Elisa’s Day

even though sept.has had the most consistently nice weather of the whole summer, it is still feeling very much like winter prep around here. the fair has passed for another year, and much much fun was had. we did some math and figured that the price of the wrist band was equal to enough tickets for (approx) ten rides, and i’m pretty sure my kids went on every single ride at least ten times…….so yeah……we ate so very much junk food, threw darts to win junky prizes, marveled at the fancy chickens and perused the crafts and other entries. i really love the fair and the family tradition it’s becoming. molly was so good as well, a trouper considering we were there for about 7 hours.

and today was spent on the above mentioned winter prep. ryan stacked the last two cords of wood. i spent the day sorting clothes. out with the summer, in with the winter. sort the still good for next season from the too smalls to be packed away for the next in line. getting through it all is a good, 2 or 3 day job in all i’d say. a job i loath.

and today i also unpacked all the 3-6 and 6-9 month clothes too. and i started sorting out the teeny tiny clothes. the best ones for consignment, the rest for the thrift store. it made me a little sad. the clothes not so much, but the bassinet……. this week we’ll put the crib together and the bassinet will also go to consignment. the little white bassinet that all the babies slept in. until they couldn’t fit anymore. i’ve always hated packing away the bassinet because it meant the babies were getting big. and now it isn’t just getting packed in the basement for the next baby, but it’s going. sigh.

at least our bedroom here is huge. lots of room for the crib. it was a tight fit in our old place.  then some much needed cleaning out and organization of the upstairs as well. some shuffling of furniture, i think we’ll need a dresser in our room for baby clothes, so very many baby cothes. and hannah has two dressers in her room right now. and i think i’ll start painting the bathroom next week maybe. we’ll see. it’s fall cleaning, since i was too pregnant to be bothered with spring cleaning.

we have about one more month before the snow flies.

well, much fun was had in the big city. restaurants, hotel rooms, fancy dresses and dancing. it’s all good. the wedding was lots of fun though ryan and i were a little disappointed to be in toronto and not get to “do anything” like visit friends or head out to kensington or something……we had originally thought we might sunday, but man oh man, hannah ( mostly ) was just way to tired after her long night so we just headed home. it has inspired me though,  i really want to go for a few days with no “event” to do so we can just take the kids and do some fun stuff in the city.

tomorrow is the fair. everyone is pretty excited. hope it’s as fun as it was last year.

the first morning of school! i’m sure it helped the kids were super excited, it may be more challenging a few months in of course. but i got them to the bus on time. we almost lost olivia to a huge tantrum ( olivia can pitch a fit like no one has ever seen, over virtually nothing ) because she didn’t like how her new shoes fit, but we managed to avoid it and get out the door.

the one thing i kind of forgot was the part where molly can decide to be hungry at any point during that oh so busy hour. so i’m toying with the idea of waking her up at 6, before the kids get up to feed her first. today i just nursed her quickly while the kids got dressed and brushed thier teeth, luckily she is getting faster now that she’s almost 3 months as well. then we all walked up to the bus and once we got home we settled in for a good feed.

and now we’re going to head into town to get hannah her very first hair cut, and pick up my pictures. i finally finished fixing all the red eye. 2 years worth of pictures, about 550 in total. i was pretty happy to find out shopper’s drug mart was having a sale, 10 cents a print (!!) which is super cheap, pretty excited about that. now i dread sorting them all, as they never come in order. i swear to never let it go that long again, every three months is my goal.

haven’t really updated much about miss molly ( or missy molly as hannah calls her ) but she is so amazing. i can’t believe she is already 10 weeks. already my infant is a baby. and the easiest baby ever to boot. she is a good sleeper, with long naps during the day and usually sleeping from 8ish to 3ish at night, nursing once and back to bed for another few hours.  i know this could all go away once teeth start, but for now i’m loving it, especially since hannah was more one of those up to nurse every 1.5 hours types. and when she’s awake she is so easy going all around. she’ll happily be carried or worn, but also will happily lay in the pack n’ play with her mobile to look at or chill in the swing, which not only gives me much needed time for all the baking that goes on around here, it has eased most of my fears about how i was going to get the girls out the door in the morning for school. she’s even a good shopper, sling or stroller, if she isn’t asleep right away she just looks around, taking it all in until she does quietly nod off. she loves her baths and attention from her sisters. she is full of ridiculous huge smiles and so very close to laughs.  she is such an easy baby that it makes it hard to imagine this as the last time. so i remind myself that not all babies are so easy. and like jerry told george, you want to go out on a high note, so really, i’m just thankful that my last baby has turned out to be such an easy and 100% enjoyable experience. so far our biggest issue is a bit of walking/rocking to sleep sometimes and that she sometimes wakes up when i put her to bed, so instead of bed we just chill with ryan on the couch, the baby burrito asleep on my chest, and really, who doesn’t love a sleeping baby on them? this is our biggest “issue”?? LOL

i can’t believe school starts on tuesday. i am so not ready. i did make bread last evening, mostly because we have plans with friends this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon so i wouldn’t have had time otherwise. and i am making two lasagna’s for this afternoon and still need to find time to make cookies and rice krispie squares to freeze for the girls lunches. plus they all need a bath and hair wash, and to get their backpacks and other school stuff organized. yikes. i am looking forward to it though. sidney and olivia are played out. they are bored of each other and everything else.

i am taking advantage of a situation this year, a friend mentioned how her daughter was really hating daycare. she is olivia’s very best little friend, so i offered for her to come here on her off days. so that’s a bit of extra cash for us and i’m hoping it helps to amuse olivia on the days she’s home, since i’m still pretty occupied with molly in general. my only concern is that they play nicely with hannah as well, and don’t exclude her too much. we shall see. the crazy thing is that next year, kindergarten is supposed to go full time. which means that all the sudden i have three kids in school full time and it’ll just be me and miss molly all day every day. that seems crazy.

i am dreading winter. i can feel it already, in the cold mornings. i am dreading getting up in the pitch dark, and being cold all of the time. and getting the kids to the bus in -30. hopefully the really brutal weather holds off until ryan is home in jan. and feb. to do bus duty until the bad weather though, i’m looking forward to the walk to the bus every morning because i am hopelessly out of shape from a long, miserable, pregnancy. luckily the driveway is long and up hill, so a couple daily treks up that will help.

so i guess we’ll just have to enjoy fall as much as we can since there was no real summer. ryan’s been stacking wood and trying to finish off as many little out door jobs as he can. we have been doing the birthday thing so very much, ah sept. and all your birthdays. and i am looking very forward to the fair in a couple weeks. i only hope it is as much fun as it was last year, and that it becomes a much anticipated family tradition. and we have my cousins wedding the weekend of sidney’s birthday, so although it is an unusual birthday, i think it’ll be a fun one for her. i made reservations for about 20 at a fun restaurant ( the wedding is in the evening so no dinner ) and we’ll get her a cake, and then she gets to dress up, stay up late, and dance…..sounds like a good birthday to me.

that all makes for a crazy september though. and before i know it, we’ll be into october.