Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Back in the swing of things
Monday, May 07, 2007
Photo A Day - May 4, 5 & 6
May 4th:
I started out taking some photos of Austin coloring a picture, but then leter in the evening he was on my lap and kept giving me kisses. He is so funny! He grabs both sides of my face with his little hands and pushes really hard to kiss, it's so cute. I grabbed the camera and took some self portraits. I managed to get one good one before the novelty wore off and he found better things to do, lol!
May 5th:
Austin loves to watch cartoons, though he rarely actually sits down and settles in to do it. Usually something will catch his eye while he is playing and he will stop in his tracks and watch for a minute or two. Usually standing perfectly still in the middle of the living room, lol. But, he was in a cranky, tired, just plain rotten mood all day today and actually climbed up on the couch and settled in for a while. I got some great shots, but this was the best one, I love how wide-eyed he is!May 6th:
Austin just loves to get into whatever I am doing, and LOVES to 'help' me with everything. This is becoming a great thing around here, he puts his laundry in the basket and his diapers in the garbage! But, when I am trying to scrap, not so great, lol. Though it is very cute, I have to admit! Today I was looking through buttons to find which ones to put on a layout and Austin got his little hands in there and started laying out the buttons on my page for me. Then he helped me put them all back in the box, lol!! Love this close-up of his handy work.
Friday, May 04, 2007
2nd place!!
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Photo A Day - May 3rd
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Photo A Day - May 2nd
2Jills Blog Challenge #7
1. I leave my wet laundry in the washing machine until it gets stinky and has to be washed again. This is an awful, awful habit since it wastes soap and electricity, I'm trying to work on getting better at this!
2. I have to be early for everything. This can obviously be a good thing, but it also can be a bad thing. I can't count the number or times Austin and I have been standing at the bus stop in the pouring rain waiting for a bus that will not even be leaving downtown for five more minutes and won't get to us for fifteen!
3. Lately I have been leaving the house without letting the cat out of the bathroom! Bad mommy!! LOL! She is an indoor cat, so when I want to have the front door open to let some air in I shut her in the bathroom with her food, water, litter box, and a blanket in the tub to sleep on. She doesn't mind too much, she sleeps all day anyways, lol! But, she is not too happy when I put her in there in the morning, then head to town for the day without letting her back out! I actually had to put a note to myself on the door so I will see it when I am leaving and let her out, lol.
4. I swear a lot when I am angry, especially at Brian, and especially on the phone. This is something I really, really have to work on since I have noticed Austin picking up on it in the past few days. Definitely do not need my 2 year old repeating those words in public!!!
5. I may have to be early to get everywhere, but I always leave doing things until the very last minute. I have done this for as long as I can remember.
6. I forget to wrap up my leftovers and put them in the fridge after supper. Usually I remember just as I am getting comfortable in bed at night and have to get back up and do it, but some nights I totally forget until I find it sitting there in the morning!
7. I stay up way too late. You will rarely find me in bed before 1:30am, I like to watch the late night talk shows, like Jay Leno and Craig Ferguson. And I am always wondering why I am so tired! LOL!
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Productive weekend and an interesting Monday
Austin's new room decor:
Breakfast in Bed (this is the one Austin hid the pictures):
These are the Days (prom night in the limo):
Bittersweet Memories (this is a park Jesse and I spent alot
of times at that holds many memories)
After all that scrapping, last night around 9:00 I started cleaning my bathroom. I have no idea where the energy came from, but I scrubbed the whole thing down until it sparkled! Then this morning when I got up I just kept going. I set a goal about two weeks ago to have my whole house cleaned up before Austin's birthday on May 13th when I have to have people in my house and don't want to be embarrassed by the mess! LOL! I still have boxes in my living room, packed, from when we first moved here a year ago. There is this one giant one my mom keeps asking me what is in it and I have NO clue! So, I started in the entranceway this morning, tidying up the closet, the shoes that Austin pulls down everytime we leave the house, and the cat food that he spilled everywhere, lol! I also cleaned out one box, completely got rid of it, woohoo! and then filled the space with two boxes of Brian's things that he asked me to store for him. When that was done I moved into the kitchen. I rearranged things, completely cleared off my counters, and the top of my fridge for the first time ever, lol. And put my paper towel holder back up that fell down MONTHS ago!! So, now I have a sparkly clean bathroom and kitchen, woohooooo!!! It feels good, now if I can just KEEP it that way! Tomorrow I am going to take the burners are plate things out of the stoved and clean them, and keep foil in the plates from now on (I really should have changed that sooner, I usually do, I HATE cleaning the things). Oh, and I keep forgetting the microwave, it's scary, LOL!! The I have to move onto the living room, and find out what is in the mystery box, LMAO!!
But, anyways, cleaning was not the interesting part of my day, though that is about as interesting as it gets around here on many occasions! No, the interesting part was the fire across the street today that I totally DID NOT NOTICE!! Brian called around supper time to make sure we were ok, and I had no idea what he was talking about. He told me there had been a fire in an apartment building on my block. When he said this I suddenly remembered that while I was making supper I had heard sirens and had thought they were going on for a very long time. They didn't seem loud/close though so I didn't think anything more about it. Even when, a few minutes later, I smelled smoke. I just assumed I was smelling someones cigarettes coming in from ouside since my door was wide open. But, no, it was the smell of a burning building. I had to wait until 11pm to watch the news and see what had happened. At first I thought it HAD been one of our buildings (there are two buildings on this property), the footage they showed it looked just like our building. It wasn't, I didn't I could be quite THAT clueless! But it was right across the street. It spread very fast through 7 suites, totally ruined the roof, and most of the suites in the building ended up with water damage. It looked like, on the news, that it was quite a few families with small children that were put out of their homes. They did open up the community centre for the anyone who has no friends/family to stay with in town. It is so sad and really makes a person think about what if it HAD happened in our building? I have not prepared in any way for anything like this, although if we had an earthquake tonight we do have a whole case of water and lots of fruit in the fridge! But, we have no insurance, no rental insurance, no insurance for in case anything happens to me. It really has made me start to think about what would happen if anything DOES happen to me, what will happen to Austin? Anyways, for now I am just glad it wasn't us, and my heart goes out to the families who were affected.
OK, enough of all that serious talk! Here's a couple funny photos of Austin from yesterday. He's such a goofy kid! He is obsessed with his boot lately and keeps putting them on (on the wrong feet of course, lol). These were taken at diaper changing time, lol, I just had to get a photo of his silly outfit!!