Parties

I'm not a big fan of 'parties' You know like : Tupperware, Scentsy, Discovery toys, Mary Kay ... Epicure ... you know those KINDS of things, but seriously, all the ones I just named are alright as long as they aren't all at the same time/at the same person's house stuff like that. Sometimes I go because I need/want something, other times I just really want to visit. Sometimes I have a party but really feel all self conscious that no one will come, which is why I usually don't have parties.Or then you get the impression someone wants to buy but can't come so you are practically harassing them? Yeesh. Hopefully I don't harass. We'll soon find out. ;)

Let's be honest, it's everyone's worst nightmare : host a party and have no one show up. GAH. I am lucky my sisters will drag their asses out and show up anyways. And my mom probably ... because curling is on at the same time ... I'm always surprised when people show up. Okay but honestly I've only ever had 1 party and it was Discovery Toys and I LOVE the toys, so hopefully someone else has a party soon! I have a wish list ;)

But, I will make some snacks, clean my house and hope for the best :) And seriously if you don't want to watch curling, Scentsy IS going to be here.

Indecision, Return to work, Online shopping and bargains

Indecision. I can not make my mind up about anything. Seriously. Between what to make for supper to what to buy at the store, to what shirt to get from Gap Canada during their stock up sale. (I did manage to decide : I finally got myself a new 'Grandma' sweater. Pretty excited for such a good deal! Plus I needed one, mine has too many holes in it.)

I will be going back to work next month (booo), but only part-time ... I would love to 'top up' my hours somewhere but I'll have to keep my eyes open for a job as flexible as the one I'm returning too. One lame thing about living out of town is that it's harder to find a good paying job that you can work a few hours at a time. As it stands, it sort of has to be worth my gas to drive 30-40 minutes into town (and then back again) Know what I mean? Also, if I lived in town, it would be easier for me to babysit, so I could do that.

Lately, I've also discovered some online shops : Babysteals.com, Kidsteals.com, Babyheist.com and some other ones but since I didn't order from them I won't mention them. Come to think of it, I  haven't ordered from Babyheist but mostly because I haven't seen anything I can justify yet. I will order though because they are Canadian and it means I won't have to wait long to get whatever I order. :) Also, ebay is bringing me babylegs leg warmers! (yay)

I also browsed a Please Mum website and got a FANTASTIC deal, then I went back to see what was new and discovered 'Greenbacks' so I went through Amélie's clothes, even her baby clothes and took out things that I was okay with parting with (not so many lol) and that were in great condition. I earned 71$! worth of store credit. I will be going back because I only used 25$ (came home with around 90$retail worth of clothes). Since you can only use the greenbacks for 50% of your purchase ... I paid 27$ for my stuff. Rubber boots, fairy wings/tiara/wand, 2 shirts and a pair of pants. Amelie picked it all out herself. :)

Also, I stumbled on Old Navy Canada and they had a deal/blow out but ... I couldn't really justify buying Amelie more clothes since I still have the store credit at Please Mum, so I bought myself a new sweater and a shirt, and bought Will some pants and Amelie some sandals.

And yet, I'm still on the search for a diaper bag ... but I've been looking on ebags.com because they show you the inside of bags so it's making it easier to narrow down some brands :)

Also ... we bought a PS3. WE went to Walmart and hemmed and scratched our heads but ... they didn't have the 299$ one in stock and the 399$ came with the move bundle and TONS of space, more than what we wanted ... THEN Corey wanted to go to Future shop and we came out with a PS3 with 320GB, 3 games, 1 movie, all the cords (of course) and one remote ... for ... 343$ WHAT?! I know. THEN I went to amazon for funs ... and found BOTH Corey's games on sale. FML. Spoiled. He rewarded me by fixing the furnace AND the Septic pump. We are both happy. Also we got Netflix. I love it so far. :)

My SIL had a Tupperware party and I bought some sippy cups/lids because I'm SICK of cleaning the shitty Walmart ones. BOO TO THEM. Then there's an Epicure party tomorrow (just stocking up on Corey's dip) then my Scentsy Party on Saturday! 

I can't wait!

Diaper bag search update

UPDATE (March 3rd/2011) : So ... I've been to the Oi Oi site and the Petunia Pickle Bottom site and neither of those sites show the inside of their bags. So far, I'm really leaning towards a Ju Ju Be. But ... I'm still open to suggestions ... I suppose even backpack suggestions ;)

All about Amélie ~ 2 years 10 months

'See you later, Happy Balentine's Day'. She says this all the time. If she's leaving the room. Bam. Going to bed. Yup. Playing a game. Also then. I have no idea where she got this from. Oh well. It's nice that it's always Valentine's day in our house.

She plays with her Barbies a lot, often re-enacting things she's seen, some things I'm wondering where she's seen it. She's going to be so excited when she finally gets her Barbie house!And poor Ken ... always in the dog house ;) but he gets to sleep with 3 women!!

Interesting fact : Her barbies are almost always naked. And they wear facecloths as dresses and blankets, and they all have Princess names like 'Cinderella, Snow White etc' even if they don't look anything like the character. Except for Ken ... his name is Ken.

She can count to ten if she wants to, she sings the ABC song but doesn't know all the letters yet. She could if I taught it to her, but obviously I haven't taught it to her yet haha.

Napping on her little couch.

'Posing?' She does weird poses lol.

Amélie is a dancer! LOVES dancing. She loves singing too, but ... she just does a medley of every Disney song she knows so you get something like 'I know you, Beauty and the Beast, I danced with you once upon a dreammmmmm ..... I know you A whole new WORLD!!!! I think this fall I will inquire about dance classes.

Amélie adores her Matante Madison - Maddie trumps everyone in the known universe. Her mémère will come over but if she has Tante Madison ... sorry Madison comes first.

