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Mike: I told Celeste to sleep in Bri's bed tonight because there's still some crap (books) on it.
Me: Oh, I'm just going to put that crap in Katie's room.
Katie (from her room): I don't want the crap!

Hahaha, sooo funny.

Hmm. Apparently it's been a REALLY long time since I updated here. Facebook is where I put most of the pictures now, and I guess it's sort of like mini-life updates there too. My harddrive died and all the pics I had scanned in of 2009 were lost, so those will not appear on this site. I'll run down the kid list I guess.

Brianna is doing well in school as usual. She's still enjoying tap, tae kwon do and Brownies. She did belt testing in January and is now a yellow belt. She'd like to take piano lessons too, and we're trying to figure out if this is a possibility. I need to get our piano fixed first. For Christmas she got a telescope. We've been trying to use it, but for the most part, all we've found is the moon. We need spring so we can fiddle with it without freezing to death.

Celeste is doing very well in school. She enjoys it, and is reading far above grade level. She doesn't like reading the way Brianna does, but that's ok. She's really into art stuff right now. She makes incredible things out of PlayMais. She likes dance and sparks ok, tae kwon do is still her favourite activity. She cried through belt testing, but still managed to show off her moves and get a yellow belt.

Little Katie is going to be registered for JK next week. She's so tiny, it's hard to beleive she'll be going to school next Sept. She LOVES her dancing class. She's finally started to get rid of diapers, just last week. We're not out of them completely yet, but hopefully soon. She also really likes to colour and play with her "princess girls" - a collection of disney princess figures.

Wesley is a fat lazy moose. He started taking steps Dec 28. However, he STILL doesn't walk much. Prefers to crawl. Won't give over to sippy cups and doesn't speak english. He was 26lbs in January.

Halloween was good, we had a Starfy, fairy, cinderella and a lawn gnome. Christmas was also good, the kids were spoiled as usual. Now we're heading up to Bri's 9th birthday. Crazy.

It's been forever and six weeks since I updated here.

We didn't end up doing another session of swim lessons. Neither did I, the kids' dance studio was offering Adult Ballet so I took that instead. Katie missed her last two lessons due to camp pick up and being sick so I don't know if she officially passed. She's at the age for solo lessons now anyways.

Camp went ok. Bri had a great time as usual, but CeeCee didn't warm up to soccer. She loved the swimming in the afternoon, but just hated the soccer portion. It really surprised us. They gave everyone a medal at the end, and that made her say she wanted to go back next year. We've been talking about art camp instead maybe.

The older two girls spent two weeks in Newfoundland at the end of August, right after camp. As usual they were kind of tight lipped about it, but I think they had fun.

Somewhere in the summer Celeste got her ears pierced which was a bit of a disaster. So.much.screaming. I was just about to give up when she finally let them do it.

Katie's birthday was right before the girls left. It was small, but she got tasty ice cream cake.

School started, Celeste was a little aprehensive about that for some reason. She still goes every other day, she's in SK now. She started reading near the end of last year, but isn't all the interested in it.

Wesley had his birthday, which was an even smaller party than Katie's. He also got ice cream cake because at the time he wasn't eating solid food all that well. He's doing better at eating now, but still chokes fairly often. Still isn't walking or talking, though he crawls like a proper baby now.

Sparks and Brownies is going. Bri loves Brownies, and CeeCee sometimes likes Sparks. I'm the Brownie leader, so I have to spend a fair bit of time organizing that.

The suprise activity ended up being Tae Kwon Do. A studio opened up in the same plaza as dance. I got my hands on a flyer for their class schedule and noticed the times were pretty convenient for us and thought Celeste might like it. She flipped a lid when I merely suggested it, she was scared she'd have to break boards with her hands. Turns out, they start with their feet, ha! I managed to convince her to go watch a class while Brianna took dance, and halfway through she decided to join in. She LOVED it. Brianna said she wasn't interested in it at all, but after Celeste came home and said it was totally awesome she changed her mind. Mike somehow got sucked in too, and now some combination of them goes nearly every day of the week. Their first opportunity for belt testing is next Thursday. I don't know that any of them will be ready, but maybe. Brianna broke a board with her foot today. Celeste was too apprehensive. She kicked at it a few times, but not with hardly any force. She kicks the foam targets much harder.

As for me, I still go to yoga once a week. I'd like to go twice, but it's just been too busy. I have a midterm on Monday, school seems to be going well, but my mark on that will prove it. Ballet is fun, but I'm not sure how long she'll keep offering the class, it's pretty small. It's just me and her best friend. :)

The next set of lessons is finished for kid 1 and 2. Neither of them passed. CeeCee was the smallest kid in her class and one of her problems was just she can't quite swim the 10m required to move up. However, she can apparently swim those 9m straight down, ha. She went the furthest in the deep end out of her class. Katie's lessons are still going, she has two more. She easily went in the pool all by herself though, so she should have no problem moving on to Sea Turtle. Normally we'd quit swim now because Dance and Girl Guides start up in Sept, but Mike is thinking they should do one more before the snow hits, so we'll see. It depends on when I can set them up. I am also going to take the first set of adult lessons, but those are at 9pm, so no conflicts there. And I'd also like to sign Bri up for a class in stop-motion photography...there's so many cool things to do and not enough time/money.

Camp starts next week. Bri is excited, CeeCee is a little aprehensive. I'm sure she'll have fun though.

Wesley is humongous, he stands up and cruises the furniture now. He still crawls funny though. He won't eat anything solid, unless he finds it on the floor.

We do have guppy babies, born today!

The kids finished their swim lesssons. Neither passed (except that CeeCee passed 1 on the first day), so Bri will do SK3 again and CeeCee SK2. Bri doesn't have much to work on, so I am thinking she may pass it this next time. They start another 2 week set next week. Katie is doing well at swimming, I think. Mike's been taking her the last couple times. This week she is supposed to spend half the class without a parent in the pool, so we'll see.

