Psycho. Psycho. Psycho!

My blog has been getting neglected lately. Between a toddler, Facebook and learning French I’ve been a bad blogger. I got so mad at my computer that I stopped even using it for a bit. So now I feel like I have oodles to write and nothing at all at the same time. grr.

*Finally remembered the stupid bathtub plug! About time!*

I’ve been Quasimodo for the last 3 days. It’s been kinda funny.  I woke up on Friday unable to move my neck. It happened last Christmas for a few days too. Remember, Leah? It sucked so bad. I didn’t wait to see if it would just get better though this time. I downed the limit of Back pills and smelled mentholated  all day from a patch. I stood in hot water until my feet looked like lobsters. Finally by today I am mostly back to normal. My firsts night sleep was awful. I wish I new why my neck did that. Its not like when I sleep on it funny. That feels bad, but way different.  I look like a gibble. Which is a perfectly acceptable word to use thank you very much Morgan!

I making a roast beef for dinner tomorrow night. I’m all excited because I haven’t had roast beef for several months. I really like it. Crock pot style. Easy and Tasty. Morgan thinks all my crock pot meals taste the same, but I can’t complain. They are still better than eating toast for dinner.

Emily keeps dropping “F” bombs. I’m not sure what she is trying to say. Maybe fork or frog. I don’t know. Maybe she listens a little to closely to my neighbors when they get a little crazy.  She also told her baby sitter “My daddy’s a psycho! Psycho. Psycho. Psycho! ” Awesome hey. I guess I must say psycho. But she did learn like 5 new songs this week. and all of them old church songs I sang in Sunday school. Like “Jesus loves the little children” and “Rise and Shine and Give God the Glory” and “He’s got the whole world in his hands”. Her favorite is  “This little light of mine”.

I should go to bed. I have a couple of extra kids to look after tomorrow. Should be pretty interesting. or crazy. Whichever comes first. I can’t remember when they are coming, but I’m sure I’ll be sleepy. haha. Maybe I’ll work on my French for a bit then sleepy time.

Je ne suis pas grosse. Je suis mince. Wishful thinking!

Never wake and eeeping baby.

Emily has been getting up so much earlier this week. Mostly our fault, but I’m trying to fix it all the same. She is currently, as Morgan and I call it, “Eeeping” in her crib. I’m hoping she will go back to sleep for a bit or just play a bit longer. Now she is saying “all done”. She is so silly when she first wakes up.

*still haven’t remembered to buy the stinking tub plug. Gaaa.*

Still no stupid picture software. Im looking for a not-pirated program. Sometimes the things God calls you to do are hard. I’m trying to think long term here.  So here we go. Saying it out loud. I am not a Pirate anymore. ok! well I am a pirate for pretend still. All ninjas get keelhauled! But no more music pirate.  Calling sin “Sin” isn’t easy at all, but I want to look more like Jesus. Without the beard and tunics aren’t the right cut for my body type. So characteristics it it.

I had this really randomly awesome dream last night. I was in a reality TV show. One like America’s Next Top Model. Even the thought is funny. I knew I was going to win to because I found this black dress that was really “classy”. I cant even describe its “Not- classyness” I guess it was in league with lots of the other girls. We were about to go on stage and I noticed my dress was on backwards. So I didn’t panic I just turned it around and walked out on stage.  There was more about a bad guy coming, but I don’t remember all that well. I guess it was “Miss Congeniality-esque”So funny. Me…on a reality beauty contest show. hahahahahaha.

Well I think that’s all Im going to get to for now. Em needs to get up. I’ll be back soon with another cartoon.

love you!

Français

Salut! J’apprends le français! Well I’m working on it. I feel like I’m in the middle of one of those T.V. shows were the girl discovers she has a crazy future. I feel like I’m in the foreshadowing stage right now. Ok here is a few things that have happened, just to catch you up on my weirdness factor. I started having dreams in French. Everyone would be talking French, even me. I couldn’t understand it though. Then I had another dream that I was teaching Students in French. I was reading to them a French book. It was cool. I thought it was very strange because I have never dreamed in German, but I know more German that French.

Then I found out that sometimes when I’m praying I say Jesu instead of Jesus. I’ve done it for years and always wondered why I mess up Jesus’ name. Then on Sunday I found out thats Jesus’ name in French. weird??? ya I think so.

Coco has been helping me with my French, just for fun. I’m going to take her French class. I think I have had too many things to call it a coincidence. I believe God speaks in dreams. And I know he can answer prayers in French. or any Language. So I’m really starting to wonder. I feel like I’m in a predictable movie, where I know I need to learn French cause I’m gonna need it. I found a free program online thats pretty helpful.

Well anyways. this is all pretty weird to me, but I needed to blog it so that even if it’s not for 10 years that something happens I can look back and say “See I knew I’d need French for something!”

