Lost internet for five days and now can't seem to find the time. Usually I read but rarely comment and post but these days I am so busy. Don't hate me. Soon I will be back int he land of the digitally living.

Hugs and kisses xoxoxo

*runs out again*

Well shucks, I was hoping I could sign Wednesday up for some sort of toddler dance program but the earliest I can sign her up is 3. Oh well, we'll find something else fun and exciting!

LOOK What I made today! :D





Too bad the dog ate it before we did. But thank goodness I took pictures!

Me: "Wednesday, what would you like to eat for supper?"
Wednesday: "Food."

My kid is teh smart.

Also, it is not even 8:30 and Wednesday I think is bored. We bought her the last of (most of) her outer winter gear last night so I think maybe we'll take a walk to Timmies and get "Doubles and Donuts". Ron and I go through the drive through enough asking for double doubles and a plain donut that she says "Doubles and Donuts" whenever we come close to a drive through.

Maybe her pictures at Wal-Mart? Uggh. I am not a fan of Wal-Mart photos at all but Christmas is coming and I really don't have THE photo for Christmas cards yet. What do you guys think? It is getting too cold for outside photos that do not have her buried in gear and well, indoor photos are suh a sporadic option. Thoughts?

Happy Halloween Ya'll!

Update from yesterday activities..

I got half of Wednesday's costume finished. I did the cape and slipstitched the bodice pieces to a white turtle neck. Today I just have to sew up a simple skirt and I am done! She is going to be so cute, I am hoping the weather holds up tomorrow so I can get some great daylight photos! *Crosses fingers*

I managed to do all of my chores and visit with my best friend but no baking. My energy levels were shot after eating Chinese food. Which Ron and I normally don't do because of all of the chemicals and sugars but we hadn't had it in so long and we were all starving. Thankfully Wednesday ate a good dinner previous to our buffet.

Today though I really really want to bake those freaking blackberry cornmeal cupcakes (muffins0 but time is so fleeting!

Oh, and somehow I have to fit in pumpkin carving! Wednesday calls them pumpkin monsters so I have to make her some super happy fun ones!

Ok, time to cuddle and watch cartoons for a bit with the babe before I start this crazy day!

On the list of things to do today: Laundry, Wednesday's Little Red Riding Hood Costume, blackberry cornbread muffins, visit with an out of town friend, swiffering...always friggen' swiffering, maybe shopping if Ron gets paid today, Wednesday have already watched the better part of a movie with snacks and cuddling today.

I'll post costume results soon...probably tomorrow? As soon as I have some good light for my model who hates to model.

Happy Thursday!

Happy Birthday Kitty Kat ( djshady_lane ), hope you are celebrating in style!

Ok people, I am going through Supernatural withdrawal and I cannot wait until next year for season 5 to come out on dvd. We don't have satellite and it is not offered anywhere on our cable package.

Please to be giving me your best tv watching streaming links! The few sites I used to use for bones and Criminal Minds keep having Supernatural taken off for infringement laws. So if your sites have episodes 1 through 6 I will pay you in cookies!

♥ Missy

This will be a little disjointed...

I have honey whole wheat bread rising in the oven. For all the baking I do I do not bake much bread. Sometimes it turns out and others not so much. I am hoping with some more practice I can remedy that and Ron will stop whining for bread.

Bought a new stroller yesterday. It is sexy. Yes, I just called a stroller sexy. We didn't want to get one but her old one did not fit anymore. I wrote about it and our last one at blogger for those of you who do not get the feed here is the link.

Wednesday is outfitted for winter except boots. I would like a better fitting jacket for her but can't argue with free.

Okay, now I have peanut butter and jam mini muffins in the oven...

Domesticity tastes good yes?

I almost forgot to post this...

Wednesday told me in the STORE without prompting that she had to pee. I couldn't believe it. another potty learning milestone hit, and so soon!

While we are on the subject I'll update...

• We are five weeks into this journey.
• She spent three of those weeks pantless, pantyless and diaperless. She had not one accident.
• She has been in 'panties' (or cloth training pants, but for her benefit theyare panties) for two weeks and had less than a handful of accidents. Sometimes she just gets so wrapped up in something and forgets, or is sitting and I can't watch for 'the dance'.
• She has pooped more than a few times which is super awesome as I mentioned in a previous post about her bowel issues.
• She only asks for a treat (real fruit jelly) about 50% of the time.
• When we go out we put her in cloth diapers, I figure they are as good as any pull up for letting her know when she is wet.
• Today she told me in public she had to pee in time to make it to the toilet!

I am so proud of her!

Yesterday Ron made Wednesday a "bug hat". It was supposed to be a beanie with propellors but Wednesday saw it and thought antennae. She wears it, happily. It is the first thing she has kept on her head for more than thirty seconds in over a year.



I love her so much.

