Today was the big day! Lincoln got on a bus for the first time, and headed in to school. I can't believe he is this OLD... it is incredible. Anyway, he had no nerves, and was excited to head out. Here are a couple videos!
Pre-bus interview with Dad
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Babies Don’t Keep
Babies Don’t Keep
by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton
Mother, O Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing, make up the bed,
Sew on a button and butter the bread.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.
Oh, I’ve grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue,
Lullabye, rockabye, lullabye loo.
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo
The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew
And out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo
But I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo
Look! Aren’t his eyes the most wonderful hue?
Lullabye, rockaby lullabye loo.
The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow
But children grow up as I’ve learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!
I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.
by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton
Mother, O Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing, make up the bed,
Sew on a button and butter the bread.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.
Oh, I’ve grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue,
Lullabye, rockabye, lullabye loo.
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo
The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew
And out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo
But I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo
Look! Aren’t his eyes the most wonderful hue?
Lullabye, rockaby lullabye loo.
The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow
But children grow up as I’ve learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!
I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Annual Mother's Day Photos
Sooooooo... this year didn't go as spectacularly as usual. This tradition started two years ago:
Mother's Day Photos 2009
Mother's Day Photos 2010
As the kids grow older, their personalities play more and more a role in how these photos turn out. Today we realized we are about a month late in taking these pictures, because nearly one month ago I was gearing up to leave on a trip to CHINA! (more on that later). It was actually on the car ride to the airport that we realized that we had completely forgotten, and I was about to be gone for 2 weeks. Now I've been home for a week and a half and I decided this morning that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! and tried to fit in a quick picture or two before I had to leave for work. It is probably the first time the 4 of us have had some down time together in the same room since I got back. Scary.
Anyway, JUST as we were walking out the door, Taylor stepped on Lincoln's foot, so of course, Lincoln tripped her. Now Taylor was crying, then Mike yelled at Lincoln. This happened in the 15 SECONDS I turned my back to walk out the freaking door!! So here they are, in all their glory:
Grumpy face:
REALLY grumpy face:
Trying to salvage the session:
OK, not improving:
REALLY not getting better:
So there it is!! HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
Mother's Day Photos 2009
Mother's Day Photos 2010
As the kids grow older, their personalities play more and more a role in how these photos turn out. Today we realized we are about a month late in taking these pictures, because nearly one month ago I was gearing up to leave on a trip to CHINA! (more on that later). It was actually on the car ride to the airport that we realized that we had completely forgotten, and I was about to be gone for 2 weeks. Now I've been home for a week and a half and I decided this morning that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! and tried to fit in a quick picture or two before I had to leave for work. It is probably the first time the 4 of us have had some down time together in the same room since I got back. Scary.
Anyway, JUST as we were walking out the door, Taylor stepped on Lincoln's foot, so of course, Lincoln tripped her. Now Taylor was crying, then Mike yelled at Lincoln. This happened in the 15 SECONDS I turned my back to walk out the freaking door!! So here they are, in all their glory:
Grumpy face:
REALLY grumpy face:
Trying to salvage the session:
OK, not improving:
REALLY not getting better:
So there it is!! HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
Thursday, April 28, 2011
April 2011
Bullet Points:
Taylor:
Taylor:
- Turned Two.
- Is getting two molars.
- Is sleeping about as well as she used to (on again/off again). No clear pattern with that girl.
- Says a lot of interesting things now, including words like "dinosaur," and "bakugan," (wonder who influenced THOSE) but also cute ones like "delicious," and "oh no!" (which we are really sick of, because everything is a disaster). She wants to know "What's that sound?" by cupping her hand to her ear all the time, and I rarely have noticed that anything was actually making a noise. She wants to know the name of everything, like "harmonica," which she massacres, but it is really cute. She can identify all sorts of body parts, like "eyebrow" and "forehead."
- She has become really snuggly. I never thought she would be.
- She never lets me mess with her hair. Some day!! It is getting really long and I want to pull it back, but the most she will let me do is put a clip in to keep it out of her eyes.
- Is soon to turn 5. He loudly proclaims that he is 4 and 2/3.
- He is still "very into Bakugans" but also "really likes eagles and dinosaurs." The eagles is a new thing. Actually, both kids are really interested in birds, which is strange because I haaaaaaaaaate birds. Speaking of birds, he likes to play "Angry Birds"... a LOT, and is really proficient on the computer.
- He is really smart.
- He only recently became interested in coloring, and does so very, very carefully.
- He is hysterical. But then again, he always has been.
- He's been going to preschool three half-days a week, and has a best friend. He has LOTS of friends there, and has been invited to lots of parties, so that is a relatively new phenomenon for us... trying to get him to his own social events. *sigh*
- He got in, via lottery, to a local public charter school for when he starts kindergarten in the fall. He has to wear uniforms. We're really trying to brush up on a lot of his academic skills, but I think he'll do great.
