June 29

Impromptu water park adventure.
Daddy is late night renoing.
Mommy is killing time until bedtime!

Phooey flowers

What says love?
Flowers?
Or a dishwasher.

I attached a picture.
We had purchased dishwasher (a) it's on the left. I had told Brent that I liked it just 'fine' it was a cheap one. Or should I say cheaper. What I really wanted was the more 'built in' kind!

Well my lovee dovee husband of the year obviously listened because today he texted me a picture of our new dishwasher for our home. Picture (b) on the right. SWOON! Seriously! Flowers...phooey. Today the love is felt MAJORLY by the dishwasher. Seven years later, no one knows me better. Feels so good to be married to your best friend.

(I really wanted this kind so mr.B and miss A would stop changing the settings and touching the buttons on me! Ok ok ok, and because it's WAY more awesome!)

Oh Dear

So, after I went under the bed...
I got stuck
Yup got stuck
Had to text Brent for help
I'm that girl
Pretty quirky
Hi, my name is Sheena and I got stuck under my bed and my husband had to come save me.

At least I have a night in shinning armor-xoxox

12 again?

Today Brent sent me to our room for a kid free break. This happens pretty regularly. I thought to myself I should hide under the bed and see how long it takes for him to figure it out. I'm pretty sure he would be stumped for a long while wondering were I went...

Why would he be stumped? Because what 25 year old mom hides under the bed? I would be stumped to if Brent hi under the bed.

This got me thinking. I wonder if I can fit under the bed...

It's been one of those days.
If you are looking for me I may actually be under the bed ha ha.

8:30am

Praise the Lord
I am home
My babies are sleeping normal!
When we were camping Audrey was falling asleep around 10pm and up at 5:30/6 because Beckham would wake up with the sun and just chat chat chat SO loud!

Last night it was 6:30 bedtimes for EVERYONE and I'm proud to say that they are still asleep and it's 8:30am! No complaints here! I'm basking in bed with a bowl of cereal praising the lord for a great great start to the week.

Sometimes I feel like a teenager still, like I desperately need 10+ hours of sleep every night. When my insomnia hits hard I feel so sad. Give me one night of good sleep and I'm recharged!!!

The pic below is my pouting in bed because I'm cleaning out sheets but I desperately want to go to bed!!!

Osooyos

So nice seeing the cousins and Aunts and Uncles! So sad missing some of the missing family!

4 hour drive with our troop
Thumbs down
Spending quality time with our cousins and aunts and uncles
Thumbs up

Not sure if I'm meant for long drives with our kids yet. I'm just not very hardcore with our car hating group.

We got some pretty lousy weather. It was pretty hilarious watching Audrey and Brent swim in the rain and cold! Can't keep her out of the water! Brent is such a great daddy!

I didn't sleep last night...maybe 45 mins after 5am(forgot my sleeping pills at home...shoot), Brent manhandled the babies so I could take a nap. He is incredible. I have to admit during this season were we are feeling 'solo' makes me tear up sometimes when I am reminded how incredibly blessed I am. My hubby is so hard working and such a great daddy. He honestly pours his heart into our kids and I find it the most incredible thing ever. If I didn't have him I would be lost...and if we didnt have our new babysitter!

Keys to my sanity
Great hubby/baby daddy <3
Great babysitter

Tonight is the last night.
I'm sitting here huddled up in bed with Internet yup...that's camping! And Audrey to my left and Beckham 6 feet from my feet and of course my handsome hubby beside me!

PS
Audrey slept in the top bunk of this 'cabana' it was crazy! She is a monkey and she insisted that is where she wanted to sleep! I'll prob have to do a whole blog post on the sleeping fiasco with the babies.

Happy 9 months

Beckham is crawling like mad
Table walking like a monkey
We are putting bets on walking!
He's a BIG boy!
Growing up way to fast.
Today he turned 9 months
Today we said bye bye to the longer in the back baby hair mullet!

Such a big sweet boy!
XXOO

Treats

I love lying to my kids haha
Sound bad?
Mostly about food.

I have been lying to Audrey for awhile.

I tell her I'll give her a treat and I give her an almond, not oiled or salted. She totally buys into it. Oooh mommy thank you treat. Ha ha.

I tell her I'll give her a treat cookie and she gets giddy and I give her a 'fig' granola bar

I'm ok with this type of lying!

