Lunch Date

Is it springtime yet?  I'm not sure how much more of this I can take.  -46 with the wind this morning!  Really?  At least it was a short week - we had Monday as a holiday.  Jorja was off school all week, which didn't really affect us, except that I didn't have to take her to school this afternoon.  Instead we met Julie for a lunch date.  I'm not sure if it's a tradition yet or not, but the last two Fridays there has been no school, we have met Julie for lunch.  And do the girls ever get excited and look forward to it.  We met at the mall both times and just ate in the food court.  Last time they had A&W and this time they had Subway.  They had it all planned out beforehand.  When I was picking the girls up yesterday, Ginny told me that she was going to have orange cheese.  It's good to be prepared.

On Family Day, I met my brother and his daughter at the theatre and we saw a movie.  It was the girls' first trip to a theatre.  We saw 'Yogi Bear' which was kind of lame, but Jorja liked it.  I'm not sure how into it Ginny was, but they both liked the experience.  I got them each a kid's tray which consisted of popcorn, liquorish and Sprite.  They were all over that.  So much so that we had to have a pee break half way through.  Then we went over to McDonald's for an ice cream cone after.  Needless to say, they didn't have that much for supper that night.

The last contractor came today, so now all our quotes should be in and maybe we can get started on getting our basement put back together one of these days.  This process has already been going on for a month already.  Hard to believe.  Later.

Last minute changes

Why is it that children feel the need to fill their pants just when you're ready to walk out the door.  This seems to happen more often when there is an actual appointment time that you could be late for.  Take today for example, we were just getting ready to go get Jorja from school, and there is CeCe, holding onto the doll house all red in the face.  As I was changing her, Ginny decided that she had to pee, so off to the bathroom she went.  (She ended up pooping during the night last night, but she's still walking around uncomfortably today.)  I finally got everyone dressed and out the door and thought I had made it to the school in time only to find out that they got out early.  Sheesh.

I didn't realize how much I missed the daily walk to the school.  Well, I say that today because it was plus two.  I miss the walks from the fall when we were all home.  Now all I get is Fridays, but that's probably just enough to keep me enjoying them.  Later.

7:08

Here I sit, up before 7 again. CeCe is awake, and in an attempt to keep the rest of the house sleeping, I brought her downstairs. I'm not sure Jorja is really sleeping, but we'll see. Ginny was awake at 6 and that woke Jorja up. I know Ginny went back to sleep, but usually when Jorja is awake by 6ish, she stays up. Then she lays in bed until 7 because that's the rule. Actually she lays in bed until 7:08 because I have her clock set a bit slow. Oh yes, I'm sneaky.

I guess we're just not used to this school registration thing yet, but the whole thing was rather anticlimactic. Julie and Jorja walked to school at about quarter to nine and were home by 9:02. I barely had the other two dressed. Oh well. Now Jorja goes Thursday afternoon with a group of 7 kids and then again on Friday with the whole class (21 I think). So we have two more days until it all begins.

Ah yes, it's 7:08 and I hear footsteps. Later.

Catching up

It's been a few days since I posted anything (other than the video of Ginny). I was going to last night, but I didn't have the energy after the drive home and watching the finale of the Bachelorette (I know, but it's over now - I had to see it through). In case you watch or want my opinion, I think she picked the wrong guy.
Let me start by showing you CeCe in the pool:


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That was Friday afternoon, before we went away for the weekend. We ended up going to Julie's parents' place for the weekend, but didn't leave until Saturday morning. Julie's brother and his wife were there as well, so it was good to see them too. Before we left on Friday, Julie's Dad called and asked if she could find him a couple of kittens for the shop. Julie looked on kijiji, and was only able to get one little charcoal grey male. She went and picked him up after the girls were in bed. We had him set up in the downstairs bathroom and put the baby gate on the door. He was still in there when I fed CeCe at 5:00 am, but by the time the girls were up, he had figured out how to scale the gate. So the girls get up at 7:00, and head downstairs. Now in hindsight, maybe I should have warned them, but it was just a kitten. They get to the kitchen and that is how far the cat had made it as well. He was under the table when they spot him. (Keep in mind, he is only 9 weeks old and tiny.) They started screaming like little girls (okay, bad analogy). 'AHHHH! There's a kitty! AHHHH!' I come down, and the two of them are both in tears and cowering in the corner pointing at this ferocious beast. I couldn't believe it. I'm not sure what has gotten into the two of them lately, but they both seem to have developed this fear of animals. The sitter they went to every day before CeCe was born had a big dog and two cats, and there was never any issue. I don't know.

We left Saturday morning right after CeCe finished her bottle, and drove the whole 3 and a half hours in one stretch. It was pretty good. We had a good visit, the girls had a blast with their aunt and uncle. This time CeCe suffered from holiday lockdown. I'm not sure why, it's not like her diet changes (we bring our own water for the formula). Anyway, she finally broke through on the drive home, but it must have been fairly close to the city because she slept most of the way and never got crusty when she woke up.

This morning Jorja started swimming lessons for the first time. She did awesome and had a blast. So she goes every morning now for the next two weeks. This afternoon we went to Superstore and bought school supplies while we were there. School supplies! That sounds so strange. It's still hard to believe she'll be in school in less than a month.

We ate our first two cucumbers from our garden today. We were pretty impressed. Despite our almost complete neglect, things are doing pretty good. I finally got out there with a hoe last week and knocked down some of the weeds and grass. I was attempting to get cages around the tomatoes when the neighbor across the fence started talking to me. He's an older guy, probably 70ish, and his garden seems to be his pride and joy. It takes up half his backyard and is spotless. He says to me that we 'have good soil - it's very fertile.' At this point, the only thing you can really see on our side of the fence is a sea of weeds. Where is that mole we had last year so that I can crawl into one of his holes. I agree with him, as he continues to hoe at weeds that are coming through the fence onto his side. So later on that day I went back when he wasn't there and attacked the weeds. It actually looks pretty good right now. Later.