Friday, January 07, 2011
Thinking of Having Kids? Do this 11 step program first!
Saw this one on Facebook ( My Smart Hands South Calgary), and had to share:
Lesson 1
1. Go to the grocery store.
2. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office.
3. Go home.
4. Pick up the newspaper.
5. Read it for the last time.
Lesson 2
Before you finally go ahead and have children, find a couple who already are parents and berate them about their.
1. Methods of discipline.
2. Lack of patience.
3. Appallingly low tolerance levels.
4. Allowing their children to run wild.
5. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child's breast feeding, sleep habits, toilet training, table manners, and overall behaviour. Enjoy it because it will be the last time in your life you will have all the answers.
Lesson 3
A really good way to discover how the nights might feel.
1. Get home from work and immediately begin walking around the living room from 5PM to 10PM carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 8-12 pounds, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly. (Eat cold food with one hand for dinner)
2. At 10PM, put the bag gently down, set the alarm for midnight, and go to sleep.
3. Get up at 12 and walk around the living room again, with the bag, until 1AM.
4. Set the alarm for 3AM.
5. As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2AM and make a drink and watch an infomercial.
6. Go to bed at 2:45AM.
7. Get up at 3AM when the alarm goes off.
8. Sing songs quietly in the dark until 4AM.
9. Get up. Make breakfast. Get ready for work and go to work (work hard and be productive)
Repeat steps 1-9 each night. Keep this up for 3-5 years. Look cheerful and together.
Lesson 4
Can you stand the mess children make? To find out.
1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains.
2. Hide a piece of raw chicken behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.
3. Stick your fingers in the flower bed.
4. Then rub them on the clean walls.
5. Take your favourite book, photo album, etc. Wreck it.
6. Spill milk on your new pillows. Cover the stains with crayons. How does that look?
Lesson 5
Dressing small children is not as easy as it seems.
1. Buy an octopus and a small bag made out of loose mesh.
2. Attempt to put the octopus into the bag so that none of the arms hang out.
Time allowed for this - all morning.
Lesson 6
Forget the BMW and buy a mini-van. And don't think that you can leave it out in the driveway spotless and shining. Family cars don't look like that.
1. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment. Leave it there.
2. Get a dime. Stick it in the CD player.
3. Take a family size package of chocolate cookies. Mash them into the back seat. Sprinkle cheerios all over the floor, then smash them with your foot.
4. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.
Lesson 7
Go to the local grocery store. Take with you the closest thing you can find to a pre-school child. (A full-grown goat is an excellent choice). If you intend to have more than one child, then definitely take more than one goat. Buy your week's groceries without letting the goats out of your sight. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys.
Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children.
Lesson 8
1. Hollow out a melon.
2. Make a small hole in the side.
3. Suspend it from the ceiling and swing it from side to side.
4. Now get a bowl of soggy Cheerios and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon by pretending to be an airplane.
5. Continue until half the Cheerios are gone.
6. Tip half into your lap. The other half, just throw up in the air.
You are now ready to feed a nine- month-old baby.
Lesson 9
Learn the names of every character from Sesame Street , Barney, Disney, the Teletubbies, and Pokemon. Watch nothing else on TV but PBS, the Disney channel or Noggin for at least five years. (I know, you're thinking What's 'Noggin'?) Exactly the point.
Lesson 10
Make a recording of Fran Drescher saying 'mommy' repeatedly. (Important: no more than a four second delay between each 'mommy'; occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet is required). Play this tape in your car everywhere you go for the next four years. You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.
Lesson 11
Start talking to an adult of your choice. Have someone else continually tug on your skirt hem, shirt- sleeve, or elbow while playing the 'mommy' tape made from Lesson 10 above. You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.
Lesson 1
1. Go to the grocery store.
2. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office.
3. Go home.
4. Pick up the newspaper.
5. Read it for the last time.
Lesson 2
Before you finally go ahead and have children, find a couple who already are parents and berate them about their.
1. Methods of discipline.
2. Lack of patience.
3. Appallingly low tolerance levels.
4. Allowing their children to run wild.
5. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child's breast feeding, sleep habits, toilet training, table manners, and overall behaviour. Enjoy it because it will be the last time in your life you will have all the answers.
Lesson 3
A really good way to discover how the nights might feel.
1. Get home from work and immediately begin walking around the living room from 5PM to 10PM carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 8-12 pounds, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly. (Eat cold food with one hand for dinner)
2. At 10PM, put the bag gently down, set the alarm for midnight, and go to sleep.
3. Get up at 12 and walk around the living room again, with the bag, until 1AM.
4. Set the alarm for 3AM.
5. As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2AM and make a drink and watch an infomercial.
6. Go to bed at 2:45AM.
7. Get up at 3AM when the alarm goes off.
8. Sing songs quietly in the dark until 4AM.
9. Get up. Make breakfast. Get ready for work and go to work (work hard and be productive)
Repeat steps 1-9 each night. Keep this up for 3-5 years. Look cheerful and together.
