Sunday, January 4, 2009

Late nights at the Green household! (2330)



Well, our precious son had a long nap this afternoon because Craig intended on taking him to the hockey game. That didn't pan out, so we ended up with a boy who just does not want to sleep. At least he's in good spirits.....this is what he came up with while hanging out and watching the hockey game on tv with us. Yup, he came to the living room and said, "Look! I have googly eyes"!!! HA!!!
Every day they give us wonderful reasons to laugh!

January 4th, 2009...another nice family day


Well, today got off to a good start, after a long sleepless night with a 3 year old tossing and turning around in our bed, who didn't get to sleep until after midnight! Taylor woke at 6am for a bottle but went back to sleep until almost 9am after that, so some good did happen :)
We hung out at home until my mom and sf came to check out a prob with our fridge door. Then we packed the kids up and went off to my cousin's place to watch a bit of football.
5pm was time to come home, and that we did. Before un-bundling Nathan, I decided he needs to get more exercise and fresh air, so he and I went for an amazing walk together.

This kid was always a runner, and man, can he still run!!! We went most of the way up our road, which is a huge incline. All he wanted to do was run. So we ran, and ran, and ran. Then he wanted to play "get off the road and stop walking while the cars go by", even though there were no cars. So I had to get to the side of the road and wait until he gave me the go-ahead to continue walking.
After about 10 or more trials of this, it was getting old to me (I have a short attention span! lol), so I said "ok buddy, let's walk again now". To which he replied, "no, let's RUN!" and off he went again! I laughed to myself and couldn't help but think he was going to be like another Ben Johnson, er..no...Marion Jones type.....Oh no!!!! Why is it that the only famous runners I can think of are associated with scandals? So I decided I didn't know who he was going to be like; rather, he was going to be like himself - "Nathan Green, the famous non-scandalous runner"!
By the time I had this conversation with myself, we were as far as I thought we shoud go. So we turned back and started to make the trek back home. On our way, we got sidertracked by a snowball fight, which Nathan started with me. We discovered our footprints form the trip up, as well. We made more footprints, running ones and walking ones.
Then Nathan ran toward me as I got ahead of him, and I picked him up and swung him around. Of course, that had to be repeated, literally, ad nauseum, until I just couldn't take any more spinning!!
We ran some more, and then we were home. Snacks for dinner abounded, and Dora/Diego videos, which he's currently addicted to. Taylor was fed and once her belly was nice and full, I gave her a bottle.
Not 5 minutes later we were in the bathroom getting her cleaned up for bed, and out it came. (this part is not for the weak-stomached!)
Projectile vomit, EVERYWHERE! It was on the mirror, it was all over the floor, on the walls, all over the vanity, into the cupboard doors, down the cupboard doors, on the drawer handles. Just EVERYWHERE. It was like 10 drunk men had their way with the room.
So, now to clean this mess up. Luckily, I was spared, all but my socks, and somehow so were Taylor's pj's. For a minute.....
I put her into the hall so I could figure out where to start, and it begins again. All over the hall. On her pj's. Then onto my pj's. Needless to say, I was standing like frozen, with Taylor in mid-air, hollering for Craig. He comes running up to see the disaster. He decided to take Taylor, and I got the mess. It took me 1/2 hour to clean it all up - a full roll of paper towel, lots of lysol wipes, a mixture of vinegar and water, and a bucket full of pine sol. But now it's clean and hopefully germ-free.
So....... so much for our plan to get the kids to bed early tonight! Once again, it backfires...from a nice, calm evening, to changed plans that throw off the itinerary.
Well, hopefully Miss Taylor's episode won't be repeated tonight.
Mommy's first day back to work after FOREVER, is tomorrow, and I need to make it!
I hope it goes well, it's been a long time away from the OR. A temporary position elsewhere, one year of mat leave, then I returned back for 2 days after having been sick for 2.5 months and came down with pneumonia, which took me out for weeks more.
So, I pray that I get comfortable being back there, very quickly, as I have missed my opportunity for a re-orientation. And, I pray, I don't get sick again. That was enough to do me a lifetime!
So, if baby T is sick tomorrow, Daddy will have to stay home with her. Good Daddy :)

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Busy days.....Jan 3rd, 2008





Well, The day got off to a busy start. Craig decided he needed to do some errands and would be gone for a few hours, and I had to exchange some pillows at a store 1/2 hr away, so we quickly all decided to go together.
4 diaper changes (no, not me, the kids!), a couple bottles, a tantrum, 3 different meals later, we were off to the races by 10am!
After about 5 stops at different places, we had done all our errands and were ready to head home.
After a huge cleaning spree and Craig leaving to pick up pellets he stores at his brother's place for our pellet stove, we were home to relax! Nathan napped, and Taylor got her nails clipped, and then of course, "Independent Miss" decided she wanted the clippers. Not smart, but I let her have them to see what she'd do. She pretended to cut her nails, it was actually quite hilarious! Then she kindly gave me back the clippers. Later, she began to do her new thing, bending over, looking through her legs while standing up. That's pretty funny to see too, so I did my best to get a shot of that.
Nathan decided he needed to watch his Diego movies, and of course the only place we have a dvd player is in the basement rec room. So we appeased him and down he went to the dungeon to watch his movies. We got Taylor to bed, shared a couple dances and smooches (mmm!) since we had some alone time, and then we sat down to watch sports, listen to my new ipod on my new Bose speaker! (whohoo! my treat to myself!!).
As we sat hre, Craig says to me something to the effect of "How old are you? I answer him. He asks me how old he is, and I answer him. Then he asks how old our son is, and I answer him, and he says "and here we are, up here watching tv on the 14 inch screen, and the 3 year old is downstairs watching the 42 inch plasma"!! LOL, I thought, how true~! This is our life! lol

Monday, December 29, 2008

Monday Dec, 29, 2008

Well, I know nothing about blogging, so I guess I have some homework to do. I will be back when I can figure this all out, and when I can think of what we did today that was interesting! lol