What the Heck?!?

What is it about life? The person you love comes home from work, even brings surprises, and then heads off for a well deserved nap....what do I do? I find little unwelcome surprises left by the one I love that make me want to wander into that nap room and shake them awake until they admit the wrong they've done and promise never EVER to do it again, cross their heart, hope to die. Yup, just a day in the life of the hormonally imbalanced. (That's a politically correct term for woman...though it definately has applications for the male population as well.)

There are no pictures this time, we woke up Easter morning to discover that I hadn't charged the batteries for the camera. Oops. Needless to say little E was very enthused about chocolate just being within his reach. Each time he found an egg a slow smile would spread across his face as he reached for it. We visited with family, ate yummy things (especially this oreo cheesecake which literally was 'to die for'!) and generally had a relaxing Easter weekend. Now we are enjoying the rest of Big E's school break. I had great plans of finishing my bathroom (I say it's mine, but since it's the only one in the house, really it belongs to everyone), cleaning my fridge, catching up on some projects. However, the stomach flu arrived (and stayed with little E), and we each took a turn. Little E has christened our bed twice (yes, TWICE) by emptying his stomach and then later with some wild diahrea. Ain't life grand? I had to strip the bed down to the waterbed bladder last time and threw out a pillow. (I won't gross you out completely with descriptive details...just the fact I threw it out should tell you enough.)

I think that should be it. Leave on a high note, right?? Ha! For those few out there who read this (I'm sure it's a grand total of 4....maybe 5), leave me a comment every once and awhile so I know you've been by. For those who already do comment, bless you! :)

Well, this is what we all looked like this morning before we left for church. A quick 'snap-shot in the life of' for our family blog.


One of Little E's favourite activities is emptying my silverware drawer. (Something I think I've complained about on here before.) The only good thing about this obsession with my silverware is that it gives me LOTS of opportunity to clean out the tray that holds only clean silverware but always manages to collect lots of gunk anyway. Go figure.
Well, recently he not only took out all the silverware, but also piled it neatly on a bowl. This kid never goes half way. His other favourite activity is to hold his baby brother. I try to make sure I let him do it every so often.

Current good news??
1- Little B has grown 2 inches longer since birth...doesn't seem any chubbier so he must be working on length first.

2- I've managed to lose 21 lbs since Little B was born...at 7lbs/week, that's not bad. Too bad it won't keep up at the same pace!!

3- Big E continues to get marks in the 80-90% range on all his course work. What a brain this guy has!

1st week of baby here...

The first week home with our new baby. It took a couple of days before little E was happy with our new housemate! :) He would try to detach him while he was nursing and bonked him on the head a couple of times. Time-outs were a bit routine the first 2 days. But now it's all kisses and hugs and we have to watch that he doesn't try to pick him up and walk off with him! Of course, there will be another adjustment when little B begins to crawl and little E discovers that his toys are no longer his alone! We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Little E often tries to put on his own boots. His biggest problem is that he seems only to be able to manage one boot. The ability to put on the second boot continues to elude him. Thus he spends a fair bit of time walking around with one boot on and eventually bringing me the second boot for assistance! Once the second boot is on we then have the conversation about how it isn't time to go outside yet. Little E would spend as much time outside as possible, which is great except we don't have a fence and he isn't so careful about running out towards the road. So, outside time is somewhat limited until we solve the fence issue.


3 of my favourite guys. I wondered if little B would feel big to me considering little E came home under 4 lbs. Little B was starting out at twice that weight with 8lbs. However, time is a wonderful thing and I've forgotten what 4lbs is like and 8lbs feels lovely and tiny. So tiny that Big E is still hesitant about changing diapers for little B...."because he's too little". :) It's obvious he's forgotten too, 'cause he used to change little E's little 4lb bum!

Grandma and Grandpa on Big E's side of the family returned from Guatemala and brought this cute little hat with them. We took a picture because he was already wearing red and it just seemed to coordinate so well! We're all about the fashion! We look forward to bringing our new little one back east so Grandma and Grandpa can meet him. So far only Grandma B has been able to hold him and see what a cute little fellow he is.



Little E's favourite activity these days. He builds his block tower, waits for me to say, "No, no, no!" and then rams into the tower riding on his Tonka. Then you have to hold your hand to your head and say, "Oh man!", which he repeats gleefully.

Thanks for popping in dear reader. Hope you have a good day!