Random Happenings!

Ever since the girls have started Kindergarten it seems like we've been crazy busy! The time goes by way too fast when they are in school. DJ loves doing things with me so I don't get very much done around the house, like I was planning too! Oh well!

One Sunday I took a picture of DJ in his new duds! He so didn't want me to take his picture but I got one! He has been doing so good with nursery lately. He absolutely loves going, but if Sister Toone isn't there then that's a different story. He loves to help Sister Toone. I don't know what we'll do when he goes to sunbeams in Jan. It should be interesting. He hates new things and has become very clingy with me since I've tried taking him to parent pre-school. He totally freaks out if I go into the next room with the rest of the moms. So not fun. Hopefully it will get better. My VT's came yesterday (friday) and he freaked out and started screaming and crying because he thought I was leaving him. Sheesh!

My handsome boy all ready for Church. The bag he has on is what he takes a few toys to church in! Can you believe he is now in size 5T, and size 11 shoes? I can't...he's so big!

Fuzzy picture, but loved this of Richard and DJ...so cute!

On Sept 12 I took DJ in to get his tubes into his ears. This is his second time. My mom came to get the girls ready for school for me. We were at the hospital by 7am. He was still a little sleepy, so I took his stroller so I didn't have to lug him around! I don't use the stroller very often, but it sure did come in handy at the hospital. We got there and he had to get some hospital jammies on and they had to take his vital signs. He was doing so good till they tried to clip the oxygen thing on his finger. But I calmed him down and they finished everything. Then it was the waiting game. We waited FOREVER! He had a blast in the toy room with another little boy who was waiting for tubes too. They finally came and got us around 9:30am. The other boy was not happy and kept crying. DJ just happily skipped along beside me! He was a very happy boy that day! We got to the pre-op room and had to answer questions and waited again. By this time DJ was getting a little wild! There was a wagon and he thought it was hilarious when I pulled him, he'd scream and laugh so loud. I think we entertained all the people laying there waiting to go in for their operations! The little boy went first and he screamed and kicked the nurse and was not happy. DJ was so worried about him. Then they came and got DJ. I thought that he'd freak out too. But he jumped into the wagon and the nurse told him the only way she could take him in the wagon was if he didn't try to jump out. I gave him his blanket and he hugged it and waved bye to me. The nurse took him and he didn't cry at all. I went straight up stairs to wait for him. It doesn't take very long. He came back about 30mins later. They usually have the little kids in a stroller wrapped in a warm blanket. But DJ was too big so he was on a bed, all wrapped up in a blanket. He looked so tiny on that huge bed. He wasn't crying and was still a little groggy. The nurse told me he was the best kid ever! She wanted him to come back and give lessons to other kids! ha ha! He did do awesome. The poor boy was starving too. So he gobbled down the cookies and juice that they gave him. They let us go a half hour later, since this is his second time. So we took off. I stopped at Walmart on the way home. I promised him a toy if he did good, and he did great. He didn't forget, when we walked in he kept saying, "VRRMMMM" and putting his arm up (which means big). I asked him, "Oh you want a big truck." and he replied, "Yeah, yeah yeah!" So cute! So that was his experience with his tubes. He was awesome!

Grandma Paxman got my girls all ready for school and look how cute they look! Thanks mom your the best!

Cute DJ waiting in his hospital jammies and watching out the window watching the big trucks and tractors working outside.

Waiting in the pre-op room. This is the wagon he went for a ride in. As you can see he was a really happy boy!

My birthday was on Wed, Sept 14. I woke up that morning and Richard wished me happy birthday and told me he'd stick around and help get the kids ready for school while I had a shower! So nice! So I had a relaxing shower while he got the girls ready for school. Then we were ready to walk out the door and he told me he wanted to see where the girls class was, so he came with us. The girls were excited to show him where their class was. Oh I should mention that Cadence woke up all excited saying it was "Wacky Wed". First time I heard it. So we got them dressed as wacky as they wanted. Meaning Cadence was off the wall wacky, I think everyday would be Wacky Wed if I let her get herself ready by herself. She cracks me up! She was so excited. Abbi only wanted to be a little wacky and Brianna just wanted to be pretty. My girls are so different, it's so nice! Then we left and Richard surprised me again by saying he was taking the day off and hanging with us today! It was a great surprise and I loved it! When the girls got home we had lunch and then took off to go swimming. We swam at Nicholas Sheran and were there for almost 3 hrs. It was so nice because there was hardly any one there. The kids had fun. We left and went to Liquidation world, where the girls insisted on buying me a present. So I walked around while they shopped with their dad. I kept hearing my girls say, "But dad we need wrapping paper (Richard never wraps presents!!)". But they insisted! I didn't see what they got me, so it was fun to open their presents later on. Abbi picked out a scrapbooking kit (she found it all on her own!), and I got some picture frames, a coat and my favorite candy! Richard got me a chair for downstairs. We went and I picked one out and he bought it. I was surprised and very happy! It is a nice comfy chair to watch TV in. We then picked up some Chinese food and a DQ cake and went out to my parents for dinner. It was a great day! My kids get so excited about birthdays. I loved getting phone calls from friends and families wishing me happy birthday. Thanks everyone it was a great day.

