garage sale anyone??

i'm throwing together a garage sale for this coming friday, sept 1st! it will be 9-5 and we definately dont' have a lot to get rid of, so if anyone else wants to join in on our drive pad, please feel free! even if you can't be here to sell your stuff, as long as it's priced and dropped off the night before or morning of, i can do the selling!

anyone want to join? so far there are i think 3-4 of us.....

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

i was just starting to write this up.... a huge congratulations to my friend lindsey and her new fiance ben! ben proposed to her this past week and i've been meaning to share the news with my blogger friends!!!

and as i'm writing this up, my old room mate, brittany, is talking to me on msn, telling me she was proposed to last night!!!!!!!

so huge CONGRAULTIONS TO BOTH BRITANNY & DAVE, AND LINDSEY & BEN!!! WOOO HOOOO I LOVE WEDDINGS.... hopefully i'm invited ;) haha!

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee i'm so giddy now for both of my friends :) :) :)

hahahaha!

i have to blog this before i forget because this one made me laugh for a while...

i was just dancing like a krazy mom to the "igloo gloo" theme song while the kids were eating breakfast, and they were both laughing and then when i finished, kai says, "be careful mom! you're going to get hurt!" i just found it hilarious because it's probably true!

and hallie just now told me, "you have stinky breath." thanks dear.

today....

today emerson had an appointment with the home nutrition team at the hospital. all went well... she weighed in at 21 lbs, some odd ounces (i forget) and i don't know the height measurement but it's still 25th percentile. weight is closer to 90-95th percentile! haha! i think her head is 50 or 75th? can't remember.... all is well with miss emmy, she is supposed to start drinking more thickened, homo milk by mouth over the next 4 weeks... and if that goes well, possibly elimiate the tube feeds! WOW it all of a sudden seems so close! i honestly just saw this long, dark tunnel ahead with no end, and now i see the light! sounds so cliche, but it's true! :) woo hoo! go emmy, go emmy! we'll see how the month goes!

after the hospital, i took advantage of having only 1 child in tow and i stopped by the flooring place to compare the flooring samples we chose with the counter and cupboard samples... i think we've come to a decision! (i mean, i have come to a decision that kipp nodded in agreeance with! LOL) i'm excited to see it all come together eventually!

then, once i finally got home, my dad had taken the kids to the park across the street and juanita and the kids were there as well (planned) and we played for a while. then off to southgate to meet grandma & grandpa for lunch.... and did a bit of shopping/browsing. my parents leave tomorrow for a week or a week and a half? and the kids will sure miss them! (as will i, who am i kidding?!) tomorrow we're going over to their place before they leave, for dinner.

the kids played on their bikes this afternoon and they both sure go FAST up and down the sidewalk. i think they crashed, and somehow kai landed in a huge mud puddle/bath and was NOT impressed. that ended the bike riding. it was an early bedtime for them as they have been so tired and grumpy lately... kai's naps/bedtime have been so krazy lately so i am hoping the early bedtime tonight will help. we did massive stories instead of the usual 1 or 2 :) and then i fell asleep too. oops! i just checked on kai and took some funny pics.....

let's play!

we went to let's play on wednesday... we were supposed to go to the park but the weather wasn't so nice, so someone else suggested let's play. it was fun, however i would've preferred the park.... i hate being inside when we can be outside, especially when soon we won't be able to be outside as much.

but of course the kids had fun! the picture over on the left, kai and wednesday dayhome girl, would you believe the tiny little girl beside kai is actually 3 days older than he is?? she's so little and so cute! hehe :)

oh boy...

there are so many things i want to blog about... i am discovering new little bits and pieces to some puzzles every day but yet i can't write them here.... perhaps i need a more private blog so i can vent!!!! playground politics at it's best, woo hoo ;)

otherwise life is great! everything has fallen nicely into place for september and i'm looking forward to it all! i want to write more but i really have nothing to say... my mind has shut itself off for the night i guess. off to bed!

playdate!

it was so nice to finally see sara and her kiddos!!! it's been a month i think!!? they were away and then busy moving... we had some other moms over too... it was probably the most people i've ever had in my house at one time but it worked out! maybe now i can brave hosting more playdates!

some of the moms & kids

more moms and kids
hallie, kai, and madison dancing!
kai on the slide
emerson was having a rough day and pretty grumpy all day. can you tell??
hallie & madi were having so much fun together today!
my favorite part of this pic is sara.... LOL ;)

monday monday.....

monday we had plans to meet some people at chuck e cheese.... but it ended up being just us.... so the kids and i had some fun doing some games and having lunch. we weren't there long though... it's just not the same without another adult to talk to LOL! (although i was getting pretty into the bowling game LOL!)

then we went home, kai passed out so hallie and i made muffins! it was the first time we have successfully made muffins since we've lived here! yay! (i have a habit of burning them)

kai woke up and we did more coloring, play-doh, and other really fun stuff like laundry.... haha!

this was almost a cute pic but emerson grabbed at the camera, so i got a pic of her cute fingers instead...

play doh!
messy faced emmy
oh look, there's one of the molars... did i mention i felt around and i think she has at least 3 of them now...
hallie's "creation" she made all on her own while kai was sleeping
it is pages she has colored, bound together with pipecleaner and tape! hehe... oh don't forget the bingo dabber....
kai, concentrating hard on his coloring work... (see tongue)
hallie, also concentrating hard on her work
hallie baking
emerson trying pizza
hallie with stuart little

oh baby!

so saturday i packed up hallie & kai and drove to a far off land, also known as the north side of edmonton! haha! i really don't like driving all that much, so driving way to the north side, it's not overly fun for me! while we were gone (which was like 3 -4 hours once we had attempted all errands!) kipp and emerson had some quality time at home. later on, i discovered these pictures on my camera....

kipp and emerson had a little photo shoot... daddy is a weirdo!!!!!!

here he has carefully placed emerson on a stool...

and here, he has changed her into a dress, chosen a nice red backdrop, and placed several teddy bears around her (i've never been a big fan of props but it looks like it worked LOL!)
and here, once again changed into a princess constume (sort of)
does someone have too much time on their hands?!?????? ;)

sunday soccer!

i had to work friday night and sunday night... but sunday afternoon we went out and played some soccer. the kids love playing soccer with daddy... and daddy of course will take any chance to kick the ball around.... (he often goes in the evenings and just plays alone on 'his field') kai is really into it.... hallie not so much or at least not on sunday LOL!

sleeping emmy

she is so funny when she sleeps... she always gets close to one side of the crib and has her feet crossed and in the crib bars... ALWAYS! it's so funny!!!

friday at the fort!

we spent friday at fort edmonton park... grandma met us there and we all had fun! i find that place more and more interesting each time i go. if only the kids would allow me to stop and read the info on each building....

my mom said she used to want to read about each building too but us kids rushed her through it... we weren't interested in the history back then and now that i am interested, my mom can't go into the buildings with me :(

the kids with the big train in the background. they had fun riding it and grandma met us on 1885 street since she couldn't ride the train...

the kids thought these were drums LOL!
hallie was driving! aaahhh! it was hilarious! she's a krazy driver, and fast too!
hi kai!
grandma bought the kids these clown noses for 50 cents at the gift shop! haha!

last thursday

wow, it's been a while..... these pics are from last thursday at galaxyland. we went with some friends including L, T, J, and their kids, and miss juanita and her kiddos!