Blah!

The title pretty much describes how I'm feeling today!! It has been an interesting weekend. Not much interesting happened, but it's been a bit off ... I guess you could say?!

Thursday afternoon we took the kids for their H1N1 immunizations. Thursday morning there was a 4-5 hour wait, Thursday afternoon there was NO wait!!! Crazy, but true! lol!! I was amazed at how well they did with the needle! Blake didn't even cry, flinch, or anything. He just sat on my knee and watched the needle go in and then went and sat on a chair and ate a fruit snack while Emerson got her needle!! Emerson cried for about 1 second when they took the needle out! It was a relief to finally have them done. We've been talking about it for what seems like forever! Now Cal and I will hopefully be able to get it within the next week or two.

Blake and Cal had swimming Friday night, which went really well again. Blake gets more and more brave every time! Before we know it he'll be doing the front crawl ;) I thought swimming lessons would tire him out and he'd fall asleep really fast, but I think it gets him a bit hyper instead! It takes him longer to fall asleep on swimming lesson days ;) So much to re-cap in his mind I guess?!

Saturday Cal went hunting with my Dad and Dion and the kids and I hung out with my Mom. Mom took Blake for a hair cut in the a.m. and I went for a hair cut when the kids were napping in the afternoon! Blake had fun at the hair salon. He was very happy that he got to sit on the motorcycle!! When the kids got up from their naps, we went to Kingsway Mall. The plan was for me to take my bridesmaid dress to the tailors there. Yes, that was the plan ... someone else had other plans ... I tired the dress on and the seamstress made some suggestions and basically said they couldn't do the required alterations. Which made me a bit nervous, as I didn't have a back up plan and the wedding is less than a month away!! To boot, as I was changing out of my bridesmaids dress some, excuse me, LOSER opened the door and "exposed" me. So, yeah, that was not cool, nor fun ... After that we drove to a second tailors, who was recommended by Pure Bridal where we bought our dresses. I try on the dress for her and she told me I should buy proper underwear, a.k.a. a good fitting bra, before having the dress altered. Which I kinda knew I'd have to do, but I was really hoping to get away with no bra. So anyways, she suggests that with my "size" I would have to go to a lingerie store, and we're not talking La Senza, and recommends her friends "shop" on the south side. So back into the truck we go and rush to the south side before they close at 5. Thankfully, I found exactly what I needed, mind you it cost an arm and a leg, but I'm very happy with what I bought and it definitely makes a difference in the dress!! So now I just need to get back to the tailors to have the dress altered! She assured me she'd be able to have it done in time!! Phew :) Emerson was NOT happy on the way home ... and that's an understatement. Thankfully, Blake was an angel :) She usually eats between 4:30 and 5:00, so apparently she was starving. You'd think she hadn't ate in 10 days. Geez! Cal got home from hunting around 7:30. They didn't get their moose ... maybe next time!

I picked Emerson's dress up this morning and did some shopping at Londonderry Mall. The dress is SO adorable!! Lindsay ordered a flower headband for her, which will look very cute too!! And she also ordered a tie for Blake. These kids are going to be the most adorable kids on the planet that day ;) After their naps this afternoon we went to Kingsway Mall to walk around for a bit and bring supper home!

Emerson has been totally off the last few days. We're not sure why? Could be any number of things - she hasn't had lactulose for about a week, she is going a small amount every day, but maybe not enough? She seems to be a very hard teether, her cheeks are always bright red and she is drooling like crazy! Could be reacting to the H1N1 shot?? Although, I don't think that is it. And she has had a cold for the past week, but it is a lot better then a few days ago. Not sure what's bugging her, but she can sure be miserable!!! And when she is unhappy, if I'm in the room all she wants is me to hold her. She wines until I pick her up! If she can't see or hear me she's fine. At least I know she loves me :)

Blake has the same cold as Emerson, but it's a lot easier to deal with a 2 yr old with a cold! He can blow his nose, which makes it SO much easier!! And the cold hasn't held him down much at all!

We hope everyone is doing well, and hopefully feeling good! 'Tis the season for all these nasty flu's, viruses, etc. Take care, and have a great week.

Luv Tracy