Apparently Patience is Also a Person

Right now she is sleeping on the floor beside me. Ha! We are getting better at this baby thing. I would have blogged earlier (we were good at the end of last week) but we (Xavier) got grounded from the computer and that means everyone was grounded.
These pictures show that I am a great mom. Take note of the date. Theses were taken Feb 20 around 8:30 in the morning. It was wacky day at daycare and the boys wanted crazy hair. Xavier specially requested a green mow-hawk with black spikes on the sides. It looked really good and wacky. Niles wanted black hair. I think he does goth well.


Niles wanted black hair. I think he does goth well.










Pictures for all of you who have been waiting.

Patience with her dad. ( I am busy at the moment).










This is Melissa with Patience. She missed the big event this time. She went to a bank meeting 20 min before things happened. Thanks for getting the boys.










I did, on the other hand, get Nancy to call into work and say that she would be late because around 4:30 she said that she had accepted a 6:00 shift at the library before I called her in the morning. That is why Melissa missed it. I just can't please everyone.


That is four pictures. I am going to get more on my web album. Keep checking. I may have time tonight but I am pushing things. (This already took me all day to write. Babies and children take some time some days).

Patience's first week

Look what I figured out .

Other news. The boys are in love with Patience and she doesn't mind them. Rob is keeping busy at home and in his spare time he has found time to put in a new toilet, kitchen sink and tap and start the fix on the stairwell as well as fix the sliders on a dresser. Now he did this the week that the boys were still in daycare so nothing much has happened since Niles is home all the time.

Niles has made home his pretend daycare. We even have rooms. Upstairs is puzzle, downstairs is block and outside is muscle. We have a routine. He entertains himself mostly. He and Rob built a very sturdy cardboard doghouse the first day he was home and he plays in that for a large part of the day. He goes downstairs and turns on Go Fish (thanks Melissa, only a little sarcasm) and plays all by himself. Then he comes up and gets a game out of the cupboard and plays that. So far it is working out.

Xavier loves taking his lunch to school. At least the novelty has not worn out yet. The bus is also a treat still so the lack of daycare is not a huge deal at this time. It is only March though.

We have been busy. Look at other blogs that I link to to see the pictures of our small group and swimming day with Niles and the baby bunch. It was a good time. Five babies and a four year old. Thank you Jackie for being an extra set of hands.

And for everyone who is interested. . . I picked Patience for a name. (I didn't really give Rob a choice. Really I said I already had a girl name and I wasn't going to negotiate). Patience to remind me that God gives you what you pray for but asking for something doesn't mean that getting it will be easy. Patience so I can remember that every time I ask for patience I have something placed in my life so I will develop greater patience. I am not the most patience of people (as you know) and I have prayed for patience several times. God is good. He gave me many opportunities to develop more patience. You know them Rob, Xavier, Niles and now Patience. I am more patient than I was. Hey, it only took me three and a half years to forget that I have as much opportunity to develop patience as I need. Four times is enough. Hence Patience.

Patience is a virtue

Bored. Bored. Bored. Bored. This is soooooooooooooo boring. Waiting is boring. Being at home is boring. Did I mention that I am bored. Hmm. I think that when you are just waiting for an event to occur and nothing is happening the world is a boring place. That and I just don't feel like doing much of anything lately. So we play the waiting game. But thanks to the general knowhow of Roy, Richard and Rob I have the ability to go on my computer. I can't find my pictures but that might be asking too much. Look internet. Ohhhhh pretty.
Robin; Xavier is expecting you to come home and take care of him when the baby comes so get going. You have a lot to plan and not a lot of time apparently. He will get over it if you are later because you already missed his birthday (he is being magnanimous and letting you send his present later. He also accepts cash, visa, MC, cheques). On the interesting side Xavier is teaching himself to read. He recognizes many words now. I just can't figure out which ones. He is a fairly good faker.
Niles is still trucking. He is practicing sensitive this month which means he cries a lot and blames everything on his brother. It might even be working for him. At least he is honest. We were out for lunch with G&G Mary/Orr and I was telling Grandma that Niles is practicing how to be an annoying little brother. He copies what Xavier says and it just kills Xavier. He gets so angry so Xavier yells at his brother and then he gets in trouble for yelling and hitting. I tell Xavier to ignore Niles because he is doing it to bother him but he says "but Mom he keeps copying me and it makes me angry!" and I keep telling him that that is why Niles copies him. Grandma Mary says "Oh Niles wouldn't do that " and Niles who was sitting very quietly to that point pipes up "Oh yes Grandma. I copy Xavier everyday and it makes him very angry". The younger sibling strikes.
In case you didn't get it from the beginning of this post NO BABY YET! You will all know when it happens.

