So much to blog about, so little time....

There is so much going on. I can't even begin to cover everything in a simple blog posting, but I will attempt it. Kudos' to whomever can finish this post in one sitting.

On Monday I was having a bath with my baby. I don't always do this, but sometimes I get jealous of the little dudes multiple bath-times. So I got in. We were having fun, splashing and getting clean when he starts to really fuss. Now, try and understand that when this kid is fussy - we can put him IN the BATHTUB and he will stop. He loves it so much. So when starts to cry I knew that something must be really wrong, but I foolishly said to myself "just 5 more minutes". Then he turned red, you would think I would recognize the signs, but again... just really enjoying this bath. Then I sit up a bit and realize to my HORROR that the child has POOPED in the tub. I have never exited the bath as quickly as I did in that moment. I even had a baby in my arms. Then we stood in front of the mirror for a good 30 seconds as I made sure the poop had remained in the stupid bathtub. When I was happy we were ok, we took a short shower then I took him to my room to dry him off. Now, Jericho is only 3 months old so it's not like he can be punished for something like this, but I gave my best shot at giving him a baby lecture. You know "I can't believe you did that you little stinky!" I must have said that to him about 10 times and by the tenth time he was full out laughing. Not his usual cute little giggles, but complete belly laughter. Then I started and I thought maybe he would stop. Nope. For a full minute we both were staring at each other laughing ourselves silly. It was the highlight of my week, and I hate to say it, but the poop was worth it just to hear that laugh. Then he peed on me and the moment was over.

Then on Wednesday night Nate and I got really adventurous. While we were at the grocery store last Saturday, we bought all the ingredients to make wonton soup. There's a little Chinese place in town that makes really great wor wonton soup with like chicken, pork, broccoli, little corn on the cobs, etc. It's really good, so we gave our best shot at making it from scratch. We bought the wonton wrappers though and didn't make them... but it's pretty close to scratch. We boiled the broth, cooked some beef and pork tenderloin.. cut up lots of veggies, and spooned the best wonton recipe I could find into the little wrappers. It was a our first time so there were some things we didn't quite do as well as we hoped.. like we're only supposed to get the corners of the wrappers wet because otherwise as you're trying to put the wontons into the pot they all stick together... and we would have put the broccoli in way later. But those wontons were the BEST I have ever tasted. The flavour was outstanding. Yum.

On Thursday we had wimp-out day. I wimped out on a walk with Amanda because it was raining... then in the ultimate Mother Nature joke - it got sunny. Then Nate & I both wimped out on Bible Study. We were so gonna go and then we just didn't. I think it was one of those days where you just don't want to do anything.

On Friday I went for a walk with Amanda. In the rain. We walked from 240th Street to 228th and Lougheed. It took 2 hours there and back and it was so fun! I think we're finding out we really like hanging out together. And our babies are only 5 weeks apart. The only problem with the walk was that these mean people kept splashing us with their cars, then someone told us they could have got a ticket for that if we had got the license plate. Weird. Is the ticket called "Splashing" or "Driving in the water"? Hmmmmm. At the end of the walk Amanda asked if Nate and I would like to hang out with her and Rich that night. We already had a babysitter - My mom and dad - and had planned on going out by ourselves. But it was a good decision to go out with them because we found another cool couple we like hanging out with! It was a blast. But also a little weird because I've known Rich for years... like since I was 8 and I haven't seen him in awhile, but him and his woman are awesome.

Saturday we had planned to be our 'family day'. It's a day where Nate can't work on his thesis - unless he really needs to - and we do something together, the three of us. So we took Jericho to the Leisure Centre. Since he loves the bath so much we wanted to see what he thought of the pool. We bought little Pampers Splashers so we wouldn't have the above-mentioned poop problem and suited him up in the cutest little camoflouged swim trunks that he got from his grandma and aunties. Straightaway we headed for the kiddy pool, but it was too cold for him, he was quivering his little lip, so we went to the other little one that's a little warmer and he loved it. He even went under water a couple times and didn't cry. He was kicking his feet and staring at the lifeguard. This kid is too cute for his own good. We stayed there for about 20 minutes and decided that was enough of that. Don't want to overdue it on his first time.

We also went to Zellers and bought new pillows and a mattress cover so our silly IKEA sheets won't keep coming off our bed in the middle of the night. ARGH. Last night was a good sleep.

Speaking of last night, a big thanks to R & T for putting on a party for Jericho. It wasn't a shower because we asked for no gifts, but it was a time to get together and celebrate the fact that he's here! Sometimes I feel that no one is excited about him. That no one really cares that I gave birth to this precious little person. We didn't have a church shower because so many people just kept giving me gifts every weekend because they didn't want to miss the shower. Then everyone who would have come to the shower had already given me something. But it still felt a little weird...But last night I loved it because we got to have his 'church shower'. Thanks everyone!