Whew!

What a week. Dave found out monday he was going to Alberta, was gone tuesday. Wednesday was a rough day. I'll admit, I was fine till Austin was down for his nap then I had too much time to think and started to loose it and cry. Then in the afternoon I finished all the packing. Dropped Austin off at my mom's place wednesday night then headed to Sue's. I went into work with Sue on Thursday and flew out to Alberta. Had a great 2 days. The first night we stayed at Sue's brother's place. After I got off the plane we headed to the west edmonton mall. We walked around and did a small bit of shopping. I got a new bathing suit. My other suits are quite a few years old, the material was starting to get a little thin, plus I wore them while I was huge and pregnant. My boobs don't stay in anymore. This new suit is so great. I love it, and I got it 50% off. How's that for a bonus!

Friday we headed back to the mall. We were staying friday night at the fantasyland hotel in the mall. We got a great deal on the room and we stayed in the polynesian room. It was awesome, I fell in love with the jaccuzi tub. We spent all day Friday at the mall. In the morning we went to the sea life caverns (aquarium) and saw a live penguin up close. Then we went to the Sea lion show. Headed back to the hotel, got our bathing suits. Had a quick lunch then headed to the waterpark. I LOVE the wave pool they have there. It's big waves but awesome fun! After the water park we went back to our room and I laid in the jaccuzi tub for a while... It was huge. I could lay in the tub and my feet or head wouldn't touch the side of the tub. If we win the lottery we are so getting one. After that we went for dinner at Tony Roma's. I'm not really a big fan. After dinner dave wanted to do something but I was so tired. We headed back to the room where I proceded to fall asleep in my book (yes, I woke up with my face in my book) by 7:30 pm. Kinda pathetic.

Saturday we had breakfast then headed back to the hotel to check out. We threw everything in the car then went for a round of mini golf. After that we drove out to Fort Saskatchewan where dave was going to be living to drop off his stuff. We hit up boston Pizza for lunch (and had a yummy bbq chicken pizza) then dave took me to the airport. I was a little early so I wandered around a bit. Our plane landed in Toronto at 11:30pm. Got home around 1am.

Sunday I slept in, then went over to Dave's parents to pick up Austin. Hung out over there all afternoon, had dinner then headed home. Austin crashed by 7:30 but was back up crying at 10 for an hour.

Today I had to get out of the house. I'm not planning trips and trying pack anything so it's starting to hit me. Even though Dave wasn't usually home during the day I still knew that he was gone and wouldn't be home come 5pm to help me out. I think this being the first official week will probably be the longest for me. I also don't think it will help that Austin might be getting a cold. This is not going to be fun.

Austin however had a blast today playing with bailey. Apparently we shouldn't buy Austin toys. Just give him the dog's toys and he will play for hours. I got some cute pics I will post (hopefully in a few minutes.)

I don't really have a plan for the rest of the week. If anyone is bored and wants to come by or talk, give me a call.

A little something.

Here is a little something to make you smile. This has to be the funniest/cutest picture ever. I have set it on my desktop to cheer me up a little everytime I go to my computer.








For those of you who read me regularly you will notice that I will be posting a lot more now. Dave is moved to Alberta for work for 6 months. I am going to try to update this with pictures and videos (if I ever figure out how to post them) everyday or every other day. I want him to see how Austin is growing every day. I don't want him to feel like he's missing out on seeing him (well, as close as we can get to seeing him.) Dave flew out to alberta this morning and should just be landing as we speak. I am going to fly out on thursday and come home saturday. It will be a small vacation for us, plus we don't know what kind of living situation dave will be in so I will go out now so we can spend a few last days together before he starts working. I know it would be good to go out in a month or so but with me supposed to be going back to work I don't know what my schedule is going to be like or if I can even take time off to go see him. I think this is the best option right now.

Yesterday Austin was 8 months old. He's so cute and adorable. I can't believe that in just 4 short months he will be a year old!!!! yikes!

Well, that's all for now, I'm going to go have some lunch then get out of this now empty house.

Transformers

Tonight was Date night. We used the gift certificate Dave's parents got us for Valentine's day. It also included babysitting. We had them over for dinner then they took Austin back to their place and we got ready for the show. We went to see Transformers 2. I liked it. It's definately not as children friendly as the last movie. Lots of swearing and adult words (although words like ass and bitch are so common now I guess they don't count... well, they count to me.) I also found it very funny. Well worth our gift certificate. It was a great night.

What I don't understand though, is that they are in the egyptian desert, Mikaila is in white pants, and they are clean. How the heck does that happen! I could be in white pants, in a white room with nothing around me and i'll find a way to get them dirty. Although by the time the serious fighting was going on her pants were dirty. I felt much better. lol.

I also didn't understand A) why there were so many kids at the movie (although as stated earlier much less child friendly then the last one so some parents might not have realized) but B) Why so many parents had their child at the 9:45pm showing!!! The movie didn't finish till 12:30. Why the hell do you have your children out!!!! Take them to an earlier showing! Geeze! (and by kids I'm talking 10 and under who should definately be in bed by 12:30)

Well It's now 1:30, I'm heading to bed.

Productive nap times

Having Dave home with me has caused the week to fly by. We really haven't done too much. I gave Austin a bath yesterday with his new bath toys we bought back in May but forgot were in the cupboard. He loved the octopus, or maybe loved to chew on it. And he had a blast splashing around. He's no longer in his little bathtub, he's got the whole bathtub to himself now. I was going to get pictures of it but I wasn't going to leave him in the bath alone while I went to get the camera.