I figure big big treats are for family events or places that aren't home. That way they think those types of things don't exist at home!

Cranky Girl

So cranky today, I needed a pick me up. It was a BLUE kind of day in more then one way!

Wrong side of the bed

I'm not a morning person
Nope not at all
This morning I woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
Cranky. Yup.
Haha.
What am I going to do about it?
I'm getting ready, taking the kids and I'm going to add to my ridiculously large nail polish collection. Maybe my collection is so large because I get cranky and sooth myself often with nail polish. That's ok by me, In the scope of 6 years I've bought a bunch of nail polish well if you devise it by 365x6 that's really not that many cranky days in a year!

Cheers to a cranky mood
Cheers to a new nailpolish
Judge me if you want, maybe you'll make me cranky again and I'll have to go but another delightful polish!

OCD

How am I already planning were to hang pictures? It's naptime and what am I doing? Making a accent wall in our dinning room that I want to put a bunch of picture canvases on! I'm a dork it's true. Now I better go be speedy and get this house and dinner in order so when Brent gets home he doesn't realize I was planning our decorating rather then being productive!

The Aquarium

Audrey LOVED it!
I want to say hi fish
I want to touch fish
I want to kiss fish
I want to hug fish
Happy fathers day fish

I want to say hi whale
Hi whale
I kiss you whale
Oh bye bye whale

Odder (otter)
You ok odder? (it was barking)
Oooh I kiss it better
Hi odder
Odder
Muah
Better?
I run

Hi olfin (dolphin)
Where u?
Done
I want to say hi fish

Ouch( she ran into a table and raised her face in all the excitement...I'm pretty sure there will be bruise pictures to come)
Kiss it (I kiss it)
Better
I go see

Oh bird(penguin)
Hi bird
Muah
I kiss you
You ok

Fish fish
I want see fish
Oooh frog
Turtle

(this is narrative of the 2.5 hours we spent there!)

Seriously I was sweating...it was fathers day and she was in heaven. This girl adores animals! Brent loved showing her all the aquariums!

What a great and fun family day!!

Fathers Day

Fathers day was heavenly!
A family day!
Celebrating the one man that I love and respect more then anything.
We went to church this morning (they got chocolate wrenches...) he of course shared with Audrey! Thats the thing about daddies...they are constantly giving and sharing!

Brent has been there every step of the way. We have been together over 7 years and I love him more today then ever. There is nothing more incredible and romantic then watching a man whom you love showing love and tenderness to your children.

Brent is the
Best provider
Best friend
Best travel companion
Best handyman
Best best daddy
Best poopy diaper changer
Best shoulder to cry on
Best tickle monster
Best love of my life !

Thank you Brent for giving me the gift of your love and then later letting me have your children! I adore you!

We got a special little gift this fathers day we got to meet a special little man. Baby Will Plett was born this morning! I adore cuddles!!!

Anyways today was beautiful!
We started the day with church
Then quick lunch at church
Then the aquarium!
Then cuddles with baby Plett
Then some yummy crepe dinner after babies are in bed! A great day!

All I needed was a family day...ha ha I will be going to Osoyoos after all! Now after a much needed family day I feel ready to enjoy some family time! Sometimes all you need is one day of just family time to re-charge! Love my wee family!!

I'll have to do a whole post about Audrey and the aquarium. She adored it...I'm sure she will be taking non stop about dolphins, whales fish and BABY PLETT!!

Thanks Lauren and Trev for letting us cuddle your sweet Prince! I hope there is a budding friendship with little will and Beckham and maybe a romance between Audrey and Will. One can only joke and hope right! Love you guys! So excited to be in this next chapter of life together!!

Option 1 vs. Option 2

I'm pooped
Brent's family is going to Osoyoos next weekend.


Option 1
Go with the kids and husband to osooyos and spend the weekend with the whole converse/weibe family.
I'd be in charge of packing, cooking, organizing and child minding. The same as being home just with the added stress of not being home. There is a reason we don't vacation with two kids 2 and under!

Option 2
Brent goes to Osoyoos without me with the kids. This means I get a whole weekend
No kids
No stress
No cooking
No cleaning
I don't think Brent quite realizes how much work it'll be. Ha ha. Good thing he doesn't read my blog otherwise he might take back his offer.


Am I crazy to be debating this. Option 2...right? I'm sure some people would be disappointed. I don't think I would be though.

