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updates

I guess I've been amiss in writing enough lately hey?

 

let's see .....

Mike's job is going alright.  He's busy, working long hours and in Calgary every week for a few days (groan.).

Spring is coming, our snow is mostly melted (see tumblr blog for pics ... www.modernmama.tumblr.com)

The girls are great ...

Nya just got her report card and we had our demo of learning where she gets to show us what she's been doing in her classroom this past week.  Her report card was littered with words like 'inspire, independance, joy, capability, exceptional, active participant, proud, amazingly, fluency, soaring' ... and those were her teacher's words, not mine (biased)!  When we visited her classroom her teacher teased her that she had the best handwriting in the class, better than her own.  Her reading is awesome and apparently she's really great at math (hm, she did NOT get that from ME!).

She has planned a party at Chuck E Cheese on April 7 and we are inviting her WHOLE school!  15% of the evenings' sales are going to dEBra Canada!!  She is really excited and we've made a few posters to hang up around the school (see the tumblr blog Friday's pic).

Berlin is also doing great.  Her teacher said she's doing great; her drawings and hand writing is also slightly advanced (yes, that's biased mom speak).  At home she continues to be challenging and SPUNKY, to say the least!!!  OH - and I worry that she's going to be that 'mean girl' at school sometimes because she talks about not liking certain girls or not wanting to play with certain kids in class.  Hm.  A challenge.  I hope she overcomes this with age because I certainly don't want her to be that 'mean girl' that Nya has encountered a few times.  Each year Nya has spoke of a particular girl that talks like this 'doesn't like me' 'doesn't want to play with me today, but maybe tomorrow' type stuff. SO MEAN!!!!! So please please please, don't let Berlin be that girl.

Ivy -- what can I say other than -- PRECIOUS!  Precious as always.  She's currently working on perfecting her groove and standing ability.  She does not really want to take steps.  Which is PERFECTLY fine with me!!!!!  She's working on teeth too, and she is definitely NOT sleeping through the night yet.

Me?  I'm doing good.  Working hard on Modern Mama these days.  I added up and estimate that I work about 4 hours a day, minimum.  This could explain the dust bunnies around the house.  Somethings gotta give, I suppose.  I have CTV News coming out to interview me at my event this coming Wednesday evening where I am introducing local babysitters to local moms!  I also interviewed on CBC Newfoundland's West coast morning radio show, a radio station in Fort McMurray and those two newspaper articles I posted before.  It has been really great for my business.  I have also found someone in Calgary so I am working on launching Modern Mama Calgary as well!  yay! 

I think that about covers it.
Check back in soon and see the daily pic at www.modernmama.tumblr.com

 

 

 

 

it's over.

Mike accepted a job with URS that starts Monday.  My 'help' is quitting.  I'll have to do drop offs/pick ups all by myself.  I'll have to get showered/dressed and all 3 bambinos dressed first thing in order to leave at 8am.  And it's not only that my 'help' is quitting - he's also leaving town ... for a month!  He needs to spend time in the Calgary office for a while.

 

now .... bambino #2 is hounding me to play barbies .... off i go.

check out www.modernmama.tumblr.com for a new photo every day.

 

 

Ivy's first steps!!!!

Ivy's first steps

 

This was taken yesterday, Mar 2.

finally!

yes, i'm back.  and this time with pics.

First an update on my previous post -- (see below, read it.) -- Nya and us (sometimes Mike, sometimes me) talk every night about her issues with her blisters.  Some days its about how she got hurt that day at school or how she felt bad about a situation, maybe hurt feelings, etc.  The other day it was about death (oy vey) because of a bad book they read at school about someone dying and being cremated (WHY oh WHY are they reading this stuff to 6 year olds is my question.).  And other things.  Like a fundraiser to raise money for the doctors who research EB.  And like finding her a penpal with EB-Simplex.   Both are possibilities I am working on right now and she has her share of input.

Ivy is precious and crawling like crazy and babbling lots, and teething lots.  She is 17lbs, a little itty bitty one year old.

Berlin has improved her unpredictable attitude quite a bit with improved sleep - we split up the girls on Dec 27 into two separate bedrooms and HAVEN'T LOOKED BACK.  It's amazing how much more sleep they get.

On to some pics.  If you want to read about Ivy's First Birthday festivities specifically, read my work (Modern Mama) blog here:  www.modernmamamusings.ca

and if you want to catch up on my daily pic, see here:  www.modernmama.tumblr.com

Sorry about all the different links ... c'est la vie ... that's ME!

On to the pics you were hoping to see .....

 

 

i know i know...

you need new pics and video.  sorry, that isn't why i came tonight.

I came tonight because i haven't been writing much, not on blogalicious.ca (for ages, sorry) and nor on here.  obviously most of you know that we've got some stuff going on around here, and we are dealing all good and fine.  i'm deliriously positive that something GREAT will come out of it, so i'm not stressing.  too much.  about that.

Nya has been expressing just how frustrated and sad and mad she is lately, about 'her blisters'.  let me tell you, it's positively heartbreaking.  yes, i know - i've been there and i should know how to handle these things. but it's hard.  it's very difficult to see your six year old cry about hating 'her blisters', about being angry at God (yes, she has said that) for giving her 'her blisters', and hearing her pray every night that she will feel good and that her feet will feel good at school the next day.  We've caught her crying alone after 'good-night's' are spoken. 

I had a long conversation with her tonight because I feel like we need to 'do' something with this phase she is going through.  I don't know what that something is, so we discussed it for a while.  I suggested maybe that I should find her a penpal/friend that has EB too, she suggested maybe we ask people that don't have EB or Diabetes (her friend at school has Diabetes) what it feels like to NOT have those things, and then we talked about making it into a book - her findings.  Because she wants to talk to friends at school, Daddy & Berlin and my old friends about this question.  We also talked about the word research, and the word cure and how Doctors need money to do those things.  Maybe we'll start a fundraiser, who knows -- she's going to think about these things, and she wants to talk about them more, "maybe every night at bedtime, and sometimes in the mornings, too".  We'll get back to you on our ideas and outcome.

Let me know if YOU have any ideas on what can help at the moment.  I never, ever want her to feel like I should have done more.

watch this

No, I didn't create this video, but it's VERY cool (and SHORT, don't worry!)

 

short video ... watch it

February

I had to change the theme of this page to something a little more cheerful than snowflakes, because I'm done.  Done.  Done with the freaking amount of snow, and cold.  I realize it's only going to be Feb 1 tomorrow ... but it's a start.  A start towards the next month, and the next, and again, the next.  Until we finally reach June.  Or whenever it finally gets nice outside.  I hope it's soon.

New videos to come ... i've got some cuties to post.  Keep checking my tumblr blog for my daily photo.  365 days in a row baby!  (www.modernmama.tumblr.com)

my baby is going to be ONE

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Yep ... we're having a musical party for little Ivy with a music class - Heather's Musical Garden (www.heathersmusicalgarden.com) is coming!  This invite designed by Invitations Ink on Etsy!!  (www.kottageon5th.etsy.com)

Lots of pics will follow after the main event!

i still love Van

Vancouver

our music lover

she loves music, she bops to a good beat all the time, and here she is gettin' down ... at 11 months old!:

 

Ivy boogy