Lesson 4
Can you stand the mess children make? To find out.
1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains.
2. Hide a piece of raw chicken behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.
3. Stick your fingers in the flower bed.
4. Then rub them on the clean walls.
5. Take your favourite book, photo album, etc. Wreck it.
6. Spill milk on your new pillows. Cover the stains with crayons. How does that look?
Lesson 5
Dressing small children is not as easy as it seems.
1. Buy an octopus and a small bag made out of loose mesh.
2. Attempt to put the octopus into the bag so that none of the arms hang out.
Time allowed for this - all morning.
Lesson 6
Forget the BMW and buy a mini-van. And don't think that you can leave it out in the driveway spotless and shining. Family cars don't look like that.
1. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment. Leave it there.
2. Get a dime. Stick it in the CD player.
3. Take a family size package of chocolate cookies. Mash them into the back seat. Sprinkle cheerios all over the floor, then smash them with your foot.
4. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.
Lesson 7
Go to the local grocery store. Take with you the closest thing you can find to a pre-school child. (A full-grown goat is an excellent choice). If you intend to have more than one child, then definitely take more than one goat. Buy your week's groceries without letting the goats out of your sight. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys.
Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children.
Lesson 8
1. Hollow out a melon.
2. Make a small hole in the side.
3. Suspend it from the ceiling and swing it from side to side.
4. Now get a bowl of soggy Cheerios and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon by pretending to be an airplane.
5. Continue until half the Cheerios are gone.
6. Tip half into your lap. The other half, just throw up in the air.
You are now ready to feed a nine- month-old baby.
Lesson 9
Learn the names of every character from Sesame Street , Barney, Disney, the Teletubbies, and Pokemon. Watch nothing else on TV but PBS, the Disney channel or Noggin for at least five years. (I know, you're thinking What's 'Noggin'?) Exactly the point.
Lesson 10
Make a recording of Fran Drescher saying 'mommy' repeatedly. (Important: no more than a four second delay between each 'mommy'; occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet is required). Play this tape in your car everywhere you go for the next four years. You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.
Lesson 11
Start talking to an adult of your choice. Have someone else continually tug on your skirt hem, shirt- sleeve, or elbow while playing the 'mommy' tape made from Lesson 10 above. You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.
Monday, November 01, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
And with the blink of an eye...
...three months go by. Life seems to be speeding up around here, both in good ways and bad ways. We're all SO BUSY!
I think I realized that catching up completely is a pipe dream, but at the very least I can give a couple day to day short ones here and there... fair enough?
Most recent update: Taylor has been falling out of her crib in an effort to escape, so it was time to move her to a "big girl bed": currently a twin mattress on the floor with bed rails on either side. Since she can also scale baby gates, and we NEED to have her bedroom door open to let the heat in, we have to use *two* baby gates. We also had to re-baby-proof her room. So all that is a work in progress.
She went to her 18 month doctor's appointment yesterday, and it turns out at least part of her foul mood of late is because of an ear infection. Poor thing! I never would have guessed.
Her stats:
34" long
23 lb 4 oz
47 cm HC
No idea where that puts her on the curve, but our doc didn't complain, so I guess we're good.
Lincoln started pre-school 3 half-days in September. He's loving it, and it is really enriching all the things he already knows. I'm so glad he is in this program, because now that we are already looking ahead to a kindergarten program (seriously, I already went to an info session for NEXT September), I can see what a disadvantage he would have had without it.
All for now, more soon :)
I think I realized that catching up completely is a pipe dream, but at the very least I can give a couple day to day short ones here and there... fair enough?
Most recent update: Taylor has been falling out of her crib in an effort to escape, so it was time to move her to a "big girl bed": currently a twin mattress on the floor with bed rails on either side. Since she can also scale baby gates, and we NEED to have her bedroom door open to let the heat in, we have to use *two* baby gates. We also had to re-baby-proof her room. So all that is a work in progress.
She went to her 18 month doctor's appointment yesterday, and it turns out at least part of her foul mood of late is because of an ear infection. Poor thing! I never would have guessed.
Her stats:
34" long
23 lb 4 oz
47 cm HC
No idea where that puts her on the curve, but our doc didn't complain, so I guess we're good.
Lincoln started pre-school 3 half-days in September. He's loving it, and it is really enriching all the things he already knows. I'm so glad he is in this program, because now that we are already looking ahead to a kindergarten program (seriously, I already went to an info session for NEXT September), I can see what a disadvantage he would have had without it.
All for now, more soon :)
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