Here is what I did do. This time I’m apologizing in advance for my run on sentence.
I overslept, missing a phone call from Lana telling me to come to the drop in lunch at the resource center, I decided to go because I hadn’t seen Lana in a long time, remembering that Emily could go in the play room now because she is old enough I got her ready in a rush and headed out the door. After about 4 minuted in the play room Emily Freaked out because of the noise and then that was the end of my info session. I played in the playroom with Em for another 15 minutes before she really freaked out and demanded I let her eat crayons. Since I ate crayons as a kid I decided I wanted better things for Emily and we went home. Because Em hadn’t been up very long she wasn’t impressed with an early nap, but there was no way she was staying up either so off to bed with you! I enjoyed a pizza for lunch and woke Emily up for a “Lift the Lip” appointment with a dentist that Lana so graciously shared with me.

Emily did amazing with the dentist. She cried for a second while her mouth got the checking, but otherwise she was just super excited to hold a giant tooth brush. We got super points for being awesome parents and doing all the correct dental things for Em. My Extra Mom would be so Proud. Ill have to tell her. The Lady was so impressed with Emily and her routine that she gave me a sticker. Well Em didn’t want it so I got an Ernie sticker and a glow in the dark toothbrush. Can one really brush adequately in the dark? I doubt it. We didn’t even get a fluoride treatment. Touchy subject I know, but I would have got the treatment done if the lady had recommended it. She didn’t because Em doesn’t have a bottle to go to bed or a bottle at all actually. She doesn’t drink juice ever or snack all day. She gets her teeth brushed at least once a day, but we are working on twice. She doesn’t breast feed in the middle of the night. AND she can say “Bwush ya teeth!”. She even said it to the Lady. Tooth 5 is in ad 6 is almost through. Praise the Lord!

Then I went for a walk with Kris and Lana, looked around a toy store and bought Emily her very first Robert Munsch Book. I plan on her having the whole set of Robert Munsch books because I loved them so much as a kid. I bought her my all time favorite one. The Paper Bag Princess. I love it. I think Ill make her read it over and over and over again. Then we got blizzards. I felt sick after a few bites, but ate the whole thing anyways. Whats wrong with me? Chocolate is evil. Then we visited Kim. Emily proceeded to eat rocks and dirt and scrape her knees twice. We have got to get a yard for her to play in. Then maybe she wont be such a monkey outside. Then we saw Karen and Brian’s new house. They are from our prenatal group. I expected Em to have a big melt down by this point, but she managed to play nicely with Promise and Rain. A couple of handfuls of dog food ingested later and we walked home for an early dinner.

Spending the rest of the evening freaking out was really fun. I was supposed to be at church, but things didn’t work out with a babysitter and I didn’t want to dump Em on anyone else last minute. Good thing too because she was, in her words “Gwumpy girl”.
Now it’s the end of a very long day and I’m trying to unwind.I’m going to do a Thursday Thirteen just for fun and probably read a book until Morgan gets off work. Gnight. Oh and I Edited Emily’s Page.

So I go in to wake Emily up this morning because she is going to go with me to staff meeting. Bye the time I got there she was already awake. Standing there in her crib with NO clothes on. Diaper gonzo! not good not good! panic! This is gonna be gross. I guess this was just a warning for next time. No messes to clean up. YAY! She must have only taken the diapey off in the few minutes before I got her or we would have had issues. I thought she had managed to get all her clothes off, but I guess the sitter put her down in just a diaper cause there wasn’t a sleeper to be found. Whew. Takes me back. Apparently my parents called me Houdini baby and had to pin my sleepers on backwards to keep me in them. Please no baby finger painting! NOOOO!

We went to the garlic festival on the weekend. It was pretty fun. Morgan cached in one of his triple dog dares to get me to eat a spicy clove of garlic. It was ok at first cause I like garlic, but after a sec my mouth was on fire!!!! Then I didn’t feel so good. My stomach was like “You jerk!”. so We went to another concession and got some delicious ribbettes and a big bottle of water for me to down. I think I probably still smell like garlic 2 days later. healthy though. I tried a garlic Jelly Bean. It was good. Maybe not my snack of choice, but good none the less.

We took Emily to see the Llamas. LLAMA FACE!!(sorry couldn’t help myself – Emperors new groove – See it!) She loves them. There was this “winner” standing out side the petting cage smoking with serious 80′s Ray bans. I was talking to the petting zoo guy about the pictures they offer. I said “could she get her picture taken with a sheep or something”. About then the “winner” pipes up.”Thats a llama!”. I was like “um duh. I meant the sheep over there. The one that looks like a sheep”. Ok I didn’t say that, but I wanted too. I wanted to be like”Actually it’s an alpaca, Mr. Winner”.

