(taken from our old .mac site)
Sept 2008
It was summer 2006, dave and robyn ross were staying with us and michael was 2.5 years old. he toddles into our room in the morning with a full dirty diaper to find his parents still passed out in bed and yells: "Gerry! Wake uppeh! Changeh my diaper!" we all crack up but michael doesn't find this amusing. he's all worried how his poop is in contact with his little bum.
And just last week leah creeps into our bedroom to find gerry still passed out. she wants him to wake up and he just wants to cuddle. so she relents and snuggles up right into daddy's side and as soon as they get all comfy:
"i pooed, and peed, and pangood, and farted. change my diaper please"
"did you poo and pee and pangoo?"
"and farted!"
(taken from our old .mac site)
Almost 3 years old: michael's first job was at our store in high river. since M enjoys pushing the handicap button to open the door gerry got him to open the door to customers as they leave and say 'thank you, come again!'
(taken from our old .mac site)
January 26, 2008
Had a low-key 2nd birthday for Leah. Went to tom's house of pizza with the grandparents and angie ee-mo for food and the hockey game. Afterwards, since Leah likes sweets so much we thought we'd walk across to the cheesecake cafe for some dessert.
Leah gets in and starts cheering in front of the cake display case and runs up and down the length of it (which is half the width of the restaurant). Does her happy dance and can't get over herself. People waiting for their table are laughing at her at this point. We had her on a zero-sugar diet for a few days already to try to dissolve her neck cyst, so needless to say this was a special treat.
Only it was around 6:30pm and they had a big dinner crowd. Dessert would have been a one hour wait so we decided to screw with Leah's dessert and try another time. Leah wouldn't have it and after a few minutes of asking her nicely to leave she realised she wasn't going to have any dessert and had a fit. Gerry carried her out over his shoulder as she was grasping the air and crying for her precious cakes. "my cakes! my cakes! no my cakes! please!" People around are still laughing.
Guilt strikes us and we decide to take her somewhere less busy. Dairy Queen closes at 7pm and we make it in 10 mins before closing. She had her cake. We went home to open presents from
ee-mo.
We'll take her to cheesecake cafe one day soon.
(taken from our old .mac site)
November 2007
So we picked up a gingerbread house kit at Costco and were anticipating a nice "family time" constructing our craft.
Dad agreed to make it with the kids while mom went to her night class, and again, he had this romantic notion that they'd bond and have tons of fun making their house.
Dad opens the package and the first thing Leah does is grab a wall and try to eat it, only it cracks a bit and Michael is immediately reduced to tears and starts screaming for his precious wall. And then they open the packages of candy and immediately Leah starts grabbing fistfuls and stuffs it in her mouth, Michael again starts screaming. Leah decides enough of this foolishness and goes to open a package of tiny red ball candies by herself, only the bag pops open and these balls scatter all over our living room (two weeks later we still find them in our vacuum). Construction is paused again due to screaming and gathering the red candies.
So dad makes the house, only he didn't read the directions where it says to let the icing stand 15 mins to harden and just lets the kids go. The roof starts to slide down and Michael screams again. Now dads hands are both holding up the roof while Michael and Leah decorate and fight.
Finally dad recruits the gingerbread men to hold up the roof and things start to settle down. There was happy family time at last.
(taken from our old .mac site)
August 11, 2007
For about 5 months we had been continuously reminding M that he was going to “give the pillow” to dad at his uncle’s wedding. We were marketing it as fun, special, important, a rite of childhood. Dad showed him some old videos of our wedding when his cousin Matthew (who M idolizes) was our ringboy. Dad risked bringing M to Harry & Marina’s ceremony so he could see his friend Brandon be the ringboy . But for the whole time M kept shaking his head and tirelessly reminded us that he wouldn’t do it “I won’t do it. I just won’t.”
At the rehearsal M had a change of heart and executed his role perfectly and even had fun. L passed with flying colors being the flowergirl.
The day of, M sees the flower petal basket and realizes he’s been suckered into the lesser role because L gets to make a mess while M only has to deliver a pillow. So he decides to make a last minute switch. L doesn’t know any better than to not accept his terms and mom is just happy to have M happy to go down the aisle.