This is for Laura aka majortom_thecat

Sorry I have taken so long to thank you for the felt. I really thought I would have these done in a couple days (I started them the same day I got the felt) but in all honesty they took forever due to neck pain and just plain business. But I wanted to thank you! The rest of the red will be part of Wednesday's Halloween costume and the other colours will go toward a felt storyboard!

Now on to the project...

What do you get when you add 240 buttons, 20 pieces of felt and a billion stitches? You get dominoes!



These took me what seemed like forever! In truth I worked on sewing the buttons on and off for a month and spent two hours sewing, stuffing and trimming today. The buttons took me so long because my neck would be sore after just a couple of dominoes so I tried to keep them to a couple times a week. It was great work for keeping my hands busy whilst watching television though. But I don't think I will ever do these again, nor would I think of doing them for selling because of the sheer length of time it takes to sew 240 buttons.

Laura aka majortom_thecat sent me the felt for the cost of shipping. This plus yards of other stuff I can't wait to do more things with it! The idea came because Wednesday is starting to actually count things, not just recite her numbers. She also loves buttons (she has her own bucket of buttons for sorting and counting etc.). I thought this was the perfect way to combine all those things.

Each button is sewed and sewed and sewed again so that none come in mouths or hands. Each domino is stuffed with a batting made from corn and each stitch is triple stitched for both looks and function.

Love these so much. I can't wait to play them with Wednesday.

Thanks to my new BFF pregnantbones I have two old XD cards for my old ass Olympus DSLR. Man did I ever miss this camera. (The programming on it is too old for the new cards!) Anyhoo, we took it out to reacquaint ourselves with it and these are my favourite photos from our nature walk yesterday.

Just a quick note half to myself about Wednesday's latest accomplishments. :)

She can now count to ten with ease and without help or prompting. Yay!

She knows the first seven and last seven letters of the alphabet. It helps that ehr name has NINE letters lol. I am going to start with more flashcards soon.

Her colours are coming along nicely, mostly due to the hours and hours and hours of couloring we do around here.

Speaking of colouring Wednesday now draws heads with eyes, ears, nose and smiles and feet all in the right place. On Tuesday I was drawing "big hearts" (you have to say that with a deep voice) and she put eyes and a smile and then a nose and ears and then feet all where each part goes without being shown. It floored me. I have two pictures in particular to scan but I am just so proud!

She is starting to tell me when she has to pee if she has a diaper on (when I need her to wear pants or we go out she still wears a diaper) and if she is bottomless like she is 90% of the day I don't have to ask her to pee she does it on her own several times a day and these last two days she has not asked for a treat afterward. Woot!

I don't have any recent pictures to share because my camera. Tonight though!

Okay Wednesday has awoken and needs sustenance. Ciao bellas!

If you'll kindly remember the woe is me homeschooling post from a few days ago I would like to steer you towards a blog post I wrote at my other blog on the subject and how Ron and I are heavily considering it and researching it.

Becasue it is a lengthy post I will leave it as a link to save the friends pages of those of you who subscribe to the feed.

I am going to try and type a real honest update here but Wednesday is sick today (head full of snot) so who knows.

*Ahem*

*Blank stare*

Not a lot has changed here. Even with everything I have been crafting, sewing and baking. And when the weather holds we go walking through the wooded parks. We have tried to stay social. Wednesday is back in Kindermusik classes (but she is too sick today and I don't want to infect the other children) but it is good. While it is not the actual Kindermusik franchise it is preschool type music lessons concentrating on beat and rhythm and sharing and mommy and me activities. I think when we get more into the rhythm it will be awesome again. I broke the bank to pay for these because I remembered how much Wednesday learned from Kindermusik in Kelowna and really wanted her to have that again here. So yay!

Play date this week will be here at our place. I am excited! I want to do a big crafty bit like paper mache bowls or something but who knows. Ideas for toddler crafts?

Ron is going in for an MRI soon. He has been having painful muscle spasms in his chest for over a month now and the doctor believes it is nerves. Ron was electrocuted seven years ago and although he has had twinges ever since this is the first time he has had spasms that do not let up.Ever. Hopefully we can make this easier on Ron. No amount of massage therapy, over the counter painkillers, heat, cold, A5-35 is helping.

We might be moving out of here in the next couple months into an apartment that Ron is renovating (and getting paid for) himself. That is all I can say because I am a firm believer in jinxing. But it is going to be bad-ass!

I am obsessed with sewing. I have to take breaks from it though so as not to throw my neck and shoulders out. Also, so that Ron can enjoy my awesome self. :) Seriously though, when I am not sewing I am looking for inspiration projects or just plain great stuff to copy. With Christmas rearing it's head soon this should not be a problem.

Wednesday's potty learning is coming along great. Even her nap diapers are getting dryer. This is working out better than I thought. As soon as stops peeing in panties we will be well on our way!

Okay, Ron just walked int he door and I have a pile of laundry to do plus a library to visit so I am going to head out. But, not before I leave you with a slide show of photos from our most recent nature walk.