I'm So Excited- Twisted Sister

One of the greastest things about Lucas, and all babies I'm sure is how they show their excitment in their whole body. He doesn't just scream, but kicks his arms and legs and smiles so wide. You can tell that he is really happy about something. It's so good.

We went to our neighboor's house today for lunch and it was excellent. Some people have such a knack for new foods. Her salad had apples and cheese in it. Again it was great! There were a couple other babies there as well which was fun, although Lucas spit up alot. I may have fed him too soon. Once he saw Milan's bottle, he wanted his as well. Emma and thier dog also had a great time playing. Which is good for me as it is -25 outside and I really don't want to take her for a walk.

Lucas has sucessfully put himself to sleep. Yah! I love it when that happens. He was up a bunch of times last night. He was cutting another tooth and it was really bothering him. At about midnight I gave him some tylenol and it seemed to work till morning. He also ate lots of pears this morning. Plus at the lunch I was at someone makes gormet baby food, so we are going to start to order that. I love to support other mothers and it's nice to know where the food I feed Lucas is coming from. I'll know it's fresh.

I'm so glad the Olympics are on. I love the Olympics! Espeically with the cold today. I hibernated and watched sports. We got a bunch of medals today and it's always so inspiring to see the athletes compete.

Well today is the last day of the game, atleast for a while. I have been more places but don't have those pictures on my computer. Maybe someday if I get a scanner or get the scanner we have working, or use a scanner at work we'll play again. Anyway here's the last picture: Where in the World Are George and Olivier?



Hint: Usually the water is very blue from the glacier, but in June it can still be frozen.

Till Tommorrow

Jenn

Too Little Too Late

We'll it's a very late post today. It's almost 8pm here. During Lucas's afternoon nap I napped as well. Even though I slept great last night, because we weren't able to use the monitor. It seemed to go on the fritz making a loud buzzing noise every 5ish seconds or so. We couldn't sleep with that noise so we locked the cats in the computer room with their food and litter box and then opened our door and Luke's door. It was great. I heard him at about 11ish, but he went back to sleep and then not again until morning. Of course this won't continue becuase I don't like locking the cats up and the monitor seems to be fixed, but I did enjoy just barely hearing Lucas. =)

Work today was good. I'm starting to get to now the students better. It's interesting to see all the different personalities.

Lucas is getting his other bottom tooth. I'm lucky that so far (knock on wood) he hasn't been unbearable to deal with. A little fussy, but nothing that a little loving (and sometimes Tylenol) won't fix. Lucas was also good with Darryl and Darryl changed a poopy bum!

Onto the game, the picture two days ago was Mom and Dad on Vancouver Island. I've never been there, but will definitly go one of these days. Here's today picture

Where in the World is Jenn?



The hint for this one is: A place where we were upgraded to a honeymoon sweet- 'mon.

Till Tommorrow

Jenn

I Love You-Barenaked Ladies

Well happy Valentine's Day everyone. Things have been good here, Tammy and I had lunch together which was great, it's so good to have such good friends. Plus the dogs enjoyed wearing themselves out. Lucas is upstairs chatting to himself in bed, but I'm hoping he'll fall asleep soon.

So eleven years ago today Darryl and I started dating. In some ways its seems like it ca't be that long and in other ways we have been through so much together, it doesn't seem long enough. In honor of 11 years I thought I would list 11 things I love about Darryl. So here we go

11. His cooking skills. Darryl makes lots of good food. His McDonalds cooking skills have come in handy.
10. Has a good job. I'm glad that Darryl is around. I would hate it if he had to be away alot. Plus he is good at that job.
9. His cleanliness. He is great at doing a through cleaning of things, it's a good balance for me. a fast cleaner, but not always through.
8. He likes to travel. Travel is very important to me and I think has become important to Darryl as we've done it more.
7. His humor. Darryl loves a corny joke, after his own father that way. But more so I love his humor when it's just him and I. It's nice to be best friends like that.
6. His parenting skills. I'm lucky to have an equal partner in raising Lucas. He knows that I need my time away and doesn't get upset when I need a girls night out.
5. He takes my crap. It's great to love someone who understand you, and if he doesn't always understand me, he's willing to compromise to make me happy. Plus he let me get all these animals and he loves them too.
4. He is handy. I know if something around the house needs fixing it will get done. Or if something needs to be built.
3. He is well liked. My parents love Darryl, and really so do most people who get to know him. The other day my parents joked they would keep Darryl over me. I'm glad that he gets along with most people.
2. His intelligence. Darryl knows so much about many things. He is an expert in certain things, but also has a general knowledge about most things. Pat likes to call him the wizard. =)
1. He loves me. I am lucky to have a really good marriage, because as much as I love Darryl I know he loves me too.

