Dance Party!!

The spoon that you see in Tornado's hand is his microphone!!

Please meet his dance partner Rocky The Robot!

Big Finish!

Tell Me Tuesday

Tell Me Tuesday!!

Hubby and I are trying to figure out what to do for family holidays this year. We will have a 5 year old boy and a 7 month old girl when we venture out this year.

SO my question this week is:

What do you do for family holidays? or/and Where do you go for family holidays?

(It can be this year or past years. I am just looking for some really good ideas!!)

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Random Things About My Life

My blog has been nothing but pictures lately. SO I decided to do a bullet list of 10 random things about my life.

~ I wanted 2 children BUT hubby only wanted 1!! In the end I got my wish!! :) But Meme was not planned, I was on birth control when she appeared. Funny how things in life work out. :)

~I am a picture freak!!! It drives Hubby NUTS!!

~It has been so long since Hubby and I went out on a date, I couldn't even tell you the last time we went out OR where we went. It will be a VERY LONG time until we venture out again, Meme will have to be at least a year.

~I have turned into one of those HORRIBLE ex-smokers that complains about it when ever we are around it. It stinks!! It is unhealthy!! It really affects Tornado's asthma!! Oh the list goes on... And to think I used to smoke and brushed off every person that brought these issues up to me. Funny how children change you.

~ I would pick chips over chocolate any day!

Look Who Is 3 Weeks Old

Friday Night Leftovers

~ It's Saturday and Hubby is working. This is the second Saturday in a row he has worked...how strange it feels without him home. Not that he would do much if he was here. It just messes up the routine of our house.

~ Calgary Flames won the heritage classic game...Hubby says it is because the Habs could not stop laughing!! Did you happen to see the jerseys they were wearing? Absolutely UGLY!!

~ Asked Hubby to change Meme's bum the other day, because I was busy, he had the nerve to say NO. When I asked why he simply responded 'because I don't want to.' What an Ass!!

~Meme is now a month old and Hubby has yet to fed her or change her bum!!

~ WOW!! Asked Hubby to take out the trash over the weekend and well he blew up!!! YIKES

~ Did you know that Employment Insurance can make you pay back some of the money you claimed when you do your taxes!! Yep you read that right, they sure can!!
Hubby and I got our taxes done this week and to our surprise we had to pay back 30% of the money he claimed on EI!! WHAT BS!!!

~ My lovely 1 month old baby thought it would be fun to keep Mommy up all night long!! 3 nights in a row!! There is no napping happening in my house either with a 4.5 year old son.
I am trying to figure out if she just hates me or if it is gas or something else!!!

~Winter is never going to end!!

Today it is -40c with the wind chill!!

Yesterday it was -36c with the wind chill, when I woke up.

BRRRRRRR!!!!!!

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Funny Of The Week!!

My Dad emailed me this...

...I will raise my hand!!!

How about you?

Mommy Having Fun!!

The boys were outside in the garage playing...

SO...

Mommy had some fun too!!!

2 Weeks Old

My little Eeyore!!

Week 2 Picture Update

What a handsome boy I have!!

Loves his little sister to pieces!

Always right by her :)

Look at those feet!!

Surprise visit from Nana

Just LOVE his face!!

I just love this picture!!

Tornado's FAVORITE sleeper...

too bad she has already outgrown it.

Happy Valentine's Day 2011

Tornado giving his baby sister Meme a Valentine's Day Kiss

All ready to go to his school Valentine's Day Party!!
(He wrote his name on about 8 of the cards...the rest Mom had to finish)

The card that Tornado got for me...

What did you all get for Valentine's Day?

Look What I Found Well Raiding Hubby's Phone!!

Jan. 5 2011

When Hubby took Tornado sledding I asked if he got any pictures...

Hubby said NO!!

LIAR!!! Look what I found well looking at the pictures on his phone!!!

This was Tornado's first time out sledding. :) He had such a blast!!

Are we the only parents that make their child were a snow helmet well sledding?!?!

This picture makes him look soooo very small.

One Of Our Favorite Stores!!

