Bahamas: A funny misunderstanding.

Jenn: I won two free tickets to the Bahamas tomorrow night.

Darryl: what?

a call just came in claiming that?

Jenn: No it's the folk fest newsletter, they always give away free tickets.

I always try to win becuase I love free music.

This time I won.

The only problem is they are on really late.

Darryl: so the Bahamas are a band, not the island

Jenn: Yeah, sorry... guess I should have clarified.

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Jenn

Preschool

Lucas attends preschool 3 times a week and generally quite enjoys it. He loves his teachers and the crafts and his friends there. This month they have had guest speakers come in and talk to the kids. First was a dentist, next was a fireman and today was a policeman. So once Lucas got home we tried to have a conversation about what the policemen taught him. I can't remember he says at first. But as he starts to eat more this is how the dinner conversation went

Me: So what did you learn about from the policeman?
Lucas : You know those silver circle thongs they have?
Me: Yeah
Lucas: Those are called handcuffs
me: Oh yeah, is that what the policeman taught you?
Lucas : Yeah. And he has this thing that zaps people
Darryl: Like a taser?
Lucas: Yeah a taser. But don't worry he didn't zap any of us.
Me: oh good

Of course Darryl and I are laughing at what a boy he is, what he remembers most about the visit is all the weapons the policeman has. We did probe him a bit more and found out the did talk about strangers and 911. Which I am sure is the majority of the conversation.

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Jenn

Well if the rest of the month is going to be as fun as tonight I am going to love the Christmas season.

Tonight we did puppet shows as our bedtime stories. It was hilarious. I was the tiger and Lucas was the salamander. I was trying to find something they had in common, what they eat, where they live, what they do for fun, Lucas was not getting my drift, so finally I suggested "do you drink water". No he/the salamander replied. Which made me laugh to no end. The end of play then ended with the Tiger and the salamander not being friends.





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Jenn

Who Do You Love

Today while we are getting ready to go out Nathan is babbling.

Nathan: Mum, Mum, Mum
Mum, Mum, Mum
Mum, Mum, Mum
Mum, Mum, Mum

Mum: Who do you love?

Nathan: Dad

Dad starts laughing, and keeps a smile on his face for the rest of the morning.

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Jenn

Funny Boys

Today in the car the boys were reminded me of how I was with my sister and I'm sure how most siblings are together. Nathan would pretending to be hitting Lucas, of course they are too far away in the car to actually touch. This got a reaction from Lucas and even though it wasn't a good reaction, Nathan did it again. And again and again. Lucas continued to get more and more whiny and frustrated. Nathan then started to shake both his arms out to the side and shake his whole body. This continued to frustrated Lucas and then Nathan started to laugh. This all made me laugh, as I can remember my sister and I have the same fights in the back seats of our vanigan.

Also tonight, Nathan found a toy that wasn't working. He grabbed it and put it by the basement door. Then he came over and grabbed my hand and walked me to the basement door. I opened the door and put the toy on the stair. He got upset and grabbed my hand and started to walk down stairs. I grabbed the toy and we walked downstairs. At the bottom of the stairs I gave Nathan back the toy. He walked it over to the door to Daddy's office. He set down the toy( I guess I should specify that the toy is large) and opened the door. He came into Darryl's office found the screwdrivers and preceed to try and open the toy to put new batteries in it. He doesn't have the manual dexterity or strength to make it work, but I was still impressed. What a smart guy.

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Jenn

Mouse Mohawk

So Lucas is laughing hysterically in the tub last night. Nathan was out already so I was getting his PJ's on so we went in to see what was so funny.

" I gave the mouse a mo-hawk"

The cats have, or I should say had a green mouse and Lucas took it in the tub with him and spiked the mouses hair up down his back.

So funny Lucas

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Jenn

Just Try Not To Laugh

Lucas loves to watch cat videos on you tube. Then we found this one and watched it about 30 times. He laughed just as hard every time.

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Jenn

Funny Drive

Yesterday as I was driving to work I was behind a car with a bunch of bumper stickers. One was for a website "acomplaintfreeworld.org" and there was another that said "Having trouble with your marriage" and then a website below it. I was thinking if I had a pen I would cross out the website and put... "Having trouble with your Marriage.... Well don't Complain to me".

So funny

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Jenn

You Capture: Week 7

This weeks theme was fun. We did have lots of fun this week with all the snow melting and not playing by Daddy's rules. Here are some highlights:

Elton John fun

Swimming fun

First birthday fun

Making funny faces at the camera fun.

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Jenn

Funny Tidbits from the Week

Darryl is away this week and so single motherhood has left me little time to blog. But the kids are watching Calliou and I wanted to document a couple of things.