Anyhoo, my other Valentine is crying. Maybe he's hungry rather then tired.

Happy Valentine's Day

Till Tommorrow

Jenn

Love you Madly- Cake

Lucas and I just got back from a Valentines Day Party. It was lots of fun, but it's funny how my mommy equitte is different then my usual etiquette. Lucas woke up at 6am, so everything has been a little earlier for him today. Usually he goes down for a nap at about 2-2;30ish, so today we are at the party and he gets fussy at about 1pmish. We have only been at this party for about an hour, and I know how much work goes into a party. But here's my boy, who needs to go down for a nap. Anyway at about 1;20ish we're heading out the door. In some ways I feel bad. I never leave a party after an hour. It's not like I just show up eat and leave! But today I did. Being a mom changes everything.......

Lucas did sleep through the night again, so we are on a roll. He did take a longer nap this morning, so I'm not sure what this nap is going to be like. We also tried pears this morning, which he quite enjoyed. I heard a little trick the other day about healping your kids if they don't like a certain food, is to put a little cinnamon in it. I did it with Lucas's wheat ceral, which is not his favorite and he seemed to take it better.

Emma is at doggy day care this afternoon. I'm sad to not have her around. Which seems crazy, but we are really the best of friends. Of course when we got there it was too men to take her into the back. She did not like that, but atleast they were younger. Once she got in with the dogs she was great. Hopefully she will have a good time.

Onto the game. Yesterday's was an angiogram of the neck. In that projection we are looking at a profile view of someone's neck. Their common carotid artery is coming up the side and dividing into the anterior and middle cerebrals. Pretty cool eh?

Here's today's picture :

Where is in the World Are Susan and George? (aka Grandma and Pop)

The hint is: This is a place that both my parents and Darryl's parents have visited, but I have never been.

Good Luck

Till Tommorrow

Jenn

Crash Into Me- Dave Matthews

Sleep is an interesting thing. I just woke up from a nap, but I'm not sure it was long enough. It almost makes me more tired then I was before I went down. For family day today we went looking for a back carrier. I thought Dad wanted to go skating, but they changed their minds, besides it was such a nice day outside that we didn't want to spend too much time inside. We did buy a back carrier, but I'm not sure about it. I thought Lucas would be higher but he's a the level of my head so when he looks straight ahead he's looking into my hair. It is quite comfortable though and had lots of features. It's the MEC one.

Here the link for it

http://www.mec.ca/Products/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524441776409&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302735239&bmUID=1139786688145

I'm going to check out a couple more before I take the tags off this one. Which they said was fine in the store. It is a great store. We also bought another pack for Vegas. That is one thing about me, I'm not crazy about shoes, but I love bags. Bags and sheets. I was in Linens and Things yesterday looking for a new duvet cover and I had to restrain myself from buying sheets.

Lucas slept through the night again. Yeah. This will be the third night in a row. I am fairly fond of the system we've developed. He sleeps until 5amish then I feed him and he goes down for another couple hours. I works well. Then he's having two naps a day, which is normal for his age, rather then the 3. Although some days if they are short naps he'll have three.