My Little Flower

This is my ALL TIME FAVORITE TOWEL!!!

Received from Auntie Kelley!!!

Thank you we LOVE it!!!

It is still a little big for our little girl. LOL

Feb. 5th 2011

Snug as a bug all wrapped up!!

It Sure Ain't Like The Good Ole Days

I get a text from my Hubby this morning saying 'Grandma L. fell down and broke her shoulder and wrist on the other arm.'

'OMG!!' I just couldn't believe what I was reading.

Hubby than phoned me to tell me the story. Here is what he told me:

She was crossing the street when she fell down. There was a car waiting to turn left, after she had crossed. Well the ASSHOLE (sorry about the language but this part really pisses me off!!) seen her fall and than just drove around her and proceeded on his/her merry way. He/she did not even open their window to make sure she was OK. NOTHING was done by the this person BUT to leave an elderly woman laying in the middle of the street!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

I wish I was there to get this persons license plate number!!

Like WTF!!! How can anybody do that?!?!?! You see someone fall and not get up right away but yet you drive around them and don't even look back!!! Especially an elderly person!!! What has our world come to?????

Am I the only one that finds this completely rude and unacceptable?!?!?

I Raided My Hubby's Phone!!!

I was going through the pictures on my Hubby's phone and found a TON of them!! So now I will share some of the ones that I found! :)

Tornado meeting his baby sister for the first time!!!

He was very unsure of her and did not know what to think.

He played shy and would only come that close to us.

He did have the biggest smile on his face...

BUT I think he thought she was going to be bigger right from the start.

All in all it was a reaction Mom and Dad did not expect.

My Life This Week

WOW I can not believe it has already been 2 weeks!!! How time flies by!!!

Here is what has been going on in my life this week:

~On the weekend we ventured out to Chuck E Cheese. Tornado had a blast!! Him and Dad buzzed around well I sat at our table with Meme. (We really need to get a universal stroller carrier so I can walk around too) We were there for about 2 hours!!

Well we were there I had to change Meme...no biggie right?!?! Well that is what I thought too. I grab all the stuff needed for the bum change and make my way to the washroom. Clean off the change table, it appears I have become a germ freak since Meme was born. Than proceed to change her bum. Get her diaper off and than BAM it happens...

Meme sprays her poop all over the bathroom stall wall!!!

OMG!!!

To make matters worse there is not garbage can in the stall...

the toilet paper sucks...

I have no extra hands and no way clean it up well attending to Meme...

at this point I wish I had my phone to message Hubby to come and get Meme so I can clean it up!!!

I did manage to get it all clean BUT it took awhile. I was not about to leave that mess for anyone else to walk in and find. It was gross and messy!!

When I got back to the table Hubby says that took awhile...

I say 'YEP' and tell him what happened.

He had nerve to ask me if I cleaned it up!!

~After we left Chuck E Cheese we ventured on over to Zellers. We were on a mission to buy Meme new sleepers BUT they did not have a very big selection. In the end we got a baby bath and a bouncer chair. (Little Einstein Bouncer chair for $35.00!!)

~That night Tornado came down with a fever of 103.6, not sure on the point part but it was high!! The panic set in!! I did not want Meme getting sick...but I did not want Tornado to feel like I was banishing him.

It was so very hard on him not to hug, kiss or hold Meme!! He loves her so much and just wanted to show her.

~Meme's umbilical cord fell off!!!

Well this sums up my Saturday!!!

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We will skip right to Monday

~ We went to sleep Sunday night with very little snow...

and woke up to winter wonderland!!!

Apparently we are in winter storm warning!!

~Meme gave me a scare today. I thought she was getting sick because her temperature was 37.3 and well for this little girl that is high. She is usually around 36.6!! But after monitoring her for the morning I came to the conclusion that we were just fine.

~I kept Tornado home from school today because he had the fever all weekend long, nothing else to go along with it, but non the less he still had the fever. I would hate to send him and than he gets other children sick.

My hubby did not understand why I kept him home. He said 'Like any other parents would keep their kid home if they had a fever the day before.' He is absolutely right!!!

BUT...

