Week 5 Day 4 - Monday, June 15th - Swimming and phone issues

This morning, as you can tell, the boys gave me a bit of extra time. I managed to get the blog generally updated, or at least ready to be updated, and even some photos done! They played with their new lizards from the OSC.











We headed outside to play in the hot sun for a bit; after finding our lizards (again), hats and new clothes. Aren’t the boys cute?








The boys spent the rest of the morning working on bubbles, playing with new toys and playing on the swing. Between these few we are set for a bit!























Then the boys thought that in order to get the birds closer they should make a nest.

Attempt number one:








Then we talked a bit about why birds nests are the way they are . So we tried again and got this one:









The boys really liked it and made a few more examples of it during the morning.


We also got to find a dragonfly! Very lucky!










Last light we packed up all the dishes from the party and put them in the car so today it was my job to wash them all. That took a good few hours. I fed the boys lunch and washed the dishes and set them out to dry.

I put the boys down for a nap, which surprisingly they went down quickly and then I got ready for our evening plans. Our Soccer Coach called yesterday and said no practice today so we went to Auntie Kristina and Uncle Tim’s house. I made a grocery list for the day and cleaned up the garbage and recycling and got them in the car. Once the boys got up we headed out.

We stopped at the grocery store and got the things we needed to make Chicken pot Pie for Arnold and I realized that I didn’t have any containers to put them in. It was a long day to say the least. We headed over to their house anyway. We also started to see issues with my phone…. Wouldn’t you know it! I can receive calls (not very well) but I can’t make calls. Not true, I can make them but I can’t hear the other person unless my phone is on speaker. I hate this phone sometimes.. heck all the time right now.

We got into the parking lot and Arnold pulled up so we all headed upstairs at the same time. We ordered pizza for supper and Kristina and I started cooking the meal for Arnold (and E). Once we all had supper the Daddies and kiddos went for a swim in the pool. Kristina and I finished cooking the meals and we packed it all up. It worked out rather well. After we finished up some laundry the boys and I headed out. I’m so grateful for friends like them. It’s wonderful to have a place I can go to feed Arnold (well cook him meals).

Once we got home I put the boys to bed and Arnold Raccoon-proofed the place. Then it was off to bed!

Oh yeah… and as far as the phone goes “these things have happened and I guess your phone is doing it” was the response from Rogers. ANNOINING! So they are sending me a new phone, free of charge, I hope so! If this happens again I’m getting a different brand!

Week 4 Day 6 - June 10th - Running Around

I’m just now getting around to writing out our day yesterday. It was a busy one for sure!

The morning started out ok. I made the boys bed, well started to until I realized how much food was in their sheets! So I ended up putting it outside shaking it out and letting it air out for a bit. Everyone got dressed and we played around for a bit.

Eventually (close to 11:30am) we started working on filling the van. We needed our chairs for soccer, the soccer balls, our soccer stuff, the meals for daddy, the broken phone (all the pieces for it), and a bunch of other stuff for our picnic we were having later.

By the time we were ready to go Mommy had realized she forgot the library stuff and we had to make another load for the car. Kyler was a GREAT helper!

I took my time getting to Arnold’s work since I knew he had a meeting at 11am that was scheduled to take 2 hours, if it did or not it totally random lately! On the way the boys took in a short nap. I got to the parking garage and paid for my ticket (thank goodness for coins!) and we headed up to Daddy’s office with his lunches for the next 2 weeks.
Q was NOT a happy camper at all. He wanted to be held but I couldn’t do it. It’s too hard to hold him, and a bag of meals and K’s hand so I made him walk and he was not happy, at all.
By the time we got into Arnolds office he was screaming so loud. Whoever answered the door didn’t know us and was giving me funny looks but I walked right in and Arnold came around the corner after hearing Q screaming and took the boys to the ‘Men’s room!” This was *very* exciting for a 4 year old, and calmed the 2 year old right down!
I packed his freezer at work full of meals and then we headed out for lunch. We went to Boston Pizza and I asked Arnold to call the Rogers line and complain again and see if he could talk to some people about getting us 2 phones.

