A little bit of this and a little bit of that...

We spent this weekend with a child who really wanted to eat and drink to the point of having a tantrum if he could not, but then after eating and drinking, would throw up the contents of his little tummy – food not even slightly digested. In between all this was the odd mega-poo’s of the very wet variety seeping through diaper, clothes, towel, bed and whatever else was in it’s way. UGH. I was glad to leave the house this morning so I wouldn’t have to smell poo or vomit anymore… It’s was getting to be too much. It was everywhere! It's true Dads... Mums do have it harder when kids are sick!

Sick kid and all. we trekked up to Green Acres camp for a birthday party of Linus' classmate and had a wonderful time. We petted bunnies, sheep (babies too) and fed the chickens. Me, personally, I hate zoos and farms because quite frankly they smell like shit. I'm not a big fan of ducking poo here and there and watching animals take a dump. I'm still traumatized from seeing a elephant unload a whopper when I was young. It's was nasty and I couldn't eat large quantities of ground beef for months after. But hey, it wasn't about me and the kids had fun. Linus ran off an played on his own which he never does and Stewie wanted to eat. Grapes, specifically. One incident went something like this;

Stewie "Want gapes"

Urban Mummy "There are no more"

Stewie "WANT gapes"

UM "There are no more"

Stewie "WANT GAPESSSSS"

UM "I told you there are no more"... followed by a angry-faced hair pulling and a smack.

UM "Don't hit me or pull my hair"

Stewie "supid, supid, supid, supid, supid, supid"... (Read: supid = stupid)



Nice, eh? Anyways, there was food, games, shovels and buckets and a tractor ride. We all had fun... Except maybe UM whose jacket I left with the gift in the middle of a bench somewhere in the complex. Hope they found it before it rained or the sheep ate it.





Jedi vs Sith – That addictive facebook game! Damn that game!!! I have to finish all games before we leave for our trip (Wednesday) of I’ll lose by auto-win… Noooooooooo! I'm a geek. I know.



Now, for a more serious comment about family. Without getting into it too much, I have three cousins - sisters, that I babysat when I was younger quite a lot and got to know these kids very well. After their parents divorced, we kept in touch with my Uncle, but they went with their mom and we rarely heard from them, except for facebook… recently. Well before UM and I had Linus this cousin had a baby, got married, and I tried to keep in touch, she was now 27, not 7 and I thought as family the cousins should get to know each other, but to no avail. Only excuses. I invited her and her hubby to both brises and to our annual New Years' Day open house and heard nothing back. I did get some pictures for our grandmother so she could see the baby. Anyways, it is with great sadness that I find out this weekend that my cousin - now 30, had another baby - this time a boy, in April. No one in our family knew. She didn't even have the courtesy to drop me an email... Nice. I'm contemplating emailing her or facebooking her sisters to say something because I can. That's my style, but UM and my mother think I should leave it alone. Anyone have any experiences like this, and can offer some advice?


I'm stealing this story from Urban Mummy before she gets to post it. She told me that she was playing the new Barenaked Ladies children's CD in the car for Linus, and she told him as such. When she got back in the car with him after his parent-teacher interview, he asked to listen to CD again, but referred to the artist as the "naked girls". Cute, eh? Asked me the same thing after his last swimming class... "Naked Girls"... he he he.



We are all heading to the lovely US of A for a family function Wednesday and will return by the end of the week. This will be Stewie's (all 1 1/2 of him) 4th or 5th flight. I was 35 by my 5th flight. :)




Now, a new feature and tell me honestly if you like it or hate it, but /I took a few minutes and typed down some insane talk I over heard at the office this morning...

Overheard:

"Before Jesus came they used to sacrifice lambs, and humans to these G-ds, before Jesus came, whomever they are. Then Jesus came and said you don’t have to do that anymore… that is why I have vegetarian blood. You can’t get iron from veg so I’m drinking protein shakes..."

"If you had to take a rocket to the moon, would you not check the gas?"

"We drink cows milk because “they” found something they wanted to sell, so they promoted it and forced everyone to drink it."

"Coffee: caffeine – clogs your system – is the problem – stimulates your heart too much. Dehydrates you. Diuretic. I’ll go to green tea. (other person says: green tea has 4 times the caffeine of coffee)… Well then I’ll go to a lemon drink! Anything marketed is no good. I'll show them! I need more lemons in my diet anyways"

"Problem with blood pressure – is you have high cholesterol and the bad is higher than the good – chance of stroke is high. "They" want you to go on pills right away. "They" don't want to take the time to help you, they get money for the pills and not for helping you. If you're overweight – stressed – blood pressure goes up - must be sick. You're money for "them"."

"Sodium – ratio of potassium to sodium is 3-1. If not 3-1 then high blood pressure. People are taking potassium in their diets to even out the ratio... Yeah!."





Today is Grandpa's birthday and the kids did some artwork and picked out a funky hoodie that I didn't think Grandpa would like but they did and they desecrated - err, coloured - his birthday card... Hope he liked the effort. Those kids try so hard!



Tomorrow... Interview and a trip to police headquarters (details to follow).



Cheers all!!!