In a Sea of Snot

That title made me a gag a little.lol It's the truth though.

Today the majority of us are sick so we are all taking a sick day. No school today. The kids are pretty miserable. Erynn is tired because she spends all night coughing, Ruby is miserable because she can't breathe and has a cough that keeps her up all night. She wants to nurse but she can't breathe out of her nose so she can't nurse, but that's all she wants to do because she doesn't feel well. Poor baby..

Bryan is acting like he has cabin-fever. This is the kind of day we would have all went out to do something away from here but with all the sickness it's not an option.

Needless to say, I am also miserable. I'm tired because the baby is keeping me up all night and I'm not feeling great either. Everytime I cough it feels like my lungs are on fire. When I woke up this morning I also couldn't breathe.

Blah! I hate when we're sick. I'm going to go load up on EmergenC.

Mother Nature Likes to Play With Dolls

This morning I was sitting on the bed, getting the baby ready for the day. Erynn was standing behind me playing with my hair and Bryan was dancing in and out of my room.

On one of Bryan's twirls through my door he tells me " Mother Nature plays with us when we're sleeping." Odd.. and a little shocking.

I asked him how he knew that and he said he just knew. I told him that must be why I'm so tired all the time.

Then Erynn chimes in, still playing with my hair, " Mother Nature plays with us all the time, like dolls." :O

For those of you who know little Miss Erynn every now and then she comes out with some pretty interesting stuff, this was one of those mornings.

Ever wonder if children know things, important things about how the world really works, that we as adults don't know?

I was going to ask more questions but it just turned into an argument between the two monkeys about when Mother Nature plays with us.

My kids are crazy!

Snow is for kids

For anyone reading this who doesn't already know this about me, I hate winter!! No, I REALLY hate winter. Just thinking about the impending winter season while we're still in summer makes me physically ill. I don't shovel snow, I don't toboggan, I don't ice skate, I don't snow shoe, I don't have snowball fights, I don't play in the snow. As a matter of fact, I barely even leave the house during the winter. That being said, I used to. I used to skate the Rideau Canal every year. I loved building snow forts and I even snowshoed a few times. I even used to cross country ski.

Somewhere along the line I developed a huge feat of the snow and ice. I fall a lot and ice really doesn't help that. Then I started to drive and that open a whole new can of frosty, snow covered worms. Somewhere in my life I lost that magical feeling that the first bit of snow gives you as a child. Luckily for me, I have 3 chances at experiencing that all over. This brings me to my point.

So today it's been snowing. Big sticky flakes that are staying on the ground. The kids and I took a walk to the store to buy bread for lunch and Bryan decided he wanted to play outside when we got back. Stellar idea, I thought. That will give me time to do a few things inside.

The kids went out after lunch ( Erynn needed coaxing, I think she might be like me when it comes to winter..). Apparently they were making snowmen. Bryan came in to ask for a carrot but we didn't have any so he took a peice of celery instead. lol

I was cleaning out the fridge and Ruby was looking out the door. I had an idea. We should go outide too! So I bundled Ruby up, grabbed my camera and out we went.

She doesn't look impressed does she? lol

Ruby did her awkward baby in a snowsuit walk around the yard and Bryan and Erynn introduced me to their new snow friends.

I was very impressed.

I watched the kids play in the snow for a bit and took some pictures. The batteries died and I missed some really funny things.

Ruby was watching Bryan face-dive in to the snow so she decided to try it out. It didn't work out so hot for her. She went down, she didn not come back up.lol I picked her up and she was totally covered in snow. It was fantastic. She disagreed.

All in all it was a lot for fun watching the 2 older ones making things out of snow and watching the baby wonder what the heck was going on.

This is the part when I show off how beautiful my kids are. Bask in their cuteness!!

Meet Prince Bryan

Prince Bryan used to be the lowly magician but he worked his way up the ranks to become prince. All hail Prince Bryan!

So this is what my beautiful daughter dreams up. I think she saw finger people on a show and it just popped in to her head this morning.

I was doing school work with the original Bryan and Erynn was doing her own thing. We were taking a break before lunch when Erynn came over to me with a little face drawn on her thumb. She told me he was a magician and he needed a hat and a cape. So out came the handy dandy contruction paper, scissors and tape. I made him a little hat, which you can see, and a little black cape, which is a little harder to see in the picture. We tied his cape on with a bit of kitchen twine. Erynn thought he was the greatest thing ever and then decided he was too good looking to be just a magician. He was indeed a prince!

I asked her what his name was and she told me he was Prince Bryan. As soon as original Bryan heard that he started wailing, " No I'm Bryan!! I hate that!!" ( Hate is Bryan's new favourite word. He hates everything right now. lol)

Erynn is so easily entertained. :) She reminds me of original Aaron that way..lol!!

Adventures in Sock Monkey Construction

So I decided I needed to make a sock monkey. I'm not totally sure why but I'm sure it would be safe to blame Miss A and Craftster.

First I scoured the internet for dummy-proof instructions. (Yes I know they're simply buy hey.. I am a dummy! ) I found a lot of really great websites but decided on this one. It has plenty of pictures. Right up my alley!!


I'm a silly woman so I didn't think to take pictures of my progress until last night and by then it was mostly done. Doh!

Here is my silly little monkey before I went to bed. His body has been stuffed, he has a tail and one arm.

So far so good, huh? Just to let you know, I was planning on making this little guy for my kids. I was going to make one for each of them for Yule. It was going to be a grand suprise! The plan was to work on him after the kids went to bed so they wouldn't see it. Well this morning,when I came downstairs, it became very apparent that my children can smell sock monkeys. They found his little half formed body and carted him around the house, getting in to stuff. Grr... Oh well. I told them it was supposed to be a suprise and no I'll have to find some other kids to suprise. Hopefully that bit of "mean mommy" will actually make sure they are suprised when they get their monkeys. lol ( No, I'm not THAT mean.. I just like to front that I am..)

Anyway, due to his early exposure, I figured I might as well finish him up this morning. I sew on the remaining arm, his face, his sweet ears and a lovely mouth. The I looked for eyes. Two buttons would have done it. Think I could find buttons? Nope! So he's still blind but I'll remedy that this weekend.

Here is my finished product:

I am so excited that I made this! It really was way too much fun to make. Last night Richard said " You are having too much fun making that monkey thing." He was totally right!! That's right.. I'm easily amused..

So I have one mare pair of socks like this one so I'll start a new monkey tonight. This weekend I'll get some more socks and I'll be able to have a monkey for each little crazy. I was thinking of making a pink bow for Ruby's monkey and a purple bow for Erynn's just so all 3 look a little different.

If things go well I'm sure a few more people will be getting sock monkeys for Yule/ Christmas this year. Wee!

And so it begins..

I'm going to come back in a bit to post an actual blog but I just wanted to get the ball rolling and say hi! Welcome to my madness..umm.. I mean intersting life..lol Can't wait to get it started!