Polls

I just got a call from the Liberal party wanting to know if they have my vote. Since I've left BookLore, I feel so out of the loop when it comes to political stuff. I try my best to stayed informed, between watching "Harry the Bunny" and my fun shows like America's Next Top Model! I know who I'm voting for, but I like to have reasons behind my choices.

Caleb is all over the place. His favourite room to play in now is the bathroom. He makes a beeline for it when I get him down to play. I think it's because of the bath. He totally loves his bath times, and when the water is running to fill it up, he sits on the mat while I get him ready and undressed. He loves getting in when the water is still filling up, he likes to get his hands in the running water. Boy is he a big splasher, everything gets soaked! Oh I can hear him now, playing with the door stopper. It sounds like he's not sure if he likes it or not. He flings it and then wimpers, it's quite funny to hear! During his morning nap I discovered him sleeping without his soother, but his thumb, as adorable as it looked, I'm not sure if I like him wanting his thumb rather than the soother. Soothers are more disposable when the time comes!

That's him sleeping. Notice the forgotten soother...

This is him looking at me like "Come on Mom, where's the water??"

I've still been scrapbooking away. Some of the pages I do, I don't like so much. I don't know if it's because that day I wasn't creative or what. In the end, I tell myself that atleast it's done, it looks much better as it is, rather than in a photo album.

This past week has been busy. Monday Shannon had her baby. A little girl, named Jaden Keera, weighing 8 lbs 16 oz! She's cute, with chubby cheeks! Tuesday I went to my parents and stay until Wednesday. On Wednesday I went with my mom to Newmarket to shop, I wasn't very successful though. Then Wednesday night I went and met Jaden, ahhh holding a new born can be very dangerous! Yesterday I had Sally and the girls over with her sister Deb and her 2 girls. We had lunch and then wandered around St. Jacobs. I never go there anymore, and I think I should go more often. I found an awesome toy store there called Toy Soup. It's so cool, and has lots of neat things that don't require batteries which is a huge bonus!

Today we're just chilling out at home. Tonight we are going into Waterloo and meeting Steve, Christa and Cara for dessert somewhere, probably East Sides. As for the weekend, we're going to a bbq tomorrow and then I'm taking Caleb with me to my cousin's in O'ville on Sunday after church. She's having a Signature Homes party. Like I've said before, the time goes sooooo fast!

Can't Sleep

It's 6:30am and I couldn't sleep. Although this isn't an unusual time for people to wake, as I'm sure many people this is their morning rise, but for me it's definately not. The morning looks beautful. Right now the sky is very black, like it's going to storm out, and the roof tops are all white from frost.

I couldn't sleep because I have things running through my mind. Yesterday Dave and I talked about moving things around the house to utilize the space we have. In the past we talked about moving, but more and more now I think we have decided to stay where we are. I love this house and we did a lot of work on it. So I just had thoughts of where to move things in the future.

Yesterday I went out with Christa in the morning to check out a new baby store in Waterloo. The Grand Opening was happening and I got Caleb a cute but very cool pair of sunglasses. Babybanz! ha ha ha. They are army colours! I got a free package of diapers too, some Rabbit brand that I've never heard of. Then we went to Michaels craft store, the scrapbook paper was on sale 3 for $1. After I got home, Dave, Caleb and I went to get groceries and look around Futureshop. Man, grocery shopping on a Saturday afternoon.....let's just say I'll never do it again! We bought the X-Files season 1 on dvd. We watched the first 2 episodes after Caleb was in bed!

Today we have church, I have nursery duty. Then we're heading to my parents. Benji is going to Calgary for the week for work, I wish I could go with him, that would be fun. So either Dave or I will run down with my Dad to take Benji to the airport. Then, Sally's sister Deb and her 2 girls are over for a week. So they will be out at my parents for dinner later on tonight.

Oh my neck is pretty stiff. Must have slept on it wrong. Well it's almost 7am, I'm going to crawl back into bed now I think.

9 Months, Too Adorable!

He's GORGEOUS!





He's on the move so much now! Our doctor's visit yesterday was great. She's so happy with him, and he's still growing, his weight gain has slowed down, but he's still growing in height. He's in the 95th percentile for height and now in the 90th for weight, he's still a big guy for his age, but he's perfect!

