Been busy

Just a quick post to share a cute video. I've been busy, was away in the US camping then headed back to work this week. I will have some camping videos and 9 month pictures uploaded soon I promise!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOW_F6dkcq8

Busy crafting.

It's been a while. I've been busy doing some crafty work. I made a gift for a baby shower (pics will be up after the shower, don't want to spoil the suprise) I made some wicked awesome baby shower invitations for helen. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of them yet. And, as a going away present for Robin I made him a scrapbook and a CD of songs that remind me of him. I do have pictures of the scrapbook and will be posting them here. I love how the book turned out and almost want to keep it for myself. lol. I really think he will love it. While the pictures are uploading I am going to to get ready for the big bon voyage party this afternoon. Austin is napping thankfully and I've got to get moving.

I woke Austin up from his nap the other day and I swear his hair grew. It was kind of sticking up and you could see his hair. I took some pics but it's kind of hard to see what I'm talking about. (If you look closely in the second picture you can see it a little bit.)

Well, I am all dressed and ready to go so I am signing off now and heading to Bethany for some partaying.

Happy long weekend!

Happy Long weekend everyone!

Yesterday we went to the Bowmanville zoo with Dave's parents. We had a great time and so did Austin. Except for one point, a goat tried to eat him. The goat stuck his head through the fence and tried to nibble on Austin but couldn't grab anything so he finally got a bite into his pocket on his pants and tried to pull Austin back to the fence. He was not happy with that and started crying. Then one of the baby goats got out of the fence and was wandering around so since it was the same size as buster the cat we tried to put him beside it for a picture. He cried. He may end up with a huge fear of goats for the rest of his life now..lol.

We bought some of the corn out of the machines and I got a few pictures of me holding out Austin's hand and getting the animals to eat off his hand. He mainly wanted to eat the corn himself. He would just sit for the longest time and stare at the animals. There weren't many tears so I'm assuming he had fun. As usual, here are some pictures.

First Animal of the day

I think this is a great picture

Feeding the animals

The ram stuck his head through the fence to see Austin


Austin and Mommy

Austin Grandma and the baby goat

Austin not happy with the baby goat!

Telling the llama he needs some dental work.

Hitching a ride on Grandpa

Enjoying every minute of it.

An animal trying to get the corn out of Austin's clenched hands.

succeeding in getting it out.

Happy smiles!

After the zoo we went back to Dave's parents and played in the backyard. Austin had a blast playing ball and we got some great pics of him trying to stand.

I *LOVE* these 2 pictures. So adorable.

*101 in 1,001 update: I have finished pretty in plaid by Jennifer Lancaster. Very funny, thanks to vicki who reccomended the books and let me borrow them. I am working on another one of her books as we speak. I've also been somewhere other than ontario or Quebec (my alberta trip a few weeks ago) and I think that's it. I will update more as I do them!*

Stupid lasagna.

New rule. No eating food that has been in the fridge for more than 2 days. That was not a nice stomach ache I had.

This week I have done almost nothing. Monday I did nothing all day, didn't shower, didn't even brush my hair. Tuesday I did some cleaning. I cleaned and vaccuumed my living room, clean a bunch of stuff upstairs and then cleaned my living room a second time when Austin dumped my glass on juice into the bag with his scrapbook and some baby shower presents for my brother and helen. I was so worried about everything getting ruined I dumped the bag upside down on the floor, now spreading the juice all over the carpet instead of contained in the bag. *there was also A LOT of cursing going on.* Took me about 30 minutes to clean everything up. I think I now need to remove all my furniture from my living room and steam clean my carpet because last week Austin also spilled another glass of juice and a can of sprite in the living room..... Yes, I've gone through a shit load of paper towels this past week. sigh.

Then Dave's mom came over to watch Austin so I could go out and exchange the diapers we currently had in size 3 for size 4 since I know opening another case of size 3's would be pointless. Well, that was quite the fun trip, and I had the customer service ladies at walmart giving me attitude... but I won't bore you with the story. Dave's mom was awesome and not only bathed, fed, and put my son to bed, she also cleaned my front hallway. I had been looking at it all day trying to figure out where to start with the scary mess that was there, and deciding just to come back to it later...

Today we got up and I decided to head out before Austin's nap since I had some things to mail but forgot to do it last night when I had the chance. I went to my mom's work and ended up visiting with her for about 2 hours and ended up spilling an ice cap. (seriously, no drinks are safe between the two of us!) I am blaming austin though because he wouldn't stand up and help me out making it easier to pick him up so when I bent over to get him out came the ice cap... yup... totally his fault. lol. We got home and I could tell Austin was getting tired so I gave him a bottle instead of food and he was down for a nap for 3.5 hours. I tried to read but couldn't get into it so I just watched some movies till I was starting to get sleepy and had about a 45 min nap when Austin woke me up. I made him some carrots and beans for dinner and while they were cooking and cooling I gave him some cereal *wheats and biscuits or something like that, reminded me of pancake mix before you put it in the pan..lol* his 'meat' *finally got him to eat the vegetable beef baby food without crying and spitting it out!! woo hoo victory!* and some apple grape sauce. *Which, instead of buying the baby food version for $0.75 I just bought the walmart brand unsweetened kind for $1.97 and it had 6 containers instead of 1* Then he got his carrots and beans which he didn't finish eating but I didn't think he would.

