So, Edzea woke up the other day and said that she had a dream…that her plants had grown! that was it she said but she was pretty excited about dreaming this.

Also, Rohan was listening to a conversation that Edzea and I were having about my Aunt Claire dying and me going to her funeral. After a while, he piped up, “What does that mean Mommy? What you talking about?” Wow, I was floored. He always surprises me. He also seems to have Edzea’s memory. He was staring up at a bathtowel hook that I got him from IKEA about 8 months ago. He says, “that not the one I wanted Mommy, I wanted the bunny one.” Whoah! I picked the crocodile one up for him after he picked the pink bunny one because…well, it was a boy one and fitted in with the theme of his room better…I had no idea that he really cared or that he would remember 8 months later!!!

I dropped Rohan and Neve (for the first time) off at child minding today at the recCentre while Edzea was at preschool and I had some time to do a fitness class. It was a test to see if I could do it in the future-like tomorrow when I want to take the kids to the pool for preschool swim but don’t want to worry about Neve. She was fine, of course. Not like when I got pulled out again and again and again in Yellowknife with Edzea screaming her head off until I arrived. Neve is casual and is happy when people give her attention. Poor third child!

Neve ALMOST slept through the night last night. I put her down at 7pm. I woke her up at 2:30 am because I needed her to feed! Rohan woke her up at 6am, she fed and went back to sleep with Tim until about 7:30 while I got the kids organized for the day…can you say…DREAM baby!!!

Tim finished building our cubbies this morning YAY! Now we just have some sanding, finishing and then painting to do but I’m soooo happy! Yay! They are done!

Now we just have to wait for the rain to abate so we can finish fixing our grub-infested lawn and continue with our gardening.

2 month immunization: 11 weeks old

Weight: 12 lbs 3 ozs-75%

Height: 22.5 inches 37%

Head circumference: 90%

Amanda and I headed out with the kids to the splash park this morning. My friend from swimming, Fiona, and her three kids met us there later. Fun was had by all! Edzèa and Haydon discovered the climbing apparatus. It was a bit stressful for me to watch/spot but they were ok. Neve slept or hung out on the blanket for the morning.

Also, I did a nice hack job ie. haircut on Rohan’s hair this morning. I am not a very good hairdresser…that takes talent!

Today we spent the afternoon (after preschool and naps) in the garden/outside. You can see for yourself…Edzèa is a true gardener. She wanted to check on her plants this morning before she left for preschool to see how they were doing and again at lunch when we arrived home. She reminded me that I had promised to buy some blueberry plants when we went to Home Depot next (which happened to be in the morning while Tim returned the rototiller rental). And yesterday she reminded me that we needed sunflower seeds as well. These are pics of gardening in the heat, Neve was in the stroller initially and then later on her playmat inside while the kids went through the sprinkler. Rohan’s favourite thing to do is “water” everything!

I miss my parents!!! They know exactly what to do in a garden. Tim and I are bumbling along trying to do our best. I probably called Dad ten times this weekend with questions. Each time I’ve had a property to garden truly…Dad has been there with me. Mom has helped me with plants/zones and design. Dad has been there for the hard grunt work with me!

Oh well, Tim and I tried to work amidst three children this weekend on the garden. That’s all we did. Well, Rohan went to swimming lessons today and they both had gymnastics yesterday but other than that, it was a gardening weekend. Plus poor Tim was on pager duty so we didn’t get as much done as we would have liked.

We ended up at Home Depot yesterday afternoon because we didn’t really have any gardening tools. Not much use for them in Yellowknife! I have to say, I’m a bit of a menace with the shears. I just went crazy with them. I don’t really know how to prune to make it look pretty so one of our poor lilac bushes had a bit of a hack job done to it.

So, Tim began the weekend with the job of trying to rototill our grub-infested lawn. It didn’t actually happen until this evening due to a rototiller malfunction. So, hopefully, we’ll seed it tomorrow and have some grass growing soon! I’ve added before/after photos.

I spent my time on our back deck area today. Front entrance yesterday although I’m not finished with that. I have way more weeding to do. I was trying to work in the shade today so decided to complete the back before moving to the front later this week.

Before

After

Edzea was actually a good helper. She wants to plant plant plant!! We picked up a couple of strawberry plants for our barrel for the kids.

Our side veggie plot is going to be filled with fun things for the kids to watch grow. All we have in there at present is a raspberry plant. We will pick up some other things this week to put in daily. They picked up seeds for sunflowers while they were renting the rototiller. Edzea found a little brown tree frog in the plot and was very excited.

She doesn’t want to wear the little gloves that I got her because she says she loves the feel of the dirt in her hands. Rohan just wants to get his hands on the rototiller, tractor…anything with a motor. And he likes to water!

Neve was co-operative as usual. She lay in her playpen and cooed or slept most of the time while we were gardening. Thank goodness she’s so easy!!

So poor Tim just came in from finishing with the rototiller and he says his back is really sore! Off to massage him!

Neve smiling at herself in the mirror above her playmat. She giggles in the bath now when you wash under her chin on her neck so she’s ticklish there.

Spent the day outside. These are the only pics I have of Rohan and Neve and I at the splash park/playground while Edzea was at school. Rohan had an appropriate shirt on-King of Swings. He LOVES the tire swing and just kept repeating over and over again “I dizzy, I dizzy, I dizzy…giggle giggle”.

Fast post. Went out for dinner all three nights this weekend. Birthday party tonight with swimming friends of mine -their little boy, Kian, turned 3. Edzea loves his older sister but was virtually ignored by her the whole time we were there this time as the girl, Gemma, had older friends to play with. Poor Edzea she really wanted to play with Gemma but Gemma was really ignoring her. It was the first time Tim and I ever saw that and Edzea was too reserved to jump in and play with all of the kids. Rohan was in there like a dirty shirt no problem. Anyhow, will write more later. Going to bed as Tim is going away for 3 days tomorrow and I need to get some sleep while I can!

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This morning the kids and Daddy made me waffles and gave me a lovely card, an orchid and a jewellery set. In the afternoon, Edzèa and I participated in a mother/daughter art class. Neve slept peacefully in her stroller while Edzèa and I did portraits of each other. It was called “Queen for a Day”. It was with her regular art teacher and it was fun to work on seperate canvas together. It was Edzèa’s first official portrait painting. She had her own ideas about the way she was going to do eyes, nose, mouth so in the end, she went free even after she learned “the correct” way. If you look closely you can see my little purple crown on top of my head! It does bear some resemblance to me! It was fun and nice not to be the one coming up with the art idea and cleaning up the mess.

Edzèa's first portrait painting

Then tonight, Tim, put all three kids to bed so I could go out for dinner with Amanda. We had a delicious kid-free dinner at a little restaurant in Stittsville called Louisiannie’s. Delicious salmon and cajun food.

Neve slept 6 hours straight in her basinette last night at 2 months old. She is fine going down awake with her soother in! Yay!

I wonder how Mom’s Mother’s day is going with Bruce tonight? This was our first Mother’s Day apart in 4 years. Boo hoo.

Here are some random pics from this month of the kids:

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When Edzèa and I were sick together on Wednesday with Neve and Rohan went to daycare…Edzèa asked me what “fun things” we would be doing that day. Hmmm in between vomiting episodes …let me see…so we did a mini-lesson on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers. She’d been given a HUGE bag of art supplies for her birthday from one of her preschool friends, Abbott so we pulled out the canvas and this was her creation. Someone has already offered us 2 million. It is her Godmother, Helene, but it still counts

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