New Years Resolution....to post more on my blog, and make it cool.

Yes you heard that right.... I want my blog to be 'cool'. I'm going to find the time to post...I swear I am, I'm not THAT busy.... you know, maintaining a household, raising two kids, running an in-home daycare [with 5 attending kids under the age of 4] moderating an online forum, starting up a business and creating merchandise for said business, possibly running ANOTHER website [and being paid for it...score!] , caring for the dog and the cat, and well...being the hottest mum ever ;) oh right....all the while being an amazing wife to my overworked husband.

phew....ok,...maybe I'm just crazy, but I swear I'm going to post more.

the neverending saga....

Laundry, I swear it's my demise. I'm only doing laundry for two adults, one toddler and one pint sized baby...and yet, it seems I am ALWAYS doing laundry. If I'm not washing, I'm pre-treating, or sorting, or folding, or loading/unloading, picking up, reclaiming....etc,etc. The other day I was so proud of myself, I did 4 loads of laundry in a row- completely done [and sadly, I still had laundry left to do...and that was only a week's worth of laundry] I sat down to fold , had four baskets of clean, fluffy laundry sitting infront of me and I started to fold. Just as fast as I folded, my 2.5yr old unfolded...and wielded...and hid...and stuffed...clean laundry, all over the house. That little bugger is FAST. I found a pair of jeans and a shirt stuffed inside a Little People's playset, my good shirt was hiding under the dog's bed, and he was taking off with one of my daughter's sleepers. Why? Why do little children feel the need to do this? How is hiding clean clothes ....a fun thing to do? Maybe I should try it one day and see what sort of satisfaction it brings? He may be onto something. Out of sight, out of mind as they say.

Answers to 2yr old to English pt 2.

1. elephants

2. birds

3. frogs

4. alligator

5. worms [in his dessert no doubt]

6. rain


I'm sure you all guessed correctly...right?

English to 2yr old part 2

ok- ready?

try to guess what it is we saw today : * will post answers tomorrow.

*back of hand on tip of nose-slide up tip of nose while making a little hum sound*
" Gack Gack"
"RAWR!"
"hop hop!"
"eeeeeeewlll "
"reeeeeeeeen!"


Think- Rainforest Cafe.

Where do some people come from??? seriously!

Ok so I decided to take the kids shopping today, at one of the biggest shopping malls in the Greater Toronto Area (or so I think it is??) - Yorkdale. I figured, it's a Friday...middle of the day, after the holidays- everyone will be back to work , right? HA. It was a ZOO!!! We went to the Rainforest Cafe for lunch....and after an hour after ordering our food, it finally made it to the table.

So we decided to walk around (ok yes...I decided, and my children were pushed along in the stroller) a bit, in the over-crowded ridiculousness. Mason fell asleep in the stroller somewhere between Parasuco and Coach- haha which reminds me, Coach was having a 50%off sale today..it was PACKED, lined up out the door- for the cashier - normal person with a double stroller who doesn't need anything new would just keep on walking...I HAD to go see what they had . Anyway- he fell asleep riding shotgun in the Graco Duo Glider, not able to recline since the carseat was behind him. The poor kid was flip flopping from either side with his entire upper body. Finally in Indigo, I was waiting for my sister to finish up and it really looked like the stroller might tip over from Mason's weight -had it not been a duo glider with another passenger and bags etc. A woman actually came up to us, took Mason's head and attempted to re-position him. WHAT?! I looked at her - my germaphobia kicking into high gear and said " Please, don't touch." and she looks at me, continuing to touch my son's FACE [you have no idea how...*shudder* uuuuughhhhh -yuck.] and I looked at her, spoke louder and said " NO. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH. THANK YOU" and she then walked away. A man standing sort of beside us, who just delivered the horrible news of a 15min lineup at Starbucks, moments earlier- looked at me and said " are you kidding me? I can't believe some people" So I'm really glad that I wasn't the only one who thought it was completely wrong, inappropriate and rude that a strange woman just came up and started handling my son's face. Yes ok his neck looked a tad uncomfortable- he's 2...he's like Gumby.

English to 2yr old

"ama, yeah, *big grin* *batting eyelashes*peeeease, jeeeeou, jeeeeou [juice?] yeah. Mama, you, mama, wooooow, oh wow! daddy, wow."


ok- this is what just happened. Mason said " I want some juice, please? yes mama, I want some juice" and then he found the roll of xmas paper and said " look mama, for me? woooow, daddy bought paper for me? "

are you following? I will post more conversations with my two year old, because I find them really quite fascinating.

the confused mind of a 2yr old..

Ok, so we're really working on my son's vocabulary, he's got quite an extensive one, and is learning how to use his manners properly - which I am very proud of. He was having a really hard time with "thank you" so last night I taught him the sign for thank you, and he's been using it properly every since- it's incredible how brilliant a young mind actually is. He is confused however, about the use of "me" vs. "you", and why shouldn't he be? We tell him to say " for me" -or whatever it is he's talking about , in regards to himself ,and we respond with " yes, it's for you". So now, he calls himself "you" and it's so incredibly adorable, but talk about confusing to the little guy!! So when he wants something he'll say " you! you! pleeeeease" while pointing to his chest.

He's now looking up at me, face full of snot, reaching for the xmas paper my husband just bought (talk about cheap!!) going " you, yep, you, me, you, pleeeease?" that means, Can I have this please? ok, I'm going to take it, ok?

I should write a dictionary , of English to 2yr old.