103 posts tagged “parenting”

actually, the peppermient mocha at starbucks is a tad too sweet for my taste. but i love the minty flavour so it's hard to resist.

the heaven part really isn't just the drink. it's that i took the day off, got the house cleaning done in the morning (so i know it's out of the way for the weekend), gone for a very good, strength-circuit class from hell, had a very yummy turkey sandwich with sparkling water and am now listing to tunes while surfing at starbucks (god bless 2 hour free hotspot a day here).

the mocha latte is my dessert.

and i have about 2.5 hrs more before i have to go pick up little miss.

i'm loving it!

so we ordered chaeli some chocolate ice cream after dining at a local german restaurant this past friday night.

about halfway through, chaeli starts to moosh up her ice cream.

my mom asks, "chaeli, what are you doing?"

chaeli mumbles, "i'm making food."

"you're making food?"

"no - i'm making POO!"

so exactly when did my sweet little girl turn into little miss disgustington?

but... if it's even possible, i love her even more then when she was first born.

how often does halloween fall on a saturday night? not often enough!

it was so nice not to have to race home from work along with all the other parents doing the same thing, thereby making rush hour even crazier. and then, not having to rush dinner to leave time for trick-or-treating.

and then, it was just so very nice not having to try and rush the whole bedtime routine knowing that it's a school night.

what made the night even better was that we got to spend it with friends. di and rick hosted a little halloween party which ended up being just as fun for the adults as for the kids.

uncle hoa had fun, too!

the food we had was crazy. ada made short bread cookies in the shape of ghoulish fingers. they looked creepy but i will definitely agree that it tasted amazing. doug spent all afternoon making chocolate-chip pumpkin muffins from scratch - yum! and ada also baked a halloween-themed birthday cake for hoa, as his birthday falls on halloween.

i loved that chaeli got to go trick-or-treating with a friend this year. it was differnet - plus, all the guys had a great time taking the kids out. chaeli finally got to be bumblebee (transformers), brayden was a dragon and little maddy was eeyore.

transformers, dragons and a little eeyore

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more then meets the eye

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we turned our clocks back an hour which gave us that extra hour of sleep. heaven! however, i can officially say that i'm officially sick of all the halloween treats. not chaeli, though. that was HER kind of heaven.

noisey neighbours are driving me crazy!

on one side, we have 'the children of the corn' (they like to stand motionless beside each other and just stare at us when we're out doing stuff on our patio - i can not tell you how un-nerving and a tad creepy it is). they don't seem to have a bedtime because they can be up until 11pm on a school night (sometimes even up to midnight), even though they are 8 and 4 years of age. which is fine - none of my business, right? except that they run around the house. and when i mean run, i mean they stomp the ground as if they have lead feet and are purposely trying to damage the floor. of course, the vibration also travels as the floor is connected to our floor and our walls (which really are not that thin to begin with so you can imagine how noisy they generally are) of our townhouse.

on the other side of us are neighbours that tend to like to wake up around 3am to have sex. now, i gotta say, the sex isn't that loud. and i only hear it if i happen to be up visiting the loo. but when i'm tired and grouchy, which i'm always grouchy when tired, the last thing i want to here is the bed springs squeeking as i sit on the toilet.

having said that, i would prefer the bed springs over the children of the corn anyday. not because i'm a perve but because the bed spring action doesn't keep me awake and is over within 30 minutes, if not less. the stomping around can sometimes continue from the time they get home from school until the time they go to bed, which evidently, is after my bedtime.

so as far as the children of the corn are concerned, i'm not sure whether or not i should complain or not. it's a strange situation. it's not the children's fault and as a parent, i know it's difficult to get children to be completely quiet. so i'm not asking them to stop completely. i just wish that from, lets say, 9 pm and onwards, that they are more mindful.

i don't know - suggestions?

Transformer-Costume-bumblebee

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i searched high and low for a transformers bumblebee costume (without paying through the roof - as some of the complex ones are over $50)  and finally found one, only getting the school's newsletter last friday requesting that the following costumes should not enter the school: witches/warlocks, superheroes and weapons.

damnit.

i remembered the part of the warlock/witches because it is a christian based establishment. i remembered the part of the weapons. i don't remember the part of the superheroes. honestly i believe this is new. and it's really sad. i don't see why dressing up as spiderman or supergirl is a bad thing. sure, make sure they leave the weapons at home. but what a bad tiem to take on this rule when superheroes are all the rage!

anyway, luckily, i explained to chaeli that she'll have to dress up as a princess for school. but on halloween day, she can be bumblebee. she was actually happy to get to dress up twice so all is good.

(to be honest, i like the princess costume way better, anyway - the transformer bumblebee looked a bit cheap, but it was the best we could get).

saturday @ g.i. joe matinee:

c: mommy? what movie is this?

s: it's g.i. joe, remember?

c: this doesn't look like the same movie.

s: it is - just watch. you'll start to recognize some of the scenes from the commercial.

ten minutes later...

c: mommy - this isn't the same movie.

s: it is.

c: but where are all the hamsters? and guinea pigs?

s: what? ohhh - no, sweetie. it's g.i. joe - not g-force!

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last night, before getting ready for bed, i sat chaeli on my lap and gave her an extra long hug.

while holding her, she said, "mommy... um... i think you can stop hugging me now."

the forecast is showing rain all weekend. which is fine. i was looking forward to going but only if the weather was going to cooperate. i'm also looking forward to just hanging out at home.

i have some organizing to do - namely, my closet. i want to sort, chuck and clean in preparations for christmas (where i store my shopping items, wrapping paper and craft items). right now, it's just a big mess and i'm actually dying to tackle this project. just so i can feel the relief - 'ahhh! that's much better!'

doug and i also want to go so G.I. Joe. we would get babysitting for chaeli but she says she wants to watch it too. well, she lived through transformers (both movies) without even flinching. i'm sure this pg-rated, action movie will be just fine.

i wanted to invite cathy and her family over but it looks like her little girl has come down with something. still, i'll probably give them a shout tomorrow to see if they would be up for take-out at our place.

rainy weekends do spoil the outdoor fun but there's always so much to do at home that i'm sure we won't be bored.

so we're going camping this weekend. which will be strange because it's only for one night. we leave early saturday morning and come back by mid-sunday afternoon.

it will be strange only because anytime i've gone camping, i'm use to three night. two nights, maybe, if we are really pressed for time, but ideally, it just makes sense for me to do three nights. i don't like the feeling of taking down the tent so soon after putting it up.

but... we're also going to keep it really simply. we're bringing the bare-minimum. and we'll only need to cook two meals - dinner the first night and brunch the morning after. for the daytime of our first day, we'll probably just snack a lot on raw veggies, dip, crackers and cheese. as i said, we want to keep it really simple.

of course, with camping, there's really no such thing as keeping it simple. you need to bring all the requirements. but i suppose we won't worry about too much food. i'm not even bothering with toys and craft supplies for chaeli because if it looks like rain, we're not going at all. and she won't have time to really play as we'll be doing a lot of walks. i also won't bother with swimming gear, mosquito repellent and sun block. it will be too cold for any of those things. our first aid pack is always ready so no need to worry about that.

still, i do worry that this will be a bigger production then doug realizes. he's just so desparate in getting one camping trip in this year. we didn't at all last year and this summer has just flown by.