How often would this opportunity present itself. A whole weekend alone!? Could perhaps be worth disappointing some people.

I'm such a people pleaser the truth is I'll prob go with the option 1. I'll be miserable on the car ( we will both be miserable anyways haha our kids WAIL in the car!) but then I'll put my big girl panties on and suck it up. I'll have fun, I really love Brent's uncles, aunts and all he cousins!


But....

A weekend alone sounds incredible. I don't think I've been alone in well WELL over two years!!! I'm such an extrovert but man these days I feel like a introvert.

First dentist visit.

June 15, first dentist visit
My little girls first dentist visit. My dentist is just so great. So patient and incredible. She loved it, highlight was for sure the chair movie up and down!

June 15
I am 25
Never had a cavity
I apparently have a warning spot...that they have to do a sealant on...Brent is convinced that it's a cavity...shattering my ability to say I have never ha a cavity...boo. I say if they say it's sealant it's a sealant...right?

Friends

I made a friend. Audrey helped.
It's actually quite hilarious. We are SO much alike! I've never met anyone that has so many of the same qualities!

We both have little girls named Audrey! We both have MANY of the same interests. Photos, health, sports, kids close in age (born in the same years 2010&2011), both have bad pregnancies, love animals...have/want lots, renos renos renos, and honestly a MILLION more things in common!
How did we meet? At the park...and just clicked and exchanged numbers.
Such a blessing finding a new friend that you can relate to and enjoy. We have hung out a few times and done some play dates. I am so grateful for a new friend. Our husbands are also freakishly similar as well! I think we better set up a date! She has two incredible little girls...good friends for Audrey and perhaps a future spouse for Beckham! So fun watching them all play!!

Come fly away

Brent turned 28
We went up Up and away
So much fun!
I took some pictures from our date, we each took a short flying lesson and got to fly to crescent beach. I have to admit I got a little nervous! I told the guy I didn't want to die because I didn't want Brent to have to do Audrey's hair-I'm such a dork! It was an absolute blast. So happy to celebrate my best friends birthday! Good days and bad days, adventure and mundane, no one I'd rather do life with then my hubby!

Some blog changes

I've been fiddling with how my blog looks for a little while. I swear the longer I'm a patent the WORSE I am with anything technology. So funny, it took me FOREVER to change the 'header' how embarrassing! I'm so stuck in 2006 when I had SO much time! Those days have changed and I am now becoming outdated. That's ok though!

What have we done in the last 7 dad?

Brent and I went on a HOT date I whiterock...AND went on another HOT date to Greek islands in abbotsford. We have been trying to go on lots of dates before the heat of renos start. Maybe if we have lots of fun it'll make us remember and make renos not feel quite as long and hard?

Today is Brent's birthday, 28! I rolled over and said, 'happy 28th, wow you're so old! Don't worry I'll always be your younger woman.' We are going on ANOTHER date tonight!!! Since Brent doesnt read my blog I will tell you what we are doing!

We are taking a flying lesson in a airplane over whiterock (were he said he loved me the first time when we were dating, and were we have had many many special dates!)

Then we are going to 'the keg' for ribs for dinner

Then a movie of his choice!

I'm pretty excited!!! Should be a fun fun night! For his gift because he's renovating all summer I set up 5 different fun guys nights with various groups of his friends this week. I thought I should squeeze lots of summer fun in this week so that he still has some fun this summer. He's got a golfing night, guys movie night, coffee in fort Langley, breakfast with a good friend, and a night with beer and appies!!

Here are some pictures from this last week!!

***stauning shingles, Audrey did her mascara, Audrey with my dad and her great grandma, fam pictures, beckham having sushi, Audrey baking with daddy***

This week has been fun and full, sending our love your way this week!

Nap time vs diapers

This mommy...needs naptime.
I do chores, organize, cook, bake, plan, line up trades, and look in the mirror and laugh about the mayhem that usually happened right before naptime.

Audrey hates diapers
Phrase
'I don't want to pee in diaper'

Mommy response
'I am so not ready for this!'


***audrey has been potty trained she was 17/18months...just wearing diapers during naptime***

Audrey milks it.
I have to pee potty
I have to poo potty
I have to pee potty
X 18 thousand.
There goes on through the whole naptime.
Beckhams awake and I'm still in the bathroom with Audrey. I cry.

