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The Rule of getting Wet.

Posted by on August 25, 2007 Leave a Comment

Today we took our friends Nathan and Danielle to our quaint little restaurant Nanna’s and Poppa’s. I thoroughly enjoyed my lunch and Em wasn’t overly bad. This has become a crappy phase. The whole “NO NO NO NO NO” thing is getting old. Even if she wants something she says no. It like having to use reverse psychology constantly. Today she grabbed Morgans arm while he was turning on the ipod dock. She knows she isn’t supposed to touch it, so she grabbed his arm firmly and said “NO HANDS!”. Soo cute. We had her infant development lady come and watch her play this week. Its neat because you get to see where she is at for her age. Because she is a preemie they keep checking on her. This weeks conclusion:?? Emily is ahead in everything!! Yay! We were pretty sure she is ahead in her speech, but figured she’d be behind in her motor skills or something, but nope. The only thing is that with her being ahead we hit the 2 year old stage much faster I guess. The Lady warned me about that. Im sooo excited.

We decided to go for a walk around Sepa lake today and dragged our Nathan and Danielle with us. It was a gorgeous day. We walked around to the bridge and found it closed for repairs. They have redone all the 108 lake trail bridges. Soo nice. Anyways. We decided to keep on walking maybe to the beach or something. Halfway to the beach Emily decided she was walking and that was final. She walked a long ways. She even stopped to pick up some dried up bear poop much to her mommy’s “EW. Gross!!!” factor. At the beach we stopped for a swing. It was so nice so we kept talking and walking. Half way between the beach and my parents house Em did her business and so we took a detour to steal diapers from my parents house. By that point it was too far to go back the other way so we kept right on walking. I used to ride my bike around the lake all the time, but I haven’t for years so it was really nice to be out there again.

We have this funny thing that says “Pretty much any time Courtenay is near water she will get wet. It doesn’t even matter what time of year it is”. If you know me for very long you will find out that is true. I figured I was doing good by avoiding the lake and not even walking on the beach. WRONG. We got back to Sepa lake and as we were walking around it to where we parked we noticed it was getting really cloudy. Then it started to mist us. It felt nice because we had just done a 6 or 7K walk. But then is went rapidly from spitting at us to raining to pouring, to dumping and by the time we made it into the parking lot hailing! how crazy is that. It was a gorgeous day. I guess its my fault for not just tripping and falling in the lake. Sorry guys for getting you all wet. Haha.

swinging

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Mr. Mr. and Lady Lady!

Posted by on June 7, 2007 Leave a Comment

Apparently Morgan isn’t talking to me. Something about putting Hal Johnson on my blog. Haha. I guess it offended him. well you know. I always get offended by guys in track suits too. Ill have to cut him some slack.

I had to call 911 last night. I went to a friends house after youth for a little going away party. While I was driving home I got cut off by some psycho who decided to go 60 on the highway. Then they were swerving all over the highway, cutting corners and slamming there brakes at nothing. It was pretty scary. While I was talking to the 911 lady the car signaled and pulled into the other lane across a double yellow line and then swerved back to miss a semi. It was freaky. The 911 lady was like “can you get closer and get the license plate”? I was like “no way”! but then I did cause psycho slammed his brakes again and went really slow for a few minutes. It was really weird. I don’t like phoning 911, but I had to cause buddy was either gonna kill someone else or himself.

Morgan got my a Beatles album that I love to pieces. Its called “Back n the U.S.”. We used to have the DVD of that concert and I’ve always loved the music from it. Im so excited to listen to it on my new iPod dock. Its gonna rule!

Ive been making better food for Emily again. It gets easier as it gets into summer and the fruit and veggies are nicer again. I picked up a baby food book at the library, after paying Morgans small mortgage in late fees. It says to blender everything, but its just giving me good ideas pre-blendering. I like getting to be more creative with her food. She will pretty much eat anything. Her favy right now is kiwi puree and cherry puree in her oatmeal. Not at the same time tho. Each mixed with banana. I started adding Bran to her Power oatmeal too. She loves it. Once in a while I forget one of the Power-Three (wheat germ, ground flax or bran) and she doesn’t like it as much.

I’m cooking Mexican again. I made my own corn tortillas from meseca flour. MMM. We got a press so they even looked cute. Simply amazing with Salsa. Well pretty much anything is amazing with salsa.

Daddy is putting Emmy down for a nap so I’d better go clean some stuff before Auntie Georgia and Flynndiana Jones come over.

Lindsay and Olin
To Lindsay and Olin! I will miss you muchly. Good Luck on the Sunshine Coast!

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African Haze

Posted by on May 2, 2007 2 Comments

Well I wasn’t away, but kind of took a break from typing things and just spent so time reading. It’s been very restful. I’ve been trying to allow myself actual rest time. It’s not easy. I’m not very good at resting or sitting still. You’d think I was ADD or something. I’ve been making a point of not just working of stuff because there is time to, but setting aside time to accomplish things and to rest.

I’m currently enjoying an African Haze. I think I might have switched from London Fogs, well no I’m sure I haven’t switched I love London Fogs, but an African haze is really nice. Its good too because there is less caffeine. Gotta love Rooibos Tea. I go through phases where I only drink one thing. I need to go through another water phase!! I was thinking about how much coffee I drink the other day. I realized it would be much harder for me to quit drinking coffee if I was to get pregnant again than it was the last time. I enjoy my cuppah way to much.

Last night I went out with the girls to play games at Timmys. It was sooo fun and funny. But the funniest part happened before anyone even got there. I was sitting at a table by myself. I got there early to work on my sermon for youth tonight. With my ipod blasting in my ears and my pen tapping on the table I was deep in thought. Directly across from me sat a well dressed guy about my age reading a news paper. As I’m sort of staring out the window thinking I notice that this guy keeps looking at me. It was really weird. I was like “what is he looking at?”. I started to feel all awkward like I was being checked out. I shifted in my chair and moved my hand so my wedding ring was well visible because as much as being checked out is flattering, and I’ll admit my hair did look really cute, I am taken. It was then that I realized the guy wasn’t checking me out. He was really annoyed that my cell phone kept ringing and I wasn’t answering it. He was really just trying to tell me to turn the stupid thing off. Now I feel like sinking into a hole. Man I’m glad my thoughts aren’t played on a screen sticking out of my head or I’d feel awfully foolish.

Slow

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