I can't believe in a couple months she's going to be 3. It seems like yesterday I was cleaning her little umbilical cord :)

William - 10 months!

Feb. 15th took first steps
Feb 22nd got steps on video. Decided he liked being naked to walk. Very proud of himself
March 2nd walked across living room.

He plays peek-a-boo or *cache-cache* ... well ... he (caches) with his hands up over his head (He doesn't want to cover his eyes because then he can't see you.) but he forgets to lower his hands so we can say *TROUVEZ* ... so ... it's awkward, or he does it so fast you've barely said 'cache- and you have to say trouvez!

He's starting to say mamamamam when he wants me (or milk) and I noticed when he's getting tired. He's said 'uh oh' and 'wow' to mom. Two sentences we use a lot with her ;) Just kiddin' mom, but generally all he says are mom, dad and something that sounds like what?

He eats basically whatever we eat, with the exception of milk, eggs and most dairy products. He's had tiny pieces of cheese and a bite or two of yogurt, but nothing else. I do have baby cereal that I mix up once in a while if what we are eating has lots of cheese or isn't really baby tummy friendly, but really I just go with how he reacts to what I give him. If he spends more time playing with it then eating it, I offer him something else.
He also drinks water from a sippy cup during the day as well as breastfeeding. He still breastfeeds too. Yay for us!


Will's favorite toys - Amélie's princess flashlight, stackable cups (also Amélie's), and likes to carry a bright builder's plus block thingie, around, usually in his mouth, like a dog.

Future mechanic? Let's hope so ....

Peek a boo!!!

Tired of the photoshoot @ 10 months old
Giraffe from Sweet Baby K

Bags, bags, and more?

I've been recently debating the purchase of a good quality, designer diaper bag. I was immediately drawn to Ju Ju Be, mostly because it's got a cool name and neat prints, but then ... I wondered if I wanted something less 'kid oriented' and more adult ... like maybe an Oi Oi diaper bag, but THEN I wondered if maybe I wanted a diaper bag and a purse separate, because I mean I'll be going back to work soon and I've never owned a cool purse.

What is a cool purse anyways? I haven't a clue, but I don't own it that's for sure. I want something functional, that makes lots of sense. I like cramming a lot of things in my purse like agendas and DVD's and water bottles. I practically need my own diaper bag sometimes. So what should I do? Diaper bag/purse or ... Diaper bag AND purse ...

I think I already decided I need one of each. Plus a beach bag. Everybody should have a beach bag and not just a tote, because seriously, while at the lake I had to pretty much dump out my beach tote to get everything. Granted ... it was a grocery bag (reusable one) but you do what you gotta do. Maybe if I bought a REAL tote it would work better.

A backpack has been suggested. Been there done that, it sucks and isn't even remotely cool (sorry if you think it is ;) It's not even functional at all because stuff still gets lost at the bottom. No organization to it at all and the pockets on the outside only make it so I lose things more easily, when they get hooked on stuff because the pockets aren't made for baby things. Anyhoot. Back to perusing I go.

My faves so far :

Ju Ju Be's Be Prepared
Ju Ju Be's Be All

I'll post more as I pick them out.

Update 101 in 1001

I am 4 weeks, 2 days into my 101 in 1001 days.

I watched 2001: A space Odyssey. I would rather have watched a Star Wars marathon. Or paint dry. What the hell?! I will be forever haunted by the weird scary movie soundtrack and my eyes are scarred for life with the pointless footage of the slowest moving space objects EVER. Why show me some guy running in a circle in a space station? oooh fancy he can run upside down. I can't believe this made the 100 movies list. Seriously I can't stop wondering how this made the list. I thought it would be cool. Nope. Nopers. Noperoony. Not a keeper. Not at all. Never. Burn it. 

I also watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid and was pleasantly surprised. It was quite enjoyable! Even though the ending was lame. It had Paul Newman and Robert Redford in it and I actually liked it! WAY better than 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Date night : I'm counting one of our movie nights as a date night because I'm still breastfeeding and have no inclination to leave my babies at home yet ... so ... there.

Man I really need to make a spreadsheet to keep track of books/movies and other whatnot stuff ... or a calendar yah ... a calendar would work too. Better yet, a daily agenda! YES! But for now ... a notebook.

I'm seriously trying to finish Godfather Part II. I really like watching it, but it's a tad difficult with babies yelling, playing ... watching ... probably not a very good idea.

Turns out I only have 1350$ left owing on my student loan!! BOO YAH! That's pretty awesome! As soon as I can, I'm going to get rid of that sucker, make a few extra payments.

# 74 - Curling in a bonspiel might not happen/probably won't happen right now, but I don't know if there are bonspiels at the beginning of the season. If not, then I will owe charity ... or I might decide it's okay as long as I curl in TWO next year. We'll see how that plays out.

# 86 - No computer for 24 hours ... okay this one got away from me somehow, I kept overlooking it. I'll try and do it twice during the next month, if not, then I'll pay the charity fund. But I might die. So ... (deep breath) I know I can do it. I think I can! I know ... I'll get Godfather III and some other ridiculously long movies to watch.

I'm not doing so awesome on some of these tasks haha.

# 96 - Crewel Lye by Piers Anthony - I so love his books.

# 98 - Bacon/Beef soup - I didn't take a picture and I edited the recipe and used what I had, but totally counts AND it was awesome!
        - Herbed Fan potatoes - Seriously, just potatoes sliced not quite through and microwaved with some oil dressing thing. Easy.
        - I made something else ... but I can't remember .... I'll come back to this.

This update was LESS than spectacular, but ... it is what it is. Besides, I really want to write about how my blender almost died.