71 days

So I woke up one day and discovered I was VERY pregnant. Up until quite recently, I really didn't have any symptoms, but lately heartburn has kicked in, I feel huge (to the point that I knock things over with my belly), and rolling over during the night is a big ordeal. On the plus side, the date for the c-section has been set so the countdown is on. 1705 hours until baby #3.

I have a bunch of posts I want to post, but instead, I think I'm heading to bed.  Sleep is a wonderful, wonderful thing.

And no, the dog doesn't sleep in bed with us. This was taken AFTER I was already ready for the day and had woken up Chelsea. Rather than getting ready, she climbed in with her lazy dad who also was supposed to be up for the day. Well, at least Gavin and I are morning people.

Just another day in paradise...

So it was a beautiful day on Sunday. Beautiful. I love going for walks, so we threw both kids into the bike stroller, laced our shoes and headed out for a walk. We walked all along the dike, checked out the bridges and then continued our walk to a small play structure at a local church. Yes, the church part is important to note.
So the kiddies were happily playing and Chris and I were lounging around, enjoying the sunshine, when Gavin comes up doing the pee-pee dance, declaring he has to pee. No problem.

(Just so that everything makes sense, I will confess that we have taught G to pee sitting down.)

Me - "Okay buddy, you can pee standing up."
Gavin - "Okay mommy, I pee," and he promptly starts peeing, pants on, the whole nine yards.
Me - "No!!! Gavin, no!!"
Gavin - "Mommy, I pee standing up."
Me - "Gah! Stop!!"

So now I try to pull down his pants so that he can finish. Seriously - why when he is pretty much drenched is beyond me, but hey I was caught up in the moment.

Okay - now here's my thoughts. How on earth do you teach a boy to pee standing up?? Without going into detail - I'll just say, it's so small! How do you aim? I was definitely not having much luck. By now, he's drenched, I'm being peed on, and Chris is dying of laughter.

Thankfully Chelsea, our fashionista, was wearing a summerdress with grey sweatpants underneath, so we were able to do a pantswap, but of course, I needed to snap a quick photo first!

Awe, the things that happen in front of the local church.

And on a totally different note - check out the beautiful rainbow roses from Bloom. They are a definite hit in our house!

Big 0-5 Celebration...

It was a big weekend this weekend. Chelsea looks forward to her birthday for about 6 months. This year she chose an owl theme. So we made some cute invitations, and decorated the school staffroom and a classroom and got ready to party.

 

 Oh, did I mention owl snacks? We made some cute rainbow cupcakes with sprinkles and owl tags for preschool (thanks Meghan for the tags), and big owl eye cupcakes for day care and the party and cutsie little cakepops for the party. I swear it would have taken me less time to make a 6 tier owl cake than to make the owl cakepops.

We started off with a family party at Grandma's house. Grandma knew C didn't like cake and made her a yummy rice krispie cake with chocolate ganache on top. YUM!

It was a beautiful day on Saturday and we totally could have just hung outside allllll day. So we played outside for a while and then headed in to do the craft. All 8 invited kids, with Gavin and Chelsea - what a great group of kids.

Paint pens and owl suncatchers made for a great craft!

The swinging ropes are always a huge hit!

Opening gifts. Chelsea was pretty overwhelmed!

Time to eat! Chelsea's request - cheese pizza, cheezies, carrots, cheese chips and orange crush. Everything was orange. Weirdo.

Happy birthday cupcake!

There will be a sappy "happy 5 years to my big girl" post coming soon.

True life.

Yes, that is indeed a picture of gitchies.

You see, there is just something about seeing little boy gitchies on the floor that makes me smile. I know, call me weird, whatever. It just makes me smile because chances are G ran from the bathroom giggling, knowing that he's naked when he shouldn't be. And chances are I chased him, just to pinch his little bum.

However, I do not get the same smile on my face when I walk into the bathroom and see a pair of boxers belonging to a 30 year old man. I wonder when gitchies on the floor stops being cute?

Oops

I've now reached that awkward stage in my pregnancy when I reach into the clean laundry, thinking I'm grabbing my son's t-shirt and I realize it's actually my comfy preggo underwear.

Good times.

Mama knows best.

Tuesday was just one of those days where nothing was really going right. I have a wicked sore throat and am not sleeping well at night, so I'm just plain exhausted. I was very much looking forward to an afternoon nap, but our schedule was a little off because I had to drop something off for someone at 1:30. Usually Gavin goes down for a nap at 1:00, so I didn't think this shift would be a big deal.

Well, when we got home, he absolutely refused to nap. He cried and cried and screamed and wouldn't stay in his bed at all, and he kept saying that he just wasn't tired. Well, Chelsea was downstairs quietly watching a movie, so I figured Gavin could just sit next to her and maybe I'd get a 20 minute power nap in.

Four minutes later...

Yeah, that's right Buddy - you weren't tired at all.

First movie experience

Chelsea's first movie she saw in a theatre was Tangled which she saw when she was 3 1/2 and since Gavin will be three in June, we thought he'd be old enough to enjoy a movie. Notice the "we thought". Okay, if you ask us, he actually didn't do too bad, but if you ask the lady in front of us, she might disagree.

You see... Gavin talks - a lot. A LOT. Constant commentary, questions and random thoughts. Personally, I love it, but that's because he's my boy and one of his favourite phrases right now is, "Mommy - you're my best friend. Mommy - you're my best."

Today, however, he said things like, "Look! Flower! Tree! Funny? I want off. I jump on. Can I sit with daddy? Chelsea? Chelsea share skittles? Can I have more juice? Funny animals! HAHAHAHA! Me be quiet? Why? Why no talking? Moustache! Funny bear. Cute bear. 1,2,3,4,5,6 bears! Me like popcorn. I sit here? I love movie. A, b, c, d, e, ... Movie theatre. Look! Sky. My shoe. My shoe off. Clouds! Mommy! My shoe on. Mommy shoe on? Kiss. Chelsea be good? Gavin shhh..."

Get my point?

Did not stop talking. Ah well, it was a great movie and the kids did have fun.