Im lying on the couch my eyes are closing. I am in that state where you are neither awake or asleep and you "think" you know what is going on. The kids are playing right beside me. I feel arms and legs crawling on top of me. And a voice wafts through to my hazy brain.

"hold still Ryan"

I open my eyes and for a moment it seems I am in an art gallery looking at abstract paintings. Then I realize that no. I am in my living room on my couch. That is not a white canvas, it is Ryan's bare torso, there is no paint. Just black mascara.

I guess Breanna's art project decided he had enough.

Oh and by the way, dont keep makeup in the diaper bag. It is just asking for disaster

First weekend of fall

• Breanna is 3. No longer a toddler and entering the realms of offical kidhood she got a library card. I decided to make Wednesday our offical library day. After reading these books about a million times so far I think I am going to have to go sooner.
• Id like to thank Robert Munsch for writing the book "I'll Love You Forever" It makes me cry EVERY SINGLE TIME! Darn him.
• I am feeling very lucky to have the friends I have. They are so great and giving and wonderful. And they make me laugh.
• Relief Society broadcast tonight. Im totally excited to go.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BREANNA

Happy 3rd Birthday Bug!!!

A little lesson?

Breanna came up to me pretending to hold two small things in her hand

"I got a little monkey and a little Jesus"

considering we were about to start family home evening I am sure I could have used th opourtunity to make some spiritual point out of it but all I could do was laugh and wonder where on earth she gets things sometimes.

Names

Mom: Wat is your wolf's name?
Breanna: Gordon
Mom: What is your monkey's name?
Breanna: Gunny.
Mom: What is your name?
Breanna: Banna,
Mom: do you know what my name is?
Breanna: What?
Mom: Heather
Breanna: Oh Heather:
Mom: Yes but you call me Mommy
Breanna: no your Heather
Mom: Yes but you call me mommy:
Breanna: No! your Heather!
Mom: But YOU call me mommy!
Breanna: No! Your HEATHER MOMMY!
Mom: Yup thats it.

(I love winning even when they dont know they just lost)

Beauty and the Beast

Shortly after the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast came out I purchased the collectors set. Complete with book and video about the making, a lithograph and the video itself. The video I kept unopend for sometime (you know it might be worth something and it was kind of sentimental) After a while the cellophane came off the plastic case was a little crunched in a place or two but the tab over the opening remained intact.

Jon has tried to convince me to use that video for the entirety of our marriage. You know the celophane is gone and it is dented so it would not be worth anything anymore. I just couldnt do it. It was personal and sentimental. Today as we were putting some movies away Breanna started to tear the tab. At first I pressed it back. Then I did something I did not realize I was ready to do. I gave her the movie and told her to rip off the tab.

Tomorow morning my little girl and I will watch Beauty and the Beast together for her first time. Mom of course will sing along while she laughs and enjoys every moment of it. All this time it was not being saved to be a collectors item it was saved just for this, for me and my little girl. So she can love that movie just as much as I did. And still do.

Update on last night

Well when I left this blog last night It was 3:48 and I was going back to bed. Well it did not go quite as I had planned. I tried to put him in his bed and he woke up. We ended up falling asleep together on the couch watching "Martin Yan's Chinatown" and going to bed at 4:30

3:48 am

Yay he is sleeping im going back to bed

Loving: My mischevous kids I have a feeling that these two will have many adventures together

Reading: High Druid of Shannara

Craving: A Shirley Temple and peach cobbler

Hating: that the weather did not allow us to go camping this weekend

Waiting for: The next season of Lost

3:30 am

Im up because I cant really sleep. It is a bad combo when both you and the squirmy 18 month old in bed with you cant quite get into that deep sleep. So here I am at an hour in the morning that really should not even exist. I have taken some ventolin to loosen my tight chest (my 1st major obstacle to getting a deep sleep) and am sitting at this computer waiting for the said squirmy 18 month old to fall asleep (second major obstacle0. With out having to nurse him. Which dosent mean I have not already nursed him tonight because hello so far his will and my desire for sleep have been stronger then my resolve to wean him for the last couple of days.

