Hey, Mrs. Wilson!

I swear that my body gets bored when it’s healthy for a whole day.  I’ve got the sore-throat-headache-shakey-achey feeling.  Lucky me.

I took my point-and-shoot with me on my and Noah’s day off of parenting and drove Noah insane - my favorite thing to do.  I’ll share a couple of my favorites with you and call it a night.  I’m going to bed as soon as Noah comes home with my ice cream.

There have been a hundred gazillion geese on Wascana lake recently. Maybe it’s like a meeting place before they head south or something.

The kids stayed with their surrogate parents while we ditched them and went frolicking in fields of daisies. Liliana’s new fascination with ketchup is what is all over her shirt. She goes through about three a day (shirts, not bottles of ketchup).

Thanks again Craig and Jen! Next week? Same time?

I took a break from being surrounded by babies and went scrapbooking with one of my Jen friends tonight.  Wooonderful.  She and her husband are taking the girls tomorrow so that Noah and I can have some kid-free anniversary time.  (Our anniversary is on Wednesday, but he has school and works and I have babies all day.)

I’m going to have to make it up to you and post twice tomorrow (not during anniversary time) because Noah’s got a huge project due and he doesn’t want to take time away from us tomorrow to do it.  I could go post on the other computer, but Liliana’s sleeping in the room that it’s in and I’d rather enjoy some silence than wake up a sleeping baby.  Only crazy people wake sleeping babies.

Ciao.

This picky eater …

• does not like meat with any skin, fat, veins, bones, stringy things, or any kind of yucky stuff on it.
• does not like cole slaw.
• does not like those fake berry things that come out at Christmas.
• does not like bananas, banana cream pie, dried bananas, or banana flavored anything; but likes banana bread.
• does not like mangos, mango juice, or anything with mango in it; but likes dried mangos.
• does not like white bread, unless is french bread.
• does not like low-fat mayo, salad dressing, sour cream, etc.
• does not like juice with pulp in it.
• does not like raisins alone or in anything.
• does not like nuts alone or in anything. Unless it’s a Peanut Butter O’Henry.
• does not like oranges or peaches or pineapple in anything, but will eat them alone. (Except likes Hawaiian pizza.)
• does not like canned soup.
• does not like pumpkin pie.
• does not like store-bought meat balls.
• does not like mashed potatoes unless they are slathered in gravy. Or creamed corn.

Who am I talking about? Um, that would be me. I also don’t like coffee until it’s warmish-hot. I have an immense fear of burning my tongue.

Are you a picky eater?

I’ll give you a hint.

It’s about this tall

and about this long.

Now you can stop wondering.

Remember when I said that Noah and I were going to take a picture every day for 31 days? Well we kind of failed at that.  We made it 14 days, and they were not consecutive.

It’s alright though.  I got what I needed.  Maybe we’ll try it again in November, what do you think honey?

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Had to write this bit, since this blog is also Liliana’s baby book, but she learned to say “Carson” (the little dude I babysit) today. She calls him “Tartin”. Love it. She’s started to mimic absolutely EVERYTHING. Unless we ask her to, of course.

Noah, you’re going to love this. I know it.

Heather B. Armstrong over at dooce.com posted this video today. Check it out. Click on the pink, it’s a link. You know you want to.

One of the things I love to find out about the blogs I read, is what kind of plug-ins/software/etc they use to keep their blog going. I can’t remember where I read it, but someone suggested BlogPatrol as a way of tracking your hits and readers. I’m not so concerned about how many people read my blog, it’s more of just plain curiousity. Plus, tons of people just read it in their Google Reader and don’t even visit the site. (Hi you guys! It’s okay. Really. I don’t blog for the numbers!)

Anyway, sometimes I get curious. The thing that peaks my curiousity the most, is what people Google when they stumble upon my blog.

The ones I found most interesting were:
survivor nudity (and survivornudity) - Really? I wrote on how I think it is DUMB that women cannot wear supportive chest support. You will NOT find any naked Survivors here. Although writing this will probably get me more naked Survivor traffic. Goody.
what do you think of your niece (newborn) - Well, I can tell you that my newborn (or not-so-newborn anymore) niece, Kaitlyn, is GORGEOUS. She’s a Braam after all.
How does a daughter heal after growing up without a father? - Well, that’s a tough one. Or you could just do what I did. Find a good looking dude who is willing to take the place of the absent father. But seriously, tough one. Sorry about that.

