Today, Elizabeth decided that she no longer wanted to wear nappies. She’s still wearing them at nighttime, but she flat out refuses to wear one during the day. Actually, she’s not really wanting to wear any clothes at the moment. If you come over, we’ll have a little nudist running around the house giggling.
Today is also Paul’s birthday. He got calls, emails & cards from England, but not one person in my family remembered him.
Well ok Thanksgiving first but lets be honest we are all thinking of the Thanksgiving sales and then Christmas.
With that in mind and the fact that at least some people we know will be using Amazon to order stuff I have a request.
When you are going to Amazon please go in by clicking the banner below. It will take you to Amazon then you just shop as normal.
Thanks
Paul
Elizabeth had a toy house outside. With the weather getting cooler, we scrubbed it down and brought it into the play room in the house. Suddenly this week, she wants us to join her inside the house so she can make us a cup of tea. It’s a bit dark in the basement, but you can see that even Paul managed to get inside the house. On this evening, she was only having a juice box, though.
Today is the birthday party at our local bank. We were able to go and get a small sandwich, chips (crisps), candy and a drink. We entered our name to guess how much money is in the jar and also entered to win a $1,000 gift card. Elizabeth and I spun a wheel to win a piggy bank shaped like a pink poodle, which she LOVES! We also got a balloon which had to join her in her bedroom during naptime.
We turned on the heater last night and haven’t turned it off yet. It’s officially winter here (to us). The daytime high is like 66 or something. Soooo cold! This afternoon Elizabeth and I will be going outside to pick what is left of our vegetables. We’ve been gathering many peppers and green beans, but I think the tomatoes will just have to ripen on our window sill. There is still some onion, lettuce and spinach out there which should last until it gets really cold. We also built a second planter bed for next years garden. We’re hoping to have a third one ready by spring.
Nanny is home from the hospital and we’re so happy! Elizabeth has been driving us crazy by asking about her every other day and not being able to talk to her. Finally she got to talk to her yesterday and she was happy all the rest of the day.
Everything here is going well. I’m applying for jobs all the time. Hopefully something will come up soon. Part time would be great as I am loving being at home.
Sunday afternoon and Elizabeth wants to go to the garden. Paul & I decide we’ll tag along with her and take a quick look at what’s out there. Here is what we found:
The peppers are growing like crazy and the radishes have grown overnight. On the verge are green beans, more peppers, beets and round 2 of tomatoes. I found out that if you cut back the tomato plants after the first harvest, you can have a second harvest before the frost. Whaddaya know — it worked!! There are 4 currently on the plants, but many, many more blossoms out there.
What have we been doing? Elizabeth and I try to get out of the house at least once a day with either duck feeding, recycling, grocery shopping or the splash park. This gives da-da (paul) more time to work that is uninterrupted.
Every Thursday morning, Elizabeth and I go to the local splash pad in downtown St. George and play in the river. Other days, we go to the park or just work in the garden.
I try to get Elizabeth out every morning because she then takes a long nap, and also it’s just too hot to go out in the afternoon. We’d rather not have her cooped up in the house all day long.
In the afternoons, I try to do some other activity to keep her away from vegging in front of the TV. This is when I run my errands like grocery shopping or going to the post. It’s been just over a month and so far, we’ve been successful.
Paul has been working full time now that I’m home. Don’t worry everyone — we’re doing okay financially. We haven’t even had to touch our savings at all!
Starting Monday, I’ll be volunteering at an “assisted living” (aka: old folks home or OAP). To keep my sanity, I need to have some time out of the house.
Cameron & Elizabeth are getting quite cozy lately. She’s constantly wondering where he is. She wants to talk to him and know what he’s doing at all times. She’s the first to greet him after he comes home from work. Well, besides Buster, of course.
Elizabeth loves to go upsidedown. Every time Paul picks her up, she climbs up his chest and then flips herself over and then laughs hysterically.
Also, Elizabeth has learned to do “the rebecca”, which means to make the furrowed brow & glare that Paul says looks just like something Rebecca or Ellie would do — but she looks more like Rebecca. It’s clear she doesn’t know what it means (yet) because afterwords she laughs because she was able to make the funny face that makes daddy roll his eyes.
Cameron? He and Robyn broke up & he’s working all the time and we hardly ever see him.
My brother, David, and his family have moved locally. He is being sent to Okinawa, Japan on the 15th of this month. I think it’s going to be nice having more family around.
Oh yeah, and I lost my job on July 3rd. If you know of anyone looking for a paralegal, let me know.
One of the best things about Elizabeth is that now I get Fathers Day presents!
We are now having a family tradition of me getting a new tea mug every year with Elizabeths face on. At the moment when she sees me with the mug she points and laughs, I am not so sure what she will do when she is 13/14/15/16 etc and I insist on drinking from one of these baby mugs when she has friends round.
In fact by the time she is a teenager I will have enough mugs that I can offer every one of her friends a drink in them!
I also go a screwdriver set and a barnes and noble gift card. I was spoilt the whole day, cooked breakfast, 3 hour nap, then we went to ihop for a late lunch (it was awful, every time we go there we say never again), followed by shopping for books.
I got 3 books , 2 to read and one for business (yes I will read that, but it isn’t one I will read for fun).
Elizabeth and Kathy had a peanut butter cookie at the starbucks cafe while I spent far to long looking for the books.
We came home and sat and watched a hour or two of Eureka on the sci fi channel.
All in all it was a great day and counting down to the next one!
Today the painter showed up for his first day of work. He’s spent all morning scraping off old paint and filling in cracks & holes. Tonight Elizabeth & I go pick up the paint and tomorrow the exterior painting begins.
After the painting is done, the new windows will be installed. They’ve been ordered and will be ready in about a week or two. The new grass is coming in nicely….. this covers up the spot where they dug up our lawn in December.
I’ve taken some “before” pictures and will show you the amazing transformation when it’s all done. We’re all very excited to have the house looking as pretty as the inside.
On the inside, we’ve only been doing minor changes. We’ve bought paint for Elizabeth’s bedroom, so we’ll paint that when we have new windows that open nicely for ventilation. We’ve put the railing back on the stairway that we’ve been meaning to replace ever since before mum was here in February. We have a new light for the bathroom waiting to be put up and kitchen knobs & pulls ready to be put on also. Both of those have been put off since we moved in.
My garden looks beautiful. The temperature is in the mid 90’s and should be in the low 100’s by next week.
Ok maybe it isn’t cooking but she won’t starve as long as I can get my hands on Peanut butter. Today we added Banana and she liked it.
I am thinking it is almost time for a Elvis sandwich, fried peanut butter and banana..yummy
I am considering trying to make pancakes one day, lucky enough Daniel is a Fire Chief so I am sure I can ask him to be standing by!
Paul