Go-Greem

... that's what Jett calls ice cream. Yesterday we were cleaning the garage and the kids were riding up and down the sidewalk. Then we heard the sound... the sound of a "go-greem" truck. The kids were sooooo excited, so of course we had to buy some. It was a tuff decision but they all ended up choosing the same thing, a rug-rats themed ice cream, so $10.50 later for 4 ice creams, we took a break and enjoyed the surprise treat. We had limited seating but the scaffolding worked great. I'm sure it will be a familiar sound this summer... the go-greem truck.

Boy Style

So since we've been potty training Jett, he started out sitting, moved to 'frog style' and now is experimenting with standing, he's just tall enough if he lifts the seat. So today after lunch he went pee, then he keep standing at the potty, facing me (back to the toilet) saying "poo-poo" "poo-poo" I kept saying yes, go poo, that's fine. But I didn't realize he was doing 'boy style' pooing, with the seat up and his but to the bowl, pooping in. Thank goodness it went in the toilet!!

Pics of the New Pad

Had to throw in a pic of the kids :)

on the main floor looking to go downstairs

Looking from the ensuite to the master

Master ensuite, shower, tub and toilet

Master ensuite, tub and dual sinks

One of my favorite things.. my OWN closet!!!

Masterbed..room

windows in master bedroom, with bamboo shades

Jett's room, I did his curtains (sun was really brite so pic didn't turn out as well)

Upstairs bonus room, and stairs to the main floor

girls room ( i love how the curtains turned out, just three $5 panels from walmart!)

Other side of bonus room and hall to master

bonus room and the girls

Jett being grumpy on the stairs to upstairs

Kitchen and kitchen nook

from the great room looking to the front entry

Great room area

Fun Night!

So I woke up at 2am to all the kids up, TV on, comp. on, lights on, just happy as can be. I was not happy, at all. Who know's how long they had been up. So get them all back in bed. 4am, same thing!! + lights on downstairs. So in reality they probably did not go back to sleep. Get them all back in bed, with STRICT instruction to stay there.. (ya right) 4:30am after a quick doze by me.. I hear something again, not so many lights on this time, actually only the girls, with the door close, open it and Jett's in there too, and the room is a DISASTER.. So not a happy Mom.. get Ella down in her bed, Jett in his and put Keera in my closet, as obviously they were not going to sleep together.. Finally they went to sleep. Actually Keera slept till 8:20am, Ella 8:35am and Jett was up when Keera got up so not sure when he was up. (they usually up 6-6:30 these days, which I'm not crazy about either)

So that was the exciting night at the Gibb household last night. If our neighbors where up I'm sure they wonder about the hours we keep!

Potty Trained!!!!

I think I can say it now, with out jinxing things.. but Jett is potty trained!! We started more seriously a few weeks before we moved (dumb I know but he was just seeming ready) and besides the day we moved in (where he peeed on our brand new hardwood and our basement floor) he has not had any accidents! + he has been dry this whole time during naps too! (naps in his undies, night time with a pull up) we've noticed he's alot more dry in the morning as well. I can't believe we are done with diapers. Kinda sad, but defiantly happy about it!!
He's so cute the way he "goes" he likes to stand/squat on the toilet seat and pee, sorta frog like. He's just barely tall enough now and is starting to stand and pee, so cute!

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It's been Awhile

Let me explain... blogger does not work for some reason on our laptop, all I can do is read blogs, it won't let me post or comment, which is frustrating (I know it's some JavaScript problem but no clue how to fix it!)! So how am I posting this... well our laptops network quite/stopped/broke last night, so now I am FORCED to use this desktop. Which is ok I guess, as it means I can do a blog post!

So... what do I post about.. hmm it could be about us moving, trying to sell our house (we'll know next tues if the deal goes thru, but i've heard about a handful of peoples deals falling thru on the last day i'm so scared and every time I talk/tell people about it i feel i'm jinxing things- eeeek), house hunting in Edm (Beaumont actually), how much house we canNOT afford, and how depressing that is (re-doing our budget, we really need to do a cheaper morg. not that ours is high right now, but we always accumulate debt each year, and then use our tax return to pay it off, and every year this is so frustrating to me! We need to find a way to NOT get in debt (cheaper morg, less shopping, more accountable to our budget, maybe me working?) each year and then we could have a nice little chunk each year for extras. It seems like Jayme makes good money, but when do the budget it just doesn't stretch that far, and we have no car payments or loan payments! Everything is basically normal or standard for that. Every 2 weeks we only have $200 for 'everything else' ie car repairs, date nights, clothes, trips, extras, school trips/fee's, dentist overages, vehicle registrations, all that stuff that pops up. Uhg. I'm probably disclosing too much but what ever, this is what i'm stressed about and need to vent, lol!

So I got back from Hawaii a week ago tomorrow, and it was amazing, great weather, only 2 days of rain but I had burnt my face so bad it was fine to give it a rest. I had a blast hanging out with Andrea and Dad + Shelley. It was quite relaxing and nice to have a detour from my daily routine. Jayme did AWESOME back at home. So impressed. He never sounded stressed or mad when he called (we talked everyday) and never complained or said "I'm never doing this again" it was nice as I would have stressed if he was stressed. (Thanks sweetie) He showed the house 10times! Which meant packing up the kids (almost always during naps) and keeping the house tidy! He actually got TWO offers while I was a way. One was a really lowball, and they didn't like our counter of only 900 below asking. So it was dead after that, but the other one is good so far.. FINGERS CROSSED!

Oh and have I mentioned yet that possession on our house is April 29th.. so once the deal is firm, we'll have 5.5 weeks to find a house and move. Fun!