Ethan loves Dad

Wyatt relaxing with Dad.

Ethan's new haircut.

So I'm a softy, Ethan plays with this pushy thing EVERY time we go to Ikea, Ethan saw it on the shelf and I couldn't say no.

Wyatt

Wyatt making a rude gesture to the camera.

Ethan loves cookies!!

The aftermath of the cookie eating.

Making a second batch of cookies.

Woops, left them in just 20 minutes too long.

Didn't want to show his face after burning the cookies.....

Well as I suspected Kelly's plane was late on Friday night but an entire hour. We of course didn't know that when we got there so we were at the airport for probably two hours. But it wasn't too bad, and when Dad finally arrived Ethan was the happiest little boy.

Ever since their reunion at the airport I have been quickly forgotten and Dad is the hero of the house. Ethan won't do ANYTHING unless Dad is doing it with him... Baths, teeth, bed, coat etc. Which is fine by me, less work for me but i'm just a little worried about the transition when Kelly leaves again. Oh well I guess we will see how it goes.

We had a very quiet day yesterday, we only left the house once, we went and got Ethan's hair cut. His hair was getting pretty shaggy so it was time for a cut. I sat in the truck with Wyatt and sent Kelly and Ethan in. Next thing I knew I looked up and saw them walking back to the door. Ethan was crying (he hates seeing Ethan cry). I jumped out of the truck, plunked Ethan on the chair, Kelly sat with him and he had his hair cut. He cried the entire time, Kelly was embarassed I could tell. He gave the lady an 8 dollar tip on a 12 dollar haircut. As far as I'm concerned, that is there job, there were a few children waiting behind us. Deal with the crying.... I guess people without children don't like screaming kids. Ethan's hair isn't as short as I would have liked it but is good enough for awhile. Ethan stopped crying as soon as we walked out the door, the lady gave him a lollipop and he was happy. The lolipop freaked me out a little, Ethan has never had one before so he didn't know how to eat it, there was slobber everwhere, I was worried he was going to choke on it. But he was quiet so...

Ethan slept for hours yesterday, so did Wyatt. We just had a relaxing evening in fron to fthe TV, made some cookies and pretty much went to bed at like 9:30.

This morning we were up and out the door for Nolan's Cookie Monster Themed birthday. Ethan had a great time, Maureen did such a great job. Ethan is zonked right out, Wyatt is spending some time with Kelly, I just heard him destroy his diaper and Kelly shot up to change him before the breach. I am sitting here laughing to myself :)

Airport Pickup

We have had a really great two days. The kids have been really well behaved (well for the most part, I did have one moment of craziness... please read on). Yesterday I got up super early, we were watching Caleb for a few hours. So he was dropped off at 7:15.... I think my kids just felt his presense because they both work up. Caleb brought his favorite movie 'Cars' over, so I popped that in the DVD player. Caleb sat on the couch with his eyes glued to the TV. It was actaully quite hilarious, everytime Ethan would stand in his way Caleb would move his whole head to see around him. I actaully found myself getting caught up in the movie. I have seen it before but it was awhile ago. It is actaully quite good! Ethan watched for a few minutes then played for awhile. I just left if on in the background (and for me to watch) and the kids just played and watched. I tell you, it was easy!

We went to a baby shower at Angele's house after, to meet her new baby Serenity. There were lots of kids there (all boys, except for the little babies). Ethan had a hoot and it was nice to chit chat with everyone. Wyatt slept the entire time!

We went to OUAC yesterday afternoon, it was a jackpot day there, I found SO many things for half price. I stocked up on clothes, they are already inexpensive there, but yesterday was just plain wonderful!

I was supposed to go to the gym last night but I had a headache, I probably still should have gone because my headache was gone by 5:30 but by then it was a lot of work. We just hung out for awhile (here comes the 'crazy' story). Ethan was frusterated with me for seom reason. Possibly because I was sitting with Wyatt and he was jealous, anyways so here it goes....

Ethan was doing EVERY possible thing he isn't allowed to do (and he knows it). He threw a book at Wyatt, hit is head, Ethan laughed, He threw toys at the cat, he was standing on the furniture, he was standing on the table, he was shaking the blinds, pretty much just WAITING for me to SNAP, (he really likes my reactions when he does things he isn't supposed to to, he laughs and laughs). So I was trying to be calm, my final straw was when I was just sitting on the floor with Wyatt in my lap, we were working on something so my hands were preoccupied, Ethan came and started dripping his waterbottle on my head, I reached my boiling point, I turned around, took the lid off his cup and dumped it on his head. Ethan looked at me SHOCKED, was silent for about a minute then started crying.... I felt bad, and as my dad put it "real mature Leslie". That being said he stopped dripping the stupid water bottle on my head.

Anyways after that we were meeting Virginia and the kids at the Tri so they could play at the playgym. Ethan thought we were going for daycare so he had a bit of a foot stomping tantrum, after i calmed him down he played very well. He really impressed me (and scared me) he was climbing this crazy bar thing to get to the slide, freaked me out, I thought he was going to fall through and smack his teeth out, but he made it everytime!! What a talented little fellow.

