The Forgotten Post

It seems as I go about my days there are so many things that are blog worthy. However, as events unfold quickly around here, I do not often have time to sit and compose my thoughts when they are happening. I make mental notes to blog about this or that but when I have a few moments - I have forgotten what it was I was intending to share.

I suppose I should start another list - a list of my blog ideas. I could always go through my pictures. I am sure there is photographic evidence of the moment. There are many photo worthy events around here. Three children are an endless supply of photo opportunities...some welcome, others not so welcome! :) Either way, it is fun to share the moments with you.

Hope your week is good so far.

Blessings,
Kim

Ribbons and Bows

My friend, Sara's sister-in-law makes bows...the kind you put in your little girl's hair. Well, the SIL was in town and taught Sara how to make them. Sara, being the kind hearted soul that she is , decided to share her new found skill with some of her friends (who have girls). She invited 6 of us over to her house for a lesson in bow making. We each purchased enough supplies to make 12 of the same bow. We, then swapped materials at the class - each of us ending up with enough materials for 6 different pairs of bows. How exciting!

I was somewhat surprised at how simple it was (once I got the hang of the folding and flipping).

So, here are a couple of pictures of the girls with the bows in that I made. I have to say this can be a little addicting. Especially, when the girls will leave their pretties alone now. It will be hard trying to decide how to spend any little bits of monies now...scrapbook supplies, beads, or ribbon for bows! What is a girl to do??








Thanks again, Sara!

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In fact, I should probably be doing something else right now...oh I don't know, maybe folding clothes or cleaning the bathrooms. I could go through my stack of magazines and pull out the ones to recycle or what about getting together the items for donation (they will be here next week to pick up). Nah, blogging is much more fun!

I really do need to go now.

Have a great day and Happy Blogging!
Blessings,
Kim

First Encounter of the Creepy Kind

The girls and I were playing in the pool when I heard the squeaking of our postal carrier's truck. I had a letter to mail and since she normally comes after noon - I thought I had plenty of time to get it to the mailbox. This was not the case! I quickly got the girls out of the pool, ran inside, grabbed the letter and ran to the front - only to see her halfway down the block already. Darn!

I went back inside only to see Emma at the back sliding glass door yelling something to me about finding a 'crab'. A crab, in Arizona...I don't think so. I place the mail on the counter and proceed to go out back to look at this new found 'crab'. I walk to the post where they are standing and immediately go into panic mode - it was not a crab but a scorpion! Yes, I said SCORPION!!

I sternly told the girls to back away and ran back inside to get something to place over the creepy bug - I was not about to step on it can you imagine the crunch that thing would make - YUCK!

I grabbed a Ziploc container and placed it over top of the scorpion, then I called Jason to make sure he would be home for lunch so HE could kill it. Well, the scorpion didn't make it till lunch, he didn't even make it to the end of swim time. We are not sure what killed him - a little girl's size 11 flip flop, the tire of a Little Tykes car, the bug spray that the bug guy sprayed the day before, being covered by a Ziploc container with no air holes on a 100 degree day or any combination of the a fore mentioned possibilities.

We did take some pictures. I still get the creepy crawlies when I look at it.







Only one run in with a scorpion...not bad comsidering we have been in the house almost a year and have not had any prior incidents involving scorpions. Here's hoping this is our last (and if not - at least I may have figured out how to kill one).

First Tooth

Look closely.
See it?
Right there, by the tip of my finger.
Come on, tell me you see it...it is there.
I promise!

OK, so it is a little hard to see but this is a picture of Carter's first tooth. He cut his lower left front tooth the morning of Friday, July 11, 2008.

No more big toothless gummy grin. I just love baby smiles - all gums and no teeth! So cute!

:(

His looks will start to change now from baby to little boy...I am not quite ready for this. Times seems to not care much about a mother's heart and marches on any way. He is such a sweet thing. There are many more to come (Emma cut hers two at a time - we'll see how Carter does).

Emma + Eggs + Carter + One Biter Biscuit =

A GREAT BIG MESS X 2!!

I will attempt to make this long story short (hopefully)...

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away (my bedroom) I was working with Sarah on her letters and sounds as she is wanting to read...

So, Sarah & I are reading in my bedroom, Emma is playing nicely in her bedroom (as I soon discovered things were not as I thought them to be). At some point in our story reading she must have used her stealth like ninja skills and escaped her room to the freedom of an unsupervised kitchen. With the kitchen universe at her disposal (since mom was distracted reading) she decided to venture into the usually off limits world of the refrigerator. Upon opening the door to the great unknown what does she see before her wondering little eyes but the carton of eggs (also a strictly off limits area). With no one to stop her from getting salmonella she opens the carton and stares at the strange white 'balls' inside...
"Hmmm, I wonder if dese bounce high?" her curious little mind asks and before she can stop herself she has grasped one and 'bounced' it to the floor below. Only it wasn't the floor it hit; it was the bottom of the refrigerator. The results were not what she had expected so she tried again, and again, and again. Silly mom that I am, I was not aware that she understood the concept - if at first you don't succeed try, try again. Well, she apparently does understand it because she tried to 'bounce' four eggs! Thankfully, it only took four for her to realize this was probably not the best idea. However, she now realized she had quite the mess and would probably be in trouble so she grabbed the dish towel and tried to clean it up. She soon discovered that this was a mess she could not contain so she left the towel in the eggs and the door to the refrigerator open and under her silent cloak she returned to playing in her room as if nothing had ever happened.