He then gets his little girl who is about 4 or 5 to come out and they walk away with him blowing smoke all around her. I cant really handle that. They know stuff now that they didn’t years ago. Nobody thought second hand smoke was bad before, but it IS! I so wanted to be like “Um Mr. Winner. Your damaging your daughters lungs and I hope she sues you when she gets older!”. Sorry. I just get frustrated by people whose habits effect kids. Its dumb. It should be considered child abuse to smoke in your car with the windows up and kids or babies in the car. It would be if you put any other kind of smoke or gas in there for them to breathe. Done ranting. Sorry

Heres a couple of pictures of Em and the Alpaca/sheep/llama/elephant.

Melissa and Holly with Me and Emmy.

Emily and Holly.

Speaking of Geek. We only have one episode left of the rerun 05 Beauty and the Geek. Its been fun watching the “Social experiment”. We were right ticked tho because the first season it reran didn’t air the final episode. I skipped it and ran the aftermath one. NOT cool. So we knew who won, but not why they did…stupid station. We checked to make sure this one was going to have an ending. We wouldn’t have watched it otherwise.

Em has been the nap queen for the last couple of days. I think she is teething really badly. She has been awake for like an hour before wanting to go back to sleep. Then she naps for like 4 hours and gets up all grumpy still. She went to bed without 1 tear last night. Not even an eep. She rolled over onto her tummy, stuck her butt in the air and closed her eyes. She was so tired I guess, but she wasn’t even grumpy. It was so nice for a change. She normally goes down fine, but cries or complains for a minute or two.

I’m trying to psych myself into cleaning mode. I did a bunch on the office this morning, but I still really want to get the basement done. The office is easier to do because its just trying to get stuff sorted out and then put it away. The basement is …well scary. I’m hoping I’ll have more time next week because Morgan is on mornings and will be home more. YAY!

Once again I got lost in surrey. I dont know how I did, but I did. I’ve only driven through Surrey twice, but both times I got lost. I think I get it know though. I was on the phone with Morgan looking for directions and we had a typical “Morgan/Courtenay – english mix-up.” I said I was following a neurotic driver. He said “do you mean erratic?” I was like “no shes pretty neurotic”. The whole time he thought I was saying errotic driver. It was funny.

I got to spend the day with Juliet, Leah and her boys. Got to meet my new little Neff Neff finally. Ikey-ohkey-oh is the cutest little guy. We took the tiny tots to the spray park. Silas and Em ran around in their swim diapers. It was so cute. I still cant post pics here, but when I get home there will be oodles. At one point Silas put his face down to look at this drain and thats when the water shot up and into his face. It went right up his nose. It was so funny. Em took a super face dive into the pavement. She has a nice road rash forehead. Its all torn up. They loves it to pieces. I wish we had a spray park.

We went to Juliets for din din. We have good pizzas and salad. Em and Silad smashed eachothers heads into the window and giggled. It made me laugh so hard that Em found someone to rough house with that just pushes back without crying about it. He even sat on her without her being bugged by it. At one point I was holding Issac and Emily cam and sat on my lap then Silas came and sat on Emily. It was cute. I cant wait till I get the pictures up.

It was a weird day for Emily. She refused to sleep all day. She snoozed for 10 minutes in the car on the way to abbotsford, 5 on the way to the spray park and like 20 on the way home. She screamed from surrey all the way home. It was brutal. I handed her off to nanny and got into the shortbread to take a breather. She’s finishing her bottle and then going to beddy bye baby. I can hardly wait. I hate it when shes grumpy. here’s to a good non-grumpy day tomorrow

I just put her down for a nap. She was starting to get whiny and came up to me saying “nigh nigh” over and over again. It was so cute. Needless to say she fell asleep really fast and Mommy is enjoying some down time. Wahoo! So I put some laundry in and snagged a bottle of water from the fridge and came upstairs to type away. I turned on itunes, but didn’t really feel like listening to anything in particular so I decided to enjoy the silence. Definitely weird for me.

Relay For Life is coming up next week. I’m not doing as good as I was hoping on my fundraising. I’m at $285 right now. I usually hit $400. I guess I have one more week to go, so we’ll see. It’s probably because I didn’t just have an o-so-cute baby this year. Thats ok with me. I’m glad I didn’t. Cause then I might look like I did in my last years pictures. I have come so far. I decided I was going to post my last years Relay picture along with a recent picture. Its hard to look at, but one does need to every once in a while. I was still me, but there was alot more of me to love last year. 48 pounds more. Kinda makes me shudder.

I’m trying to decide if I should take this running challenge I found out about. Its a podcast that can get you from the couch to 5K in like 10 weeks. I think I’d like to do it, but I’m not sure how Ill be able to time wise. I guess I managed to make time for the gym so maybe…hmm. It’d be neat to be able to run 5K. I never thought running was worth doing unless you were kicking a soccer ball, but now I see it as a time to get outside and enjoy where I live. And I’d get a chance to be alone! gotta take those chances when you get them.

Ucky

Emily’s first time Colouring. “Not in your mouth, on the paper!” She loved it.

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.