This morning we got up and headed back to the tri so I could workout. Ethan was very upset that this time I was actaully leaving him at the daycare. He was screaming and looking at me with these really sad eyes, it broke my heart to leave him but I reminded myself that this is good for both of us, it gives us both a break from each other, and exercise calms me down. So I left him, at the end of my workout I came and watched him and he was pushing a mini baby stroller around happily. Usually he is excited to see me when I walk in, this time he just looked and me and kept playing, so hopefully this will get easier.

We came home for lunch, Ethan's appetite has returned and he ate a ton! He is sleeping, and so is Wyatt, ideally I should be cleaning but i'm not...again.... We are off to see Aunty Michelle this afternoon, Ikea for dinner (i'm sure everywhere eles will be crazy, and Ikea is cheap) then off to the airport to get DAD!!!

So Far a MUCH Better Day

Making Valentine's!

Wyatt

I put both the kids in daycare last night and headed up to the track. I was supposed to go to the bootcamp, but I couldn't find anyone, no one at the front desk even knew where it was. By that time ten minutes had passed, I only had the kids in the daycare for an hour so I just started running. I did 8km, it was awesome. No stroller to push, just me, my music and my new lulu top :). I put Ethan to bed almost immediately after we got home, Wyatt fell asleep soon after and that was that! I watched The Biggest Loser, and was a little pissed off because half of the show was cut off, I somehow got stuck watching the WORST show on TV... "Daisy in Love". or something like that. It was SO BAD, yet somehow super addicting... it is kind of like the Bachelor but much stranger... Anyways I was falling asleep in the chair by 11 so I went to bed.

This morning we had to get up early because we had our first "Mom's Morning Out" class. This class comes with free daycare and all of the mom's get tea and coffee. It is a social gathering for mom's. They usually bring in speakers, today was the first day though so it was more of a meet and greet. The daycare was fantastic. They had everything you can think of, playdough, tons of toys,crafts. Ethan had a few friends there, He cried for a couple minutes, I could hear him through the walls, but he got quiet pretty quickly and aparently had a really good time. I think it is so good for him to be on his own, just for an hour.

After class we headed to superstore. I wanted to look around and see what I could find as more healthy options for Ethan, but so that he will actaully eat it. Ethan LOVES fruit but we usually only buy Bananas because the grapes, strawberries, blueberries and blackberries are so expensive. Today I just decided I was going to buy all the fruit so I could feel good about what Ethan was putting in his mouth. I also bought some of the yogurt that you drink and some healthy snacks. We got home and had lunch, he couldn't get enough fruit, I can to just keep passing it over to him, so I"m glad I spent the money on it. He even ate the corn I put in with his pasta. Right now he is down for a nap, Wyatt just woke up and we might do some cleaning, depending on how motivated i'm feeling in a few minutes.

It is so warm here today, it has been raining and my driveway this morning was an absolute icerink. This evening we are heading back to the Tri for another workout. I put Ethan in the daycare and I think I will do just a short run and some plyometric type activities.

5 Minutes' Peace

Anyone ever read this book? We had it when we were younger and I always thought it was a good book and fun to read! I guess I never really got it. Perhaps my mom read us this book to try to make us understand that Mom's are human too, they need breaks.

Today I need FIVE MINUTES' PEACE, that's not ture, five minutes just isn't long enough. I need a week, a week of NO children, no crying, no whining, no runny noses, no meals to cook so that they don't get eaten, no putting boots on, no doing up carseats, no nursing, no throw up on my fresh clean shirt, no messy house, no never-ending screaming, no diapers, no POOP. What I want is to just not be a parent for awhile.

Kelly has chosen to work a few days overtime, which is great for the bank but just more days for me to be a single mother. I love my kids but I AM SICK of them. Ethan gets so bored of seeing me, i'm sure he wishes that when he got up in the morning it was Dad coming to get him not me, or Granny or anyone other than me. He was so good when Claire was here! Wyatt, a very adorable child. A good eater and a wonderful sleeper, what is there to complain about??? Well let me tell you, You can't put him down, literally, the second you put him on a)the bouncy chair b) the swing c)on the playmat he screams...not just cries.... SCREAMS. SO I have to carry him. I very nicely reminded him this morning that he does have an older brother who also wants mom's attention. He didn't seem to care too much. SO I must say that Ethan and I have become very acustomed to crying in the background. I know some people don't agree with the cry it out technique, but I challenge them to come and live in my house with my kids (and the cat) for 10 days on our own. Good luck! By the time I get the kids to bed at night, I look around my house, see dinner still sitting on the table, toys everywhere, half folded laundry sitting on the chair, a driveway that needs to be shovelled, but all I can and want to do it sit in front of the TV. I stay up until 2am just to have some time to myself. Wyatt also doesn't nap, only sleeps in the carseat during the day, so leaving the house is a must. I am just so lucky he will actaully fall asleep at night.

So anyways I'm dreaming of dropping my kids and Fabian off at my parents house and leaving on a jetplane to a beautiful, adult only, resort somewhere on the ocean. I would keep the location a secret, that way there is no way of the kids following ;). That being said I can't go on vacation right now, the thought of even trying a bathing suit on at the moment makes me ill.