We had a tough time at bed because even though he was tired, I couldn't find his soother (which was behind the humidifier under a bunch of stuff he pulled off the side tables) and someone *cough*Dave*cough* didn't do as I asked and re-charge the batteries from the mobile when they died (and I remember the conversation clearly "While I put Austin to bed can you please take the batteries out of the mobile and re-charge them so they are ready for tomorrow?" Response "I'll do it tomorrow...." Well, tomorrow never came...) so tonight the batteries in his aquarium died. So we have a dead mobile and a dead aquarium and a cranky baby because he doesn't have his soother or music to fall asleep to. Finally get him down, take the mobile downstairs to take the rechargable batteries out of, and can't find the screwdriver. We keep the screwdriver in the front hall closet on the right side of the shelf so that we always know where it is. I remember going to get the screwdriver for dave a while ago and he didn't return it (But really, am I suprised???) Tomorrow I am going to have to go out to the garage and find another one and put it in the closet so I know where it is. (and maybe go buy some more re-chargable batteries so I have a set charged when the other set dies?) Just goes to show that even though Dave is in Alberta so far away he can still annoy the crap out of me... But... I still love him. And miss him.

I want to get some pictures up here of my super awesome shopping deals at Children's place on Sunday but I had temporarily lost my camera. That kind of thing happens when you don't clean your house since your husband left and you have crap everywhere... I found it though yesterday... right where I left it.. of course. lol Maybe tomorrow I will have some pictures to share!

Blah. I feel sick. Don't feel like updating, been another rough day. I ate left over lasagne that my mom said should have been fine for me to eat but really wasn't. I think I'm going to go lay down and update another time.

Bit of a rough day

We are coming to the end of the first official week without dave. *I don't count last week because he left, then I packed for me to leave and Austin was gone for 4 days.* Today was a rough day. We had a birthday party to go to in Markham. It started at 1. Austin was napping so I got everything ready then figured I would wake him and dress him. I was still in my pj's but had my clothes laid out and just had to flat iron my bangs. It was 11:50. got me ready, got Austin ready then my phone rang. I checked the clock, it was 12:51. How the hell did an hour go by!?!?!?!?! So I'm already late, hadn't had lunch.

Get on the 401, was going to take it to brock then head to the 407. As I'm approaching pickering I'm telling myself to start getting over to get off on Brock..... then noticed as I passed the off ramp that I missed it. I was in the right lane, just didn't realize I guess? So, I had to back track. Get back to brock follow it down to the 407. Go to get on, the 407 is closed from brock to the exit I needed. ugh! The idiot in front of me first pulled into the turning lane for the 407 (apparently didn't see the big huge sign just before the hwy saying it was closed) then when he couldn't get on the 407 decided to pull into the straight lane. Well, I was already there so I had to hit my breaks and my horn so he didn't hit me. So he's right on my back end as we went down hwy 7 and turns down the next road that will take him to the 407. Thanks for leaving me alone.

Unfortunately that didn't last long because a new jerk showed up on my ass end. He was so ridiculously close. We pulled up to a red light and I tried to dig something out of my centre console. The light wasn't red long and it changed but I was still looking so he honked. It wasn't the polite little pay attention beep. It was a long non stop honk. I wanted to get out and punch him. Jerk. When he finally passed me I gave him the finger. He sped past me doing at least 110 in an 80. Where's the cops when you need them??

After that I started crying and saying I just wanted to go home and forget the day. I didn't though, I finished and got to the birthday party. It was a great party and Austin had fun with all the other babies. Left there and went to my dad's for a bit. Had dinner and a hot tub then brought Austin home because he was really tired. Unfortunately he didn't go down and fussed and cried for a good 20 min before settling. He's asleep now and in about 5 minutes I'm heading to my bed. Couldn't sleep last night. Hope everyone had a great day!

Thursday

Yesterday we did nothing. I didn't even get dressed. The only reason I got Austin dressed was because when he crawls in his sleepers he ends up crawling out of the legs then having trouble crawling because he has no more room.

Today we got up and I did a load of laundry, loaded the dishwasher, cleaned all the crap off the kitchen table, and made my kitchen look somewhat useable. We headed to the stars and strollers movie and watched the proposal. Then tonight I had Vicki and Beatrice over for dinner. Her hubby was working afternoons so both of us would have been alone. I threw a lasagne in the oven and she brought over some ceasar salad and garlice bread. It was nice to not have to just cook for myself.

This afternoon before Vicki got here though I left Austin downstairs while I went pee. He was being a little too quiet. I came downstairs to find out he had pulled a bunch of kleenex out of the box and was trying to eat them. He's also mastered his opening and shutting. He likes to open and slam shut the door on the entertainment centre and he has a flap that opens and shuts on one of his toys and he constantly opens and closes it. Yesterday we practiced standing. I went to get him out of his crib and when I lowered the rail he let go and just stood there in his crib. We practiced a bit more in the living room. He would stand for a few seconds then lower himself down instead of falling. I can't believe how quickly he's grasping these concepts!