I just couldn't send him knowing there could be something wrong and take the chance of making others sick!!

That wraps up Monday!!

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WOW we are already to Tuesday:

~ Went to the doctors in the morning. The wait was NUTS!! We were there for 2.5 hours!! YUCK!!!

In the end it turns out Tornado has an ear infection, we guessed this!! Did you know ear infections were contagious??? I surely did not!!

Meme is doing GREAT!!! She is now 6lbs 8oz and 20 inches long!! I no longer have to wake her to feed!! She does have some yellow discharge coming from her eyes SO Dr. Cindy-Anne did a swab just to be sure it is nothing.

That wraps up my Tuesday!!

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Knick Knacks:

~ I decided on Friday I would let her go 4 hours at night instead of 3 hours...do you think she would go the 4 hours?!?! NOPE!! She woke up every 3 hours!!! Go figure!! LOL

~ Tornado is doing really really good with his listening skills!!! His school even pointed it out.

*now watch I have just jinxed myself*

~ One day this week I actually left Meme with Dad well I ran to Wal-mart!! This is a BIG step for me...I did not leave Tornado until my 6 week check up and that was just because he could not come with me to that appointment.

~My hubby is still helping out around the house and it is GREAT!!! This is a BIG thing for him because usually it is me doing all the house work. Thanks Babe I really appreciate it!!

This is Tornado's favorite sleeper on Meme!!

Tell Me Tuesday ~ Feb. 8 2011

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Father and Son!!

Tornado and Dad have started to go out for lunch every weekend!! Tornado looks forward to this day all week long.

My question today is...

What could Mom and Son do on weekly basis?

I have been picking my brain about this for the past month, since Dad and Son started their lunch dates, and I just can not think of a dang thing.

Much Needed Fun!!!

Tornado playing with his Aunties!!!

This was much need attention and fun that Tornado needed after his baby sister was born.

He tuckered out his Aunties and I am sure they all slept very well that night.

Tornado says 'THANK YOU AUNTIES FOR PLAYING WITH ME!!!!'

After they went home and we were all sitting on the couch Tornado says in the saddest voice ever 'My friends are gone home now. That makes me super sad.'

He loves his Aunties!!

WeeeEEEEeeeeeEEEEEeeeee....

One Week Old!!

One Week Picture with Big Brother Tornado!!

This is how Meme's first week went:

Day 1 ~ We are working on training Meme how to use her tongue properly well eating. She latches good BUT curls her tongue so can not suck properly.

~ They checked her skin for jaundice and it was well below the line. :)

~We got to go home at 830pm that night!!

~Grandma and Papy came to visit you when you got home.

Day 2 ~ The health nurse came, BOO! She had issues getting your temperature correct, we did not know this at the time BUT now we sure do. (this is another post all on its own!!)

~ We went out and exchanged your car seat!! You like your new one now!! :)

~Today we are giving you EBM and Similac, trying to teach you how to use your tongue.

Day 3 ~ BRRRR We are in a winter storm warning!!! It is crappy roads!! Crappy weather!!! Crappy Wind Chill!!! This storm has prevented family members coming to visit from Red Deer.

~ Had to go to the Health nurse office to see if they could help out with breastfeeding. They checked your jaundice and it had gone up. They took your temperature again and SURPRISE they said it was LOW!! But yet it was just fine all night long. (like I said another post all on its own!!) They ended up sending us to the Children's Hospital.

~ Got to the hospital and SURPRISE Meme's temperature was just fine. She had to have a thermometer stuck up her butt for NOTHING!!! We had to drive all the way in the shitty road conditions, sorry for the language.

~ FINALLY got home and just relaxed for the rest of the night.

Day 4 ~ BACK to the health nurse AGAIN!!! Guess what?!?! Yep you guessed it...they said her temperature was low AGAIN!! This time I brought our thermometer and it was just fine with ours!! BUT that was not good enough for the nurse. GAH!! Why is it that they are the ONLY ones that get a low temperature with my child?!?!?!?!? SO FRUSTRATING!!!!! Back on track on: Checked her jaundice level and it had jumped right into the red zone by LOTS. Meme was very sleepy and did not want to eat, which is weird for her because the past days she has LOVED her food, yes I had to wake her to feed but she still gulped it down. The nurse poked her foot to take her blood for the jaundice test and Meme didn't even cry or flinch. It was scary at how unresponsive she was.