I've been putting Ethan in the daycare at the Tri for an hour every day so I can go for a run. He usually cries for five minutes then settles in and plays. This morning we went to the tri to go to the playgym. The second we got in the door he started crying because he thought we were headed to the daycare.... I have put BOTH kids in the daycare for an hour this evening so I can go to a bootcamp. The ladies who run the daycare always ask everyone "Do you want us to come and get you if they are crying". I always give them the same response..."Absoluetly not".

I've also created a monster in Ethan. He is OBSESSED with Timbits. We can't even drive by Tim Hortons without him saying 'Timbit'. All of my gift cards to Tim HOrton's ran out, so I went to Starbucks yesterday (since I had a gift card there). I bought Ethan a mini scone. He had a mental breakdown, he pushed it away, started crying and yelling TIMBIT.

It is a BEAUTIFUL sunny day out today, and super warm! It ALMOST feels like spring, but I know the colder weather will return, the roads will be ice rinks and the snow will continue to fall. We have a very full week!

PS Anyone want to discuss the Bachelor with me? Does anyone thing that Michelle girl is a hire actress and just there to stir things up? I really like Chantal but she seemed kind of crybabyish last night...

PPS I would also like to add, it may seem that I complain ALOT about my children on my blog and some may question whether I actaully enjoy being a mother. I LOVE being a mother, I love my children and I love spending all my time with them. I am so thankful I am able to be a stay-at-home mom. I love watching my children grow, watching their development and happen to think that I have the two most adorable and wonderful children in the world. My blog is kind of the place where all of my frusterations end up. I could probably go on and on, and I usually write my blogs or status at the peak of my frusterations and everything usually calms down right after. For example. I just put my screaming Wyatt in his crib because I decided dishes needed to be done. I listened to him scream for half an hour, I almost felt like my head was going to blow off, but it is now COMPLETELY silent in my house, both the kids are asleep... So please don't judge me and think that i'm a terrible mother because my children drive me mental. Even in my peak of frusterations, one of them will do something so adorably cute that you just have to stop and smile and realize that this stage is only temporary, they are only little once....

New Chair!

Yesterday was an awesome, great, yummy, fun, little bit boring, frusterating, SNOW,awesome,annoying, yucky, exhausting, feeling very sick kind of a day.

Let me expand. We woke up a little bit late to make our appointments at 9. BOth of the boys had doctors appointments. We managed to squeak in on time, but we didn't get our Tim Horton's on the way (Just an FYI... i'm addicted to steeped tea). So Wyatt was checked first, it was just a usual check up, everything looks great. He is 13.6 pounds and healthy. Ethan on the other hand is a bit of a mess. He woke up with his eyes completely glued shut, a runny nose that doesn't stop and a little bit groggy. According to the doctor the goobers in his eyes are ACTAULLY snot from his nose! Grosss....... Anyways he can't even open his eyes completely, poor guy, but it is not an infection. He also has another ear infection. So we got some antibiotics for that.

After the doctors we rolled through the Tim Horton's Drive through. I got Ethan a cookie and he was ticked he didn't get a 'Timbit'. He said 'Timbit' for the next hour. We went to this AMAZING store called "One Man's Treasure'. It is just a giant warehouse of antiques. It is just so neat. I would really like to go one day without any children. I had to carry Ethan the entire time, and he is not really light. Anyways I ended up buying a picture frame and a coat hanger thing for our front hall. I also bought Ethan a 'tickle me cookie monster'.

Next we were off to the Grand Opening of the cupcake store. Virginia and the kids met us there. Ethan hardly ate a thing. Caleb however was COVERED in chocolate. It was hilarious. AND they have highchairs there now, which is great. I got a coconut lime cupcake. It was very yummy, but I felt a little sick after, possibly too much icing.

We went home for lunch. Caleb and Ava came for a visit. After an hour or so it was clearly nap time for everyone, so Ethan went to bed, Wyatt took a teeeeeny tiny nap and I Claire and I did nothing. We were waiting for this fellow to come and fix our furnace. He FINALLY came (we had to call him and say that we were sick of waiting around). He got things done pretty quickly. Our furnace was leaking water. He told me that it had all been put together wrong so he had to go back and re-do everything.

The second the furnace guy left, we put the kids in the car and we were off to Home Sense. There was an accident on the way, just the smallest, dumbest little accident but the stupid police officer decided to block an entire lane of traffic off so it took about 45 minutes to get to Home Sense instead of 15.Thankfully Ethan was in a good mood, there were busses all around us so he was entertained.

We got to the first Home Sense and they didn't have the chair I wanted or anything that Claire wanted. So we had to head to the South, which was crappy, but it had to be done. So we step outside and my gosh it is a blizzard. SO we drive to the South side, my chair is THERE. I asked Kelly about the chair last night. I thought forsure he would just say "NO" and that would be the end of it. I was careful how I worded things when I asked him. I said "Kelly do we have an extra $300 right now?". Much to my surpise the first words out of his mouth weren't NO, they were "what for?'. "Well what does it look like". So we have a new chair. We jammed it into Claire's car, along with a cute dresser Claire bought. By this time it was really snowing, it was 7:30 and we hadn't had dinner. We stopped by one restaurant on the way home but of course it was Friday night and JAMMED. SO we just made the decision to go home.