Some time after, Carter decided he was done playing and would like to eat. Sarah & I finished reading and left the confines of my room to head to the universe beyond where, upon entering the kitchen I crossed into a some parallel universe. It was my kitchen but it did not look like it had when I last left it. Needless to say, I was not happy! Nor did I find the momentary silver lining that would later cause me to laugh at said situation - which is why there are no pictures of the cracked eggs.

With Carter screaming for food and me screaming for Emma our quiet little part of the world spiraled into noisy chaos! I could not make lunch until the eggs were cleaned up but I could not clean up the eggs while holding Carter. If I placed Carter on the floor he would be in the eggs mess and if I placed him in his high chair without feeding him I would certainly lose my mind to his crying before the cleanup was done. Then I remembered...A friend just sent me some Gerber Biter Biscuits that her daughter was not eating any more. I'll give him one of those. Free hands, quiet baby - PERFECT! Or so I thought...

I finished cleaning the eggs and stood up to see this...I am SO not into messes! Especially food messes...I think of all my friends I am the last one to let my children start feeding themselves and seeing Carter today reminded me of that.
Well, he was happy and quiet while I was cleaning up the eggs - I guess that makes it all worth it. I am thankful that he was half naked so all I had to do when I finished feeding him was stick him in the sink and hose him down.

For now, the equilibrium has returned to my little corner of the universe. Of course, I do not expect it to last long...especially since I hear the door to the girls room opening, meaning Emma is up from her nap.

Here's to a toddler's curiosity, a baby feeding himself, paper towels and nap time. I hope this post finds all things clean, quiet and well in your neck of the woods.

Self Portraits

'Beautiful Eyes'

'Sarah's Favorite'

'Super Smile!'

'Beautiful Girl'

I had a taken a few pictures for the specific purpose of blogging. So, in the few moments of quiet I have found today I decided to download and do a quick post or two. Along with the photos I was expecting to see - I found these. I couldn't help but have a little laugh when I saw her being such a ham (for herself)! I hope these bring a smile to your day too...such a silly girl!

Happy Boy!

We were at our friend's Kim and Dan's house today for a BBQ. We were enjoying a laid back after the fourth get together with the Morse' and the Bedards. Dan grilled burgers and dogs. Leslie and I both brought pasta salad and I took cupcakes (YUM). Dan & Kim have a trampoline and Jason couldn't resist taking Carter on it. Well, as soon as Sarah saw daddy on the trampoline with Carter she thought she'd join them. As you can see, he was having a great time. What you can't see is that his big sister Sarah would jump up in the air and then land on her bum. The result...big giggles from Carter. This only served to fuel Sarah's desire to continue, which in turn made him giggle even more. This little activity produced some serious belly laughs from our sweet little boy.
I'll post more pics from the afternoon...the kids went swimming and diving and sliding down their ginormous inflatable water slide. Fun was had by all.

Happy Independence Day!

We had a relatively quiet day today. Quiet in terms of what we did not quiet in regards to the noise level around here. I am thankful that Carter is still a fairly sound sleeper because both of his sisters seem to get louder when I lay him down for his nap.

We hung out here at the house. Other than a quick trip to the movie store (Jason and Sarah) we went no where today. We played in the pool, grilled burgers, made cupcakes, took some pictures... (someone wasn't exactly cooperating - can you guess which one it was?)







Later (once the kiddos were in bed), we watched a movie & and some fireworks on tv but it isn't the same as watching them over the school in town or over Lake Huron whilst sitting on the beach in Grand Bend. I am starting to feel a little nostalgic...missing small town USA. It is just too late (& hot) to take the kids to any around here. They (the girlies) don't even seem to have fireworks on their radars yet anyway.

In other news, I took the side off of Emma's crib today. She was very excited to be sleeping in a big girl bed "just like Sarah". She did just fine going down - she didn't get up a hundred times like I prepared myself for and so far, she hasn't hit the floor. My baby girl is getting big. :-(
(Pic of Emma in her 'new' big girl bed...coming soon)

Speaking of getting big...Sarah starts school in just a matter of weeks. August 11th is the first day of school. She is very excited! I am mixed on the whole matter. Some days I am ready and others...well, others I am not. I'm sure I'll survive, many a mom before me has and been just fine (that is what I keep telling myself) ;-)

I do believe that is all the news that's fit to print.

I'm off to dreamland...sweet dreams!

Hmmm?

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.

Sometimes, you just can't help but shake your head!
(I'm shaking mine are you shaking yours?)

A New Look

Well, after spending two evenings unsuccessfully trying to edit the html code for my template, I finally downloaded one. Thank you, blogcrowds. I really would like to learn html but I may have to save that for another day. I forgot to copy the code for a couple of things - oops. Hopefully, I can get Jason to help me with that (again). Other than having to add all my widgets back in it was a relatively painless process. However, the next time I get the redesign bug...I think I'll just download the new template.

I've heard it said that inquiring minds want to know, I want to know...What do you think of the new layout? Let me know how you like it. Oh and just so you know, the remodel is not quite complete yet, there are a few things I would still like to play around with...so, keep checking back.

Have a great holiday weekend!
K

Happy Canada Day!

In celebration of our (my Grandpa was Canadian) Canadian heritage...

HAPPY CANADA DAY!

We used to celebrate these two holidays (Canada Day & Fourth of July) in Grand Bend. We would camp at the Pinery (our favorite place to camp!) and go into town to watch the fireworks on the beach. It was so cool to sit/lay on the beach and watch the fireworks explode out over Lake Huron. The reflection on the water, the smell of spent shells, all the people - what a great way to celebrate.

Hope you have a safe and happy holiday!