Small things for a big girl

Not feeling so good today. Decided take the day off since I'll be on for the next two weeks. This is how I spent my day:

Small couch ("love" seat my big arse)

Small pillow

Seemingly huge blankie

iPad

I also watched "He's Not That Into You". Cheezy chic movies...

Big Boy Pants

Guess who went without nappies ALL day at school?

I got 6 pairs of trainers for Andrew to wear to school. He's been very interested in the potty recently. His teachers said that he always wants to use the potty when they go to change him. So...I ordered his trainers a while back but it took until Friday for them to arrive.

I thought we'd try the trainers this weekend so they wouldn't be new on Monday at school. (He has done really well with big boy pants at home. He will dribble and then run to the potty.) When he wore the trainers....he would pee and keep going. They must be too much like diapers. I was afraid he would go to school wearing the trainers, pee thru them and they would put him back in nappies.

The little guy surprised me. I went into his bag to get his dirties so I could wash them for tomorrow. There were still 3 un-used pairs (I didn't send all 6). He had a poopie pair (the most $$ pair of course!) and that was it. He had been in 1 pair all day!!! My little guy went peepee in the potty all day!!!

If you answered "Rene"...you are right except he doesn't go to school.

Happy 10...and pockets

Did you do anything exciting for 10.10.10? Today, we all write the date the same way. Why couldn't I be working today? Wait...no. I don't wanna work weekends again so soon.

Today Andrew found pockets. He's had them before. His Aunt Vicki puts kisses in all his pockets. Today we were putting on his pants which had pockets. I mentioned "pockets" and he got a huge smile. He shoved his hands in his pockets as soon as he could. He walked around with both his hands in his pockets. Soooo cute.

We went down to the convenient store and he didn't want to hold my hand bc his hands were in the pockets. The only time he took his hand out was to hold on to the railing in the elevator. He was a very good boy walking to the store, but I guess it's hard to run away when your hands are in pockets...

sorry about the blur...we were moving

Do you know where you were...

... 10 years ago today?

Me.... I was doing this:

Play Day

I had planned on heading to the Botanic Gardens today (they were having an Iris exhibit) but it was overcast and rainy looking. So the bear and I stayed in.

Andrew worked on using the potty. He wore his big boy pants (so cute!). He is getting very good at telling the peepees to wait until he gets to the potty. He only wore a diaper when he took a nap. I am just waiting on the trainers I ordered to come in so he can use the potty at school too. Hopefully he'll be out of diapers soon. But wait...I love diapers...I will have to start shopping for other babies again.

I did some crafting this morning while Andrew played by himself (yeah!). I took a canvas bag that Rene got at a conference and covered the logo. Andrew now has a bag to carry his school thing in.

Then I decided to embellish one of his many white t-shirts. I put stickers down to spell his name and then outlined it with tape. Then I used a cut up sponge to put the paint on. Turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself....

Rene got a package the other day. Included with his order was bubble wrap. We had lots of fun popping all those little bubbles. It's funny how one little bubble that pops can let loose loads of laughs...

now it's off to fold the clothes...

my day of = errands

Finally have a day off work (yeah!) so I spent the morning running errands. I love being in the city b/c I can walk everywhere.

After dropping Andrew off at school, I headed to the World Tower. I stopped by the Nursing Board to try to get my NP registration. Can I just say...incompetence??? The woman I spoke with said they don't currently have standards for NPs and they don't know when they will get them so there is no point in sending in the application. Wha????? No standards??? Now I knowthis is mis-information b/c I have come in contact with an Australian NP. As soon as I left the office, I rang her to give her the 411. She is going to help me get registered.

Off to the library (literally just down the block). Got a library card and a few books for the wee-one (and a few for myself). It's interesting that the selection of books is different from back home. I suppose they have more of a UK selection of authors.

Andrew's loving the "Truck Stuck" book. If I could figure out how to load videos, I would upload a video of him reading this book. So cute! And he surprised me by pointing out the letters in lowercase. I knew he knows his uppercase letters, but I didn't know he could recognise the lowercase letters too.

Then off to the craft store to "get my craft on". I am missing my sewing machine. I wish I could find a little one like I had back in the States. Not that we have room for me to have crafting stuff... More on my craftiness later. Oh, when I was checking out the craft paper, one caught my eye. This is what I saw:

not quite accurate, but it's Chicago

As I was walking down the street, I saw all these statues that were dressed up. I have seem them dressed up before. It's just weird. Don't the costumes get yucky in the rain?

Off to nap....

putting it out to dry...

I've been hanging the laundry out to dry recently. I used to do it back at the house, but hated the crunchy clothes and thought they smelled weird, so it was mainly just hte diapers. My dad said he liked the way clothes that dried in the sun smelled. I thought he was weird.

I totally understand now - I'm liking the way the clothes smell when they've been line-dried. I've been putting them outside to dry for 2 weeks now. I have to do a little planning since they don't dry in 1 hour like using the dryer. I either wash in the evening and dry overnight or wash overnight and hang before I go to work. I like to have my whites out to "sun" (bleach) although it's a little hard on our balcony/3-seasons room.

The only time I used the dryer was tonight when I needed to get diapers dry in time for school tomorrow. I wasn't able to wash them since I worked all wekeend. Since it's rainy, the clothes aren't drying as fast as they were when it was dry.

I read a blog where the family gave up the dryer for the summer. I'm inspired....

PlayDoh=PlayYeah

Andrew's nanny, Tashlin (or as we more recently call her "his home teacher"), made him some playdoh. It was a big hit!

When I got home today, Andrew was still in his jammies. It looked like it had been a rough day, so I brought out the playdoh. We had a grand ole time. He especially loved squishing it thru the potato masher.

(is it me or does he look like his aunt VJ in this pic? I think she's got a pic of her around that age with that same look on her face)

Work has been c.r.a.z.y!

Although I'm still in the probationary period, I got the privilege to "be on results" recently. So that means I liaise with the doctors about all the patients, give the biopsy results, etc. I also get the "after hours" mobile. The other nurses in my team said the mobile barely ever rang...yeah right!! It rang almost nightly - one night I had 3 calls. Yes, I realize that isn't that bad, but I still feel like a newbie. Yes, I've been doing this for almost 4 years, but not at this clinic.

Add to the mix, that I "take my work home with me". I was up every night tossing and turning wondering if I'd done everything and done it right. So I averaged about 4 hours sleep/night.

Then take away the rest of my team. For a few days, both nurses were out sick. Then one was on vaca and the other was out sick. Some of the support members (patient services reps, etc) were out sick too. Out of the 7 total members of the team, 2 of us were there. Needless to say...I was overwhelmed. The other teams helped out doing my interviews and taking some calls, but I hate asking for help so I tried to do it all on my own.

The day everybody was there, I got this on my desk:

Sprinkles :) and chocolate :)

"Is that a sandwich in your bag?" you ask...

why yes, it is. I ran out to get lunch, then forgot I put the sandwich in my bag to run back to work. The next day, Rene brought me lunch...