One step, One trip to the ER

Chez took a step today. She was just standing there clapping and giggling and took one step. The look of shock on her face was great.

Later this evening when I was trying to eat my supper, she started crying. Koivu was in the bathroom, she was outside of the bathroom. It didn't take me long to realize he had closed her hand in the door. I scooped her up. El came running. We both took one look at her squished little hand and off I went to the ER.

By the time we found the hospital she has stopped crying and was almost asleep. I took her in anyway. She had xrays and everything was fine. She ended up with some polysporin and advil and sent on our way.

In four years of being a mom, this was my first ever trip to the ER.

Pee in the Potty

It seems that we can get water on the floor of our bathroom so quickly. At first I thought it was the swimming lessons that Waneeke seems to be giving herself. You know with the kicking, the splashing, the general making a disaster area of the bathroom.

El was getting out of the shower and as usual he opens the door in case there are any immediate needs to be met. Waneeke looked at the bathroom and came running to me. Mom, look, Daddy peed the floor. I almost died.

She then proceeded to walk up to El and say, "Daddy, you pee in the potty, not on the floor."

That's it I lost it. My girl is too funny.

The Sun is Going Down

Waneeke looked out of one of the picture windows today and said, "Ew, gross, yucky dog poop." Yup honey, tell your dad to get on that will you?

Later she looks out the window and says, "On no Mom, the sun is going down." And then she runs to her room, gets dressed in 30 seconds or less and heads off to find her ski pants.

I guess she has figured out that once the sun goes down, she can't go out and play.

We sort of tag team watching them play and at one point she was being pulled along the ice/snow by Curly. He had her mitten in his mouth and they were just going.

I love that they can go out like this. I felt really bad last year when I was working and too tired to take them out of the house. I think there were a few weeks when they only had inside to play. This is much nicer.

You Brush your Teeth ch ch ch ch, ch ch ch ch

Does anyone remember that Raffi song about brushing your teeth? http://www.songsforteaching.com/folk/brushyourteethchant.htm

This is the newest, latest, greatest thing around here. Santa brought Waneeke, Koivu and Chez all toothbrushes for Christmas, with toothpaste. Oh my goodness, toothpaste can you believe it?

All day long I hear, Mom I'm going to brush my teeth and then whirrrrr of the toothbrush. The facination is outstanding. Koivu loves his spiderman toothbrush but not so much the mechanical part of it.

What's with the dogs?

Two days after our dog was killed we found a note on our door, a family has lost their dog. I'm going to call tomorrow to see if they have found it yet.

Tonight someone else came to our door. His family is in the process of moving from Grande Prairie, AB to Toronto, ON, they went to sleep last night and when they woke up this morning they noticed their 3 dogs were gone. They did find two of them today but they have to leave this province to be on their way. He asked us to be on the look out for Sophia. The kids are pretty broken up over this whole thing. We quite often have food outside for Curly so I'm hoping that may draw her here.

We had moved our dog off the highway but we didn't bury him. They found our dog and were actually relieved to know it wasn't their dog. It was a little foot in mouth when they said something and we confirmed it was Mo.

New Year New Memories

I'm up late tonight, because my darling Chez decided tonight was not a good night to sleep, not because of the promise of the New Year as I had hoped.

In looking back on 2006 I am very grateful for where we are now. At this time last year I would never have imagined we would be thriving now.

I'm looking forward to Febuary when I turn 30. I'm looking forward to March when I can start planting my squash plants inside to go into the garden later. I am looking forward to April. There is going to be one busy week with the 2nd being Chez's first birthday the 5th being Koivu's third birthday and the 6th being Good Friday. I'm looking forward to May and being able to plant my garden. I'm looking forward to June and being able to play outside with the lids more. I'm looking forward to July and going to the beach.......this is going to be a wonderful year.

Also I'm playing arounf with my blog (poor Lyndsey) so this could be fun!