Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Today my bangs dried so that they're hanging right in front of my right eye. As for the rest of my hair? I wasn't given the name Poof-among- us at the family reunion in '07 for nothing...
Sloan has impetigo. It's not bad. You can't even really see it, which is good, I guess. I just hope it goes away with the ointment I have so I don't have to get oral antibiotics. This also means I can't do my regular things, like go to the gym, or spend time with my other friends who have children that my kids can play with. It means for the most part we stay at home and are bored. This is my plight.
We've had lots o fun lately, what with going to visit Jordan and Tracy and doing some olympic stuff, and then our mt Washington Valentine's day stint. Adriel had so much fun visiting Jane and Maria's house. They showed him how to make soup outside with rainwater, and they played endlessly inside too. We took him on the skytrain, which he of course loved, but Sloan? Not so much. Sloan was the wet blanket of the trip, thinking it was his right to get down and walk wherever he wanted and climb whatever he wanted, and when he was confined to his stroller or my arms, he was completely unhappy and let the world know about it.
Mom and Dad showed us yet another yummy place to eat called the green lettuce, in Surrey where it's a cross between Chinese food and Indian food. It was very good. We got a bunch of dishes and shared, except for Mom, who didn't want prawns or anything overly spicy. This was after they picked us up from the ferry and we attempted to go to a livecity site downtown where Dad had been working. There were hoards and hoards of people lined WAY up the street and there was a sign that said "Full to Capacity. No Further Entry" All the people were just hanging out, hoping that people would leave and then they could get in. At this point we were hungry, children were tired of traveling and waiting, so we settled for the green lettuce and went home. With Krispy Kremes in tow of course.
The next morning Kyle went with Jordan to do a window washing job and I sat lazily in the kitchen while Tracy slaved away making crepes. After Kyle and Jordan got back there was a lot of sitting around and talking about what we should do. You know how Clarkes can be. We take forever and get off topic so easily. We finally decided to go to Surrey Place where they had an Olympic venue with fun stuff for kids. We had to go to the sky train station first because Dad took the van which had our carseat for Sloan and our stroller in it. Tracy was thinking Dad probably got a good parking spot due to the early time in the morning he had to park there, so she drove close to the station and we found a white van that resembled Mom and Dad's. Mom got out to check and came right back and said it wasn't it. We drove all over the place looking and looking to no avail. Mom finally called Dad who directed us back to the place we looked right at the beginning of our search. We approached the white van that Mom had already rejected. It really did look like their van, but Mom said she saw a green corduroy bag on the front passenger seat, so she knew it wasn't theirs. But just as we were passing I saw my stroller in the back... Turns out mom didn't try the key or anything, just a quick peak inside and she managed to overlook the picture of her and Dad on the dashboard, instead she saw a bag, which was actually her green towel that she had been holding on her lap the night before. We had a laugh about that.
The actual park wasn't that fun for me personally because Sloan just cried in his stroller the whole time. If I let him out, he'd just take off into crowds of people who would trip over him and knock him down. Adriel and Kyle got to have fun though. There was face painting. Maria and Jane both got butterflies on their faces, and Adriel got a dump truck on his hand. The three of them shared some cotton candy. Maria got lost and gave us a scare for a little while. Adriel tried curling with Kyle and they got to go down a fake toboggan hill which he very much enjoyed. There were line ups for all those things though, so by then end of that, given my state with Sloan I was done.
Mom, Tracy, Sloan and I went to the mall where I bought some pants for Adriel that were on sale and Tracy got a gift for a birthday party her girls were going to. That's when Mom discovered that the "sippy cups" she got for Isaiah's birthday party were actually bottles, and therefore Sloan got to have them because I looking to buy a bottle for him as Kyle lost the one we brought. In situations like the one we were just in, with Sloan in the stroller and unhappy, a bottle would have come in handy for sure. By the time we got home and ate, it was 9:30. Kids went to bed. We were going to play games but certain people (Jordan) fell asleep on the couch.
I forgot to mention that the room we were staying in was right above the bedroom of the tenants downstairs and they had their tv on super loud all night. Kyle got up and left and slept on the couch eventually. We had bad sleeps. So we were tired and went to bed. That night Kyle got up to go pee and woke Sloan up therefore banishing him back to the couch since Sloan would only settle in bed with me.
