familiarizing himself with his new secret weapon... but an evil adversary has plans of his own to thwart The Omni-Directional Baby's goals.




Or you can watch it directly on YouTube here.

Omni-Directional Baby Episode 1

A little homespun project from our household to yours... enjoy!



A future superhero uses his newly aquired powers to climb up and down the stairs... but before he achieves this goal he must conquer his nemisis Mr. Gates.

You can also view Episode 1 directly on YouTube.

A Sad State of Affairs

This picture was taken in May. It is the most recent picture I could find of all three of us! There are a lot of pictures of R on our hard drive, many of DH and R, some of R and I, but only a few of all three of us and none in the past year of just my DH and I. It is sad, I must say. When did our world start revolving around him? Everyone says it will happen, but you never truly understand until it happens to you. And the thing is... you don't mind.