The bridesmaids have gone and its the munchkim’s turn go down the aisle, they grab each other’s hands and proceed. L sees dad waiting on the stage and starts towards him but then she sees hundreds of people smiling at her with anticipation, she screams and turns around towards mom. She won’t have any part of this wedding.
M is confused with this set back and mom is panicking and thinking “oh, they can’t get married today because L won’t go down the aisle” and just as I turn to Jennifer it hits her to screw with L, just send M. He went down that aisle throwing petals high above his head with glee, oblivious to the people watching him and happy to be making his mess.
But he gets to the end of the aisle and doesn’t know what to do with the basket, its not the pillow as rehearsed . Gives dad a look and asks if he wants it. Dad shakes his head and M turns around and walks back down the aisle and passes Jennifer on his way back.
(taken from our old .mac site)
Spring 2006
So we had a family outing at Market Mall and after lunch mom & baby Leah parted ways with dad & Michael. mom & L left first to get a head start at browsing the shops, dad & Michael were going to check out the playground, pet store and toys r us right after a bathroom break.
So Michael is running circles around Gerry as they are heading for the bathroom and Gerry takes his eyes off of M while he takes care of business and as he's washing his hands it strikes him that M wasn't around.
Dad calls out in the bathroom - no answer.
Dad runs out and does a quick scan - no M in sight
Dad calls for him - no answer
Goes back into the bathroom - no M
Click! Panic sets in. He leaves the bathroom and yells at the top of his lungs M I C H A E L !!!!!!!
The whole food court stops and looks his way, even the workers at the food court booths from a&w to orange jullius stop to look at who made such a loud yell. And M pops up from around the corner "i'm right here" as he swings his arm across himself and has a mischievious grin on his face.
Gerry picks him up and doesn't stop running until they were out of the food court.
(taken from our old .mac site)
Sept 2005
M was almost 2 years old and went to "yellow m" with dad.
So dad is in line waiting to order some food and M won't stay still and goes wandering off. Dad, not wanting to loose his place in line just watches and M wanders over to a table with a mom feeding her kids. The mom gives dad the look to say that it's ok that M's there.
M starts making conversation and describes the scene in front of him: "yellow m", "fwies", "chingoo (friend)", "eat it" and then his head goes red and he starts grunting to push out a stinky poop.
Thank goodness the mom finds his hilarious. Dad looses his spot in line to do the diaper change and after they finally get to eat.
All the while M is in his superman pajamas - cape and all.
(taken from our old .mac site)
Summer 2005
Auntie Jewel, dressed to the 9's as usual, walks in wearing a black mini-skirt and a cute summer top. After the commotion over Jewel's shapely bod, 1.5-year old M learned the phrase "sexy mama!" and realised he'd get a very favorable reaction if he said it to his mom and other aunties.
Sometime later on an outing with dad they needed to stop at a bank machine. There was a lady in front of them and M walks up to her and yells "Sexy Mama!". Gerry is embarrassed and thinks its funny. When she turns around to leave Gerry can see that she was an old gray granny, well beyond her prime, smiling as she walked out. We told M he can only say that to Auntie Jewel from now on.
(taken from our old .mac site)
Summer 2005
Gerry's driving around town running some errands with Michael in tow. Later on in the day Gerry gets cut off by a minivan and yells "C'mon Lady!!!". Watching his dad erupt in anger certainly made an impression on little 1.5 year old M.
Five minutes later as Gerry is trying to express his displeasure to the minivan driver with a bit of aggresive driving, but he gets caught speeding in a school zone. Gerry is panicked because he didn't have the registration in the car and it was bad enough that he was in a school zone. Even calls his loving wife in a panic to come and deliver the registration.
So the officer comes to the car and Gerry opens his window. He was just about to explain that he didn't have his registration when M yells out from the backseat "C'mon Lady!!!". Gerry is mortified and prepares for the police officer, who happens to be a female officer, to write him up a huge ticket.
She is amused with M and starts to ask about him...name, age. And in the end lets Gerry off with a light fine. I didn't have to deliver the registration.