Today we didn't do much. Austin had a nice long 2 hour nap this morning so I managed to completely finish his hospital scrapbook and during his afternoon nap I put all the pages in order. I can't believe I filled one book just with the pictures of his first 4 days of life. lol. I got a great album for his first year/rest of life? album which is 12x12. That means I don't have to keep cutting all the pages down to 8 1/2 x 11 for his other album. I have so many ideas for his book and every picture I take I am imagining it in a scrapbook. I think before I get into his second book thought I will finish our wedding scrapbook, or at least work a little more on it.

Well, I should be getting to bed now, Goodnight!

Rough week.

So this week has been a rough week. On monday I though I was going to have a broken nose. Austin headbutted me in the nose 3 times. (one of those was while we were napping so it woke me up out of a sleep.) Plus he headbutted me in the mouth which caused my lip to swell, also during the nap. He was being difficult when lunchtime came around and now my white shirt has asparagus all over it.... hmmm Then we got some super crappy news. It sucks and we're trying to find a solution.

Today, not so much of a solution. But I did get to sleep in a bit (but almost got headbutted again when Dave brought Austin into our room) and I got to escape the house baby free for just over an hour. I went with vicky to get her passport photos and her passport. However, we got to the passport office at 4:38 and they closed at 4:30. boo!!! We did go to the superstore though and looked at all the pretty baby clothes. They are having a sale on so many cute boy clothes and shoes and I had to resist soooo badly not to buy anything, and I did it. I'm very proud. I did end up buying austin some cereal, we're going to try the rice and banana kind this week. Then I think we've tried all the cereals in the beginner and 6 months stage. I can't believe in less than a week he will be 8 months old!! Holy crap!

Here are some pictures.

We have Austin and Daddy at the cottage with daddy's fish.

This picture was just after Austin smacked dave in the face.. kinda funny.

This is Austin and his Duckie. This duck was given to him by his Aunt Katherine. This was before he was born and it was with a blanket. I wasn't sure if he would get much use out of the duck but he loves it. If you shake it in front of him he will get soooo excited and grab for it. He has chewed the legs so much that one leg has no stuffing left in it because he's sucked it into the foot. If you feel the body of the duck you can tell what it's supposed to feel like. The legs are so hardened from all the spit. He loves to stick a leg in his mouth then do something else with his hands. We just had to get a picture of it because it's so cute!

Here is a 16 shot from my camera of Austin at the bbq out in West lorne (Dave's grandparent's/Aunt & Uncles place) on June 27th. He is trying to eat a leaf. Really cute!

Also that weekend we got some great 4 generations pictures with Austin, Dave, Karl (Dave's dad) and Karl sr (Dave's grandpa) on the tractor. We also have a 3 generation picture of Dave, his dad and grandpa on the same tractor when dave was a kid.

3 generation picture

4 Generation picture

I also got some really great pictures of Austin and Opa together.

So there you have it. All the pictures updated. I am going to finish updating all my 101 lists and then go do some scrapbooking.

updated 101 list

alright, here are my new 10 things for 101 list.
1. Go to Parkwood. *yes, I've never been.
2. *private* sorry, don't want all of internet land to see.
3. Hang pictures in Austin's room.
4. Hang shelves in Austin's room.
5. Get a video editing software and learn how to make videos of Austin
6. Go to Marineland. *yes, I've never been there either.
7. Save enough money for vegas trip.
8. Open an etsy store
9. Take a class on my own, no husband or kid.
10. Actually get my computer updated and pictures put onto dvd's.

Quick update

We've been at the cottage without internet for a few days. (well, 5 1/2) so it's been a while.

We are still alive. I have lots of pictures to post.

I got a haircut on monday. It looks pretty good, but 5 days at the cottage didn't do it justice. tomorrow it will look nice I hope.

Austin has figured out cheerios! Instead of 1 or 2 miraculously making it to his mouth only 1 or 2 are making it to the floor. He will sit for ever and eat cheerios. Last night though he took a soggy one and tried to stick it in his ear. Not good. He's been eating mum mum cookies/rice cakes. He can eat them great too. We also tried some new food this week at the cottage. He had toast (without butter) and loved it, I gave him potatoes to try and he wasn't a fan of them, and ritz crackers. I know the crackers have a huge amount of salt on them but he was starting to get cranky during dinner and we didn't have any other foods available to give him. I limited him to 3 crackers though.

We also had a pretty good sleep schedule this week. Only a few nights he woke up in the middle of the night. Over all a much better experience then the may long weekend.

I am enjoying the fact that we are back home though. Where making Austin a bottle takes no effort at all and washing his dishes is easy. (at the cottage we just have river water that is unsafe to drink so we have to go prepared for Austin.) A shower is there whenever (although the shower at the cottage is there but too many people so I try to limit my showers to as needed) nice comfy beds and best of all no crazy giant ants crawling around my room.

*update on my 101 list, I have read 5 more books. Twilight, new moon, eclipse, and breaking dawn, plus can you keep a secret by sophie Kinsella that I picked up at a yard sale this weekend.

Also for my 101 list, I have the 10 new goals I wanted to have done by July 1st. However, I have stored them all on my phone which is downstairs so I will have to post them tomorrow.*