I also found it interesting that most of you visit between 10:00pm and 1:00am. Crazy.

ps. No, I do not record IP addresses and then stalk you. Firstly, it doesn’t interest me. Secondly, I don’t know how to do that.

pps. Do you eat or bake with margarine? Maybe you should stop. (That pink writing is a link. Click on it.)

I was tagged by Laurie to share 5 unusual things about myself. Here goes.

1. My ears are not symmetrical. I didn’t notice this fact until my mom shattered my world when I was about 15.

2. I had my appendix removed unnecessarily when I was 7. The doctors thought I had appendicitis, but when they opened me up, my appendix was fine and I ended up having infected lymph glands. They took out my appendix anyway though.

3. I love to read blogs about babies. Like this one and this one and this one. I love babies. I’d love to have lots of babies. But, they grow up. I only want two kids. At least right now. Ask me again when Liliana is 12.

4. I like to watch the commentaries on DVD series and I like to watch TV with the subtitles on. It drives Noah insane.

5. Speaking of driving Noah insane, it’s one of my favorite things to do. Nothing makes me happier than when he has his you-are-so-nerdy-it’s-unbelievable face on.

I think that’s it. I tag Chelsey, Teresa, and Jen.

Nobody! But a couple of you were very close. Liliana is 24 lbs. I’ll let you do the math for me. (Working for a courier company is good for me, apparently.)  But, Laurie wins the FRIEND OF THE YEAR award for guessing that I’m only 109 lbs.  You’re a friend for life!

In other news, our internet is down at home.  So is our digital cable and our phone.  So, needless to say we had to find another way to satisfy our internet craving.  We’re at the University using Noah’s internet key so that we don’t go into withdrawal.

I’ll be back.  When, I don’t know, but if it’s not soon … well, nothing will happen.

Chow.

1. Two more days of work until I’m retired. Retired! Hee hee …

2. Kaylie starts Grade 2 tomorrow. She’s so excited. I can remember when I was in Grade 2. My teacher was Miss Veenstra. We teased her about having a boyfriend who was a pig farmer. I got my first pair of glasses (that took up my entire face) and I was so embarrassed of them. I even remember where my desk was located. Where the heck did time go? I guess 18 years can just fly right by.

3. I am meeting with a potential childcare client tomorrow. Her kids (2 boys) are the same age as my girls. I can see this working out well.

4. I tried to put Liliana in her big girl bed tonight. I even went to Wal*Mart and bought one of those bed side rail things. When she was knocking on her door half an hour after I put her to bed, I figured now wasn’t the time.

5. I have the best husband ever. Seriously. I’m not kidding. He said today, “You know, I love you more and more every day, but you also get weirder by the day. I will never understand you. Ever.” Poor guy.

6. I just went through all Kaylie’s school supplies, labeled them individually (as per the instructions on her supply list - have you ever had to label 26 pencil crayons individually?), and put them all in her back pack. It made me miss the first day of school. Yes, I was one of those. One of those weirdos who looked forward to the first day of school and dreaded the last day of school. Yes, I was (am?) a nerd.

7. I’m totally behind in the picture taking thing. I go through cycles of taking pictures daily, to taking them weekly, if that. I’m now in the latter. I’m sure I’ll go all mom-like and take a bazillion pictures of Kaylie going to her first day of Grade 2 tomorrow. I’m going to be one of those parents who thinks it’s hilarious to embarrass their children. Kaylie and Liliana, consider yourselves warned.

8. Liliana ate a whole apple today. I had to stop her from eating the core. She only choked on the peel once, but it was only for a couple seconds. I have to do that more often. It gives me a nice half-hour break from the shrieking. OH THE SHRIEKING!

9. I got a sweet gift in the mail recently from a wonderful online friend from the recent CMHS Creature Comforts Book/Magazine Swap. I’ve been too busy enjoying it to tell you about it. Going on right now is the CMHS Local & Fair Trade Swap. It’s closed to new entries at the moment, but I’m sure the new swap will be up soon!!

10. Did I mention that I only have two more days of work? Two! TWO!!!