We got Lucas some water squirters to play with in the tub. I would draw on the walls with the tub crayons and he would hit the bullseyes. For some reason he thought I was saying Bull Signs. So he asked me why there weren't any bull's in the signs. So now in the bathroom are circles with pictures of bulls in the them (although I'm no artist so they look more like insects).

Yesterday Lucas felt sick after lunch and fell asleep on the couch. 3 hours later he woke feeling great. So with all that sleep he was up at 10pm when Mom and Dad left. So I asked if he'd like to come and say goodbye. He looked outside and says " Mom I can't sleep becuase it's too foggy".

Such a funny kid.

Blogging will be more frequent next week, when I exlaim my love for my partner in crime, who I miss dearly.

Jenn

But

Did that title make you laugh? I bet it would make Lucas laugh.

One of the thing I forgot to mention in Lucas's last monthly newsletter is his favorite word: but. When he is feeling in a silly mood "but" is the but of every joke. (ha ha)

Knock, Knock
Who's There
But
But Who
I'm going to get your but.

Or stories are about buts.

Once upon a time there was a airplane and a helicopter.
They went to a store and saw a bare but.

Sometimes there is just gibberish that includes but

Spinky the spinky but
Torin has a furry but.

Ahh it will be nice to have some adult conversation tomorrow but.

Till Tomorrow

Jenn

Donuts

Today I grabbed a donuts from Lucas Timbits (which for my American friends is like a donuts hole). It was a honey dip and seemed a little stale, although it had been sitting out all day. As I popped it in my mouth and started to chew it, I felt a little gush in my mouth. Then I realized it was not a honey dip, but a powdered donut. And what I was tasting was the strawberry filling in the middle Lucas had licked off all powdered and then put it back.

A lesson to a mother who tried to snack off her kids.

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Jenn

All for a Lizards Eye

Lucas/Darryl has this little lizard that I gave to Darryl years and years ago. It is purple and filled with some sort of small beans. Lucas has quite taken it to it (this week). He seems to pick a new favorite stuffed toy every week. So he took it to Lesley's house on Wednesday and one of his little black eyes fell off (they were kind of precariously sewn on). Luckily they found the eye and the lizard came home in a plastic bag with his eye. The next day Lucas asked for the lizard to sleep with, so before I was suppose to go stamping I thought I would glue the eye back on. I have a hot glue gun in the "junk" drawer but when I opened the junk drawer I saw the krazy glue and thought it would be even easier.

So I took the crazy glue out and put the bead between my fingers and squirted a little bit of glue on it. But I couldn't really see the glue. I expected it to be like hot glue and be quite thick, but it's not. It's really runny, so I squirted more because I couldn't see it. Next thing I knew I really felt it between my fingers, I guess I had squirted a whole bunch on my fingers. Then I tried to get my fingers apart, but they were really stuck together.


So I called Darryl, and rather then laughing (which I expected he would have done) he went to find how to get them apart. So if any of you stick your fingers together with crazy glue, the trick to get them apart is nail polish remover (or anything that has acetone.). So after 20 minutes of soaking them in nail polish remover, they came apart (although the bead/eye was still stuck to them). While we are waiting for them to come apart, Darryl says to me:

Don't you remember when I used crazy glue, I put gloves on.
Jenn: yeah, but I thought you were being kind of ridiculous.



In the end Lesley's goo gone got the bead off and I have not tried to get the eye back on. He is now a one eyed lizard.

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Jenn

Idiot!

So Lucas is starting to pick up on most everything we say. If there is a word he doesn't know that we say, then he'll ask. So on the weekend when I "swore" he really picked up on it. We were driving to visit my dad at the hospital and one of the on ramps didn't have any sort of merge lane. As I watched traffic come someone pulled up behind me and blared their horn.

I yelled back at them " There's no merge lane you idiot, you can't go in the middle of traffic".

Lucas: What does idiot mean?
Jenn *oh man, what did I just say* Idiot means....... someone who is not smart
Lucas: What do you mean not smart?
Jenn: Well you know how Daddy knows lots of stuff and teaches you lots, he's smart
Lucas: So he is not an idiot
Jenn: No, he's not an idiot.
Lucas: I'm not an idiot either.
Jenn: No you are not an idiot.

I was hoping that was the end of the word...... but last night I heard this from upstairs.

Torin's chewing on plastic
Lucas: Torin, you're and idiot.

Oh man....

Then today Lucas and I are listening to the song Poker Face by Lady Gaga. Lucas comes up to me and says: Mom, why do they keep saying "booger face"? I laughed and laughed. Like mother like son. I often screw up the words of the songs as well.

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Jenn

Smartie Pants

Sometimes kids are so sensible...

