Cute

Aliyah woke up this morning and I turned on the TV for her and Brooke. Brooke was in her excersaucer when I hear the TV being turned off and Aliyah saying "I gotta go pee Brooke, Ok? I'll be right back ok?" then she does her thing....goes back in the living room, turns back on the TV and says to Brooke "There, is that better Brookies?" in that sweet little voice of hers. She definately loves her little sister.

Brooke has been waking up almost every other hour wanting her bottle. We DO feed the little thing, but she's just always hungry. She's been doing this for over a week now.... I got up at midnight last night, came downstairs and fed her cereal thinking that it would make her sleep better but noooo she was awake at 3 a.m. and then again at 7 a.m. I dunno what to do.

Last night, when Aliyah was going to sleep, I was rolled away from her and then I feel this little body draping over me and said "Mommy can I cuddle with you over there?" I said "Where?" She said "in your belly" Once she got there, she said "Ok Mommy, please, you move over just a little bit ok?" So I moved over.... she said "no mommy, touching the wall" So I moved over as far as I could. She said "Uh oh mommy, don't let the bears get you"

Cleaning will be done today!!

4 more days to go!!!

Questions from a 2 year old....

Here are a few cute questions that Aliyah has asked me over the past couple of days:

1. Why is Santa a Man?
2. Why does Santa watch me from up in the sky? (I don't want Santa to see me!!!)
3. Why does Santa come down the chimney?
4. Why do I have to wait till Christmas to open up my presents?
5. We can all open up our presents today, wanna do dat?
6. Did we buy presents for all my friends? (who aliyah?) Daniel, Julia and Gabby??
7. Why are all my friends busy??

Only 6 more days!!

Sick

Poor little Brooke was sick the other day and still is really. She's getting a bit better now. I think she's teething really bad and she also has a cold (Along with Aliyah). She wasn't eating, sleeping or peeing in her diaper. She woke up at 7:30 a.m. that morning and didn't sleep until around 12:30 a.m. that night. Her little eyes were hanging off of her cheeks. Kenny took her up to the outpatients around 9 p.m. and they didn't see her. He waited until 1:30 a.m. and still didn't get in. You would think that a little baby 8 months old would be seen, even for a few minutes just to see if everything is alright but nooooooo.

Aliyah is really starting to get excited about Christmas now. She sees presents under the tree and wants to open hers (from someone else, not us, we didn't put anything under the tree yet because we're waiting till Christmas Eve.

We bought her a Winnie the Pooh gingerbread house. We'll wrap it and that will be her present that she can open Christmas eve and we'll put it together. She loves doing stuff like that. Brooke has been pawing at the presents too.... so she should be fun :)

Kenny and I are both exhausted. We haven't been sleeping that much these past few days. Kenny has been letting me get a bit more sleep than him so he should be extra tired.

Aliyah wants to go and watch Rudolf so I'll have to go see if it's recorded.

Only 7 more days!!!

In A Funk....

I'm in a Funk !! Which I can't get out of. I find it very difficult throughout the days when Kenny isn't home. The kids are keeping me very busy. Brooke is ALWAYS trying to stand up on things and sometimes falling hard on the floor so I have to be on top of her at all times. I'm expecting that she will be walking earlier than Aliyah did (1 year). I could have swore that she's said, Mama, Dada and Kitty all in the past week. She's now getting her first bottom tooth in. It's been poking through for the past week but won't come up! Aliyah was the same way. You could see it and feel it but it wouldn't come up through for awhile.

My house is an absolute disaster. I'm so disgusted with it that I am at the point of giving up! Just let it go until .... well I don't know when. For the life of me, I cannot keep it clean! It's very frustrating for me.

Aliyah had a good ol'nap around 5 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. this evening and so she should be good until about 11 or so. Nice.

She's hanging off of me now, so I better go.

It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas......

The decorations are up.... some gifts are wrapped.... Aliyah is getting excited... (and Brooke too :). The time is almost here!! Another couple of weeks and the Big Guy (Ho Ho) will be coming down our chimney! (We will still light a fire that night ;)

Kenny's work is having their children's Christmas party tomorrow so we'll be taking the kids there. Aliyah doesn't want to see Santa but she's going to anyway! It's pretty good, the company buys each child who attends a pretty nice gift and they serve pizza etc there. It was a good time last year. I'm going to have to try and find a couple of red dresses for the girls so they look all cute and stuff.

Aliyah was all excited to watch the Grinch that Stole Christmas tonight (the one with Jim Carrey). Well.... let me just say that she was only a few minutes into it when she was scared half to death and little tears forming in her eyes. I asked her if she wanted me to change the channel and said nodded her head yes. I saw her afterwards wiping her little tears away. Poor little thing. Guess she's too young for that one! We'll try again next year ;)

The wood stove is going and the heat feels nice... it's actually putting me to sleep. Gonna go have a smoke and then probably go upstairs to bed.

Night.

To start my day....

To start my day of cleaning, what did I do? I was getting something off of the table in the entry way and the phone went flying.....yah...right into a big bucket of day old mop water!! GRRRR!!!!! Guess that's garbage now.... it was only about 4 months old. Luckily we have 2 others.

Let's see what else happens today!

This and That.....

I went to my Christmas party at the Delta. It was a good time! Although Kenny didn't come with me because we didn't have a babysitter.. I wish he was there. The food was good and I even won a nice prize! A Philips Stereo that plays MP3's too! That was a nice little surprise :) I stayed for 2 dances then came home. The roads were terrible due to freezing rain so it ended up taking me 20 minutes to drive home.

I was thinking today, that Aliyah (even though sometimes she stirs the pot) for the most part, she is a big help with Brooke. She tries to calm her down when she cries and helps me feed her, etc. She is such a great sister :) She loves her little sister, that's for sure!

Well, a few more people to buy for, for Christmas. I hate not knowing what to get people!! That's when the good ol'gift certificates come in handy I guess!! I love getting gift certificates :) I don't know about anyone else!

Looked after Grammy Grace all weekend. Aliyah was ready to come home by day 2. She missed Snoopy and her house :) She was happy to be home last night and sleeping here. It was rough, especially with Brooke crawling around and getting into everything. But we did it!

Gotta go clean up this pig pen! At least it may be clean for a couple of hours!!

C-Ya!