What a drive. I went about 60km/h the entire way home. One thing I must say, there are some TERRIBLE drivers out there. It was REALLY snowing, the roads were starting to get pretty covered in snow. I'm snailling along going 60 and these retarded CARS go whizzing by me. Seriously, I'm in a big truck and this 1983 Tempo zooms by going the speed of light. HEY Moron, it is snowing. Those are the cards I'm scared of, they are the people that are going to cause an accident. We saw a few cars in the ditch. When I looked in my rear-view mirror all the trucks and SUVs were going a smart slow speed, then these idiots just rush by. I made up my mind and decided that if one of these losers speeding was in an accident and I saw it, I would just keep driving. I mean it is their own freaking fault. Is that mean? I don't want anyone to get hurt but my gosh stop driving like a fool.

Anywyas so we finally made it home, I was starving, we pulled into the driveway. By this time it was like 8:15 and I didn't know what i was going to make for dinner that would be quick, so we decided to go out. We went for vietnamese food. Ethan did not TOUCH his food. HOnest he didn't eat a thing. Claire's was a big plate of MUSH and mine was just too big for me. but we ate, came home and put the kids to bed.

I had like a 45 minute HOT shower, i'm sick, which is crappy. I went right to bed. I didn't have a headache, my head just felt heavy, I was hot but I was FREEZING and I have a terribly sore throat. I fed the baby, took some drugs and went to sleep. It might be an inside kind of day today. I think both Ethan and I need to just relax for a day and not leave the house. We have been carting Ethan around everywhere, not really giving him time to sleep properly.

Eye Goobers

Wyatt all set to take on the day!

Ethan and Claire at Ikea, for some reason today the kids meals were FREE! SO lunch was only $3 for all of us!

Aunty Claire and Wyatt

Fabian and Charlie doing their best to get along, infact Fabian has been far less annoying than normal. Perhaps we just need another cat to keep him occupied!

Bath time for Wyatt

Aunty Claire with the boys!

Wyatt in his very cute Adidas outfit from Grandad (shoes included)

Ethan woke up this morning with huge big eye goobers, Kind of gross, his eyes were totally glued shut, clearly he has some sort of an infection. So he has his eye goobers, then add a steady stream of snot running down hit nose and you have one gooey little boy! I have made him a doctors appointment for tomorrow morning.

The plan for today was to head to Ikea. Claire had big dreams of going home with a ton of new furniture, unfortunately everything she wanted to buy was out of stock. So we headed to Home Sense in attempts to make up for the Ikea trip! We were very successful at Home Sense, what a great store. I found the PERFECT chair for our living room, but I thought it would be wise to ask Kelly before making a large purchase on my mastercard.

We made our way home, we put up the decals, Ethan fell asleep, he didn't wake up until 6 and only because I went in and got him. He was exhasuted, hopefully tomorrow he will be back to his good old self! We made a delicious dinner, I didn't expect Ethan to eat a thing but Claire and I both stared at Ethan in shock when he lifted up his spoon and took a bite of vegetable rice! WAHOOOOO perhaps this whole food strike thing is over.... maybe, don't want to speak too soon.

So tonight was bath night, Each of us took a kid. I got stuck with Ethan because he had just used the facilities in his diaper... dang... I am trying to put Wyatt to bed earlier and earlier. Last night I put him to bed at 9:30 and he woke up at 8:30. I'm trying 8:30 tonight but he is currently extremely upset with me and crying.

It is clean the house night, so far I cleaned the entire downstairs, put all the toys away, the first thing Ethan did when he got up from his nap was turn his entire box of cars upside down on the floor.....

The Food Strike Continues

Well Ethan is STILL not eating... well not eating anything nutritious. He eats waffles for breakfast (he will also eat oatmeal). For lunch he has french fry SMILES and dinner, well tonight he had a yogurt. He is just not eating food that he used to love. I made a lasgnua for him, his favorite. Wouldn't eat any of it, tried spaghetti, not one bite. I'm not sure what the deal is! I've heard from friends that this has happened to them, their children just stop eating things they used to love. So i'm hoping this is just a phase. I bought some hasbrown patties and chicken nuggets tonight just to see if either of them would work. Ethan just played in the ketchup and I finally caved and gave him a yogurt so he wouldn't starve. He won't touch vegetables, LOVES crackers, all bread products. He iwll eat the odd banana, but let me tell you this isn't the Ethan I know! So I'll just have to see how this plays out. I know right now he isn't feeling his best. Tonigth he sat with me for half an hour. This is unheard of for Ethan, he does not cuddle. His nose is also running and I keep hearing him on the monitor waking up. Perhaps he is just sick.

