By myself

I haven't had time to write in here the last couple of days because Kevin's been gone for a week and Robert is teething and I'm potty training Natalie so I've been pretty busy!! I'm happy because the temperature finally rose to 0 and now we can go outside for walks again. We went for a walk yesterday and Robert loved it. He fell asleep half way through. It started snowing and it was pretty. We might go for another walk today.

Actually able to go outside

Today there is no wind and we can actually go outside. It was still a little cold -4 but way better than usual. My window actually opened and I haven't been able to open it for awhile. Natalie and I went and had a fire then I pushed her down the hill a bunch of times while she sat on the sled. Other than that it was a nice relaxing day. I made Greek food for dinner now I'm just trying to get Robert to bed. Natalie is already passed out. We made progress in her potty training. I put her diaper on at 5 because I thought she was gunna go to bed but she asked me to take it off about half hour later and then she pood on the potty. Before she always pood in her pants or diaper if she had one on. So hopefully she will be potty trained completely soon!!! I bought her these bags with a suprise Thomas toy in them and I'm pretty sure that's what motivated her. I told her if she pood in the potty she gets one.

Sleepy

I forgot to post yesterday but most of the day I was absolutely exhausted and just rested as much as I could. Then at 630 we all went swimming and that was nice. Today I am tired too but I drank a coffee so that helps. Another boring day except I went to the mall and bought some socks and a really nice purse. I also picked up a bath bomb and plan to have a nice relaxing bath. Kevin is going away for a week so I need to relax now while I still can ! I took the kids to the library earlier and now we're just gunna relax at home. It's snowing today after it's been really sunny but windy for two weeks.

Gymnastics

The kids and I went to gymnastics today. It was Roberts first time there and you could tell he had a lot of fun. We have been couped up inside a lot lately as its really cold outside and Natalie has been going crazy. Kevin said its because all she eats is sugar but I said its because she has to much energy and she's not burning it off. Well after gymnastics we got home and Natalie layed on the floor and was calm and watched tv for an hour. So I was right! I booked flights for the kids and me to go back to delta for two weeks at the end of the month. That will be good for them as we will have more space to run around and more things to do. Plus be able to go outside. I really hope it doesn't rain the whole time. I'm laying in bed right now while Robert is sleeping in his crib. It's really cold and I realised the window isint shut all the way. I find when i leave the window open even when it's really cold Robert sleeps better. He's nice and bundled under blankets. I'm glad he's getting some fresh air. Natalie and I went to the thrift store today to drop off some clothes that are too small. There was nothing good there to buy today.

Pictures

Today we all went and got family photos. They turned out good. Natalie was being a crazy girl and not co operating as well as she could but we still managed to get good pictures. Other than that today has just been same old. The crazy wind is back and howling at the window right now. When we were at Walmart today there was an old couple who I think we're drunk acting all weird and fighting in the aisle and some guy passes me and was like time to get out of this aisle , it was pretty funny. I tried to watch a movie on Netflix but it's way to hard with all the noise is this house. Maybe one day I'll get me time again !!!

Singing bowl

Today was a typical crazy toddler / baby day filled with messes , jumping , screaming & yelling. I was pretty mad most of the morning dealing with everything but then Kevin woke up and I went out by myself. I drove down to this metaphysical store down the street. Some hitchhiker ran up to my car and mouthed please but I couldn't since its kind of scary and I was just going 2 minutes down the road. When I got to the store I wanted to buy some bath salts but I couldn't since you can't use them when you are nursing. They had these music bowls. When Robert was getting his hearing tested the lady was telling me about them. So I tried it them and they sound so cool. So I bought one! I think it will be fun to use. The rest of the day was ok then we went swimming which was fun. Natalie and Robert love swimming so much. Robert is a natural always kicking his legs. Now me and Kevin are listening to some recordings of Steve and his old girlfriend is talking about ghosts and weird shit.

Hyacinth

I totally forgot that I was growing a hyacinth in my closet. I was reading my Peter rabbit garden book and there was a project for fall page and growing a hyacinth in a jar was there so I tried it. So far it's really growing. I took it out of the closet because it's grown quite big now and put it in the window. It's supposed to bloom in the winter and smell really nice. The point is to have fresh flowers when normally there isint any around ( no flowers in winter) . Today Natalie and I went to the mall and we bought some stuff for crafts. We made Chinese New Year cards. Natalie dumped the whole thing of sparkles onto her card and I tried to clean them up much as I could but there's random sparkles everywhere now!!! Oh well I can handle a few sparkles around the house. I bought some baby crackers for Robert and he loved them. Other than that today has been pretty boring. Still no sleep so I ordered some lavender oil and I'm gunna spray that in the room and see if that helps Robert sleep better! Oh and Kevin was being a jerk yesterday so we were kind of fighting but he made me a separate chilli cuz I don't like how spicy he makes it and I noticed it this morning so it's nice he was mad but still was considerate of me. Today is super windy holy 50 km/h , me and Natalie had to run to the car when we went shopping cuz the snow was getting wiped at our faces. It was kinda funny. I'm going to end my night with a nice relaxing turmeric milk, yum.