Fall is Knocking at the Door!

Well I love these cool days, and I can see the colours starting to turn. I love that the warm clothes gets to come out and socks and shoes. But I did realize that I need to go shopping, I need new shoes and jeans and some more up to date shirts! So maybe tomorrow I'll go to O'ville and stay with my parents, go shopping in Newmarket, that would be fun.

Thursday Caleb has his 9mth doctor's appt. After that we're going to my cousins to meet their new little guy, Spencer. Can't wait for that.

Caleb is crawling everywhere! It's so cute and fun! But the other day, someone told me that he's lost his baby looks, and now looks like a big boy. That kind of made me sad. But he'll be my baby forever!

This past saturday we had baseball. We had to play 4 games. OUCH! I was so sore by Saturday night. But I must say, that I played the best baseball for a long time. I got onto base everytime, and I even did well in the outfield, catching balls! I was so happy with myself. My parents were here for the weekend to help with Caleb, it was nice having them stay the night.

Since last Wednesday I have made a commitment to scrapbook a page for Caleb's book every day (minus the weekends) and so far I've been doing well. I need to majorly get caught up, yesterday I went to the store to get more papers, and this afternoon I probably will go to Shannon's and scrap a page with her help. I find that I would stress out about a page because of all the details, but then when I decided that it doesn't have to have details, it made it a lot more appealing to me.

Well I better get Caleb some breakfast.

Bad Days

Last week I had a series of bad days. On my girls weekend away (which was so much fun!) Sunday I developed a sore throat. By the time I got home I just cried! It progressively got worse over night and into Monday. When I am sick, I get very emotional, so I did a lot of crying. Dave came home Monday afternoon to work from home and take care of both Caleb and me. He was so good to me, he even went out and got me a milkshake from McDonald's considering that was all I ate that day. Tuesday my Mom came for the day, and Dave also stayed home again. I was well taken care of and I was able to get a doctor's appt. that night in O'ville. Once there I found out I had a bad case of tonsillitis. She gave me a prescription for antibiotics, I ended up staying at my parents for the night and all day Wednesday. I headed home that night and relaxed, by that time at night, I was feeling somewhat better. I could swallow without grinding my teeth.

Thursday I felt so much better, but then later found out that day my aunt passed away. Plus I am now in charge of the toddler nursery at church and man I did a lot of regretting Friday about that, nothing was going the way they needed to be, and I so frustrated and angry that I had another emotional breakdown! Saturday I got up early, went to the church to work on some things, then home to get ready for the funeral. The funeral was nice, but very sad. It brought back memories of other funerals, like my Grandma's, very emotional.

That evening things seem to brighten up. We went to our friends house, they just moved and we got to check out their nice new home. Sunday we got packed and ready to head to Orangeville. We went to East Sides for lunch and then to the Fair. Mmmm they had funnel cakes! Then we went to my parents place. Dave and Caleb stayed behind while I went with my Dad, Benji and Denise back to the fair for the demolition derby. This year's derby was the best one I've ever seen. Cars rolling over, so exciting! We stayed the night at my parents and then celebrated Denise's birthday for lunch on Monday.

This week is going by fast. Tuesday I went out and got Caleb a gate for the top of our stairs since he's become so active. Yesterday I did a big grocery shop and also bought some cute outfits for our little guy. Today we're just taking it easy this morning, then this afternoon I'm going back to the church to tidy up the toddler room. Plus I might go and register Caleb for Starfish swimming again. Tonight I'm going with my sister in law to a Mary Kay event. I get a makeover! I'm excited about that, just the face, not hair. But apparently I'll be entered into a contest. Never thought of myself as pretty for a contest, but Joy see's something in me I guess! ha ha ha, and my cutey husband's line was "how can you makeover perfection?" ha ha ha! He makes me feel pretty.

This weekend we have the agfa ball tournament. My parents are coming for Saturday and Sunday, to look after the little guy. Then baseball will be officially done! Man, then I know summer is over. So sad!

Crawling Caleb

There's been a lot of rolling and sliding backwards and rocking leading upto this day. Crawling! His world will be totally new, and my life will be totally different!