Somehow the kids made faces at Mike or something and we have a bunch of fish. We have six guppies. Perhaps we will have guppy babies.

The 2008 pics should all be in working order now. I hope to work on the 2009 set sometime next week maybe. But let's not expect miracles here.

***IMPORTANT NOTICE***
Serena changed her name to Celeste (which is her middle name), or she will accept CeeCee as a nickname. She asked for a year, so whatever.

The kids started swimming lesssons this week. Katie goes weekly on Sats, it's a transitional program where she's supposed to end up without a parent in the water with her. She still freaks when the instructors touch her, so we'll see on that. Bri and CeeCee are doing a daily set for the next two weeks. CeeCee's instructor told me after her first class today that she is very good and will be working on SK2 programming instead of 1. So she skipped a level. It makes her very happy, and Bri not so much. Poor Bri.

My webspace is such a pain. It doesn't tell you when it's full. Instead, it pretends to upload things (the file name will appear in the list). So frustrating. I deleted 2005, but that's still not enough. I'll have to take out 2006 too. I don't have time right now, so who knows when that'll happen. There's some pics there now, about half, most from the early part of 08.

Working on getting the pics from 2008 up. Sad that a whole year was negelcted. My webspace is kind of a pain, so we'll see what happens. Blogger isn't showing the 2008/2009 tabs (for me anyways) yet either. There is nothing in 2009 yet, so don't bother looking. Might get to those before 2011. :P

Ok, it's been a long time. I know. I'm busy.

Wes had that 6 month check, and he was only 17 1/2lbs. Katie was a shocking 27lbs, so I guess it might take him longer than we thought to catch up to her. Wes is now 9 months old, and looking very fat. He "crawls" in this weird way, but he gets where he wants. He pushes with one foot while holding his other leg in the air. His tummy never leaves the ground. He got three new teeth a few weeks ago.

Serena had her 5th birthday. My mom was in town that week by coincidence, so she got a sushi dinner. We also went back to the butterfly conservatory. She had a tea party of all things with a couple of her school friends. Her favourite present was a remote controlled tarantula. She's a weird kid. She's learned how to read, and likes to do so, but needs prodding to try new books. She'll be in SK in the fall with the same M/W ever other Friday configuration as this year.

Katie is still a terror. If she doesn't get her way there are lots of fits. She has asked to use the toilet a few times, but hasn't actually done anything while there. Darn. She has been horribly traumatized by Mike's mowing of "her flowers" - the dandelions.

Bri is kind of huge. It's hard to beleive she's going to be in grade 3 next year. We've just found out she'll be in the 3/4 split (thank god). But she won't be in the same class as her best friend anymore. She did another 3 days at the enrichment center and this time I got a report back saying they love her and would be happy to have her back again next year.

All the girls just finished a set of swimming lessons. Katie loves the pool now, but isn't all that interested in the lessons part. She's signed up to do a transition from parent and tot to just tot. Considering she wigged every time the last instructor got anywhere near her, I'm not holding my breath. Serena passed her Salamader (3rd try) and will be doing Sunfish. Salamander + Sunfish = Swim Kids 1, it's just for the younger group. Bri passed SK2 on her second try and will be moving up to SK3. I think 4 will probably be the level I want them to pass before they can opt out of lessons. I still want to take some of my own.

I am still doing hot yoga once or twice a week and enjoying that. I finished my Stats class and did suprisingly well. I'm in a holding pattern again now as I wait to see if I can switch majors (from arts to science, still psychology). It's nice to have the summer off anyways. I signed on to help lead Brianna's Brownie troup in the fall as well, because I'm not busy enough. Otherwise, they would have shut down and that would have been lousy.

Mike is mostly finished with the major house stuff, he does have to redo the old roof but is now kicking himself for waiting for the actual summer weather to arrive.

testing to see if Rob broke my website again.

Bri went and turned 8, which I do not appreciate. She had a tie dye party that seemed to go well, especially since Jenn came and did teacher-y weirdness with the kids while I ran around getting everything totally set up/cleaned up. Bri had wanted an ice cream cake since Katie had one, and she was so excited to eat it, she blew out the candles before we'd even finished singing. She got some money for her birthday and wanted to go to Chapters and get some books. With some prodding we got her out of the 5-7 section (many of her fav series' are there) and into the 8-11. She's just started her first book that she can't possibly read in one sitting. It's Inkheart, which is supposed to be good. I haven't read it yet, but she says it is.

Wesley is soooooo fat. He's wearing some 9 month clothes now. We'll find out how fat he really is Monday, but we suspect over 20lbs. He's happily eating fruit for lunch now, with veggies for dinner and cereal at bedtime. I'd like to move the cereal to the morning, but there's no time for that while school's in.

It's March Break and we have been doing some March Breaky stuff. We went to the butterfly place to eat bugs (small amounts of bugs, but bugs) and tonight we're going swimming. Yesterday it was nice out, so we went to the park - but today it is snowing!

*watching show about praying mantises that opens with the allusion they will eat you*
Me: Praying mantises won't eat you.
Bri: Wouldn't they though? Wouldn't they if they had the chance?

Haha, it was just the way she said it. Won't somebody think of the children?

Wesley is a big fat baby who loves food. He finished off his box of rice cereal and moved on to oats, which he doesn't seem to like as much. He also tried sweet potatoes the same day (24th) and loves those. Today is a new veggie day...probably squash. He has a second tooth that is almost through but not quite.

Big news is we're allowed to move into our addition any time now. Just working on getting some carpet down and doors on the bedrooms. Hopefully we'll all have new rooms this weekend.