Monday, November 29, 2010

PJ Sunday

Well, Quinn had a super fun Sunday this week!  They were having a special treat for Sunday School, and the kids were allowed to wear their PJs yesterday.  Quinn was very excited because that is just so much fun!  On Saturday night, I went to get his clothes laid out as HC wouldn't be home for church, and he asked if he could choose the bulldog jammies.  I didn't even think he knew the difference between one set of jammies and another.  Then he said he chose those ones because "daddy and Quinny need a dog". Ummm, NO!  The jammies are as close as they are getting to a dog right now.
It was also special because he got to take baby Kita out of the house.  Kita is his lovey, she is a cute little mini-me version of his (now dead) dog Kita.  She is never allowed out of his room, so this was a very special event for the both of them. 
Cutie

Baby Kita
Here are some random pics from yesterday as well.
Playing real nice like

Ummm Yeah

Charlie just stared
So, aunt Melly is going to freak out, because this is what I walked into.  Quinn sitting in the baby swing, and Charlotte laughing at him.  I ran and got him out since this thing was not meant for a three year old, but Charlie just kept laughing at him, even as he sat in time out...  Sorry Mel, it won't happen again.  The reason why Mel will freak out is because the swing is hers, we had the exact same one for Quinn, but it met its demise due to the rodents we had living in our shed called squirrels.  They had literally destroyed the entire swing that Shawn had nicely dismantled and stored in a tote.  They chewed through the tote, and made a nice home for their filthy babies in the fabric of the swing.  Even the motor was useless since is was obviously the bathroom of their "rodent mansion" And that is just another day around the MAC house...

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Baby Bling.

I had been thinking of doing something with Charlie for a while.  It is just another example of how things are so different with girls and boys. After Shawn and I discussed it, I did some research to make sure that it was safe, and weighed the decision as it will have an impact on her life for many years to come. So what was the big deal?  We got her little ears pierced!
We decided to do it now because we both would be fine with our girl to have her ears pierced when she wanted it done.  Since she would probably ask at a young age, knowing we felt this way, it would be a lot harder to keep them clean as she would be tugging and pulling the earrings out.  Cleaning would probably also be a battle.  For a baby, it seems much simpler.  No pulling on them, easy cleaning etc.  I always figured that if she was the rare girl that didn't like them, she could take them out anyways.
So even with the research, we had no idea how she would react to the piercing.  If it would hurt her a lot, I think I would just cry with her.  I can safely say that in my family, the drama queen role will not be filled by the newcomer, she was no Quinn, and it went very well.  She was fantastic! She cried for a second, and then smiled at the lady that pierced her.  No problem at all!  She is such a trooper.

Jumping

Notice the bling in her ears?

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Mail Call

Quinn had some mail today, he got very excited since he doesn't usually get any mail.  Well, sometimes I let him open the bills, but tell him he will have to pay for it out of his bank.
  Nice, huh?
I don't have any pics of him opening the package because my camera is not that fast!
Way cool Advent calendar!
 It seems aunt Melanie was a busy gal, and made this super cool advent calendar for Quinn!  It will be so fun to open up the packages every day.  They will be displayed better tomorrow, but I had to get them up high out of curious little finger reach. 
It is so nice to have a crafty sis (even though she says she's not), I have no crafty bones in my body at all, and never have. Quinn just threw his hands up in a dramatic way and said "Aunt Melanie!", probably because he knows there is no way I would be making anything like that.
And a woot to Canada Post for delivering it in one day!

I'm back, and Sooky update!

So, I had some much-needed vacation, and I am back now, a bit refreshed, and feeling behind on many household projects!

I wanted to give an update on Quinn and his sooky.  It has been gone for over a month now, and it is still alive and well!  I followed the snip a bit off each day, and within 4 days he had nothing but the sooky handle left.  There was not as much drama as I expected, and he was done for good with actually sucking on it.  I followed the regimen, and do you know what happened to the 99% success rate within a few weeks?  Well, my boy is the 1%... LOL He still "needs" his sooky to go to bed at night, and nap time.  He was waking us up every night at least once to find it for him, even though it was functionless.  He really just has a love/hate relationship with it, as on vacation, it was found in no less than three different toilets, and under two beds.  BUT come bedtime, he would stay up until dawn without his precious sooky.  I am still sticking to letting him decide when he wants the sooky to go, but, for now, it is firmly attached in between two knots on a hand towel so that it will stay in his bed.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Costumes, and fun, and enough candy to make Quinn bounce off the wall

I took the kidlets to a fantastic party last night at Rock.  It was really a lot of fun.  Quinn was excited to wear his costume.  It was a loaner from his nana Rose, as it was Evelyn's when she was his age. He made a super cute, I mean terrifying, dragon.
As for Charlotte, i had no intentions of going out and buying something for big bucks that she would wear for an hour or so... BUT, I was looking at a cute peacock costume at Old Navy, and this employee came over and said he could mark it down to $6 for me, so I caved and got her a costume.  She was adorable, of course I am a little prejudiced.  Judge for yourself!
Baby peacock

Ignore the feet in the pic...

He's saying "aunt Melanie", it always makes him look at the camera instead of running around.

 Sorry the pics are awful, I had about 2 minutes to take 30 pics because kids were staring to come to our door, and I had nothing to hand out!  I was looking for juice boxes and granola bars just in case...


 
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