I feel as if I'm droning on and on...
Next day was Sunday and Tracy woke up feeling like she had mastitis so she decided to stay home from church. While in church, Adriel stood up on the pew and said "My penis hurts!" Kyle and I tried desperately to get him to sit down and whisper, but he kept repeating himself in a whiny voice until we got a handle on it. Then Kyle left with Sloan, and I was dealing with just Adriel. He just doesn't get whispering in church. He won't do it, no matter how many times I ask him to. He turned to me and said-very out of the blue- "Mom, why is your bum furry, with fur on it?" I was of course appalled at the question, and a little confused because my bum isn't hairy. I whipsered "It doesn't have fur on it!" "Yes it does" he insisted out loud. Then it dawned on me. Adriel thinks that boys have penises and girls don't have anything, just bums, and so as far as he's concerned, what's in front is a bum too, and according to him, mine is furry. I told him that's what mommies look like...But seriously, where does he get this stuff from? In the middle of church he has questions like that?? Luckily I don't think anyone heard...
After church I was unsuccessful at having a nap. Mom made a really yummy salmon dinner for us and then we headed over to D&D's for Gabriel's birthday. This is when I didn't get to see Laura. I was sitting on a couch with Jordan who decided he wanted to leave after we had barely gotten there. Then I was isolated. All the other women were on the other side of the room talking and because of the children and their wild play in between us, I wasn't able to listen all that well. It got late. We left. We stayed up with Mom and Dad for a while, while Kyle showed them different funny movies on his laptop. Then bed.
The plan was to wake up early and head down town on Monday morning to meet Evan and Esther and get a head start to the line ups. Dad slowed us down saying things don't open that early. We caught the skytrain and met up down town. The line ups were already too long. I wanted to see the torch. Kyle had to take pictures of certain buildings for his portfolio for his applications. Evan was anti seeing the torch. He'd already seen the torch. I ignored his protests as one must do with Evan at times. Between our kids and theirs (we had Maria with us) they were all trading strollers and running around, and it was a challenge to keep track of them all. We didn't lose anyone though. We stopped for kids lunch at McDonalds and then Evan and Kyle left for more picture taking and Esther, Mom, Dad and I perused the busy streets of downtown until we decided to check out a pavilion. The closest one had line ups and Dad said the one he worked at wasn't far from there, but with fast line ups to get in, so we decided to go there. Dad got called into work, so after the long walk to get there, he pretty much had to get to work. Kyle and Evan finally showed up again. We ate. They had tastes of things from different countries. I told Kyle to surprise me. He got Greece and China and both were wonderful. Evan and Esther got in a really long line to get into the Coke pavilion. I don't do long lines with my kids. However, the only stuff there was to do had line ups. So we bit the bullet and got in line to see a 3D showing of olympic highlights. Adriel had some melt downs. He drank so much that he had to pee every 15 minutes or so. The show was neat. Sloan feel asleep on me. And after that, I'd had it. I wanted to make it back to the sky train while he was still asleep so as to not have to deal with him on the train. Kyle wasn't so keen on leaving. Evan gave him a hard time, so I told him to stay. and he did. Sloan didn't stay asleep as I'd hoped. Mom and I got lost a little bit. We bought cheesies and popcorn and water to keep kids happy on the skytrain, and it worked for the bulk of the time. On the way home I asked mom to take me by our old house in Surrey. It took her while to find it due to wrong turns, so when we finally did, it was exciting. We passed Evergreen park, which was smaller than I remember it, and so was the cul de sac that we lived in. I guess because I was smaller in it. Our house hasn't changed much on the outside. The people who bought it from us still live there. It's flat. I'm glad we got to do that. Adriel and Maria conked out with their heads on eachother, it was cute.
For some reason that evening I did four haircuts even though I was exhausted from pushing a very heavy stroller and walking around all day.
The next morning I was having trouble sleeping after Sloan had woken up and joined me in bed. Then Dad came in and said they were opening their mission call. So I weasled my way out from between Sloan and Kyle and got to witness it. It was special, and I'm glad they let me in on it.
We had a nice visit with everyone and I'm glad that we went. I'm done droning for now I guess.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 12:12 PM