Onto the game. The picture from yesterday is the Umbria region, but the villages are called Cinque Terre. The five villages are Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, Riomaggiore. We stayed in Monterosso and had a great time. We met this couple there who would be able to play the Where in the World Game a much longer time. They had been to over 100 different countries. This is also where I put my foot in the mediterrainan. And our first stop in Italy, so it freaked us out when they wanted to record our passport numbers. If anyone reading this goes to Italy, please keep in mind that it is law for them to record who is staying at your hotel. It is beautiful here and I would recommend going. You can hike between the towns and when Darryl and I were done this hike the Italians cheered for me. I was 7 months pregnant. Lots of people told me it would be good for the baby to get all that blood pumping through him.

So I'm starting to get desperate with pictures. So today's picture is not of a place but of a thing. The name of today's game is: What in the World? (instead of where in the world). The hint is I could do this in my job. Good Luck



Till Tommorrow

Jenn

Saved- Jann Arden

So yesterday we left here and went to take Emma for her shots. The vet was a female, so she liked her at first, but did not like getting up on the table. Lucas was quite good throughout the whole thing although I'm sure he found it a little interesting. The neatest thing was was while we were waiting I had Lucas on the floor in his car seat carrier. This other fairly large dog came up to sniff Lucas and Emma started growling. The dog didn't step back so Emma barked and got between Lucas and the other dog. I thought it was so cool. Not the fact there there was almost a dog fight but that Emma felt protective over Lucas. She doesn't really show any emtion to him what so ever, until yesterday.

We also had one of Darryl's favorite dinners last night. If you live somewhere that there is a Safeway, they make their own Tomato Tuscan Soup. It's delicious and we often have it with sourdough bread and red wine. It's simple, but great. Tonight we are having steak......

I can't believe the weather here. Although it is suppose to snow this week, but it's been 10+ degrees. It's great and we all have been enjoying the outdoors. Walked with Lucas to Walmart today, we almost ran out of wipes with all the crazy diapers we've been having.

Onto the game. I think this will be the last week of the game as I am almost out of pictures. Maybe my dad knows a good photoshop program and I can start to fake pictures........ Yeah for Mo, Lori and Lynda! This is a pic of me in Kelowna. We are so lucky that Oma and Opa live there, it is so fun to go there in the summers. I'm looking forward to it again this summer.

Here is another harder Europe picture. The hint is we were walking from one small town to another, there are 5 small towns you can hike to and from. Good Luck

Where in the World is Darryl?







Till Tommorrow

Jenn

What A Good Boy- Barenaked Ladies

Well another big poop blowout today. Darryl is defintly changing all the diapers this weekend. Today he let out a poop and I waited as per my lesson from yesterday. Well a couple grunts later I see he's getting green all over his sock. Anyway it was all down his leg, in his pants. Although not up the back. It was bad enough I needed to change my shirt as well. Man oh man... atleast I had to deal with poop in my job before mommyhood. I feel bad for the people who get baby poop as there first experience.

Had a great time playing outside today. Lucas, Emma, the cats and I all love to be outside and we have been treated so well this winter. Although there was a big grass fire a couple hours or so from here. So the grass is dry everywhere and I'm sure I tracked a bunch of it in the house with me, but I guess that's what brooms are for. Emma has to go for her shots this afternoon, so she'll be quite upset with me for the rest of the day.

Last night was good, I made a great pork roast and we had Oma's applesauce with it. It was delicious. I also bought a cute hat for Lucas.



Lori, you were bang on yesterday. We were in Venice on a famous bridge called the Rialto Bridge. There were people everywhere on this bridge, but it's one of the few across the lare canal. Venice is such a beautiful place and I recommend anyone go there. Again, so beautiful and no cars. Great gelato, although quite toursity. Here's the picture for today. And the hint is Emma can come on to this place with us (although certain people can make her scared)

Where in the world is Jenn






Till Tommorrow

Jenn

PS I Love You- Bette Midler

Well I wrote some info about the Grammy's in my last post but I seemed to have deleted it, plus I thought of a funny poop story, that I wanted to share with you, so here is the second post of the day.

