Julietisms

Hello... so it's a slow day at work. Real estate isn't exactly booming the week before Christmas. So I thought i'd post a couple of the funny things Juliet has said lately. It's the only way I will ever remember them in the future.

Let's start with Christmas. She is VERY excited. Everywhere we go she'll find something she wants and ask... "Mommy can Christmas buy my this?"

She is still and avid lyric listener. Lately she's big on Justin "Beaver" as she says but was a little concerned about why he smells..."Mommy why do they smell?" from the lyrics "You smile, I smile", or as Juliet thought, "You smell, I smell".

Stay tuned.... there will be more.

The Nutcracker Princess..

I brought Juliet to see the Nutcracker. I remember seeing it as a little girl, and I've seen it a few times in my adulthood. It's awesome... and in my eyes Christmas isn't Christmas without it.

It was performed by the Alberta Ballet and only in the city for 5 days. We attended the first weekend matinee... along with every other mother & daughter this side of the equator. For every adult there was a little girl in a christmas dress.. or princess dress as Juliet calls them. Here's my Nutcracker Princess..

Juliet loves that stuff. She will sit through anything and be awed. So I knew she would love it. What I didn't know, was that she'd spend the first act more worried about the lights going out then what was actually going on on stage. Although she didn't miss any of the dancing... she did spend the better part of the first act hiding under her blanket. And Juliet made very sure that everyone around us knew she was afraid that they would 'turn out the lights'. The innocence of a 3 year old... she doesn't really understand the concept of whispering and that not everyone needs to hear about the Nutcracker through Juliet's eyes. She asked a question for almost every pirouette, grand jété & pas de deux. Oh and thank you Alberta Ballet for not making the rat king and any of your rats scary... that would have just put her over the top.

The second act went by much better... not to say that the first wasn't good... it was fantastic. Juliet simply got over her fear of darkness for the 2nd act and "didn't need her mama (blanket) anymore" and wanted to "sit in her own seat". Too bad she couldn't see. My lap was the best place to be... which makes me wonder why I had to buy Juliet a ticket if they couldn't even supply enough booster seats to accommodate all the children... On the advice of my grandmother I'm going to write a letter about that. Anyway... all in all it was a grand success and we LOVED it. I have to say thanks to my mom & grandmother for raising me with traditions that I am now able to share with my own children. Love you.

 

Bring it on, Santa.

"In the meadow we can build a snowman... and pretend that he's a circus clown... we'll have so much fun with mister snowman... until the other kiddies knock him down..."

It's Christmas time!! 

So we got our first snowfall a couple of weeks ago... and it was so soft & pretty I insisted we go get our christmas tree. Of course they sell them all wrapped up so you never really get any idea of the size of the tree until it's in your living room all thawed out. Lets just say that last year I was disappointed because our tree was too small... and I wasn't going to make the same mistake again. Oops. 

Needless to say the tree is a little large. But we love it. 

So the tree is up... lights are glowing... Santa's coming. And I have to do my christmas baking. It goes a little something like this...


Saturday... make the dough
Sunday... bake
Monday... bake
Tuesday... decorate
Wednesday... finish decorating & package.


It looks a little something like this...

MMMMM... YUM. Time for a gingerbread latte...

Fine Art Photography

Just wanted to share this link. Very interesting concept... Francios Robert Photography. I like.

Baltimore for the weekend...

So we went for our annual 'visite' to the Sterlings the weekend before last...Ya so i'm slow to post... but hey, it's winter. I've been decking the halls. The visit was lovely as always. I don't really know what possessed us to think that our children would actually sleep in the same room... Two 3 year old girls in a bed together with dolls & a strawberry shortcake action figure = no sleep 'til midnight. Poor Sam had to sleep on the floor amidst the madness of girls & dolls. Lucky for him he slept through it all. Oh and did I mention there was no sleeping in?? Ya... asleep late & up early made for some interesting afternoons.

  
Needless to say we had a blast. Got back to 2 of my favourite stores... Red Tree & another one of which I can't remember the name. Picked up some stocking stuffers & these awesome vintage style ornaments.

 

On Saturday we hopped on the train and headed into DC to the Smithsonian.. or to the dinosaur bones as the kids would tell you. It was awesome. What a great museum. They've got everything there... dinosaur bones.. animal skeletons.. all sorts of gems.. insects.. butterflies... and a whole journey under the sea including an entire coral reef all done in crochet. They also have a fantastic over-priced cafeteria where I undulged in the most amazing tomato mozarella sammy ever. Kids has fun... adults had fun or did a good job faking it. Here are some photos form the day... brace yourself there are lots.

 

Ostie D'hiver

Holly's Blog

I was just catching up on a friend's blog... Holly's Blog.

