All of the Mother’s were invited to the preschool for snack time today at Edzèa’s school. Amanda and I did a trade. She looked after Rohan while I went in the morning with Edzèa and I watched Madyson while she went with Haydon in the afternoon. I forgot my camera as usual these days! but luckily one of my other Mom friends took some pictures of Edzèa for me. Although it would have been nicer to have the overall effect. We were ushered in by our daughter/son as we arrived and were shown a place to sit at a small table that was decorated with pink tablecloths and tissue paper flowers. There were big/little chairs to sit mother/child beside each other. Edzèa was beaming. For some reason, she really likes to have me at her school. Neve slept peacefully in her carseat during the hour or so that we were there. Easy baby! Definite Tim spawn this time around thank goodness!

We shared cheese/crackers/canteloupe and then we were given iced tea and shown a big cake that the children had made for us. It had a big heart made with sprinkles in the middle that we were told meant”I love you”. Very sweet. We were all given a piece. After clean-up of the snack were brought our chairs over to circle time. The kids all had roles in a little story/play put on for us. Oh and they also sang “Happy Mother’s Day to You” to the tune of Happy Birthday.

So Edzèa’s role was wind. She had a pinwheel to blow. It was a little story about tulips who were hiding under the soil. The sun needed to shine, rain needed to fall and then wind needed to blow. Eventually the tulips came out once the sun, rain and wind worked together and cooperated. Very cute.

We were then presented with a tulip, a little heart pin that our child had made and a bouquet of handmade tissue paper flowers made by our child. It was a lovely hour and I got a chance to chat with Edzèa’s friend, Arden’s Mom and then later with Hanna and the other Mom who’s child was born the same day as Neve, her little boy’s name is Lucas. She is really friendly and wants to get together sometime. Hanna (Abbott’s Mom) took some pics on her Iphone and emailed them to me and here they are.

Other than that, we’ve had a week of the stomach flu after Edzèa’s big Princess Party. Not fun but we’re through it now and looking forward to Sunday, the Real Mother’s Day. This will be the first time in 4 yrs that we haven’t had Mom with us for it. Amanda, her Mom, Judy, Neve and I are going out for dinner together sans children on Sunday night and the kids are making us brunch on Sunday morning. Amanda and I are taking Edzèa and Haydon to a Mother’s Day art class on Sunday afternoon where the kids will be doing our portraits.

I am going to add a gallery to this website with Edzèa’s art as she is quite prolific and is doing some neat stuff in her art class these days.

The teachers will be sending a group shot of everyone at the Mother’s day tea which I will post when I have it. Bon soir.

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Rohan officially moved into his toddler bed today. So far, so good. Seems to be a smooth transition. Not upset, just going with the flow. He did ask where his crib was but we told him he was a big boy now and he got a big boy bed. Edzea is now doing a glide on her own in the pool towards a noodle so we may be on our way to having a swimmer!

Edzea had her very first haircut today at almost exactly 3years 8 months old. It didn’t need cutting in terms of volume or length but it has been really ragged looking with her curls and dry and knotted. I’m hoping this little trim will keep it easier to maintain and look better than it has. I have to put leave-in conditioner in her hair after her bath each night now so I’m hoping this stops the rats nest at the back that she wakes up with each morning.

So, she attended her first gymnastics plus class with her coach today “Pink” but Tim had to take her as I had an ultrasound at the same time. Baby is lying in breech position. Hopefully she turns or I’m in for a c-section.

Another teacher at her ballet class which she had after gymnastics came to tell me that she is extremely co-ordinated and has a “talent” for dance too. Wow! Tim and I are pleased.

I’ll post some pics of her haircut tomorrow. She was with my hairdresser, Rachel who is Filipino and has nice warmth with kids. Like Rowena. Edzea liked her as Rachel hugged her right away and talked really animated and cute too her the whole time. Kept saying how beautiful her hair was and how cute she was. She brought Brownie with her. She thought his “fur” might need to be cut too!

A few weeks ago, the word of the week was “No”. It was very cute, he continually told Edzea and I “no” in a very cute drawn out way.

So to add to his words:

1. Tractor although it sounds like dacdo
2. Go
3. Down
4. Out
5. Truck (sounds like uck)
6. Garbage (says it dabage)
7. Milk
8. Cracker
9. Miaow
10. Vaccuum although it’s completely wierd it comes out as MowMow
11. Edzea (Aya)
12. Dog
13. Move
14. Computer (pew)
15. Popsicle (almost sounds right)
16. Draw (Daw)
17. Grandma ( Damma)
18. Bumpa
19. Pool
20. Bird
21. Allan (as in Uncle Allan)

I can’t recall anymore right now but he’s definitely using more and more each day to get his message across.

So our son, at 17 months (that’s two months earlier than his sister which is surprising) is potty training himself. We’ve put him on the potty every night before his bath, just like Edzea to get him used to the concept and last night, he actually peed. Then pooped. We were floored…so out came the smarties and boy was he happy! We thought it was just a fluke, random occurrence until this morning when I woke up with him.

I put the potty out in our downstairs bathroom. Edzea had to go and I told her that if she started wiping her bum on her own then she would get a treat (she’s a bit put out that Rohan is getting them). So, Rohan went over to the potty and sat down. I asked him if he had to go. He wanted to be stripped completely naked and Edzea said, “he went Mommy, I heard it”. Sure enough pee pee on the potty. He wouldn’t get off until I presented the treats. 20 minutes later, he had disappeared and was sitting on the potty again. I thought he was just playing the “I want more treats game” but I humoured him and took off his diaper and he went again. Dry diaper for the morning. I was a bit astounded. So, he seems to get it???>>> We weren’t planning on seriously trying to potty train him until we were back from Mabel Lake but I guess we’ll see how it goes over the next two weeks. Smarties are a big motivation!

Tim’s had him since the morning because I’ve been nauseous and lying down for a couple of hours so I’m not sure how it’s gone since then but so far I’m impressed! and everyone said boys were harder to train. My boy is obviously superior!!!

Oh and he also wants toilet paper so he can wipe and put it down the potty. Very funny!

This is just going to be a quick post as a reminder to myself…of “kids say the darndest things!”. So I took Edzea and Rohan to a new splash park a couple of days ago and Edzea was having lots of fun. She wanted to take her hat off so that she could completely soak her head. She did this a few times and was giggling hysterically then came out with “Oh God. Oh God!” Tim and I have told her that that is not a nice word to say…so she looks at me, contemplates, and then asks me…”but Godmother, is Godmother a bad word Mommy?” and I say “no”. There are other parents there kinda chuckling as I have this conversation with her. So she goes off and gets herself soaked again and yells out, “Oh Godmother!” I chuckled to myself but then told her it would be better to use ” Oh Gosh”. So there you go. A moment in time that I didn’t want to forget. It was so cute and funny!

She is also doing swimmingly in swimming lessons at the moment. The teacher has told me that she will be too advanced for the class I’ve signed her up for after this one but unfortunately I can’t co-ordinate the time slot of the other one so I’m not sure how to resolve it. I may end up in the water with her all month just so she doesn’t have to regress with timid kids. Oh well, I want her to keep doing well so looks like I’m getting wet all month!