2011 is almost gone!

What a LONNNGGG year (lol.)


Had a great Christmas! Going to have a great new year!

One of my resolutions is going to be to BLOG MORE!

Kiddos Pt 2: Donavan

What can I say about Donavan??? He is a skinny little 4 year old bundle of energy.  He looks like Kev when he was little.
He goes to preschool this year and will be in big kid school next year. He is easily excitable very lovable.

(Donavan and my Brother, his Uncle Boo)

Kiddos (For Julie). Pt 1: Samara

Samara is my oldest at 8 years old. I got pregnant with her when I was 17 and in 12th grade. I was rebelling a bit and my boyfriend at the time was quite a bit older... (Try 10 years). He was absolutely against the idea of a baby (We had only known each other about 3 months) and tried very very very hard to convince/ bully me into getting an abortion. Though VERY pro-choice, personally I couldnt see myself going down that route (And I am a believer in learning from "experiences"). Needless to say we ended quite abruptly.
She was a colicky baby who had a lot of problems with latching breastfeeding. She had a click in her hip that the doctors in Moncton said she would probably need surgery for. (Sometimes baby's hips arnt aligned right and need a LITTLE help. According to the IWK children's hospital posters it happens most often in first children and most often girls, FYI). Lucky for her our family doctor at home was a Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon in Poland. He said put a diaper on normal and a second diaper on backwards and in 6 weeks the click would be gone... It was. Yay.
Kevin and I got together when she was about 18 months. He stepped into her life in a father roll extremely well and she called him Kebby until Donavan was born when she decided to call him Dad so Donavan wouldnt be confused, very smart girl! The donor was not in the picture. First he had fought me on paternity. I had Samara's swab done and then weeks later he finally got his done. Once that came back he tried for joint custody. In the end I had a legal aid free lawyer and he had a higher one he paid. I won full custody when he didnt want to pay to fight anymore. Go me.
When she was about 3 I was concerned about her let's say, anxiety (I wasnt sure what it was). She didnt play well or ever with kids her own age and I was afraid she wouldnt make friends in school or would be outcast for being odd so I called Early Intervention in. They watched her and interacted with her at home and in Pre-school and in the end said that she was fine. The reason she didnt seem like a 3 year old to me is because her understanding and interactions were more on level with a 7-9 or 9-11year old level. She was (and is) very smart.
She is usually an extremely well behaved child. Occasionally she is very stubborn. She plays best with boys (not well with groups of girls). She LOVES Pokemon! This summer is the first time she has ever had any kind of medical concern. She started the summer with a hospitalization for a bad Kidney infection then not even a month later shattered her elbow and had surgery to pin it back together. Tuesday we go again to meet with her surgeon to see if the pins will stay in or come out.

Day Before Rememberance Day

HOLY GOD I'M FULL!

Today was an okay day made better by a trip to the Bird Sanctuary. (Remember our hung over walk to the sanc and back Deb?) I love the bird sanctuary. It is actually my favourite part of living in this area. I took Donavan, Rory and the 2 puppies. Rory was in his sling. Donavan fell down 2 hills and then tripped over some roots. SO FRICKING FUNNY. (Yes, I am one of THOSE people who laughs at injury). The first hill was EXTREMELY steep... first he was walking, then running, then hopping and jumping over roots then once he finally hit the bottom he went rolling. Then he laid there crocodile-tearsing about how he twisted his leg. (He was fffiiiiinnnneeee lol). The path gets narrow higher up and there are no guardrails to the pretty straight drops down so I kept picturing the baby coming out of the sling and falling to his death. It was nerve wracking.

 My spellcheck stopped underlinging things so I cant be bothered to fix anything so excuse my improper tenses and extra e's....

And since Julie was a good sport a few things I have done that were embarrassing:

• Everything... I do a lot of random things that I later ( or immediately) groan about!

Been a Long Time

Highlights and lowlights include:

My dog Rocky got hit by a car and died :(

Replaced him with 2 puppies, Prudence and Finnegan.

Halloween was awesome :)

Things To Do, People To See

So:

• Visited Henri today at the hospital. She's in good spirits. Always wonderful chatting with her!
• Moncton yesterday, got the coolest cds for my car. Ace of Base: the sign and Bewitched's album for nostalgic reasons!
• Also got a giant Toblerone bar. OH YES
• Rory is sicky with a cold so my big trip was cancelled for this weekend. Poo.
• Samara's birthday party went AWESOME! Lots of different kids came, she got RICH. It was an awesome day!
• Next week is halloween party time at Maggies. Yay.
• I need to make a fb page for Rory's b-day!

The Post Where I Say Mean Things About Kevin

• He's paranoid that I am writing bad things about him.
• He's going to start stalking this blog
• I can't take him seriously
• He's reading over my shoulder
• He says Its wierd that I'm writing about him
• He's annoying

Good Things:

• He has a nice bum

BAHAHAHAH 1 goodthing anyway

I'm going back to my bedroom to read. Goodnight