The Grammy's last night were great. They focused more on the performances rather then the "life time achievment" people. They acknowledged them, but didn't let them talk for 15 minutes about everyone they had ever met. My favorite perfomance was JAy-Z, LInkin Park and Paul McCartney. What a wonderful colaboration of difference music styles. I was glad Kelly Clarkson won a couple of awards, she seems so genuine. Like I could be up there giving the same speech. And Mariah Carey, had something to cover her up. So it was all good. =)

I was also very impressed with Madonna and Sheryl Crow's bodies. Wow, those women look amazing and they are both over 40. I think they are such good role models. Especially compared to Lindsay Lohan or the Olsen twins, both who have have eating disorders.

The other funny story is a poop one, so if you have a week stomach or don't want to hear about poop, stop reading here.

So today I hear and smell Lucas doing his buisness in his pants. So as a good mother I promptly take him up stairs to change it. So there I am changing his diaper I'm through about 2 wipes, and he's all clean. Bam! He poops again. RIght on the new one. I just started to lift his legs to slide the new one underneath and poops all on his leg and the outside of the new diaper, which is not as absorbent as the inside. So I get that all cleaned up, again another couple of wipes. Reach down to get another diaper and I hear a little fart. Look under his legs and he's gone poop again. Now the thing about poop at this age is it's not in lumps. It's not like I can pick up the lump. It's like dijon mustard....all runny. Luckily the pad we change him on is easy to clean. Because I wiped it quite a bit today. So the moral of the story is don't be so prompt in chaning diapers, there are probably a couple more pushes to go.

Till Tommorrow

Jenn

One - U2

Well Just got in from Yoga and Lucas is sleeping in his car seat. So this may be a short post, depending on how long that goes for. He is defintly like me and enjoys sleeping in the car. It is so windy here today I can't believe it. I was lucky we did not get blown away on our walk. Yoga was better today, not that it's ever bad, but I'm getting better at coping with Lucas there.

Well after I bragged about his sleeping, he woke up once in the night again. Then he has taken short naps all yesterday and today... so I guess it's better to say nothing and not jinx myslef. Here is a picture of his first tooth. So far he hasn't bite me, which I am grateful for. =)



Yeterday's picture was at a "zoo" per se. It was Sea World in Orlando Florida, from the Christmas we all went down as a family when we lived in Ontario. I think that was the first vacation Darryl had ever taken with us. It was so fun for all of us, because of having Darryl around. At Sea World, you buy little trays of fish and feed it to the sea lions. They will do all these tricks to get the fish. It's amazing....

Okay here's today's episode of "Where in the World Are Jenn and Darryl" This is an easier one as well. Although if there weren't people in the background we could be standing in front of a painting.



Till Tommorrow

Jenn

We Belong Together- Mariah Carey

Well I'm happy to be home again. Work was good to go to, but it totally makes me appreciate my little man. I almost kept him up so we could keep playing, even though it is time for his afternoon nap. But don't worry I was not selfish and I put him down. It's amazing how in the last week he seems to have settled a lot when it comes to sleeping. Most nights he now sleeps through the night, he's become much easier to put down for naps. Plus he seems to sleep longer for most naps. He is also happier in the day. Of course this is all on average and he can certainly be a hellion if he wants. All my students thought he was beautiful, and really he is such a beautiful kid. I know I'm biased. Darryl said he was quite good for him this morning as well, which I am happy about. Lucas (and probably Darryl) were quite happy to see me when I got home. Darryl said he played a lot by himself this morning. So it's probably my doing that he seems to want to be with me all the time. I guess I don't really mind, I should savor it while it last. There will be a day in the not to distant future when he wants his friends over his mother.

I am very excited because the Grammy's are on tonight. Two of my favorite things melted together. Music and awards shows. Plus there is usually a surprise or two in store for us. I just hope that Mariah Carey wears something that covers her.

Onto the game. Lori I am so impressed with you!!! I will send you all the music you like for your participation in the blog. You are really a great sister in law. It was so good to have you come to Calgary in November and I know it meant SO much to Darryl that you came out. Plus it's fun to talk to you. Yeah for great sister in laws. You were correct and for 1000 bonus points it is St. Mark's Square. Yesterday's picture is Mo in Cancun, but it could have been anywhere hot.

So here's today picture for Where in the World is Darryl?



Till Tommorrow

Jenn