Teeth....

Poor little Ethan is teething so badly. He has his two lower centrals already but he is working on four uppers now. His rt lateral broke through the other day and today his left central broke through. I have never seen him so miserable! Kaitlyn was never fazed with teething and I wouldn't know she cut one till I felt it. However Ethan is the opposite and it is a brutal long miserable process for him. To top it all off he has been under the weather with a cold and has boogers in his eyes, poor little man.

We ventured out of the house today to do some running around and met up with Dave for lunch at -where else- Wendy's. We even ventured into the 'hood' to see my cousins at their shop. A rather scary place to go. I hadn't remembered it being that bad, but my heart was racing as we walked from the truck to the shop. The people on the street (sitting, standing, walking and slouched in cars) just look at you with a blank stare, a sad stare, the kind that follows you. Erie. I wish I could read their thoughts. Homes with lawns never mowed, roofs with tarps on them, furniture and junk rotting in yards and boarded and smashed windows. What makes me sad is knowing that a huge portion of this city is hood, like over half. And it is only getting worse. I don't see it every day and forget that other side of the coin. Makes a heart hurt! A really sad deep kind of hurt.

Back on the home front...

Kaitlyn is bouncing back to her normal self. Can you tell?

And here she is in her bed-not having her nap-reading to her Dora's.

A Bridal Shower

Lisa is getting married!!!

She will make a beautiful bride! So exciting, I want to get married again (to Dave...of course) so I can have another shower...actually I think that every 10 years you should qualify for another shower since by then all your stuff is worn out. She did get a bunch of amazing things and will really help them get started!


Above are the two ring leaders. Mom and Marlys planned the whole thing and Holly laboured all day to make all the awesome decorations. It was really pretty .

We played the clothes pin game and I came in third place, yee haa I got some funky coasters as a prize, and we also played a riddle math game which the older ladies won because they racked up the points for being married for sooooooooo long and wearing button up blouses!

Of course Dora was there, did you think we could sneak out without her?

Emily even dressed up for the occasion in a pretty summer print and....we all got to take a party favour home, a flower to plant in the garden. All in all it was a really fun, just ask Dora!

We time.

This weekend flew by. The kids are still sick and last night was the most miserable yet. I think I maybe got 2 hrs sleep and they didn't come till after 5:30 this morning. I am shaky tired today and have called for reinforcements, due now to arrive in an hour. I am so not getting anything done today! My head is in a fog!!! At least I am not snappy, I am remembering that these sweet little miracles have no reason to be snapped at and I need to have all the patience and keep giving and being cheerful for their sakes.....and weirdly enough the cheerfulness that I am acting is rubbing off on my dreary soul. Ahh, and i haven't even made coffee yet!

Anyway....The weekend was really nice. Dave took the kids for a walk to the park and fed the geese, Kaitlyn had one eating right from her hand. He stumbled across a bike fair and we later went back for hot dogs in support of the food bank. While he was out with the kids it gave me time to get by brain back in shape and get the house cleaned. What an amazing feeling, when the house is clean I feel like my brain is in order and I am not as snappy, must be a release of sorts.


Ethan does all the driving at Safeway because.....Kaitlyn loves to be on the phone and it goes something like this..."hello...oooohh...ya..ya...Dora...ya...baby..ya, yaa...bye."


Sunday afternoon my parents had all the cousins over for pizza (thank you Great G&G-in the pic above- for that). Here are a few of the pics of said parties....and us of course, since this blog is really about us.(wink)




Greg & Steph and Ben & Lisa...........soooooooo in love!!!!!!!!!!


Sunday afternoon we worked in the yard and got bombarded with caterpillars, they were everywhere!

And lastly, here is Kaitlyn with a blue play dough face. She was smelling the 'flower' Dave made for her and decided to lick it too. Thank goodness it is non toxic.

We generation X ers...

I was a kid but this is me...

You Are 60% A Child of the 80s

Back in the day, you were totally 80s. Tubular, totally tubular.

And Dave, who really grew up in it as a tween/teen...

You Are 76% A Child of the 80s

Not only did you experience the 80s... you are practically an expert. You should be totally stoked!

Are You a Child of the 80s?

Whew!

I must say that today has been much better. We even had a picnic lunch, in the living room and it was a happy one!

Thank you all of you who care so much and send your love and support through your comments, it really meant a lot to see you reach out, like a big virtual hug.

Last night was horrible. Both kids woke up continually till 1:45am when I brought Ethan in with us and Dave got Kaitlyn at 2:10. She kept waking herself up with coughing and we tried to get some meds into her so she could sleep. Of course it was a huge battle and she spit and spewed and flailed and screamed, she did settle though and nursed for comfort through the rest of the night. Back and forth, and back and forth....needless to say we weren't up till 10:00am. Which was a good thing because we were all rested and much happier today. I did make coffee, yea, off to a great start! My nerves were under wraps and the sun was shining, I hadn't made plans...getting smarter!
Dave came home for lunch as a nice surprise for the kids and then the internet went down and I ended up on the phone with tech support for an hour figuring out what had gone wrong. Needless to say it is running again, but I felt strangely disconnected from my cyber world for a few minutes.Whew!

We then went out and ran errands...sans proper naps!(Ethan snuck in 15 mins during lunch) I had booked a tanning appointment and dropped the kids off at my parents so I could have those few blissful moments to myself. Ahh, total relaxation, no interruptions...for 12 minutes, they were an amazing 12 minutes! I emerged rested and energized, it is amazing what a few minutes can do for a zonked mommy. Here are some pics in my parents front yard of Kaitlyn petting a caterpillar. I freak out when I see a bug, become somewhat paralyzed and screech, I am such a girl. Well, Kaitlyn has seen me do this and started to cry when she came across a bug the other day. I realized I had better suck it up because the last thing we need is a woosy girl. So I have been trying to teach her a little about bugs and leaving the rest of it to those who actually like them. She has come around to them rather quickly and even likes to pet fuzzy ones.


Phil and Em came home with with us and I was able to get some cleaning done, yee-ha, huge step up from yesterday! And we spent the rest of the afternoon with Dora. I think she has managed to make it into almost all of our photos one way or another. This evening we went out to Home Depot to pick up a new BBQ, yee-ha, thank you Grandma and Papa A. The pics of that adventure are in the slideshow below this post. The last pic was taken just before the kids went to sleep tonight. Kaitlyn set all the toys on the couch so they could all watch an episode of Dora together. Awww, hope tonight is better. As I was putting them in their beds, brushing the hair off their little foreheads and kissing their little cheeks it brought tears to my eyes. This is such a privilege to raise these little ones and I just pray that I can be a better mother, more patient and not be snappy and cranky, they don't deserve to be around that. Neither does Dave so I better send up some prayers in the wife departement as well. I know they don't mean to get on my nerves, they just need me, I am their mommy! Sob, sniff....I just love them so much and wish I could show it all the time!