-Went to enrichment activity at church
-Went to xs cargo
My little girl is 4. Holy cow. So far today she got a brand new pink backpack for preschool and is eating a lovely healthy birthday breakfast of apple crisp and ice cream.
Today is the first day of Fun Factory at the YMCA (their playschool) for Breanna. Guess what. She is sick. The kid has not been sick all summer and today she wakes up with a runny nose and coughing. Great. Lets pray for a cure to the common cold by lunchtime.
I have a new identity. Mompaa. Breanna just started calling me this. I tried to stop her at first because it really bugged me. Then I realized I was in a bad mood and just being a pain and I said ok. I thought it would kind of last a day and wear out. Not so much. She likes the name and it seems to have stuck. Although Ryan has not jumped on the band wagon. I dont know where it came from though, maybe it was on a tv show or something.
Today I thought I heard another kid calling Mompaa to their parent and deep down inside I thought. "hey Im Mompaa no one else gets to be Mompaa!"
Craving: chicken salad croissants
Anticipating: Having Breanna in play school
Playing: This fish tycoon game that is really starting to annoy me. Curse online versions!
Going: To a friends house tonight. Yay
Planning: A weekend away by myself
Dreading: My trip to the dentist in a couple weeks. Ugh
Sleeping: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
I had just put Ryan down for a nap and I was occupied doing something when he called out from his crib. Breanna informed me he was calling and I told her to leave him because he needs to have his nap.
Moments later Ryan calls again and I hear Breanna call to him in her most bigsterly tender voice.
"I know you want mommy Ryan but your big sister is coming"
I could have melted. Breanna went upstairs to his room. I heard the door open and Ryan moving around in his crib. Up I went expecting to find her in the room playing with him. When I got there his door was closed, he was quiet and she was in her own room. So I asked her if she went in to see him.
"Yeah and I made him warm with a blanket."
I peeked in his room and saw him lying down again with a tiny baby blanket across him.
Anyone who knows Breanna knows of her love for her stuffed Monkey. If Breanna is heading for bed and forgets her monkey Ryan will grab him and come running to the bottom of the stairs to bring her Monkey because he knows it is important to her.
They yell at eachother and fight a lot right now. Most recently Breanna has begun to learn the fine art of name calling. So far I have heard her call him. Dummy Garbage, little cootie and my personal favourite: scurvy bones. But in spite of it all I know they love each other. Moments like these remind me that yes we can handle the third baby that will join our family in a little while here. And yes they do love each other. And if I can just remember to hide the peanut butter for the next few years I might just make it through.
(if you are wondering about the peanut butter ask me again in a few years and I might be ready to talk about it)
Breanna: You ate my pretend cake! Im going to bonk you over the head!!
Me: (thinking) She wouldnt dare!
BONK
Ryan: WAAAHHHHHH
Me: Why did you do that!
Breanna: He ate my pretend cake!
Me: Well dont hit him! Pretend there is another one! (or at the very least pretend to bonk him!)
Ryan is having surgery tomorow. Nothing major. He will be put under but will likley be home by noon. I am nervous for my little guy. He does not know what will be happening but It is not something he would understand. Breanna knows something is happening and she tells Ryan not to worry that we will be there with him. Man she can fight like the dickens with her little brother but at the same time be so nice too.
Kari-Lynn may be having her baby in the next day or two. Unfortunatly I may not be able to see him right away because I will be pretty occupied tomorow.
Well here is to babies that come soon and surgeries that go well!
Ryan walks up pointing at a picture.
"Daddy, Daddy"
To wich I respond.
"No thats not your Daddy, thats Tiger Woods"
I didnt see any possible family resemblance but maybe he did.
Our house is over run by ants. I think they might be under the front step or something but I am not positive. They are everywhere.
I was on the phone with my sister-in-law last night telling her about our invasion. Breanna was standing right beside me listening so she pipes up.
"I like to make ants die".
Im not sure if I should be worried about this or not.
Near the beginning of our marriage Jon still had the camera he took with him on his mission. He went hiking in the mountains with a friend of his. Curtis took a picture of Jon who was standing by a cliff. Then he tossed the camera over to Jon. It hit Jon's fingers and rolled off. It bounced once. It bounced again. Then over the cliff it went never to be seen again.
Today Jon is on a day trip to Jasper with some missionaries. I let him take my camera. I instructed him very specifacly. NO THROWING THE CAMERA OFF A CLIFF!!!
So here is to a safe trip. Oh yeah and Jon I hope you come back too.
We took the kids to toddler time at the water park. The love it. The wave pool, the kiddie pool, the hot pool. One thing is for sure I dont have children that are afraid of the water. In fact if I did not know better I would swear they had fish DNA. Im sure they would grow gills if they could.
An outside observer would see Ryan in the waves and wonder where the poor childs parents are. The kid would stand in waves that would wash right over his head (by a good 6 inches at least). Out he comes on the other side all smiles and ready for the next one. Or he is diving head first again and again. The kid is crazy I dont know where he gets the chance to breathe.
Breanna is nuts. She has no problem putting her face in water. The problem is geting her out of the water. She likes to dive in swim around, come up for air for a second and is right back under water.
Breanna was playing in the waves and she lost her footing and a couple of small waves came one after the other. So I grabbed her and put her on her feet again. I said Breanna are you ok? I expected a couple of gasps and her to say: "yeah mom"... uh no, she looked at me and said. "Where do rabbits live" yeah the kid was fine. Maybe she already has gills after all.
Me: hello xyz store
Lady: Hi I bought a scale and it is not weighing the way I want it to I was wondering if I could bring it back.
Me: (pause) there is a thirty day exchange if there is something wrong with it.
(this is the kind of exchange you joke about but seriously who would do it!)
turns out she needed it to be more accurate for medical purposes makes so much more sense now.
