Snippets of November 2005

• I got a part time job so latley I have been feeling pretty busy. I only work in the evenings or a daytime jon has off from school. It is fun though and very different to be working again.
• Jon nearing the end of the sememster at school he will be done on december 12th and is really looking forward to the break before he starts his work term next semester.
• There is still no offical employer for the coop job starting in january but there is still lots of time and we are not worried.
  
• The kids are pretty much the same as always. They keep us on our toes. Breanna loves puzzles these days and is becoming very good at them. She can do a 25 piece puzzle with out any help.
  
• Christmas is around the corner and I cant believe how the time has flown by.we will be spending Christmas here at home ths year and will be having my family over for dinner. Im looking forward to it. It will be really nice to have the kids wake up on christmas morning in their own house.
  

New Species

There has been a new species of animal spotted in edmonton this week. The Snow Frog. It is about three feet tall has light brown hair and eylashes to die for. It hopps around snowy parking lots making fresh foot prints saying "ribbit ribbit" They feed on choclate milk and pickles and are completley harmless.

Loving: Tim Hortons hot smoothies haslenut flavour
Hating: Silly tv shows that make me bawl in fron of my husband
Wanting: Scrapbooking stuff. Circle punches, flower puch. New camera.
Reading: Book of Mormon. Just finished K-PAX

Heathers Kitchen Pointers # 5

When you have pork chops defrosting for dinner in the microwave and you decide to have something else instead. Make sure you remember to take the pork chops out of the microwave and put them in the fridge because if you dont when you open the microwave 24 hours later it will smell REALLY REALLY bad.

Heathers kitchen pointers #4

Dishsoap is much more effective when washing dishes then Hersheys Choclate Syrup.

miracle child

At institute classes we were talking about Samuel the lamanite and his prophesying (spelling) about the birth of Jesus and the signs that were to be for the people of the amarican continent. Breanna happily played with the trains and puzzles from the nursery toys.

After we went to safeway and this was our conversation as we went in.

Breanna: Me going to be a procfet

Me: What?

Breanna: Me going to be a Procfet!

Me: Oh your going to be a Prophet, uh ok?!

Breanna: And me going to be born.

Me: youve already been born.

Breanna Me going to be born 4 times.

Me: ?

I guess she was listening to the lesson a little more then I thought. I dont think she quite got it though

IM FREE

I dont want to alarm anyone but I have some news. IM FREE. For the first time in almost 4 years I am neither nursing or pregnant!!!!! I want to go and take cold medicine just because I can and not feel guilty. Not that I have been sick or anything It is jut the first time in four years that i can and not worry about how it will affect my kid.

Gotta love the free life.

Thanksgiving Weekend

We spent our thanksgiving in Weyburn Sasketchewan this year. At the home of Jon's sister and her husband. Auntie Jen and Goofy Bryan (as Breanna calls them) It was a wonderful weekend and the kids enjoyed every minute of it. Breanna made instant friends with the dogs Pax and Annie especially pax. Within a short time of arriving she was running up the stairs to the room she was staying and calling " come on Pax" yeah she loved the dogs and they were very patient with the kids.

We also got to take Breanna to two different farms. She chased chickens and turkeys. She got to pet goats and horses and also got to se pigs and roosters. And on monday she got to pick fresh farm eggs still warm from being layed. It feels kind of weird picking up an egg and feeling warmth. The last two mornings we have had breakfast prepared from the eggs breanna picked. It makes me wish that we knew someone close by with a farm we could take the kids to.

All and all it was a great weekend with lots of fun and lots of good food. Especially the Carmel pecan tarts those were complete heaven.

Funniest thing I saw today

An 18 month old trying to drop kick a ball. He would pick it up and hold out his leg. Then he would try to kick the ball as he dropped it. So cute and funny.

Ikea and potty training

You all know Ikea. It is designed so that on your journey through you get to walk through every section and be tempted to spend money at every turn. We all know it works. You go to look at storage bins and end up buying crayon containers and a wooden top to a metal drawer set you bought last year. But no storage bins.

They do have a few shortcuts but we all know should a fire alarm go off there would be mass chaos. Especially on a saturday afternoon.

Anyway we are in the storage section and Breanna (who never tells us she has to go potty) tells dad she has to go. So of course mom grabs her hand and and we start to run. At this point there are no shortcuts to where we want to go and we are on the other side of the store. So we run through the art and the plants and the section at the end with all the boxed items. And we make it to the bathroom. First stall we try the last person did not flush, gross. Next stall: wet seat. Next one is taken. Finaly we are in the stall and she was only a tiny bit wet. (I would have had a hard time holding if it were me).

So she is on the potty and darn those automatic toilets, it goes off when she is halfway through. Of course it scares her and I have a 3 year old coming at me mid potty. How fun is that. Well mess gets cleaned up (which was not to bad considering) And I am ready for a nap.

Oh and somehow on our long trek back to where we left Dad and Ryan, we miss them coming to get us.

Thanxs Ikea, Thanxs a lot.

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