She posted a link to this hilarious alphabet series... sort of like the Gashlycrumb Tinies but less dark. I had to share. Check it out here.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

It's no joke... Christmas is upon us. The lights are up ALL over the neighbourhood (including our house at the request of my son). Everything is in full swing. This also means the kids are counting down the days and wondering why it's not tomorrow. They're looking at, or in Sam's case sleeping with toy fliers & making their numerous toy requests. Juliet, although very enthusiastic about what toys she wants Santa to bring, is a little afraid of which Santa will be coming.

My kids LOVE Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and have seen it a hundred times. However, due to that love Juliet is now afraid that Jack Santa Claus is coming and is going to bring her bad toys... like this lovely severed head. I keep re-assuring her that it's not Jack who will be coming but the REAL Santa Claus.. but she still questions it. 

Lovely... as I'm sitting here writing this post my son just came to me and asked... 

"Mommy is Jack going to come to our house for Christmas?" 

Here we go again...

conversations with a 3 year old...

I'm really going to have to watch what music I play in the car with Juliet. She REALLY listens to the lyrics. Yesterday was Katy Perry.

Let's go all the way tonight
No regrets, just love
We can dance, until we die
You and I, will be young forever


"Why is she going to die mommy?" Of course that's the line she chooses to question...

"She's not going to die Juliet she's just singing" I say.


To which Juliet replies.. "If she dies she won't sing anymore"

 

Nightmare On My Street.

So I was gracefully having a nightmare last night, which isn't unusual nor unwelcomed. Nightmares are rather thrilling you know.

It was something paranormal. I don't remember the details very well but I was in a house, it was dark, and there was definitely some ghostly aspect to whatever was going on. I remember that any time I wanted to scream in the dream I couldn't... sort of like when you want to run away in a dream but your legs are like weights. I kept trying to scream but couldn't.

Eventually I walked into a room a saw a little girl lying on the floor on her side. there was something strange about this... like there were details about the room that were different because of the paranormal activity or there was something there that shouldn't have been. Anyway I walked over to the girl and when I rolled her over I obviously saw something I didn't want to see because I tried to scream again. It was very difficult to do but I managed to shriek something out and before I knew it I woke myself up screaming! I SCREAMED IN MY SLEEP!! It was sooo cool!! I woke up screaming but I didn't sit up. I lay there and wondered... did I just scream? My husband hadn't moved yet so I thought maybe I just dreamt I screamed. Seconds later my husband rolled over shinning the light of his iphone at me with WIDE OPEN eyes...

"What the $%*! is wrong with you?!" he says.

"Did i just scream?" I say.

"I don't know what the hell you did but I thought you were having a seizure..." he says.

Now I am not epileptic... but my husband was in the past and our daughter has had 2 diabetic seizures in her sleep (I'm not diabetic either) so it was the first thing that popped into his head when I started shrieking in my sleep... can you imagine?? He must have been thinking... oh shit, not her too. So funny. I laughed so hard I cried.

Have you ever had a nightmare like that?

conversations with a 3 year old...

So we're on our way to daycare this morning and that Adam Lambert song comes on..

Hey, slow it down whataya want from me
Whataya want from me
Yeah I’m afraid whataya want from me
Whataya want from me

Juliet asks... "What is he afraid of mommy?"

"I don't know" I reply.

"Maybe ghosts and the dark" she says.

Another Julietism...

Juliet let one slip this morning... so funny I had to post it.

"Papa... qu'est ce que happening?"

Love that girl.

Love it.

Mao's Last Dancer

I went to the movies by myself tonight. Film Brockville (a non-profit group that screens Canadian and international independent films) screened Mao's Last Dancer. I sat in a theatre full of people 20+ years older than me. I sat in between 2 complete strangers. I ate a kids combo. I cried at the end of the film. Tonight I went naked.

BOO!

So Halloween was a success!! I should keep track of how many hours go into this holiday... geez. Juliet wanted to be a ghost.. and that was okay with Sam as long as she didn't scare him. Sam wanted to be R2D2. I don't believe in buying Halloween costumes. When I was a kid I don't think you could buy costumes.. so my mother always made them. And that is what I do for my kids. An hour tops on my ghost.


   




I don't know how many hours I spent on R2D2... but it was WELL worth it. Sam looked awesome.

Then came the pumpkins. Oh yes.. the pumpkins. I spent about 6 hours today carving pumpkins. There was no shortage of pumpkins on my front porch. Did I mention the pumpkins???

So.. like I said, Halloween was a success. Here are a few close-ups of the pumpkins and if you'd like to get up close & personal there's some actual footage... trick or treating & the pumpkin menagerie.