So this morning Lucy needed a bath
because.....
...... she got into my makeup and destroyed my nice lipstick. That's right, I had nice lipstick. Actually it was some lipstick that mom didn't wear anymore so she gave it to me, but still, I loved it! She was so very proud of herself. When I put her in the bath, it was amazing to see all the places that she had managed to smear lipstick. Lucy gets into stuff, everything in fact. A couple of days ago, i found pink toothpaste smeared all over our bedroom wall. She came in as i was cleaning it off and pointed and giggled hysterically, thrilled that I had found her masterpiece. I explained in my best stern mother voice "no, we don't do that," only to have her come in two minutes later with the same toothpaste ready to paint again in the same spot. I think I really got through to her. We love our little lulubelle.
The first part of November is seriously a blur because we were all sick. I honestly don't remember much at all except for constantly giving the kids motrin, cleaning up Lucy's vomit and sleeping and when I wasn't sleeping, I was thinking about sleeping. I'm pretty sure that we had the H1N1. And we survived, who knew. On remembrance day, we were all feeling better so we attempted to have a normal day and took the kids out to Margaret Falls. It's a gorgeous little 1 km hike to a very pretty waterfall. It actually reminded me of being on Vancouver Island. It felt so nice to get out with the kids and enjoy some fresh air after being couped up in the house for so long.
The other night we had a French Bingo night at the school where Jared was the Bingo caller. As I'm sure you can all imagine, he did a fantastic job. However it was quite the night for me. Imagine me at a table playing three cards at one time (well, two I guess, but helping Jordan with hers as well) and trying to keep track of our active little Lucy. Nathan finally went to the front to help jared call numbers and I took Lucy out to the hall. I left jordan with some friends. Well, one of the friends ended up winning and was so nice to our little kids, she gave Jordan an eraser from her gift basket and came out to the hall and game me two erasers, one for Lucy and one for Nathan. Well, at the end of the night, nate was pretty disappointed that he didn't win the monster trucks and didn't want to leave. I told him when we got to the car he could have his eraser that Makenna had given him. To my surprise he perked right up and practically ran to the car. When I gave him his little green happy face eraser, he just stared at it and said "This can't go anywhere, it's not fast, it doesn't have wheels." Oh no! "Oh Nate, sorry bud, this is an eraser, not a racer!" Needless to say, we had one grumpy boy on the way home. It must be tough being a three year old.
This is the kids after their primary presentation at church back in October. The great thing about having a small primary (group of young kids) is that all the kids have huge parts during the presentation. Even Nathan, our three year old sunbeam had three speaking parts! How awesome is that! Jordan and Nathan both said their parts really well, but what I was most impressed with was how well they knew all the songs and they just sang their little hearts out.
Last month Jordan had her first piano recital at St. Andrews church. She played Jack be Nimble and played all two lines like a total pro. I have to admit, my heart was beating so fast as we entered the church from feeling a little anxiety for Jordan but mostly from remembering past recitals of my own. She had her second recital on Friday and played Good King Wenseslas. Mom, dad and Britt were gracious enough to come from Vernon to see our little rockstar. So we have definitely entered a new era in our lives.
We were so happy to have Grandma Lee Audrey with us.
We were so proud of our beautiful Jorji!
Last month Jordan had her first piano recital at St. Andrews church. She played Jack be Nimble and played all two lines like a total pro. I have to admit, my heart was beating so fast as we entered the church from feeling a little anxiety for Jordan but mostly from remembering past recitals of my own. She had her second recital on Friday and played Good King Wenseslas. Mom, dad and Britt were gracious enough to come from Vernon to see our little rockstar. So we have definitely entered a new era in our lives.
We were so happy to have Grandma Lee Audrey with us.
P.S. We were going to take family pictures tonight for our Christmas card, but last night Jordan and nathan were wresting on the bed and Nathan fell off and hit his eye on the CD player and now has a little black eye. Also Jordan woke up this morning with an orange/red swollen face from an allergic reaction she had to some product used at a birthday party yesterday (from a facial). Now that I think of it, maybe we should have taken them anyway, they would have been hilarious.