Lucas and I are doing some activities from his Kung Fu Panda book. We are looking at this picture trying to figure out which one is different. I am racking my brain trying to find the different one. As Lucas and I are studying them intently Lucas points at the two at the bottom.

'Those two are different" he states
"Why, I don't see it" I ask him
" He points to the one on the left, this one has a 5 and that one has a 6" he states.


Ahh kids they are so smart. Can you figure out which one it really is???

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Jenn

Funny Lucas

That kid just cracks me up...

Here are a couple of reasons why:

Lucas: Mom I have to go poop
Mom: Okay, are you okay to do on your own?
Lucas: Yeah can you just get me my book and pillow.
Me: laughing..... okay

Then he puts the pillow behind his head and relaxes back against the porcelian throne and cracks open his book.

Example Two:

Tonight we are playing pretend. Lucas lives in the pantry. Nathan and I live in the playroom and Darryl lives in the livingroom. We spend time doing neighboorly things like sharing sugar, visiting eachother, making carrot cake (which Lucas thought was pretty funny, guess we'll have something new to introduce him too). At one point he is in the livingroom talking to Darryl.

Lucas: Hi Neighboor
Darryl: Hi Neighboor
Lucas: Did you know me and mommy are neighboors.
Darryl: Oh yeah
Lucas: I like to sleep with my neighboor.
Darryl: (laughing) Do you now....

Which also got me cracking up. Then Lucas comes into the playroom and tells me the same thing, I like to sleep with you neighboor.

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Jenn

Not So Self Sufficent

Although I claim to be self sufficient I am really grateful for all the help I have received and continue to receive. I am so proud of all of the things I can accomplish, because there is so much I cannot do.

I cannot bring a cup of tea from the kitchen to the living room, Lynda does it for me. I cannot get up in the night to get Nathan, Darryl does it for me. I cannot do anything quickly, Lynda helps me with that. I cannot take myself to my own doctors appoitment, my mother helps me. I cannot go shopping, my mother does my groceries for me. I cannot shower with no pain. It really hurts to have my cast off. I cannot go outside and play with Lucas, but Lynda is excellent at it.




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Jenn

His Girly Side

When I was pregnant with Lucas I really wanted a girl. I am a girl, I have a sister, I knew about girls. Barbies, jump rope, fairies and princesses. Nevertheless Lucas is not a girl, so I have learned about trucks and construction workers and dinosaurs and lego and maybe I am more well rounded now. But we still do things that some may consider girly although I try to not cross the line. Crafts, baking and painting toe nails are things we do together. Well tonight Lucas wanted to skip his bath, but still needed to hang out in the bathroom while I washed Nathan. So he opened my cupboard and started to go through my makeup collection. It is not extensive, but I have some of everything. What's this mommy... gold packages of lipstick, blush brushes, different kind of mascara. Some were "cool", some smelled like strawberries and some smelled stinky (the old stuff). Just as I was thinking is this too girly, he pulls out the eyelash curler. This is the coolest thing ever, what is it? A car launcher? No Lucas it's an eyelash curler, but maybe we could launch cars with it....

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Jenn

Things That Have Me Laughing All Week

Two things I have to record because I am still laughing as I sit here thinking about it.

First, the Office this week was hilarious with As-tird. Instead of Astrid, Micheal thought the baby would be Astird. Really could there be a funnier name.

Second, Lucas really needed a nap today, he was up early from a bad dream and even was saying he needed a nap. But of course he didn't really want to nap. We started on the couch, but he was just goofing around and then whimpering rather then falling asleep. So we went up to read books in Mommy's bed and fall asleep. Once books were done we both shut our eyes and tried to nap. Of course his eyes are almost squeezed tight, then after a minute or so you hear this quiet fake snore coming from him. It was too soon for him to be really asleep, so I burst out laughing. Which made him laugh and then we got the giggles. He would do the fake snore again and we would laugh and laugh. It made falling asleep impossible. So I put him in his bed without mommy to make him giggle.

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Jenn

3 More Trees

One of the things on my life list is to run a triathlon. I snooping around online and found there is a sprint triathlon in the community next to ours next August. So I've decided we should do it. It's still a year away, but we have started training. Yesterday I went out and bought a pair of runners. So today I thought we should test them out. I packed Nathan in the stroller and Lucas on his bike and out we went. Our usual path is around the pond that is by our house. There is a bit of a hill which Lucas usually has no trouble with, but today he was whining. I said just three more trees to the top the hill. We counted down, two, one, yeah we are at the top of the hill.

So tonight I was biking to train for the triathalon and carrying Lucas in the bike trailer behind me. We were at the same hill and I groaned. Lucas then said the same thing to me. Three more trees mom, three, two, okay you are at the top.

What a great kid....

Till Tomorrow

Jenn