Sick, Sick, Sick

Last week was a very interesting week. First Faith was sick, she's almost 9 and managed to puke ALL over everything in her room. I was like see this is why I don't want you to have things laying around on your floor. There is always a teachable moment right?

Then Clayton and Nathan were playing with Faith's water bottle and were drinking from it so of course they got sick. Clayton at night but he managed to make it to the toilet. I put him on the couch for the night and didn't hear anything from him till morning. Nathan is the silent puker. He pukes with no noise and continues to play/sleep/pee what ever he's doing at the moment. So I "found" puke on the couch, on the floor, I managed to get him to sleep on towels and he puked on that too. Have I ever mentioned how much I love towels? They are so much easier to clean then couches lol.

Last but not least I got sick. Thankfully it was only one day and felt better by the end of the day.

I will say though that I am thankful that my kids get sick on different days... they are so thouughtful lol

Labrador Specialty

As most of you know our puppy Aero is a show dog. There was a lab specialty here over the weekend and Aero and his littermate Nigel won!! Aero won Best of Opposite Sex and Nigel won Best of Winners. Aero's new tittle is BOSS! How exciting is that??? I'm so proud of my boy he's awesome!

Now on to concur the states!

Another Hurt Child

Thursday was a busy day. I was caring for my friends two youngest and Nathan had swimming. I thought I would be chasing the kids around the pool but they actually stayed where I asked them too. We get home and I'm like o.k let's eat lunch. I just happened to look at the phone and notice alot of calls. The kids school phoned and Dustin phoned. Those combinations are never good. So I phoned Dustin and he told me Payton fell and split her lip opened but she was fine and not crying. Off to the school we go. Payton was eating lunch already and had a band aid on her lip. Just looking at it you can tell it was still bleeding. So I pulled off the band aid and sure enough you can see it's deep and you can see the layer of fat underneath.

I'm very thankful that the walk-in near the kids school will glue cuts. We only waited 20 minutes or so. Payton was holding her breath and I thought she was going to pass out. She did not like the alcohol cleanse at all, but really who can blame her?? I kept her home friday. She's not suppose to talk, move her lips or get it wet. The glue had to dry and set. Today she thought I was going to keep her home again. She's like mom do we have school today? I don't really feel like going. Yeah o.k. kid it only works the first day after you're hurt lol.

So that was our thursday, now all my kids have had some sort of cut glued or stitched on their face. Faith fell at daycare when she was about 18 months split her chin. Clayton was jumping from dresser to bed and hit the base board heater. Nathan was pushed into the furniture by Clayton and hit the corner of his eyebrow.

Thank god it hasn't been worse.

Projects

So my birthday is coming up soon. YEAH ME! So I told Dustin that for my birthday all I want is for him to finish the projects he has going on in the house. We've been living here for 7 years and the basement has been a work in progress/unuseable since then. How fun is that???

There is still a bounce of little things that need to be done. He's going to be starting on the cottage soon and the house will be left to shit, I just know it. But he has started to do little things around the house again. We'll see....

Finally Warm Weather

If you live in Manitoba you know we go through extreme weather conditions. One day it could be -30 the next it can be -10, then the next it can be 0. Now that it's spring time it's actually +16 today. Can you image??? It's April 18th and +16 out???

With that said we have to take the necessary spring pictures. People out there with kids can appreciate how hard it is to get these pictures.

Our New Puppy

Yup you read that right. We are getting another puppy. Aero is 15 months now so time for a new one lol. The litter is due today! It's going to be another lab from the same mom as Aero. I'm looking forward to seeing him. Hopefully she has a nice male in this litter. He's going to be another show dog, very exciting! Keep your fingers crossed for me. If you want to take a look and see if one of those pups interests you, click on the link for Azureblue Labradors on the right hand side.

Spring Break is Finally Over

The weather was suppose to be good, sunny and warm all week. Nope! It was very windy and here is MB we all know the wind is cold. So sometimes it rained, sometimes it was nice. I know I'm asking for alot with it being April already but come-on, a few not so windy days would have been nice.

The kids of course LOVED not having to go to school every day. Although I do think they were getting bored with me making them clean up their rooms every few days.

Easter is not a super big deal in our house, we have no family here to celebrate with us. So it's not like we had a HUGE turkey dinner or anything. We just had ham and potatoes on friday. The kids of course loved looking for eggs. Faith always gets the high ones, the twins always get the middle and Nathan gets the ones on the floor. I think Nathan might have come off better because I was helping him. They were actually very nice to one another, normally it's a free for all.

Saturday we went to a friends birthday party. It was at the Y and they have a climbing wall there. The older boys went up and got about halfway. Faith went up and got all the way to the top. Man she's not afraid of anything. She was like alittle spider on that thing. It was awesome!
Dustin of course had to do it too. He went to the top, but that was the easy wall. He then decided to do the slanted wall. He didn't make it very far up. I do have a good picture of him "falling" off though.

All in all I think it was a good week.