So while I watched the boys and waited for our lunch Arnold made the call and got someone really good. She ended up getting us the 2 phones we wanted for 50.00 (each phone at their ‘discounted’ price was about 80 and 299). I was so happy he called because I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have been able to get that deal without the phone call. There were 2 options then. Get both phones shipped ASAP or get my phone and pay 5.00 and get Arnold’s phone shipped as soon as the first phone was bought. Since I needed a phone asap we picked that option.
After lunch we went back to the car and drove to the Rogers Plus Store and picked up my new phone. Then we dropped daddy back off at work and headed on our way. By then it was about 2:30 or so. I took my time going to our next stop (the library). We got there and went inside. I had a few things on hold already which was nice, so we got those, and the boys each got their own books for this week. The Librarian who was there asked if we are always coming on Wednesdays. I told her yep! It’s Soccer day and we will come those days to get new books. She seemed excited to have ‘regulars’ during the summer. Once we were done there I wanted to show the boys the new splash park. We checked it out and tried the buttons but it didn’t work. Then this nice girl came up and showed us that they had to be held in to make them go off. Kyler was ALL over that one. Here are a few shots I got with my new camera phone:




After playing in there for about 1 hour or so we headed back to the car. Since I wasn’t 100% sure how our day would go I didn’t pack towels. I did pack an extra change of clothes for Quinton (K had his soccer outfit) but they were pants and it was still quite hot out! I managed to get them into something to last and then we went to the grocery store. We picked up some stuff for our picnic and headed off to the park.

We met up with Kristina, Tim and E at the park. Lori was running a bit late so we didn’t get to hang out with her there. Kyler fell just before everyone got there and hurt his knee! The poor guy, I swear he has the worst of luck. Anyway we had a great picnic with cheese, meat, sub toppings, chips, and a bunch of other stuff. It was really good. I think that is going to be our Wednesday meals since I can get the sub buns fresh before practice!

Then we quickly headed over to the Soccer game (I forgot it started at 6:20pm instead of 6:30pm). They played a GREAT game. We got a new player, Owen, and he is KILLER! I’m so proud of him! He scored all 7 of our goals! Mind you we still lost 9 to 7 but that is MUCH better than the 5 to 0 last week. Hopefully we do better next week. I ended up helping Arnold in his new role for a bit so I didn’t get any photos of Owen playing but here’s some from last night




*Q sharing a ball with a girl on the other team




*Arnold in his new role as Assistant Coach for the games at least. He has to keep track of who was on the field and who needs a turn as well as who got all the goals for the other team




*Run Run Run!




*I kicked the ball! Anytime this little boy kicks the ball he is ALL over it like that and forgets he has to kick again!




*Logan and his love Ella


Now I know I have no photos of Kyler and that’s because I really don’t have too many from last night. Kyler was in Goal last night and he LOVED it but he needed that extra encouragement to not sit in the net, or pull on the netting, or trip or anything so I spent most of my time there shooting photos outwards instead of in front of me.

When the game was over we headed home and did a quick clean up. The boys watched one of their new movies (a new George movie that is episodes from TV and we watched 2) and we did our bathroom run and hung out for a bit. Then it was bedtime.

Week 4 Day 5 - June 9th - Phone funk.

Finally, after about 1 hour and 15 minutes of goofing around the boys fell asleep. It was so nice! And then I got the ‘text’.

Arnold was leaving early to get home early so I could go and make the meals for him. Instead I ended up packing up the boys and heading out to pick him up. His tire blew up; well he got a flat first, then the second tube he put in had a bulge in it and it got a flat as well and at that time we thought it had also tore his actual tire. So we picked him up, headed out to the highway and went to the nearest bike shop in Pickering.

We got Arnold a new tube and headed home. That’s when I realized that Q had been chewing on my phone. No joke!

The boys got in the house and unpacked their stuff from the van and I headed over to Kristina’s house. I got there at about 6:30 and started making meals. Kristina had already put in the lasagna (thanks again) and that was perfect. Once we had supper (sooo good, soup and garlic cheese bread!) we started working on the meals for Arnold. It worked out well. She got ideas and I got some meals made. We ended up with 13 meals (which is perfect since I had already sent him with some and he had a few at work still). Next week I’m going to make chicken pot pie and make him some more meals as well.

Anyway Tim, Kristina’s husband, checked out my phone and found drool EVERYWHERE on the phone, including under the SIM card. So we are sure the phone is screwed. In fact it doesn’t turn on, and if it does it vibrates at you for a LONG time. I’m so upset!

I got home around 10:30 after getting 2 loads of laundry done, making 13 meals, and working on an amazing card for my Grandma-In-Law. It was a productive day!

The boys got to have the meal I made up and by the time I got a hold of Arnold he had already eaten some BUT here’s a photo of supper.

Ground beef, scalloped potatoes and diced tomatoes. Really good I guess!



Hope you all have a great night! Tomorrow we are super busy with meeting Arnold to get new phones, lunch, library, soccer, dinner with friends, and a bunch of other stuff.