It finally warmed up today, almost got above zero. I actaully really don't want it to get warm yet, this will just melt the snow, and once it freezes again it will just be an ice rink. We have moved into driving the truck. So far so good, except two days ago when we turned the truck on it started making a helicopter type noise and hasn't stopped since. can't be a good sign. Molly the Mazda is safely tucked away in the garage until someone snaps her up off Kijiji, although so far no one has called....

Aunty Claire comes tomorrow, I can't wait. She is bringing Charlie (the cat). Hopefully Charlie can knock some sense in to Fabian and teach him how to eat! Their last encounter didn't go well, Fabian ended up with a claw wound on his neck.

Sunday was weigh in day and the scale was FINALLY on my side. Three pounds down. It isn't much but i'm just happy the number is going down not up. I've been running lots, doing lots of TRX workouts and eating really well so hopefully I can keep the scale going down. I was getting very frusterated for awhile. I'm planning on doing a 10km in May or June and then my next half marathon on the 21st of August. TOday while I was running the feeling of "OH MY GOSH WHY THE HECK AM I DOING THIS" came back to me, that is how I felt probably about 4km into the half marathon and it continued until the end. I am determined to have an awesome time this time round so even if I feel like crap i'm going to plow through and be HAPPY at the end of it.

Well i've watched two episodes of 'Chef vs City' and i'm just starting 'Top Chef'.

Picture Update

Kelly playing in the snow.

Smiling at Ethan in the background!

Wyatt!

BIG SMILES !

Wyatt and Ava chilling out on the floor.

Ethan found his hat, put it one backwards, just too cute to not take a photo.

Ethan and Caleb were testing out Wyatt's swing. There is a weight resriction on this thing! And I think 30.4 lbs is OVER the weight limit!

Ethan

Ethan playing at Meagan's birthday party!

Kelly out there shovelling!

Our house in the snow.

MASSIVE amounts of snow and it is STILL a bilzzard!

The Dentist

SO I will start by saying.... I LOVE my dentist, they are very friendly, nice, the TV's on the roof are wonderful as are the massaging chairs. But it seems that everytime I go to the dentist that it is never good news. I had four teeth pulled when I was 7 or 8, followed by braces for two years of my life (not to mention endless cavities). Last time I went to the destist (just after Ethan was born) I had 7 cavities refilled. I was in there at least five times in two months to have that done. Yesterday Kelly and I had desntist appointments. Kelly comes out of there with glowing teeth and nothing but praise of how great his teeth are. Not the same for me. About 15 years ago I had an appointment with a periodontist to get some work done on my gums. I have one gum in the front that is very low. At that point I was in grade ten and I wasn't interetesed in having skin removed from the top of my mouth and then put on the gums that were receeding. So I didnt. The reccommendation yesterday was that I get it done. The next thing they asked me was if I grind my teeth. I said no, they asked if my husband has ever heard me grind my teeth. Again I said no. I asked Kelly when on our way home if he has ever heard me grind my teeth. He said that infact yes! He has woken me up a few times hearing me do it. SO I couldn't sleep ALL night because I Was worried I was grinding my teeth. Now I thin I should get a mouth guard so that I don't have little stubby teeth. Ohhh I feel so old.
Both the dentist and the lady doing the teeth cleaning asked if I had brought Ethan in yet. We had an appointment on Monday but were snowed in. They said the first appointment was just to see if he would sit in the chair. I can tell them right now, the second we try to get him to lay in the chair and open his mouth he will start screaming. They also said we should be FLOSSING his teeth. Great... clearly neither of them have children (well the dentist did just have a baby six weeks ago). AS if Ethan is going to let me floss his teeth, Brushing his teeth is already a struggle. They did say that I should be using flouride toothpaste. I have been getting so many mixed reviews about whether or not to use flouride. SO I feel that I will start to do that, just a teeny amount.
I am completely battered an bruised from my fall. I have a bruise on my heel, a baseball sized bruise on my thigh, a GIANT black softball size bruise on my BUTT (this one I wasn't expecting) and a bruise on my elbow that I just discovered.
Now on a complete sidenote, DID anyone watch GREY's last night? I watched it with Kelly and he didn't seem to care at ALL that CALLIE and MARK are going to have a baby. WHAT the hell, that screws everything up. Can't they just let things chill for awhile. Mark and Lexie JUST got back together and I LIKE them together, now it will be completely messed up. I don't care for Arizona much but Mark and Lexie. What dolts. And seriously how does Bailey keep getting these hot guys? I don't get it..... Anyways I think I should have a girls night on Thursday because at the end of this show Kelly really didn't want to discuss anything with me, so I was really just talking to myself. Thankfully I have you Danika. And now it said Private Practise was supposed to be new but it was a scary Criminal Minds show and when I tried to find it on another channel it was that Off the Map show Encore!

