Another Step Closer...

Well, this evening we made one more step in the never ending project... AKA: my laundry room!  We ripped up 2/3 of the tile!  Thankfully it came up fairly easily.  Now we have to move the washer and dryer to get the rest of the tile up.

Then we'll 'only' have to move the furnace vent, scrape ceilings, move light fixture, drywall, mud, tape, sand, prime, paint, lay sub-floor, install linoleum, mouldings, put in a laundry sink, build a set of drawers, laundry hamper storage, closet, etc.  Not too much... should be done in no time right?  (Nice 20 minute project as my mother-in-law would have said!)

Ouch!

When Lennard was home for lunch today he and Ben were playing.  Ben was racing around the island and went to climb onto a chair and slipped...  Poor boy.  It was hard to see at first where the blood was coming from his mouth and then we saw this.  Ouch!

 Cut on the inside and outside!

 He was not impressed that I wanted a picture of him...  He definitely has the scowl down pat!

 I finally got a smile... even with his fat lip!

Sock Bun

So, I am not the most talented hairdresser out there.  I can't do haven't learned how to do all the fancy braids and hair-dos with Emma's hair, but yesterday I saw a You Tube video on how to do a sock bun and I thought to myself... now that is something 'I' can do!!!  Amazingly it worked!  I had to take some pictures of how cute Emma looked with her hair all up in a bun!  Now I have to venture out and find all the pretty bows, flowers, etc to dress it up with!

 

Thanksgiving Dinner

This year we all decided that it would be nice to have our Thanksgiving Dinner in Lethbridge at the church (so no one's house got destroyed).  We waited until the last session of General Conference and then made our way in.  Almost everyone was there, except for Dave & Nysha (they had another family dinner).   

Emma immediately claimed Grandma as 'hers'!

 

Rachel made a fruit 'turkey' that everyone enjoyed.

 

It was nice to have everything pretty much ready to go when we got there and not have the huge preparation mess.

 

I ate WAY too much (as per usual). The kids wouldn't eat much as there was too much going on around them. They just wanted to play with their cousins... so we let them! 

My only wish was that we'd been able to actually sit and visit a bit more.  Being in the church wasn't as conducive to sticking around and chatting.

Lotion!

Emma loves putting on lotion and since Ben has excema and we are lathering him up all the time, she gets in on the action as much as possible.  Well... today she tried to help herself to some 'lotion' while I was busy upstairs.  Unfortunately it wasn't lotion... it was zinc oxide diaper cream! 

 

I was on the phone upstairs when Lennard popped in to get something.  He said hi to me and Ben and then headed downstairs to see Emma before heading back to work.  I heard him say, "Mary Lou!  Where's your camera?!"  I got off the phone, grabbed the camera, turned around and saw this...

 

She was so proud of herself that it was difficult to get upset!  Not only was it all over herself, her clothes and her hair, but she had got it on the couch, stairs and railings!  Lennard laughed... and then went back to work (thanks a lot!).  I quickly put a shout-out on Facebook to get suggestions on how to get diaper cream out of her hair and was quickly inundated with ideas.  The one that stuck out the most was to use Dawn dish detergent... so that's what we did!  I wiped off her arms, stripped her down and laid her on the kitchen counter so that I could use the spray nozel and wash her hair in the kitchen sink!  Thankfully Dawn took all the diaper cream out!  Ben didn't want left out, so once Emma's hair was washed (and conditioned!), I let Ben have a turn and soaked his hair down too!  They thought it was great fun!  My life is definitely anything but dull!!!

Team Work

Ben is a very determined little boy.  When he couldn't get the freezer opened by himself, he figured out a way to do it... He enlisted the help from his big sister!  In Ben's words, "Emma.  Pull!"

 Sure enough, with two of them pulling they got the freezer opened!  Ben looked up at me and said, "Got it!"  What a smart boy!  (Too smart for his own good sometimes!)

It's 'SNOW' Fun!

We had a bit of snow fall overnight and the kids were overjoyed to get their winter coats and boots on to go outside and play!  Emma LOVED seeing how much snow she could pick up and was even trying to throw it!  I was getting dinner ready, so Lennard went out with them for a while.

 

 Look mom, Snow!!!

Catch me, Dad!

 

After a while, they finally made their way back inside.  Emma loves to 'help' and was quickly pulling the chair over to stir the spaghetti sauce.  She actually did really well, as long as I kept reminding her to stir slowly!  We only had one glop of sauce go flying!  (Sorry for the lovely dirty stove... I'd been processing more cans of apple pie filling!)

 Ben did not want to use his fork at all... but loved that the magnets stuck to it.  He definitely has a mind of his own and won't be convinced to do anything if he doesn't want to!  Should be interesting when he gets older...