Author Archives: Nicole

P365 Day 108 – April 17th 2008

Time Out and time for a new strategy. The Time Out chair is no longer working – he likes looking around too much and spends most of his time looking at us, asking questions or laughing. This is Kei’s solution – standing facing the door with his hands behind his back (even the door can become a toy if you are allowed to touch it). Two minuted of this and Thomas is incredibly cooperative. Most of the time we don’t even get to Time Out stage. Just the threat of it is enough. How am I going to deal with it when Thomas finally works out that there is nothing holding him there and that he could just walk away. I am a little afraid.

A Milestone…

I have reached 1000 hits. Now I know that is small potatoes for some but I can’t believe that I have had so many people show even a teeny tiny interest in what I have to say. I mean seriously – you don’t have anything better to do? hahaha.

And to fittingly mark this incredible milestone, I am unable to post anything of great interest today. I left the house this morning without my computer AND without my phone. Sheesh! So no P365 pics today but I will hopefully get about 5 days worth uploaded tonight so come back tomorrow for more than you ever cared to know about the past five days of my life. 🙂

Oh the other thing – I am using a loaner laptop at work so I am not able to check in on my favourite blogs and I don’t have the link to my CT forums so I may as well have dropped off the face of the earth.

I do have one LO I can share thanks to that magical internet capability called linking. I have been sitting on this one for a while just waiting for the big LDD anniversary sale.

Is he too cute? Using some new stuff from Lauren Reid available at Little Dreamer Designs right now at 35% off.

So that’s about it for now. Back later with some pics.

At The Hip

I scrapped last night. I wanted to include a lot of journaling on this page and that usually comes at the expense of embelishments so my page is pretty “clean”. Thank goodness for this gorgeous canvas “paper” from Nancy Comelab that I found in my stash.

Click on the image to read journaling and credits.

At The Hip

I have not been feeling very creative lately. I am really enjoying my photo a day posts and telling stories on my blog – more than scrapping right now. I think that while this baby takes up more room he is reducing the size of my scrapping mojo along with the size of my stomach and lungs.

Oh, and today marks four weeks until my last day at work before maternity leave. Not that I am keeping track (much!).

P365 Day 106 – April 15th 2008

Thomas has been spending more and more time amusing himself lately. This is what he did while Kei and I ate dinner last night. He had a huge pile of books next to him and just went through them one by one reading them to himself and then to us. I am so glad Thomas loves books. Kei and I have been reading to him since he was born so I guess some of it has rubbed off.

P365 Day 105 – April 14th 2008

Playing around in the construction site. Thomas loves going upstairs to see what they’ve done every day. Right now it feels as though we’re going backwards a little. They have been ripping up the floor to put in the plumbing so there’s a bigger mess up there than last week. Next week they start on the heating ducts which will go up through the closet in the playroom – Thomas’ bedroom right now. The very FULL closet in the plaroom. I see a weekend of reorganizing in our future. Only a couple of months to go… that’s how we’re getting through it.

Stories

Thomas’ daycare has started a new activity each day where they ask the kids to tell them a story. They sit in a circle and ask for volunteers and apparently Thomas is always one of the first to put up his hand to share his story of the day. The best part is that they write the stories down and send them home for the parents to enjoy. It’s like a little insight into his thought process.

Here is the first “chapter” – three days worth.

April 11th
About a Shark and a Whale aaaand Sesame Street. The shark coming! Aaagh! Aaagh! There’s a shark! There’s a shark coming Daddy! A wolf.

April 14th
There was a Wolf, Shark and Sesame Street.

April 15th
Once about a Wolf, Shark and Sesame Street. My story about a Shark and Sesame Street. The guy not happy.

I sense a pattern in his thought process. 🙂

 

Boy Wonder

Using one of my new purchases – Boy Wonder by Emily Powers and Jenna Desai. I told myself that I can’t justify buying anything else until I have used some of the kits I purchased recently. I really like how this one turned out and it has reminded me (again) that I should use my blog posts as inspiration for my journaling.

Long Walk Home

Click on link for a larger image and full credits.

I do have about three other pages that I am not able to post yet. Waiting for the big Birthday Bash at LDD this weekend. I also have an $8 GC to the store burning a hole in pocket so can’t wait.

And one more for the list of random songs popping up in my head. Had this one playing when I woke up this morning. Wonder what it could mean.

P.S. This is the Harry Connick Jr version – not the scarecrow version – so I can pretend that not eveything is inspired by my two-year-old. Not sure what the animation is but it’s the only version I could find on YouTube.

Ta ta for now

Nicole

P365 Day 104 – April 13th 2008

Thomas helping Kei in the yard and making the most of the good weather before I turns bad later today. My plans for the remainder if the day? Many loads of laundry, cooking dinner and some dedicated downtime. In fact I just finished watching Enchanted. I expected it to be better than it was and was actuall grateful that Kei chose not to watch it with me. I don’t think I could have handled the snide comments I was sure to get from him during the movie.

Thomas is enjoying selected scenes now – the ones with lots of animals and singing and dancing. He just woke up from a three and a half hour nap. I think he was making up for yesterday when he chose not to take one at all. Nice break though.