A lot has happened since the last blog post. One of the big exciting things that has happened is that Dylan turned two! Yup my baby is two! Time flies!! We had a party at Mc Donalds because we had no space for kids to play here. Before I started packing we needed more space and then I filled the kids play area with boxes :-P They are going to be watching a bunch of tv in the next little while :-P Maybe this time they'll learn how to read, write, add and subtract... I'm not asking too much am I? :-P (last time we had a busy time and the kids sat in front of the tv for long periods of time, they learned their letters and their sounds all from a educational dvd :-P)
The next big thing that has happened around here, is that I stepped in water on the kids bedroom floor! :-S cold and wet! First we had to find out where it was coming from.
It was coming from the window well, there wasn't proper draining and what was there was clogged. That problem is now fixed - and very well I might add! There will be no more water coming in over there! Now we have to clean up the mess the water made :-S While Rachel, Matthew, and my FIL fixed the window well problem, I took apart the bedroom and then my MIL came with her carpet cleaner. My MIL, Matthew and I took turns vacuuming out the water.
To start we were 4 people in a 2 bedroom place and now we have 4 people in a one bedroom place. :-S but enough furniture for a 2 bedroom.... a bit cramped... Right now we are putting the kids to bed on our bed and transferring them to the couch when we go to bed. This is working VERY well considering all the things that could go wrong!
As you can see from the pictures, we have lots of boxes in our living room now. We moved them from the kids toy area because we weren't sure at the time where the water was coming from and it was getting mighty close to to coming under the wall and saturating all my boxes :-P Here is a bit of how my Monday went.... and I really don't want a Monday like this ever again :-P
Monday morn 5:30am - I hopped in the shower. When I got out Matthew said the cute little girl I babysit wouldn't be coming this morning because she was sick. Oh well. (she was still a bit sick yesterday, poor thing, I hate it when kids are sick :-S but today she seems back to her old self.) I started setting up Dylan's birthday present - a new hockey net! The instructions were less than helpful and actually confused me more than if I would have put the net together with out them... Maybe someone at the factory thought it would be funny if they put the ABC stickers on the wrong rods... Anyway, I coaxed Matthew out of bed to help me and he figured out the last few rods <3
Matthew and I had a quick coffee and then moved all the boxes across the house into the living room. While we were doing that Dylan woke up and was SUPER DUPER excited about his new hockey net! So cute to see his reaction - I wish I could have gotten a video :-) We finished moving the boxes, then Matthew hopped in the shower and I got his lunch ready and the kids ready to go drop Daddy off at work, cuz we needed the van to get to mc donalds for Dylan's birthday party. After dropping Matthew off at work, I decided we were going straight to mc donalds and the kids could play there for a bit before everyone got there. I drove up to the mc donalds I told everyone to go to and the doors were locked... under renovation! What? - they just renovated it! :-S grr... I drove back home tried to remember all the people that had said they were coming, (it was kind of an open invite, so I didn't keep track as well as I should have) I phoned everyone that I could remember that confirmed they were coming and told them the new location... a mc donalds with a play place that was close to the original one. Then I headed over there. We had a great time! I may do this again! The kids loved it and the Mom's had a chance to chat a bit. :-) Just before I was going to head out I remembered someone who had confirmed with me and I had forgotten to call - I FELT SO BAD! I ran home, called her and alas, she had driven around made some calls and couldn't find us :-( SO SORRY!! It was not intended! I truly did forget! The rest of my Monday included picking Matthew up from work, a timmies coffee, taking apart a room, and lots of carpet cleaning...
Here are some pics of our place right now... but be WARNED it is very messy/cluttered!... packing, cleaning up water damage etc. doesn't make for a designer room.... lets just call it - eclectic! :-P
Ok so lets start with the kids sleeping arrangement. They seem pleased as punch to get to sleep on the couch! :-P Yup that's kids for you - always positive in a bad situation :-)
Linda - Dylan won't let go of that balloon! He even wants it beside him when he sleeps! And Miriam is NOT allowed to even look at it :-P
Dylan showing us how it works :-P
The kitchen is fairly unaffected :-)
Some of the packing I was doing before all this moisture made its way into the kids bedroom.
The boxes piled high in the living room.
Where the kids bunk bed is, such a lovely thing to look at while eating... although they say the color blue holds back the appetite - You know if you paint your dining room blue, and eat off of blue plates you'll loose weight... but what about a blue bed right beside the table, will that work as well?
All the rest of the kids stuff that can get a bit wet if it so happened that water came under the wall. And also our changing station :-)
The fairly innocent looking room...