So I decided diapers during naptime so she can't fake having to pee just so she can get out. Did I mention if she doesn't nap she loses it and can't handle the day. She is laying in a corner sucking her thumb.

Ok well princess is the Houdini of taking her cloths and diaper off.
If she 'goes' in her diaper she takes it off and then if I don't come fast enough she has a accident on the floor.

Scenario-
Audrey starts pooping in her diaper. She hates it. Starts taking it off but hasn't finished pooping. Before I can get there she stashes the dirty diaper in her play kitchen sink...cause it's dirty duh...and usually lands up pooping on the floor and getting nastiness on her hands and floor. Haha oh man.

Scenario 2-
She pees like almost none in her diaper and it upsets her and so she takes it all off and then after her nap she wakes up and has to pee so bad and if I'm not fast enough she pees on her bed, or floor, or in her play kitchen sink...yes she stands and straddles it...oh man.

I have tried threatening, I have tried time outs, I have tried layering her cloths...putting cloths in backwards. She is Houdini. She can get out of any cloths or diapers.

Today it borders on child abuse...maybe? I was out of ideas and had a million things to get done...I packing taped her diaper over and over and laughed...if she gets it off...I fail. I'm out of ideas. This chicklet is in a big hurry to grow up but this mommy is so not ready.

Let's just say Audrey pooped on the floor three times yesterday. I layed. In bed last night laughing. Brent said 'what' I said 'when you're done renovating I'm leaving and I'm not sure when I'll come back' haha Brent laugh/cried, joking...sort of...I for real will maybe go away by myself. Oh to be bored and lonely. What a luxury!

Whaaaat?

So I've been walking around embarrassed...
Looks like I have a giant coldsore...in reality I tried to do the 'lady and the tramp' spaghetti move with a gummy worm with my Prince. He had NO idea what was going on and totally bit a huge chunk out of my lip.

Sooo hilarious, slightly embarrassing...it's how we keep it fresh...Disney movie romance!

The picture let's you see my lip (sort of) and a pic of the day...nothing says fun like getting bloodwork done with two kids. Woohoo, especially with my wiggle work grabbing the needle on my lap...good thing he is handsome like daddy!

Wow

I'm a whole new woman.
I didn't have 'perfect' sleep but I had sleep and it was glorious.

I feel rejuvenated and ready for the day, first time I've felt that way in a long time.

It took, 3 sleep aides, Benadryl, and gravol to help and making a huge list of everything that was stressing me out. Turns out it was lingering house stuff that was mostly stressing me out.

Brent wanted some say in some of the house stuff...that's the only things that are left to do. He works CRAZY days and is to tired to make those decisions at the end of the day. I in turn get all swirly brained and can't sleep.

We are going to try and 'check' one thing off my list everyday and hopefully that will help. I've honestly never ever had a hard time sleeping. This has been nutty this season and I'm just looking forward to some peace!

June is going to be bonkers but I made a deal with myself that during renos I have the freedom to say no if I don't want to do things. I think that alone will be liberating.

Insomnia

So this is something that never troubled me in the past. I was always a 10 hours a night type of girl. 10pm-8am.

For about the last month I have struggled with sleep. First falling asleep. I wouldn't be able to fall asleep until 2am after I took a gravol. I'd be out like a light.

Then after awhile I'd take a gravol, nothing so is take another one a few hours later...desperate for sleep.

After awhile I was completely immune to gravol, natural remedies and the target sleep aid. Even if I was up ALl night when Brent left for work I'd usually be able to sleep for a couple hours.

Well now that's changed. Last night I didn't even sleep five minutes. It left me jittery, dizzy, weak and utterly exhausted.

There is just so much going on right now my brain can't relax. So much house stuff, I've been helping with Brent's buisnss doing the phone calls usually between 18-36 a day. Brent working 14 hour days and just 'fun' family stuff...oh ya and my entourage of a 8 month old and a fresh 2 year old that I parade around doing house errands. Nothing says fun like bringing that entourage to tile stores, granite store, cabinet sores, flooring stores or just home depot to pick up a million things. Missing naps, walking trades through the house. By the time I lay down in bed I feel like I need a general anesthetic to actually fall asleep.

Next week I am bringing my entourage to the doctor and maybe I'll be able to figure out something so I can get to sleep.

Seriously this didn't start off with me wanting a pitty party but I'm feeling like I'm having a little bit of one today...the sleep deprivation must be causing this party.