William

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.

An old photo.

And a couple from today.

William climbs a tree!

Take a picture of ME Mommy! It's too bright!

That would be William's Chirp Magazine. The Magazine came in the mail in the middle of the morning. At their morning snack Greg, William and Julia read it front to back.

At lunch William and Julia had a tug of war over who got to read it at lunch.

After supper tonight, William wanted to play school. Greg was teacher, William was student. They went through the whole alphabet on the chalk board.

Then, after Greg sat down...

Can you see the picture of the cat after the word CAT? Look how proud he is!

William wrote Julia after he wiped out the William. Julia is not so clear.

There is the heart, then William, then Julia, Daddy, and finally Mommy. With the top if the J underneath.

Julia wanted equal camera time. "Take a picture of ME mommy."

I woke William up at 7:45 this morning to get him ready for school. As I was carrying him down the stairs he says to me "I wasn't done sleeping yet." So, since his clothes were still upstairs I put him in the big green recliner and told him to go back to sleep.

He did.

I can't believe it's been so long since I posted anything. I am so sorry.

I don't know if any one is reading this or if you are if you notice the time stamp. It is shortly after 6:00 in the moring. Julia has been up for almost an hour. I can hear Grandma now, saying her kids were up so early when they were little. They didn't go to sleep at 11:15 ish last night. Now, 5:20am is better than the 4:30 am that she was up yesterday, but only marginally.

Yesterday, I got her back to sleep at 6:40 only to have her wake up at 6:50. William was up at 6:45. By 11:30am she was beside herself.

William has been in school for a week now. He seems to really like it. He goes Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:00 to 11:00am. We have swimming lessons on Thursdays from 10:25 to 10:55. By the end of last week, when he had been to school twice and swimming once he was ready for a holiday.

"It's not fair, Daddy gets more time off than me" was William's response to the disscusion of Greg's upcoming holidays before Jonathan's wedding on the 29th.

Here is the first day of school.

Cool Dudes on the first day of school 2007.

I need to check the settings on my camera.  A lot of my pictures seem a bit blury.

Julia and I took William to school this morning.  There was only one child crying about school today.

That would be my Julia.  She was bawling because I wouldn't leave her there.  We took William in to the class room, helped him find his name tag and put on his shoes, then went to kiss him good bye.  He was already off having fun.  He could hardly be bothered to say good bye to me.

As I mentioned, Julia was bawling.  She wanted to stay, so very badly.  I coaxed her out by telling her we were going to the indoor playground.  I took her to the gym with me and she stayed in the child care room there, where she hasn't been in at least 6 months.  I took her in, signed her in, took her to pee and took off her runners.  She was gone before I could blink.  Another one who can't be bothered to say good bye.

"It just wouldn't co-operate"

William wanted to get him self some lasagnia and after he cut it, "it just wouldn't co-operate"

1) Go to Grandma's house.

Never mind that he was there all day yesterday he wants to go back today.

I think it is great that he enjoys his Grandparents so much.  Though I do wonder what it is he gets there that he doesn't get here.

Attention, maybe?

There are like a half dozen new posts today so don't just stop reading with this one.