Half of a Birthday

Its been a few days since Hot Coffee came into our family. My mom bought Emily a doll last week. Em is really starting to show her creativity. She named her doll “Hot Coffee”. Strange, I know, but shes only 18 months old. What really would be a better name. Im glad she didnt name it Mommy or Booger. She says “Hot Coffee eyes. Hot coffee nose. Nice Hot Coffee”. Its stinking cute.

Today Em is 18 Months old. Its bizaro how fast she has turned into a toddler. No more baby baby stuff. Im going to try and give you snippets of what she is like right now. Well not “Right” now. She’s sleeping. Which is something she does for about 14 hours a night. Hooray! She only has one nap and Mommy love it when its about 3 hours.

She eats “Cheeerios” or “Oatneel Oatneel” for breakfast. She has refused to take a bottle since before the summer. So she has “Nook”(milk) or water in a sippy cup. She is still a sucky baby. haha. I just re-read that sentence. I ment soother baby. haha. Except she only gets the soother in her crib.

She loves reading more than anything. I am always on the lookout for cheap cardboard books for her. She doesnt rip the paper ones as much anymore, but she’s a little rough on them if she reads them by herself. We just got her some last week. We needed to save some sanity in our house. I couldnt read “Going on a Bear Hunt” or “Happy and you know it” one more time. AHHHH. It was making my crazy, but I promised myself Id make time to read to her over an over and over.

Singing is an all day experiance at our house. Emily makes up songs. They usually consist of “Mommy Mommy Mommy bum bum sippy  bubba booger puppy woof woof chicken”. Just an average song she sings. haha. Morgan and I sing to Emily alot. I cant even count all the songs she knows. It’s super fun when she starts singing along. Right now she loves “Down by the bay” and “This little light of mine”. “Happy and you know it” is still the most requested song.

One thing we have learned is that Emily can’t sit still. I know, brilliant observation from a Mom of a toddler. Right. But it’s true. It’s hard to realize untill you spend 5 minutes with her. She goes and goes and goes. She is working on “In and Out” and all those kind of opposites. She says “Opsit hot cold”. Its cute. I didnt know she was even figuring those out. Smart Em. But basically it meaans we sit on the floor and put stuff in the bin, then dump it. Then repete 400 times a day. Or my least favorite is putting sox on her bear then taking them off. 400 times a day.

Getting a jacket on is a fight, but Em still really loves walking. She had a huge meltdown before bed the other night cause I wouldnt take her for a walk . Walking and Music are Emilys calming mechanisms. She chills right out. its cool

I could probably type forever about all the stuff Emily is learning, but there is a snippet for you. She’s just really cute ok! We dont have a program for making pictures smaller right now. So agin you will have to go look at my Facebook to see the pics we took of Em last week. Sorry. Ill try to fix that soon.

More Cups

Firstly, Just as a side note to yesterday’s post. I decided to leave it in to prove how slow witted I can be. At 5:30 this morning Morgan got home and decided to share with me that after reading my blog he laughed at me. You’ll have to read it in context, but basically I wrote that my SIN number stood for Social Security Number. Aparently Im not quite quick enough to notice that Security in the middle of that would make my acronym SSN. Dumb, I know.

I forgot to put on here last week that Emily told me her first dream. Well the first one I know of. Im sure she’s dreamed for her whole life, but last week is the first time she’s told me one. I got her up early for something last week. When I walked in her room she was still asleep, which doesnt usually happen. Usually she hears me open the door and tryes to stand up out of a dead sleep. Somewhat humourous, I might add. But this time she stayed asleep. I started to sing the good morning song and she sat upright and said “More cups”. She signed it too. She kept saying over and over and looking around her crib for “More cups”. She never goes to bed with a cup or even really has one before bed anymore. So it was really cool because she had no reason to think of cups. Its not even her breakfast, or I’d have just thought she was hungry. So there you have it. Emily dreams of cups. Probably ones with endless “Nook” (milk)in them.

Morgan and I are taking on a two week challenge. Well really we are down to one week. If week can make it two weeks without buying groceries, then the grocerie money goes towards our new computer. It’s kindof a fun challenge. We had to buy milk for Emily, but we arent buying anything but bare minimum for one more week. We have oodles of food in our house, but none of it is quick to prepare. AND none of it is Pizza, chinese, or well quick. So Im hoping to come up with some different recipies to use all the meat in our freezer and even some of the canned stuff. It’s all good, it will just take some creativity to make it work.  Im always up for a challenge.

or a dare.

Morgan didnt save the picture, but we did have a picture of me wearing a childrens cow head from a halloween costume in kamloops last week. Like they really thought I wouldnt do it. I have worn way weirder things. For sure. Don’t get me started. All of high school was weirder than that.

Lastly. Will someone remind me to buy a bathtub plug. Emily threw ours out without me knowing it and trying to plug the tub with a hairspray lid is getting annoying. Plus Em pulls it out. So please. I have to remember!!