My boots for any skinny occasion

After hitting the panic button Friday night I realized that skinny jeans are made for tall boots or sandals so after my card class this morning I had enough time to check out some new footwear before picking up my dawgs at their grandparents. You know Aaron comes home and yells "where my dawgs at?" and he sounds so cool - I say something like that and I seem like a mean mommy referring to her beautiful children as animals... Go figure.

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43 minutes to figure out what

kind of shoes will go with my skinny jeans...I bought two new pairs of boots last night but they're short boots so I can't tuck in :o( ... it's wayyyyyyyyy too cold for the usual leather strappy ones with the kitten heels and that leaves me with camo casuals but that gives me the look of Bozo the clown, my cloggy looking things make me look like I'm wearing flood pants, my dress shoes also give the Bozo look...
Maybe I'll end up going out with the girls barefoot.
Do guys ever go through this?

The end of an era and Mommy's so freaking happy!

Finally after gawd knows how many diaper changes and bathroom trips BOTH my boys are now independant bum wipers. Can I get a WOOT WOOT???

At 4 and 5 years I'm sure most of the kiddies out there have been wipers for awhile but Thing Two in particular couldn't get the hang of it. I totally blame it on his bum wiper arm being casted for about 4 months, it's just not feesible if it's got a 90 degree bend to it, or was it 45 degrees? Whichever one makes it look like an L shape...

Anyways, yesterday Alex came home from preschool with his Batman underoos pulled up a good 4 inches above the waist of his pants. Which is always a good indicator that he went to the bathroom by himself and just skipped undoing the button because he's lazy and just tugs his pants up done up . Hence the atomic wedgie he's given himself.

And he was so pleased with himself for wiping his own butt! So today when he went to take the kids to the pool he said he could wipe himself. Yesterday could have just been a one-shot deal because he was at school but today we turned that corner of independance.

It was a proud day for the Beaver Mama :o) Maybe we'll have popcorn to celebrate!

I'm a Beaver Mama!

Well tonight was an adventure :o)

I decided to take Joseph to Beavers to see what it's all about and how he felt about it and it was a total hit! Unfortunately Aaron had to work so I ended up taking both the boys with me but it worked out just fine.

Tonight there was a Guest Presenter - Chief Deerfoot came dressed in one of his traditional costumes and did some story telling and dancing with the kids. But of course no one had their camera with them, shucks.

It was fab-u-lous! Joseph seemed to enjoy the stories and danced along and is anxious to get his own hat with a beaver tail on it.

Hah....sigh...my babies are growing up aren't they?

Babies that are here and babies to come

I LOVE BABIES! Their cute little wrinkled up faces, their smell, wee fingers and toes and the soft cries - as opposed to my 4 and 5 year old's super loud/annoying cry that would wake the dead.

I've been checking Haley's blog on and off yesterday and today to find out about her new baby. It's so exciting! Someone slipped up and said can't wait to meet him so I'm pretty sure it's a boy! Woot woot for Haley-O, Josh-O and the Monkey too!

We've had a couple new babes in our friends and family. Aaron's friend Marc just had a new addition Luke, who's older brother is Bo. Do you think he's a Dukes of Hazzard fan bychance?
And Aaron's cousin has a new baby girl Alivia. I LOVE that name! It's different but in a very classy way. Her older brother is Easton which also unique but timeless. I've finally come up with a good gift for a second child (I think) a gift certificate for pictures. There were already girl cousins' in the immediate family so Alivia didn't really need clothes and because she has a sibling there's already toys, maybe not Barbie's but she's still a wee bit too young for that so I thought maybe pictures would be nice. And like my cousin Lucie always does I picked up a couple things for the siblings so they get their attention as well. It's a hard adjustment having to share your parents with someone else so they definitely need some recognition.

I think the next babe to arrive will be Aulay MacAulay, I mean Molly MacAulay, no no wait, Colby MacAulay? I think it'll be a surprise naming when he arrives. (Let's just hope Molly isn't in the running, haha)

And then I got news last week that a friend is expecting. Yahoo! Let's just keep the exciting baby news a-coming!

Trying to get pumped

For UFC night at our place tomorrow night.

Just picture it...15 guys jumping up and down, yelling and screaming at the TVs. Yep, that's a plural, we got the big screen and our regular TV for this event...how could a girl not enjoy that?

Well, I'm sure I'll never know because for the last few fights I've done the cleaning and set up and then dissapeared with the boys so we're not underfoot.

It's the reverse of Bunco night, I think.

A super quick visit

Joseph came out shopping with me tonight and I thought we'd take a chance and see if one of our friends was home to drop off some books. I can only imagine what they were thinking when the doorbell rang half a dozen times and then Joey squished his face up against the glass frosted window to try and see if he could see anything. As Leanne approached the door she must have recognized the squishy face because she crouched down to his eye level and he screamed with delight. It was just priceless! Once inside he asked me if he could take his shoes off and when I explained that no he couldn't because we really were just dropping something off he took off for the van again. I guess he only wants to stay if it's for a long visit?