100 Years- Five for Fighting

Party Party! Well it's been a very social couple of days. It's been great to have so many adults to talk to. And Lucas is entralled with watching other children. So it has been a fun couple of days. Although now that I've tried to put Lucas down for his nap it seems it may have been over stimulating. (He's crying, it's amazing how a minute and 43 seconds can feel like 10).

Lucas did have a great two hour nap this morning and was very refreshed when he awoke. It was great to see Mamie again and her little daughter is so cute. It's amazing to see someone pregnant. Not that long ago that was me. This is a picture of me as pregnant as Mamie is. We were hiking in Italy at the time. =)

So Darryl and I had a long conversation yesterday about our "5 year Plan". It's interesting becuase 5 years ago, I had many changes I wanted. New job, children, house etc. This time I want life to stay pretty much the same. Maybe another one or two children, but the house is great, my job is great. There's not much I want to change. I don't really plan on taking any "major" trips while the kids are little. Just chillin'

Till Tommorrow

Lukey's Boat

Just playing around this evening and figured out how to post a picture of my beautiful boy. Hopefully he'll have a great night sleeping. It's amazing how much you love these little people. Everyday I fall more and more in love with him. It's different then the love you feel for you spouse, it's not like the butterflys you get in your stomach when you see your significant other. It's a love that makes you feel like you are going to explode, a smile that cannot get any bigger becuase your face just isn't big enough. Spending time with him is such a blessing. I love him so much. Enjoy the pic and now that I know how I'll do it more often.


Till Tommorrow

Jenn

Fast as I Can Great Big Sea

Well Lucas has been a great boy today! We had a party with a bunch of other moms and their babies, which was lots of fun, but has made the day go by in a hurry!

Lucas slept the whole night through. I'm sure it was just a fluke, but it was great to have a full nights sleep. Not even Emma woke me up.

I missed the clue today for Regis and Kelly, if anyone knows what it is please post it in comments.

Lots of raspberries and happiness to everyone.

Till Tommorrow (which will also be a short blog cause we are having more people over)

Jenn

Upside Down: Barenaked Ladies

Well a new trick of Lucas's is hanging upside down. He'll be in my arms and lean back till he's haning upside down. He is smiling away, so I'm sure he enjoys it. But the first couple of times it totally freaked me out. You spend the first two months making sure their necks are supported then a couple months later, they are turning it like they are the exorcist and hanging upside down.

Well I got a call today "recruiting" me for a job. I am so so lucky to be in the field I am. There is such a need for people that I am able to be more flexible with going back to work. I am able to work part time. But I don't want to say too much or I'll jinx myself, besides there's 7 more months to go.....

Lucas's sleeping has been great! Last night he woke at 11:30 to feed and then woke again at 4amish. All I had to do was put his soother in and he went back to sleep, no crying. Then this morning he took a two hour nap! Yeah. I love good days. I hope tommorrow is good as well as we are having a bunch of moms and babies over.

Right now I"m listening to Jann Arden with the Vancouver Symphony and it's so beautiful. So so beautiful. Thanks Tammy!

Lucas is 5 months old today, I took him into weighed. He is 16 pounds 14 ounces and 26 1/2 inches long. Wow he's growing!

I hope everyone is having as wonderful day as I am!

Till Tommorrow.

Jenn

Volvo Driving Soccer Mom- Everclear

Well again feeling like I don't have too much to blog. So this may be a short entry. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Lucas will have a long nap, as he has become the chronically short napper in the last couple days. I'm going to try to leave him in there till he's upset.

The weekend was good. We ended up taking Emma to the offleash park, which she loves and we pulled Luke in a sleigh, as there was some snow on Sunday morning. It was great to do something as a family. It's interesting to be a "family" too. Not that Darryl and I weren't a family, but it seems more important now that Lucas is here.

In the evening we had a videoconferencing with Darryl mom aka Grammie and Grandad. It's great that even though we live so far away she can still see her grandson on a weekly basis. Although I"m sure she misses the hugs and kisses. It is interesting now that families live so far apart, most of the people I know do not have their kids grandparents in the city. I guess Lucas is lucky to have one set of them here.