If anyone out there in blogging land wonder how the will of an 18 month old boy can be stronger then the will of a 27 year old woman boy, do I have stories to tell.

oh eyes closing.... uh nevermind. Hmm what else to do at 3:30

September Update

• Jon got a new bike yay! He got it to use for riding to school, not for crazy mountain biking, of course not. (he took it out to try it out the other day and came home coverd in mud)
• After two weeks of many temper tantrums Ryan has been weaned to one feeding at night. I know I gave people permission to bug me if I wasint done by september 4 but this nightime thing has proven much harder then I thought.
• Ryan is now eating better then Breanna does, I never thought I would see that happen.
• Jon's short vacation is over and it is back to classes this week. This semester his program moved from the downtoun campus to the millwoods one so that will make it nicer for him as he is much closer to home

Actual conversation in Lethbridge mall

Jons Father: Your Robin Williams!

Robin Williams: Yes I am!

and they both go on their way

That was it. He was the area a while ago filming a movie.

Mystery Solved

Ok so I know what happend to all the miserable rainy weather we got in Edmonton last week. It is here in lethbridge. It is raining and cold and miserable. I miss the sun. Hopefully the weather gets better before we leave the south here and we can enjoy some fun in the sun.

One of those weekends

Have you ever had one of those weekends that you were really looking forward to? The weather is supposed to be nice for the first time in over a week. Your husband is having his dragon boat finals and you and the kids are going to watch. Well you go out in the morning and the weather is not quite what you hoped for and one of the kids starts to feel sick. So you go home, hopefully she feels better tomorow so you can go to church and then go see the last of your husbands races.

HA

Well you go to your car (which was parallel parked) and find out that you have a foot and a half of space at either end of the car whith which to negotiate your minivan out of its parking space and mentaly thank those very nice people for boxing you in. Well you manage to get your vehicle out pick up some wendys for the kids and get home, your daughter gets sicker and the weather clears up now that you are inside. Fun. So you tell the other nursery leaders you wont make it in the morning as nobody wants your daughter spewing her virus infected germs on the nursery toys while also giving up all hopes of seeing any of the races the next day.And enjoy your evening with a kid that coughs constantly (even worse after the cold syrup) and cant get to sleep. Eventually she gets to sleep.

Well you stay home with the kids and discover that sunday is a hard day to be locked up on your own. Thankfully sick kid while still sick is feeling much better (you of course were quite worried for a while) better enough to, you know, be her usual self. So you play with the kids, clean up after them about ten bazillion times. And wait anxiously for your husband to call you after every race and hear how he is doing.

The weather is great and they win all their races that day. Well he calls and tells you that he won their last race of the weekend. YAY, you are really happy for them and you REALLY REALLY REALLY. Wish you could have been there. After you get off the phone you try to control your self pity. Then you walk into the bedroom where the kids have been playing quietly and discover two things. Your son's diaper is leaking up the back and......... they have dumped a bottle of syrup on the carpet and are now playing in it.

Time for a cry and a bath and an online venting, because who can you call on a sunday afternoon.

Two things:
1.QUIET IS BAD
2.you need a steam cleaner to get all that syrup out of the carpet because no amout of blotting, and rubbing and scrubbing is going to get all of that sticky joy out, you need some suction.

Paddles Away

Tonight Jon has the first of about 6 or 7 Dragon Boat races. The Grant Macewan team is competing in the novice class and aiming for gold. The races can be viewed at Louise McKinney Park which is right beside the Shaw Conference Center.

Tonights race is at 7:45. Tomorow is 9:00, 11:00 and 5:00. Sundays races depend on how well they do on friday and saturday.

Good luck Grant Macewan!!!!

Heather's Kitchen Pointers #3

When making bread in a bread machine remember to put the paddles in BEFORE you put in the ingredients and press the start button.

Heather's Kitchen Pointers #2

Ice Cream is better kept in the freezer then the fridge.

TANIS HAD HER BABY!!!!

YAY YIPPEE WAHOOO

Well my upstiairs friend and neighbour (and Breanna's best friends mom) has had her baby. Yay. He was born just before six oclock this evening and weighs 7'12 I cant wait to see him. Now I get to enjoy having a brand new baby close by for 2 weeks before they move to Calgary.

Today

Loving: my tuna sandwich with lettuice and tomatoes. sometmes the mundane tastes the best

Wanting: A new name for my blog (suggestions?)

Wating for: Tanis to have her baby, I am channeling all my baby fever through her and want some resoultion already!!!

Next Project: Scrapbooking Some family outing pics (im really going to do it)

Craving: My Dads potato salad

Playing: Eye spy with Breanna

New Look

Got at new look for now. I am not sure if I am going to keep it or not.