Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Listen


Did you hear that?

SILENCE!!


YUP! Silence in my house at 11am!

ALLEUIA


Frank has taken all the kiddos to SJ to visit his mom and plant the garden. They'll be back later tonight!
I'm going to spend the day catching up on cleaning,(and not have muddy boots run on my newly washed floors), listen to music, (that isn't sung by someone under the age of 16) drink my coffee (while its still hot), and maybe even go for a walk, (without pulling 2 bikes, and scooping up dog poop at the same time)

sigh..............


I miss them already.

Happy Birthday Honey Bunny!!

You don't look a day over 40!!
HA!!

yeah, yeah, these are older pics from this winter.. I don't have any recent ones of him!
I'll take some tonight!!

I'm sick.

My nose is running like a faucet.
My throat hurts.
My head hurts.
My chest aches from coughing.

My house is clean,
I've washed floors, did dishes, tidied up the playroom
All the laundry is done.
Frank is still at work, gone since 5:30am. Its 9pm.
I'm tired.

Abigail made me home made chicken soup and Isabelle baked chocolate cherry cookies. They are such sweet kids!

I'm going to bed with some nice strong cold medicine, and a hot lemon and honey toddy.

I will feel better in the morning!! That's my mantra....

LOOK!! My mom bought me these cool new sneakers.. that LIGHT UP!!!

I've never seen anything like them...
and I can't quite figure out how they work..

Maybe if I press on them they'll light up...

hmmm.. maybe there are directions on the box..

Mommy? Are you playing a joke on me???

Maybe if I stomp my feet.....

YEAH!!! THEY WORK!!

I love my new sneakers!!
(the box is pretty cool too)

WOW! Hanlin's 5th birthday today! So exciting for him! He has never had a "birthday party" before so he was beyond excited all day today. He went around all day singing.. "Happy Birthday to Hanlin.." too cute
He asked for Flip-Flops "like my sister" and a bike helmet. He said he wanted as many shoes as Lily.. yeah right, good luck with that one big guy! LOL

I got an e-mail from his foster family in China today, saying that they were thinking about him, and were also going to celebrate his birthday. Keeping with tradition, they had noodles in his honor, to symbolize long life. So for supper, we did too!

He wanted everything fireman or as Hanlin says "Pompier" ( gotta love french school!)
So we had fireman balloons, hats, plates, napkins and even a makeshift fire house/construction cake!! I'll have to blog about the cake later! It was a riot trying to draw a fire house with frosting.. anyway.. more about that later..

I think he had a good time... no actually, I know he had a blast!! He was so excited, jumping and playing and good god... talking NON STOP!! WOW That kid can talk!! He doesn't stop..ever.. I thought no one could ever talk more than Isabelle... well I was wrong! He even exhausts her!! LOL
and buying his presents... what an experience.. you should of seen me trying to hide his presents from him.. HOLY EAGLE EYES!!
I'm sure I am now flagged at Wal-mart, as I slinked around with flip flops in my hands, trying to hide them behind my purse, to get to the cashier with Hanlin shouting.."what's that mommy??" "what you have??" "That fip-fop???" MOMMY??? MOMMY??? What's that????"

SIGH........ I know I am now exhausted, the cake looks like it caught fire, balloons are floating all around me, and he is asleep with bright pink lips and teeth!! (do you have any idea how much red food coloring it takes to make fire engine red??? A LOT!!)

The girls went to Sydney NS this weekend for the Atlantic Gymnastics Competition.
They both did wonderfully!! Isabelle placed 2nd on Beam!! Abigail placed 5th on Vault and Beam and 6th on Bars and placed 5th overall!!

GREAT JOB GIRLS!!!
WE'RE SO PROUD OF YOU!

OOoh the joys of having a brother!!

We taped this driving home from SJ after the Easter Weekend. She had been staring at his open mouth for quite a while then she decided to close his mouth! I just happened to have the video case at my feet!!
Tears were rolling down our eyes... and the poor soul, stayed fast asleep! Actually at the end you think he wakes up and smiles, but he actually fell back asleep once she let go of his mouth!!
ohh fun times...

We lost a wonderful man on Saturday..
My father in law!

He came with us to China when we adopted Lily and he was so happy when we went back to adopt Hanlin! He knew he was sick, and didn't have much more time with us, but he made a goal for himself to be around when we came home from China in September. He beat that goal and had many more months with us and for that we are very thankful.

we'll miss him dearly

Awww....

This afternoon, I went into the basement and took out a bunch of toys the kids haven't seen in a while. ( I try to rotate toys)
So today, I pulled out all the Fisher Price barn, airport, circus, etc.. Honestly it looks like a Fisher Price commercial!
Well, they've been playing for over 2 hours with it, no fighting, just playing, sharing.. So I've been in the kitchen getting supper ready, having a drink of tea and reading a few pages of my book.

I head Hanlin shout something to me...I couldn't quite hear him so went into the playroom where he was sitting amongst a zillion toys... and asked him to repeat himself.

He replied:

"Thank you for all the toys mommy" "I wove you"
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Sigh.........
my day, actually the last 3 hours of my day.............


Lily spent the day screaming



at everyone, for one reason or another... either Hanlin was touching her dump truck, or walked in "her" puddle, or her sister was sitting in the chair that was meant for pooh bear... At supper she actually put her hand up at me and said... "I can't hear you" .


grrrrrr.........

Just before supper, they were outside playing in the puddles.. lots of fun... but Hanlin would take a shovel full of mud water and slowly lift it over Lily's head as she was playing and then dump it in his dump truck... he could of taken a different route to the dump truck... but noo...over the sister's head was too much fun as it got a rise (aka scream) out of her everytime... UNTIL... she decided that it was one time too many, took a shovel FULL of mud water and purposely dumped it over his head...


He was NOT too happy, but he did stop lifting the shovel over her head!
then as I was putting screaming girl into bed, and giving Hanlin a shower (to wash the rocks out of his hair) at the same time, I asked the girls to wash and dry the supper dishes, suddenly I hear squealing and laughter and see Isabelle running upstairs for sanctuary.

Her sister decided to tape her up!!


she actually had to make herself "look mad" for the picture. She thought it was actually quite funny.
sigh........ thankfully the dishes did get done before the taping started......

and how can I be angry at these 2 little devils???
all showered and rock free!!!!!

All happy (after the exorcism) (and apologizing to the whole family) and ready for sleep..

Now for me????
I'm ready for this:
nice, smooth, warm and calming........4 Copas Tequila, and organic to boot!