A Scary Fall

I was carrying Wyatt and was headed downstairs, I slipped on the top stair and Wyatt and I went tumbling down the entire flight of stairs. We landed with a thud at the bottom. I managed to hold onto Wyatt the entire time but I know he was hurt, I landed on his leg a few times during the fall and his little arms his the railings, I know he didn't his head (Thankfully). We both started screaming at the bottom, I was shaking and crying and so scared I had just hurt my little guy. I was hurting badly but I just sat there and held Wyatt and cried. Wyatt's crying stopped after he let out a massive burp, then looked at me and smiled. So PHEW my precious little boy is ok, myself however, am going to have bruises all over my leg and the heel of my foot has gone numb. Ethan was very consouling, he brought me a nursing pad to help the pain :)
That is all, I tried calling Claire, Kelly, Mom and Dad when I was crying but of course no one was there, i've clamed down a little, thank goodness Kelly comes home today.

Karen has been taken off the Sidelines

Wyatt looking incredibly cute! He has lost most of the hair on the top of his head but is sporting a baby mullet in the back. Quite hilarious.

Brothers. They are just too cute for words. I don't know it is possible for me to get a good picture of the two of them just sitting nicely together. Please see next photo.

And he's OUTTA here......

Well it snow all night again last night. Ethan woke up crabby, and well so did Wyatt. Ethan just was a huge grump, whining and crying all morning. I put Wyatt in his bouncy chair and put him in front of the window, I told Ethan to watch me out the other window. I was heading out to shovel the driveway. My kids are just so darn cute. Everytime I looked in the window Wyatt was just sitting there flapping and Ethan was in the other window sitting with his blanket watching and waving. Only once did I look up and see Ethan almost sitting on Wyatt, dropped the shovel, ran into the house, moved Ethan and headed back out to finish the driveway. Virginia called around 11 and asked if we wanted to head out to OUAC. Clearly Ethan NEEDED to get out of the house, Richard was home and was taking Caleb swimming so we figured that Wyatt's carseat would just fit between Ava and Ethan. So it was set, we were heading out.

Well Plan A didn't work, the carseat did NOT fit in Virginia's car. SO Plan B.... attempt to take the car. So put Wyatt in the car and backed out probably a foot out of the driveway... STUCK... PLAN B =FAIL. Some guys working on the house across the street pushed me back into the driveway. At this point i'm sure most of you are thinking "Why don't you just stay at home"... well my friends it is one thing to stay at home because you want to relax, but when you are TRAPPED in the house with two screaming children you NEED to leave. So PLAN C..... Leave Ethan in Virginia car and put Wyatt in the truck. (To do this the passenger seat needs to be RIGHT up to the dashboard). OK SUCCESS we made it out with not issues at all. We were on our way!

I was looking for two things at Once Upon a Child.... Long sleeve shirts and onesies for Wyatt (When Ethan was Wyatt's age it was the summer so all of his onesies are short-sleeved and not suitable for -30 degree weather). I was also looking for some shirts for Ethan. They have nothing at all for Ethan's size. I found one shirt, there was TONS of selection for Wyatt's size. I loaded up, used my coupon and a visa gift card I got for Christmas. So the damage wasn't too bad! Very impressed with myself.

When we got home I put Ethan up for a nap, I put Wyatt in the window and headed out to shovel the next dump of snow. I decided I would attempt to put Ethan's carseat in the truck because we have a few appointments we need to get to in the next week and I don't think the car will be moving anytime soon. It really wasn't fun to get it in there but I did it. Ethan has about 2 cm between the back of the seat and his feet. I can feel him kicking me while we are driving. I also have to sit on a 90 degree angle which is very uncomfrablte. At least we are able to get out of the house and I feel much safer being in the truck. We will have to move back to the car once Kelly gets home because the passenger seat is not available. The car is currently sitting in the driveway (not the garage) because when I attempted to move it into the garage it wouldn't budge. I made several attempts then just turned it off, slammed the door and gave up.

By the time I went in Ethan was awake, Wyatt was crying and the cat was meowing as loud as I have ever heard him. I had him trapped downstairs because he wouldn't eat his food and wanted a new can, so I trapped him in the basment with his full can from this morning. Usually when I trap him in the basement he finally gets so hungry he eats the food, but he only does that when Kelly is home. When it is me he knows that I will get SO COMPLETELY annoyed with his nails on a chalk board meow that I will just open up another tin. Fabian drives me completely mental but I really do appreciate the companionship in the evenings.

It is so unbelieveably cold outside right now, the truck had zero gas in it, and for some reason I thought I would be warm enough to pump gas without gloves, my gosh my hands were BURNING by the time I put $85 dollars in the gas guzzling purple truck named Karen. Apparently on Thursday there is a low of -38! Come to think of it, I didn't plug in the truck tonight. Awesome....

I'm wide awake, can't sleep, it is snowing again outside .... and I am addicted to Tim Horton's Steeped Tea.