I have a brain in my bonehead

Ha! Niles is funny. You have bone in your head it is called a skull.
I already wrote this and the my computer turned off and it hadn't saved yet so I have the first sentence. Oh well.

Happy Birthday Robin! We were all sick on you actual birthday and then I couldn't connect to the server (stupid technology) so you are getting this six days after your actual birthday. I told you I had a belated birthday card for you and I guess you also get belated birthday wishes too.

Don't forget to watch the Riders' home playoff game this Sunday (Canada) at 4pm (central standard time) on TSN.com. Watch us win.

Nice pictures. They are from Joyce and Tony's wedding. Look Niles is even touching Tony's car. Pretty good.

I have returned

This is a picture from two Christmases (is that a word) ago. See how well Joyce tumbles down the hill. I think that we should do that again this Christmas. All in favour?.... (please send in your votes).
This is a quick blog update seeing as it is now Oct. and I haven't done anything since April. I am rather derelict in my duties. I will strive to be more conscientious.
All right we moved into our new house and are enjoying the additional space although it seems that we are having fewer people over. That could be because I have a job. Yes it is harder to have people over all the time when you are working. I am a licensed and registered nurse. It is true. My education came in handy for something. Look at me go.
Xavier is in grade 1 and is still enjoying learning. He informs me that he is the only one in his class that can't read and although his class is mostly made up of overachieving little girls I doubt that it is true. He is learning. Last night he asked Rob if he was fatigue. Ha. Extraneous french usage in the home. Something must be working.
Niles has started swimming lessons. You know the kind where they jump in the water and just get comfortable. He is the class star. I am the only mother who does not have to cajole my child to get into the pool nor do I have to follow him around. He also listens and does as he is told. (I don't know what has happened to my child but if you find him send him back my way).
Rob is keeping busy with everything that comes with working and moving into a new house and everyone else moving into a new house. We have a new furnace. It is sitting the the bathroom in the basement. Yes we do have a furnace...Anyway there isn't any snow yet and the world is good.
We are getting ready for our new addition to our family. The boys want a girl. Xavier says that it would be bad if it was a boy. Huh.?! What to do, what to do. We tell him that the baby has already decided and we can't change it now. Back to getting ready. Really that means we have a room. Actually we are using that space right now as a guest room but... we can move things around.
That's it for the blog today.

Xavier is gettting very big.

This is the exciting thing that has happened at our house. Xavier is getting very big.

Look at him going. Shelley and Rob taped it for me on Sunday because I was asleep. Apparently I only work weekends and always Sunday.
This is for all my blog stalkers who have been waiting for me to update. Niles went to the dentist today and behaved very well. He opened his mouth and everything. There was 0 screaming and very little mouth covering. Monica handled it very well. I thought that it would be a disaster because when I picked Niles up at daycare he said"I DON'T WANT TO GO TO THE DENTIST!!!" and then covered his mouth. Then after I got him calmed down by explaining that we were going to see Monica the dentist I gave him his medicine. Chlorohexadrate tastes nasty and he spit half out on me and started crying again. I was also using Xavier as my premedication guideline so he wasn't very dopy when we got there. But he did well and half the work is finished. Hopefully this will be better everytime we get to go.
House update; We bought a house! Everything worked perfectly. As you can look back and notice we were looking at building in Stonebridge but the financing was not working out. It was really strange. In the beginning everything was going smoothly and then suddenly the momentum stopped dead but was coming back. We also told out agent to stop looking because we were frustrated and were going to go with the build. Then she called us up and said that she found a bungalow in our area, in our price range and they weren't taking bids. Out of curiousity we said we would look. This is where everything started to fall into place. Blessings falling on our heads, as you can say. I didn't have to work during the day so we got a 3:00 viewing, Rob worked really hard that day and was finished early so he was able to see the house while I was still there (we both thought it was great. Has a finished basement and lots of room to have people over), our agent had some time to come over and draw up the papers right after we saw the house and as we were walking in the door our mortage guy phoned. Talk about Godincidence. We had the papers signed and confirmed by 6:00 before I had to leave for work. So we move in on July 31. Robin will be here during that time so she will get to say farewell to this house and hello to the new one. If anyone is looking for something to do on the long weekend in Aug (kidding, we are thinking middle of Aug move in date) you can come help.