~ So off to the hospital we go again. This time we just went to the PLC because if she needed the lights the Children's would have sent us back to the PLC, so we eliminated the step. We got in really fast. Again her temperature was just fine there, but yet the health nurse said it was low...like WTH?!?!?!?

~The blood work came back and her belirubin levels were high, so she would be going in for the light treatment. Than he doctor gave me a scare because they said it could also be meningitis. They are concerned about this because I was GBS positive!! The thoughts that were running through my mind.

~FIRST things first they take blood from Meme, well at least they try. The first tech. that came in to get her blood was looking like he had no idea what he was doing. So I asked him 'Have you done this before?' He replies 'On child 3 and older but NEVER on a baby.' After the news of meningitis I was not about to let my baby be a guinea pig, I know we all have to learn but not today on my little girl. I respond 'I'm sorry and I don't want to be rude but I am not comfortable with you doing this than.' Thank goodness he understood. After that conversation the doctor came in and I told her about what had just happened and she was like 'NO! He will NOT be taking her blood.' They tried to get her blood in the ER but had no success. It was so heart breaking watching them stick the needles in her arms to find a vain. She screamed so loud and it made me cry. I never want to see that again. They gave up and took us upstairs.

~We got into our room and settled down. Our nurse was Anna and she was just AMAZING!!!Than Dad and Tornado headed home. I must add that Tornado was such a trooper these past days, Mom felt very bad for him because how fun can this be for him. They than came and got her to get blood. They had her for a VERY long time!! Brought her back and still had no success. My poor baby girl had gotten poked so many times it broke my heart to hear they had her for SO long and yet still had to come back for her to poke her more. In the end they got the nurse in the NICU to do it. She had her for less than 5 minutes and was done.

~Got blood work back and the CBC came back abnormal. My heart just sunk into the ground. This meant that she would need a spinal tap. BUT wait the doctor says we think it may have been abnormal because the blood was clotted. SO, Meme got poked again and off went her blood to get retested. That was the longest 2 hours of my life...BUT it came back normal!!! Thank God!!! The relief that came over me.

Day 5 ~ Got poked again to get blood to make sure the belirubins had gone down. YES!! It had!!!

~FINALLY got the urine sample, the nurse had to bag her.

~ We were able to go home that afternoon!! Meme was eating well and her temperature stayed put. (I must add Anna and I tag teamed all night long with our thermometers and SURPRISE we always matched.)

~ Got home and just relaxed!!

Day 6 ~ Dad took today off, thank goodness. We all needed just one stress free day!!

Day 7 ~ YIKES I am on my own and it is preschool day!!!

~Tornado slept in...Meme woke up at 830 to eat, same time as Tornado. Have to be out of the house for 9am to get to school in time. It was a marathon but we made it!!

~Tornado LOVED showing off his little sister when I went to pick him up. The adults were allowed to look at her BUT when the other kids looked at Meme he would step in front of the car seat and say 'Don't look at my sister.'

~Went to the doctors for her One week check up!! I can not believe she is already one week old!!! She weighs 6lb 4oz now...we have passed our birth weight!! Her jaundice is looking good!! Over all Dr. Cindy-Anne is really happy with her!!!

~Big brother is still LOVING his little sister.

~Mom is still giving you EBM, it is not getting better it is now getting worse, but no longer on formula!! I have decided if I just have to pump and than bottle feed so be it!! She will still get breast milk either way.

~You have almost outgrown the newborn sleepers. So this weekend I we get to go shopping.

You all might say WOW what a roller coaster ride...

YES it sure was!!!

BUT...

I can truly say I am doing really good and I am enjoying being home now and having all this precious time with my family of 4 now!!

Soaking up the rays!!!

She kept taking off her eye cover SO we had to give her a cool looking eye band too!!