Miss Communication

I don't know where we went wrong. I told her to brush her teeth again and she asked G to pass this note along to me with a lip quivering breathless sob so that "I could understand".

Local watering hole

Just back from a glorious week long trip to Vancouver and in the middle of a nice heat wave, we decided to brave the peepee waters of Riley Park. The kids have eagerly joined in a pick-up water fight. L, making up her own team, has turned to shooting random passerbys in the bum, especially tormenting a cute girl in a green bikini.

mushroom rage

Eemo was busy preparing her dinner and was taken by surprise when L came down for a glass of water and saw her precious mushrooms chopped up on the counter.

L: HEYYY!!!!!!!!

Those are MY mushrooms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I picked them with MY hand!!!!!!!!

And I was going to eat it tomorrow morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHH!!! (tears of rage are spilling over at this point)

Eemo had to open the paper bag to show L there were plenty of mushrooms left for her to eat before she calmed down enough to go to bed.

Rude Awakenings

(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!"

Michael Shorts

(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!'

Leah's Second Birthday

(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.

Gingerbread House Mayhem

(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.