After that I went to Chapters and had a hot chocolate and read magazines. It was good to get out and do something by myself, although I'm totally turning into a mom. Along with people magazine I also looked over Today's Parent magazine and the book Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child. The once I realized how long I had been at Chapters and I wasn't going to see Lucas before he went to bed I raced home. I did miss his going to bed, but saw him for his 12:30 wake up. =)

K, well for having nothing to say I've babbled on alot.

Till Tommorrow

Jenn

The Joker- Steve Miller Band

I don't really have a whole lot to blog about today. Lucas slept for 8 hours last night, which was wonderful. He has been okay with going down for naps, although still dependant on me rolling him and putting his sucky in.

He was giving Darryl some belly laughs yesterday. Which again is the best noise in the world.

How about some jokes:

A lady and her baby...
A lady and her baby get on a bus. The bus driver looks at the lady, and then her baby, and then screams, "AHHHH! That's the ugliest child I've ever seen in my life!"
The lady then, totally disgusted, marches up to the back of the bus to sit down.
As she was sitting there absolutely furious, a man asks, "Are you ok, dear?"
The lady replies, "I'm so angry, that bus driver just insulted me."
The man says, "You go back up there and give that bus driver a piece of your mind, and I'll watch your monkey.

Joke # 2

According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington recently was faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom.

That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.

Every night, the maintenance man would remove them and the next day, the girls would put them back. Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night.

To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required. He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it. Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.

There are teachers, and then there are educators...

And Last But Not Least:

One Sunday morning a little girl in her Sunday best was running so she wouldn''t be late for church.

As she ran she kept praying, “Dear God, please son''t let me be late to church. Please don''t let me be late to church....” And, as she was running she tripped and fell.

When she got back up she began praying again, “Please, God don''t let me be late to church -- but don''t shove me either!

Who Are You- The Who

Sometimes it feels weird to be 26 and not sure who you are. On the outside it often looks like I have everything together, but I certainly have days when I question who I am and what I am doing. I wonder if this happens all throught out life or if when you're in your 30's you become more sure of it.

Last night I went out to the mall to try on some boots I had seen earlier in the week. I quite liked them and they were fairly comfortable. Now they weren't winter boots, but dressy boots. I thought where am I going to where these. I am a mom now. I go to the park everyday. I need to buy runners not dressy boots. Then that led to why don't I where perfume. I like the way perfume smells, why don't I where it. (I think I have been watching too much Oprah.) Then that led to, do I want to go back to work. I can't imagine leaving Lucas with someone else. Do I want to work evenings instead? And on and on, it's funny how one crazy thought can lead to another.

Today I am feeling much more clear and know why I don't buy 100$ dressy boots, wear perfume and why I will need a balance of work and child. I am a mom which is the best, I could go buy the boots, becuase I do other things then go to the park, but I don't really need them. I could buy perfume but don't really need it either.

Onto Lucas, sleep has not been easy the last 24ish hours. He woke at 5:45 this morning and has cried to go down both times today. He has been having great sleep for the last 5ish days so I guess one bad day isn't so bad.

Still flailing things around, still laughing and smiling lots. I'm finding he has also become less upset when putting his coat on and going in the car seat. I think he's learning it's inevitable. Yesterday we went shopping with Auntie Karen and the temperature went upto about 10 degrees or so. I took off his big winter coat and left him with just a blanket on, he quite enjoyed that. He was quite good, all through lunch and shopping. One thing I am noticing now is that he doesn't stay asleep when we go places. He may sleep in the car on the way there, but once were there he wakes right up and wants to see what going on. Another sign he is growing up. =)

K, well this message is getting to be long.

Till tommorrow.

Jenn

Laughing-The Guess Who

Another early post. Lucas and I are meeting Auntie Karen for lunch so I dont' know when we'll be able to post this afternoon. Sleeping went well lasat night. Woke at 1:30 and that was it. This morning took a nap for na hour and 20 minutes. Now he is bouncing and bouning.