Lots and Lots of SNOW

So here is the deal... I LOVE the snow! I think it beautiful, peaceful and I just love it. I really don't mind staying inside when it is a blizzard outside... but only for one or two days. The problem with our road is that it is on an incline. So even if it stops snowing tomorrow, until the plow comes through our road or until enough people have driven on our road to flatten it out we are STUCK. Last time it snow the plow didn't come for two weeks, thanksfully it took about 5 days for the road to be plowed down enough from cars for me to escape.
It has been snowing since yesterday at 12 and is supposed to snow until tomorrow. We have another good foot and a half two feet of snow. I shovelled last night, but of course woke up for a foot of snow over my driveway. The only time I can shovel is at 6 am (before both the kids are awake) or 12 at night (after both the kids are asleep). So today some really nice kids came to the door, they were doing a fundraiser and asked to shovel my driveway for 15 bucks. They were so friendly and nice and it was about 11:00 so I wasn't going to be able to get out until late tonight when there was bundles of snow, so I said ok. There was a whole team of them and they had it done in like 10 minutes! It was awesome, Ethan had fun watching them at the door. I think it is the perfect job for him and his little friends when he is older! I see that a few of our neighboors have snowblowers, i'm wondering why they haven't
a) come and asked to do my driveway for me
b) snow blowed the road :)

I watched from my bedroom window a minivan attempt to get up the road, they made several attempts with people pushing, no luck. Convinces me more that I need an all-wheel drive. I'm not sure snowtires would cut it and this is our second really big snowfall of the year.

So the kids and i played all morning, Ethan had his crayons and playdough out, Wyatt has been sleeping most of the day. Last night I put him down at 10:30 and he slept until 7:30, he woke up, and I fed him and he was asleep until 11.

A few friends are braving the snow to come over for company!!

Cafe-O-Play

This morning Ethan woke up an hour and a half earlier than he normally does (meaning we were up at the ridiculously early hour of 7:45). Ethan is so cute when he wakes up, if you want to cuddle with Ethan you have about a five minute window after he wakes up, after that he doesn't want you anywhere near him. And hour later and this early wake up is really taking a toll on his mood (and mine). He is so crabby and basically crying for no reason. This doesn't work well for me as I have put Ethan in the daycare for an hour at the Tri- Leisure Centre so I can go for a run. Ethan hates being left at the best of times, today could be disasterous.
My little Wyatt, now i don't want to brag and Michelle if you are reading this I suggest you stop now.... Wyatt slept for 9 and a 1/2 hours last night. I had to check on him at 8:30 to make sure he was still alive. SO I have two boys who actaully enjoy sleep, I'd say 'm very lucky. The only trouble is that I like to have some 'ME' time so I stay up ultra late last night. I started watching a cake challenge on the Food Network, and you have to stay and see how the cakes turn out, but it is an hour long show, so i'm a little tierd.
Yesterday Michelle and I went to the BEST place. A new coffehouse called "Cafe-O-Play". They have tables arrange around this awesome play place for kids. It is 5 bucks to get in but it is worth every penny. Ethan had the time of his life, we were there for two hours! I had packed a lunch for Ethan but you can't bring outside food in, so I had to buy Ethan a grilled cheese. He was so into playing that I couldn't get him to eat an ounce.
There was a new Private Practice and Greys Anatomy last night, I love those shows, honestly they could have a two hours show and I would LOVE it!
That is all, we are off for a run then we are heading into the West Edmonton Mall to buy some birthday gifts and use all of my gift certificates. Crossing my fingers that Ethan will not be a bear at the daycare, last time they had to come find me because Ethan had been screaming the entire time.... He has to get used to being away from me at some point!

New Vehicles = High Stress and Grumpiness

I haven't been the best with photos this week, so here is the little man (with a big tummy) goofing around in the chair. I've been taking lots of videos but for some reason they won't upload to my blog.

So with the winter season here, I have been unable to get out of my driveway at some points, I slide all over the road, nothing fits in our car and quite frankly I just don't feel safe driving itwith two little kids in the back. Kelly was finally convinced we needed a new car so the hunt has begun. I must say with this hunt has brought fights, crankiness and everything eles in between.

Molly the Mazda has served us well, we had no clue when we bought her that she would eventually turn into our family wagon, she is a good car, just not practical for our growing family.

This is our dilemna, I would really like an extended SUV (The Pathfinder or Acadia). They are both just a little pricy for us at the moment (although I did find a really good deal on a Pathfinder and I can tell Kelly likes it too because he is trying to figure out a way to make it possible) SO I am still holding out hope for that option.

So since the extended SUV isn't an option at the moment I suggested a small SUV with all-wheel drive or 4x4. I have found a few that I really like, Kelly's problem with this option is that I would like to have three kids eventually and he would then have to purchase another vehicle because there would no longer be room in our small SUV.

Kelly thinks that a Minivan would serve our family well. I DISAGREE. I dislike minivans with a passion. Kelly has done a darn good job of convincing me that they are actaully quite wonderful, they are very cheap (meaning we would be able to pay for it completely and work on paying down other debt), they are very spacious and very safe. But COME on they are DANG UGLY. I cringe everytime i picture myself driving one. My argument against the minivan, they are not all wheel drive and I may not even be able to get up my road in one of them and my other argument against them, again NOT AN ATTRACTIVE vehicle. Now there are some that are better than others, of course they are the ones that are far more expensive and if we were going to slurge and spend more money I want my SUV.

So this is the problem, we don't know what to do, now Kelly is gone, the forecast calls for SNOW SNOW SNOW and I will NOT be trapped in the house for the entire week, but at the same time driving Molly with questionable tires and two adorable kids scares me a little.