Ready for school. Abbi let me do her hair a little wacky, then look closely at Cadence. She has crazy pony tails all over her head, a fish tie, her lovely green skirt over jeans with her socks pulled up over, two different pairs of shoes on (which she's done many times before), and flower bows all over her head. Brianna looking so pretty!

My cute kids sitting on my birthday present. I love, love, love my new chair. So comfy!

On that weekend (Sat, Sept 17), we were able to sod our backyard. YEAH!!! I was very excited. We got a lot of people to come help us lay down the sod. Once we got going it went really fast. I love sod, it's like laying down green carpet. It looks instantly GREAT! Thanks everyone for all the help. I should say that the weekend before Richard and I set posts for our fence all around our yard. I was so tired that night, but a good tired. Richard's parents watched our kids for us that day. So it was a lot easier to get lots done! Our yard is slowly starting to take shape.

This was on the Friday that we were working hard preparing the yard for sod. I think we tuckered DJ right out. He came and got a banana from me and I went down 5mins later and him watching T.V. like this! So cute!

Before picture, the ground all leveled and ready for the sod.

Our load of sod When I saw how much there was I was thinking we didn't measure right. But we did. We had a little bit left over that we started on the front yard.

Ta Da, our beautiful backyard. I love grass! The right hand corner is going to be my garden and the left hand will have some gravel in it and our new tramp will be staked down (so it won't fly away) and our swing set will be in there too.

We had such a hot September, it was great! But the not so great about it was the wasps! We had so many crazy wasps around our house. The kids had lunch on the deck one afternoon and I could hear DJ yelling. He came running to me and frantically said, "Mum, Mum, zzzzzzzz (while his fingers are crawling on his head, his sign for bee)." I was busy and told him I'd be right there and to go eat his sandwich. Well he looked at me and yelled, "MMMMOO (meaning no), zzzzzzzzz." So I went outside and about freaked out. I should of listened to him. There were probably 15-20 wasps all over his sandwich and some even was IN his sandwich. Oh it was disgusting. So I had to take care of that. I had the bright idea to put a grocery bag over the sandwich and pick it up and drop it in the bag. Yeah, not so bright. As soon as I put the bag over the sandwich and wasps they started buzzing like crazy in the bag and maybe I freaked out a little. Funny thing is my neighbours happened to just walk out on their deck when I was waving my hands all over and screaming. Yup, I felt a little silly, crazy wasps!

Once I took the picture lots had flown away, but there were some in the one sandwich, they like honey!!!

Since this is a random post, I found a picture I forgot about. I took it with my phone when we were at Zellers sometime during the summer. Our truck was getting fixed so we did some errands while we were waiting. We hadn't been to Zellers in a long time, but we went. When we got there it still wasn't open, so we had to wait (not sure if I've told this story before). There were a few people waiting in the entry way with us when Abbi loudly said, "Mom, why did you wake me up, the store isn't even open, I could of slept longer." She was very disgusted with me! We got in and my kids each grabbed these cool baskets on wheels. They had a blast. It was so funny. They were laughing and giggling so hard. At one point Brianna jumped into Abbi's basket and Abbi was whipping her around. Cadence thought it was hilarious and was laughing so hard. We all got in trouble by one of the store people! I don't think they have a sense of humor. I still thought it was funny!

They loved these baskets and each of them had to have something in it, since they weren't aloud in it! ha ha!

So that is some of our random happenings. I'm still behind on my posts and have a few more to finish. Hope everyone has a HAPPY THANKSGIVING! So excited to eat LOTS of turkey!