Free Cheese??

So yesterday I was shopping at an undisclosed grocery store and I saw this block of Havarti cheese sitting with the chocolate bars. I gave it to the cashier and told her it wasn't mine but I found it in the chocolate bars and since it's cheese it'll go bad. She gave it to the lady who was bagging the groceries to put away. Anyway I get home and am putting the groceries away and there's the havarti! Checked the bill and she didn't charge me for it. Yeah Free Cheese. Although I had never had havarti so I didn't even know if it was good. I gave some to Emma she liked so I figured it had to be okay. It's actually quite good.

Lucas is getting to the point where he is getting really attached to me. Mom and Dad were over for dinner last night and I can see how is becoming attached. I am his security blanket. =) Which to me is one of the greatest things about being the mom.

Laughs are coming more freely now. "Pop" got lots last night.

He is also enjoying cereal lots. He mmmmm's while eating it.

Kristine: sounds like you are going to be a great mom!!
If you saw Mo's picture from the comments I'm defintly jealous!

Till tommorrow

Jenn

Wild Thing

Well this is a very early post as Lucas is down again for a nap and I'm thinking I'll go out once he wakes up.

He only napped for half and hour this morning so he was up by 9:30, so back down again by 11:30. Hopefully he'll nap for a little longer this lunch time. We did have a very sucessful night. He woke at 11:30ish to feed and then slept till 7am, not waking at 3:30. Yeah the crying it out seems to work.

His new thing of the week is to grab onto a toy and flail it around like a wild thing. Sometimes he hits himself in the face, sometimes he hits me in the face (ouch) But he seems to like it. I figure he's probably teaching himself Newtons third law of physics. For every action there is a equal and opposite reaction. How do I know that you ask? Well I am a physics teacher. =)

SAIT called today and I've been put in the schedule to go back and do labs for 4 hours a week. Yeah! It will be fun to go back and teach again. Plus it is only for 12 weeks. Just enough to get my feet wet. Plus it will be good for Darryl and Lucas to spend some time together. Although he is going to have to have another bottle on that morning.

Thanks for the nice complement sweetie (Darryl) about my blogging. I do enjoy it and am glad that other people enjoy reading it. And Kristine, staying home is a blast. There are times when it is not easy and it's very different then being at work but it is great. I look forward to not working full time for many years to come. But while you are at work, be sure to enjoy your lunch breaks and peeing by yourself. While at home be sure to enjoy sleeping in, watching TV without interuption and weekends. It is amazing now but I have no idea what I did before Lucas. He is the greatest entertainment ever!

Anyway till tommorrow

Jenn

Let It Snow

Well we got some snow overnight, but not so much that it caused a "snow" day. It is fairly nice outside now, it's funny how snow can make everything fresh.

Well Lucas is upstairs learning how to talk. It's funny how they love to make nosies! I took him to Walmart today, but because I wanted McDonalds for lunch. The french fries were great and it was McChicken day. He is always so good when we got out, and people tend to be crazy about him. The most common word I hear used for him is bright. "what a bright boy he is" "Look it how bright those eyes are". I put him in one of the McDonalds high chairs (which I'm sure are filled with germs, but I'm not anal about germs) It had some characters on the tray and he was quite amused by that. There were a couple little girls there that asked what Lucas was having for lunch. I said nothing he doesn't eat food. I think they were shocked, becuase a couple minutes later they came up to double check. "Your baby doesn't eat food". I said no he only drinks, he doesn't have any teeth yet to eat food. I think that made them feel better, to know I wasn't starving my child.

Sleeping has been going quite well. Knock on wood. I really shouldn't say that cause for the next 24 hours it will be the pits. There are defintly still some kinks, but all in all I think it's going well. Last night there was only 5 minutes of crying at 3am, then he slept till almost 8am. So we are on the up and up. He's also getting good at eating cereal, most days he'll eat the whole bowl. Yesterday we even made him more.

Well I'm off to have some tea and warm up from this snow.

Till Tommorrow

Jenn