William and Julia's World

delivery day we decide to go on Friday instead.

Good plan, in grand Children's Festival tradition it POURED rain, most of the afternoon. You can pretty much be sure it is going to rain if the Children's Festival is on. Not sure why but almost every year there is rain.

Instead of going out and having fun William cleared the entire second movie on the new Lego Indiana Jones game.  I thnk he had fun anyway.

We got up this morning and lounged about a bit and then went over to Mya and Corbin's house to play with them and to help their Mom make cusions for the boat.

That is the short version.  The long version is that we got up and were invited to Mya and Corbin's before we had started making breakfast.  We decided that we should have peanut butter and jelly or honey for breakfast rather than the blueberry muffins we were going to have.  Then we needed to get dressed. 

We had a lot of argument over who should be dressing who and who should pick their clothes.

We finally got out the door around 12:30.  The kids played really well, with a few arguments and the occasional injury.

We headed for home just in time to be in the most traffic that I have seen it a long time.  Julia fell asleep on the way home and slept for the better part of an hour, though most of the time we had to eat supper.

A few hotdogs and a it was time to head to ball.  William played really well, until he fell and skinned his knee.  Julia and I headed to Grandma & Grandpa's house to use their bathroom.  By the time we got back the game was over and William was playing on the park play structure.

William was riding home in our little umbrella stroller, Julia pushing him, in many directions, none of them the right one.  Then she finally got tired of pushing and wanted to ride as well.  Julia rode the rest of the way home on William's lap.  I really wish I'd had my camera.

I hate this program!

I just posted a post and it is gone.

Here's to trying again.

A fuzzy picture from the Calgary Zoo.

In the van on the way home from Calgary for Dad's Convocation.

Blastball.

Greg is coaching William's Blastball team.  I think they both enjoy it.  Though it seems that perhaps they would both have more fun if Greg were not coaching.

If anyone has seen my camera please tell me.

A couple of pictures from William's camera.

William's newest friend.

A family photo taken by William, upon figuring out that his camera has a timer.

The last  few days have shown us a real glimpse of spring.

On Thursday we went swimming with Jessica and Luke.  After we finshed swimming and lunch we had a great time playing at the park.

Then on Friday, we went to the Zoo with William's class.  I think everyone had fun, more or less.  We zoomed though the animals and then played in the park a bit while we had a snack.  I think I need to take the kids back some time when we have time to actually read about the animals.

Today the kids and I spent a couple of hours in the yard, raking and playing in the sand box.  I was going to add the grass rakings to the compost bins but they needed to be watered.   I found a wasp nest in one of them.  Thank goodnes it was an empty old nest.

Antagonize. 

As in "Mommy, Liam is antagonizing me with his feet." Or "Mommy!!! This plane is antagonizing me with it's wheels." Or "Mommy, Liam is antagonizing your chair."

Happy St. Patrick's Day.

At supper tonight we were having perogies and sausage.  Julia had asked for two perogies, cut up and her sausage.  After she finished the two she had Julia stood on her chair and helped herself to another.  She then asked to have her perogie cut.

No, not by Daddy, Mommy has to do it.  No, not with your fork and my knife.  Mommy you need to use MY fork.  She is so totally nearly three.

So confident in her self and how she thinks the world should work.

And now for some typing from Julia:

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William has been doing math questions for a while now. He is forever doing adding, subtracting and a little multiplication.

Grandma Alexis has a book for him to work in.  For a while know William and I have been talking about getting him some books for here.

When Julia and I were out while William was in school today we got a Preschool book for her, a Kindergarten book of letters and a Kindergarten book of letters for William.  We also got a Grade 1-2 Addition, subtraction book.

William loves them.  In the hour and a bit that he spent sitting at the table after supper her did about 20 pages of the number book, 5-6 pages of math and A-D in the Alphabet book.  I finally cut him off because I could see he was getting tired.

He wanted to keep going.

We are busy every morning around here.

William has school three days a week.  Skating lessons once a week and swimming lessons once a week.

When William is in school Julia and I go to the gym.  She goes to the "Indoor Playground" and I get to work out or do some letter writing or what ever I want.  Julia is so excited about the Indoor playground she is ready to head out the door even before William has his boots on some mornings.

She'll start to dance and squirm at the thought of being able to go.  Personally I like the chance to shower alone when I am done.

For Christmas my Dad bought me some hours with an organizing lady.  She comes and helps me maximize our organization and storeage.  I think she has helped get us started on a path to better organization. (Three sentances, Organizing used three times.  Time to move on.)

Julia and Greg are both feeling kind of rough the last couple of days.  Julia is stuffed up and Greg is achy and head achy as well.  I just hope William and I don't catch it.

How can it be a WHOLE month since I last posted?

I have many times thought I should write about that, then thought, I don't have time to write it up properly, so I don't.

I think any thing is probably better than nothing, so here I go.

It has been kind of a long day.

Today began at 9:30 with us all waking up. We had to leave for the airport by about 11:00 am to get Greg checked in two hours before his flight to Regina-MPSL, MPSL-Dayton. We got everyone dressed. Unpacked all the items William thought Greg should take with him and got kids in the car by 10:55 am. No breakfast. Too early by 5 minutes to go to Burger King for lunch and not enough time to go to Safeway to pick up the last bit of groceries before Greg left town.