My Little Baby is Growing up!

Last night was Wyatt's first night in his own room in his own crib. I moved Ethan into his crib right on his 2 month birthday. Wyatt's two month birthday was on the 29th and I was still feeling a little nervous about the big move, I mean he is still so small. But yesterday was January 1st and I thought it was a good time to send him off to his own room. So I got everything set up, sat in my glider and finally got him to sleep around 12:30. He looked so teeny in his giant crib. I had the monitors set on the loudest possible, and I went in and checked on him probably three times before I felt I was ok to head to bed myself. I woke up at 5 with a migraine, so I checked on him then too, sleeping away. Wyatt slept from 12:30 until 7:45 then I fed him and he didn't wake up again until 11.
At 11 I gave Wyatt a quick feed and left the boys with Kelly and headed to the gym. I ran 8km, it almost killed me but i'm happy to say I did it. Usually there aren't too many runners at the track but today there were three or four ladies there running, I didn't want to feel slow so I took it upon myself to pass each and every one of them everytime they were infront of me (even after I had lapped them). This may be the reason that I thought I was going to die by the end of my 35th lap. I've figured it out to be 92 laps for a half marathon, so I'm a third of the way there!
When I got home Wyatt was still sleeping and Ethan was just creating a disaster in the living room. We were supposed to be going skating with the Enn's family at 1:30 so I had to hussle everyone along to get out the door on time. We piled into the car, put the kids in, the stroller in the trunk and we needed to bring the sleigh for Ethan. Kelly informs me that the sleigh will not fit in the trunk or the backseat so it had to be on my lap in the front seat. I quickly took the keys and told Kelly that infact the sleigh would have to go on his lap. So I drove and he squished in with the sleigh on his lap, clearly uncomfortable. We fought about a new car the entire way to the skating rink.
Skating was great, I forgot that it had snowed last night, I just assumed that the snow would have been cleared off the ice. But it wasn't, there were a few guys there with shovels but there were big piles of snow everywhere. We pulled Ethan, he enjoyed himself for all of 10 minutes then insisted that he was done and it was time to go home. He played on the playground for awhile then we went home.
We were all out of food in the house so we headed out to Costco, we were expecting it to be super busy but it was really quiet! I FINALLY found a nice toybox to condense and hide the mess of crap all over the living room floor. We bought enough food/dipaers and wipes to sink a ship! We spent a fortune and Kelly hardly said a word. I was somewhat impressed!!
So we pay for our items and head back to the car. We didn't bring a stroller so the trunk would be free for all the groceries. We packed everything in, everything except my cubed shaped toybox that again wouldn't fit in the trunk or the backseat. So please picture this..... You are driving down the road, you look at the car next to you and see a GIANT box in the front seat, upon closer inspection you see a poor beautiful women wedged between the GIANT box and the carseat, she can't see out the front window and is clearly in pain. Well my friends, that person was ME! If we had crashed I would have been a goner, the airbag wouldn't have even opened. TO make matters even worse, we somehow picked a cart that had BBQ sause all over it, thus it was all over the box, meaning, yes it was all over Kelly and I. Wonderful.
Our drive home was eventful... the roads were TERRIBLY slippery, our lights were filthy so we couldn't see anything, we were ALL over the road, and we were on the Yellowhead, a very busy highway. Things were so slippery and we then discovered that one of our tires was flat.... so we had to pull over, Kelly checked it out and said it was ok for a little bit, so we drove on and got off at Acheson. At that point Kelly thought he was going to have to change the tire on the side of the road. (I did mention that my father taught me to change a tire....). Anyways he looked again and said it was just very low and so we powered on. We putted along 16A going about 60, cars were flying by us, again it was super icy. THEN it happened, Kelly said "Leslie, your right, this car is really shitty in the snow". WHAT?!? I've been telling him this for months..... I wasn't lying just to get a new car! So Kelly has been searching autotrader on the internet all night. I'm certainly glad he has seen the light.
Our house is also experienceing a strange symptom. For some reason it REEEKS like HOTDOG? What the heck? We have NEVER eaten hotdogs in this house.... We searched everything and can't seem to find the source, we are still looking!

New Years Resolutions

I have taken the liberaty of making New Years Resolutions for my family.

Kelly's New Years Resolutions:
Strive to put the toilet seat down each and everytime he uses the facilities.
No grumbling about money (and our lack of it).

Ethan's New Years Resolutions:
Stopping picking his nose.
TO always listen and do as he is told.
Eat more vegetables!

Wyatt's New Years Resolutions:
Try to go to sleep at a reasonable hour (9 or 10 would be sufficient).
Stop crying for no reason (Mom's biggest pet peeve).

MY New Years Resolutions:
Lose 30 pounds (I would like to have this accomplished by May)
Run my second half marathon ( I have a time goal set, but i'm not ready to say it publicly yet).
Spend less money.... yah, nevermind, who I am I kidding, that can't be done! (But I can say I'm going to try).

I have informed my family of their New Years Resolutions I have made for them. I sure hope that they do everything in their power to keep these resolutions. I mean it certainly would make my life alot easier.