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

We went to a wedding today. Em was a little rotter. She did great when we went out for lunch, but come wedding time, no such luck. We sat in the nursery while she whined and whined. Then we brought her home and she collapsed into bed. Poor tuckered out little goose. I’m feeling much the same today. I think we are going to try and get a babysitter and take the night off. Morgan and I have been just missing each other for the past week. We haven’t really got a chance to talk since before I left for Avalanche. So I’m looking forward to a night off.

I’m almost finished this movie I’m making for church tomorrow. Its pretty simple, but its the first movie Ive ever made in Premiere. I watched and helped Leesh make 2 movies and now I’m trying this one by myself. It has a couple of glitches, but Leesh is here right now so she can help me out if I get really stuck. Anyways. I need to go chill out. Maybe Ill go get myself a London Frost. MMM. Yeah thats what I want to do!

Emily has the worst attitude today. Its crazy. She keeps freaking out over dumb stuff. Dealing with Toddler temper tantrums isn’t very fun. I’ve read so many different ways to deal with them, but I haven’t found something that fits us yet. Thankfully its nap time and I get a few moments reprieve. Grr. I think she’s waking up again. What is this?? AHH!
I have been overhauling my house. It was in serious need of a good cleaning. I’m going away for the long weekend and my in-laws are staying with Emily so I wanted to make sure the place wasn’t icky and cluttery. Man its relaxing to walk around in a clean house. I think I’ll even clean out the fridge today. I spilled a box of baking soda everywhere and I’ve been putting off cleaning it up. It looks like it snowed in my fridge. Or like a snow globe that has yet to be shaken.

Perfect segue into…

Sylar on last weeks Heroes. Its ok if you didn’t see it cause Sylar went psycho and killed his mom. Who does that. Seriously. I’m stoked for Heroes tonight. Only 2 episodes left. This is the only TV show Ive ever watched that I haven’t missed an episode. YAY for Tivo! Thats not true. Morgan rented the first season of 24 and I watched all of that. Loved/Hated it.

Oh yeah and guess who won the challenge at my gym. ME! I lost the most inches at the gym in the last 2 month. I won some candles. oooo. Plus even tho the last 2 weeks didn’t go so great I still lost a pound. I’m in the final 10 baby yeah!! I know everyone says those are the hardest, but I didn’t do so great on the last ten and now I’m back in the game. I’m pretty excited about it. Yay Me!

Emily has had a super long nap today. YAY! that was perfect timing because after a late night last night I really need to have a nap too. She is going to be so hungry when she wakes up and I just realized that I have not eggs for a quick scram. Hmm. I’ll have to think of something else to make. I made quinoa (keen-wa) For her last night and she seemed to like it alright. She didn’t love it, but I can work with that. Her daddy’s spicy pasta brings joy to her teeny heart. I think thats all Em wants right now. She’s still content with power oatmeal in the Morning but need something more substantial than regular baby food the rest of the day. So now aside from a bottle of formula at bedtime we don’t buy any baby food. I had been buying it for when she goes to the sitters, but she hates the stuff and I don’t blame her. It’s bland and kinda yucky. So I’ll just have to get more creative with on the go meals. ooo Planning ahead

Speaking of planning ahead. I don’t know what night yet, but we are having meatloaf. I decided yesterday I seriously wanted meat loaf. I’m getting excited just thinking about it. Maybe Ill have my parents over. They like my meatloaf. Wow now I’m hungry.

I haven’t got to Blog in the last couple of days. Things have been busier than normal. My life has undergone a very big change. No I’m not pregnant!!(why does everyone think that? and whats with people all having dreams that I am??)
We got a new car!!! YAY!. Freedom. It the prettiest lil silver Jetta. My Father-in-Law was so excited to bring it up and surprise us that he drove all night and slept in the car. I walked right by him sleeping in the car and got in my truck to go to church. It was so funny. Morgan and I are currently working on a name for the car and as of yet we haven’t even decided if its male or female. I’ll let you know whenever I do.

Emily is having a nap so I get a few minutes to myself. I’m glowing still because my friend Georgia moved back to 100 mile. She was living in Saskatchewan for a long time. Her son Flynn and Emily are supposed to be the same age, but do to Emily’s impatience well…hes younger by a month. I’m excited to have another little friend for Emily to play with. Another little boy…goodness all boys. Just like Mommy I guess.

This week I’m on the quest for amazing healthy Toddler food. I have a few things that rock, but I want better Ideas. I saw this awesome book at the library, but we owe them money for late fees so that’ll have to wait. I wish they took interac. I never can remember to carry cash when I think about going to the library. I’ve been searching online for good Ideas, but my idea of healthy and other people’s idea of healthy are very different. I don’t think a toddlers favorite food should be kraft dinner. I don’t think it should be anyones favy. We don’t even buy it anymore. YAY! I love the stuff, but thats no reason to eat crap all the time. I think I’d like to get a pressure cooker to can some baby soups and lentils and stuff. Right now Emily loves beans. Hooray for fibre!!