By the time we were half way to the airport it was late enough we could stop and get BK carryout. I did. They charged us for a kids toy we did not want or GET for that matter. That is in addititon to the two we did get that we didn't really want ast well. I didn't notice until we were at the airport already. If you think I am stopping at the BK on the way home, by my self with both kids, for $0.99 plus tax. Well, no.

So we get Greg there just in time for the 2 hour checkin. As we are walking in the screen shows the flight on time. By the time Greg checks in and finds us it is delayed by an hour. By the time he actually leaves it is 115 minutes delayed.

I got to go to Safeway while Greg and the kids stayed at the airport.

Greg should have had about 2 hours to make his connection in MPLS. I figured, by my calculations he would have about 25 minutes, with the ETA of the flight once it left. In Greg's words:

25 minutes would have been ok.  We got delayed in Regina

for a half hour while they deiced.  Then when we hit

Minneapolis, and it looked like I'd have 20 minutes to make

it, they couldn't get a gate, so we sat on the tarmac for 

15 minutes.  They very nearly didn't even comp me a hotel, but 
luckily I got the right ticket agent, and she set me up with a

room and some food.  I fly out tomorrow morning at 6AM though

In order to arrive in Dayton around 1 pm. I have no idea where he is going in between as it shoud have been a less than 2 hour flight.

Life in Saskatoon...

When I got us home from the airport Julia was asleep. Not a terrible time for a nap, around 2. She woke up. William and I played 2 player Beans.

We had perogies and Sausage for supper. Julia was tired and cranky. She went down rather easy around 7:30pm. William and I cleaned a bit, played a bit. Around 8:30 we were fighting about bed time and Yo-Yo ing. Julia woke up. I tried to put her to sleep again. Around 9:00pm William put on his own diaper and PJ's to go to bed. He was asleep in about 10 minutes. Julia, on the other hand wanted a bed time snack.

Around 12:52 am she finally pooped. Now, 20 imnutes later she is asleep again.

Guess where I am going now...

First day of school tomorrow, for the new year.

Tonight we were supposed to be having meat loaf for supper but since I was under a pile of sleeping kids when I should have been making the meatloaf... well, what should we eat.  This week we are wheat, dairy, and corn free, so Kraft Dinner, bagels and cream cheese and noodles Julia can have are all off the list.

I took a handful of the hamburger for the meatloaf, threw it in a frying pan.  Chopped up a couple of smallish onions and a big clove of garlic, threw them in too.  When that was almost done, I added a shredded carrot and a squishy tomato that was only squishy because it hit the floor with a thud when I was helped with emptying the Good Food Boxes. After that Julia and I added some salt and pepper.  Then we tasted it.

We added a bunch of garlic salt after that.

When I gave some to William he said "Yumm!"

After a couple of bites he says to me, "Can you make this again, it's good"

Success!!

Here are a couple of photos from the last time Greg was out of town.

Check below for Halloween photos. It's a short post because I can't get it to let me add any more words.

Grandma Alexis on stage during the magic show at the Community Dinner.

"That's my brother. He's got pony tails."

William was willing to leave them in just long enough for Grandma to see them. Julia wouldn't leave hers in that long.

We went to the hay maze at a local green house.

By 9:15 this morning I had learned many things. Some new, some old ideas reaffirmed.

Let's see.

1) I learned that the first real snow on the ground snow is a good motivator for getting children dressed in the morning.

2) I now know that Julia's snow suit that we purchased last spring fits her nicely, right now. By the end of the winter her sleeves may be too short but the pants should still fit.

3) I also know that the snow pants we got for William, last week, to wear to the foot ball game with his dad and grandpa aren't likely to fit by the end of the month.

4) William's gloves, purchased on the same shopping trip are GREAT. They have a liner so are warm, and have a long elasticed cuff so they stay on with no snow in the sleeves.

5) Julia needs new, long cuffed mittens that fit her. William has never had good mittens, with long cuffs before so he has none to hand down to Julia. We got gloves for Julia when we got William's pants but they are thin gloves, good for in and out of the van, not for playing in the snow.

6) We need another child size snow shovel.

Look how much William got cleared while Julia and I were getting dressed.

7) Julia will allow a jacket on her back when she thinks she wants to make snow angels.

This is William's. Isn't it wonderful. He did it all by himself.

8 ) Shoveling the driveway is fun, but it would be more fun with another adult in the house making breakfast so when we go inside because we are hungry and cold, we don't have to wait for our oatmeal to be ready.

By 12:00 I had gained even more knowledge.

9) Making tea when we have to be at swimming lessons in 20 minutes is a bad idea. Even if you promised to make it half an hour earlier.

10) Julia doesn't wear boots unless she is going out in the snow to play. Same with jackets.

11) William can eat a ton of oatmeal after he's shoveled the drive way. It takes time to make instant oatmeal.

12) They will still let you into swimming lessons 20 minutes in to a 30 minute lesson.

13) When you are 4.5 years old two minutes lasts for 25 minutes. Especially when you are in the water and Mommy didn't bring her swimsuit.

14) Hungry children don't like to walk were Mommy is going, even for the promise of McDonald's fries.

15) When walking through the door with 2 screaming, crying children, don't answer the phone.

This is a back dated post, because, well now is when I have time.

The Robot, the princess and the pirate.

Very fuzzy, but a more full length Robot shot.