Satan's Spawn

We all had a very nice weekend here. Friday afternoon Julie, Meals and I went shopping at Home Sense then Julie came back to our place and we all had dinner together and watched Memoirs of a Geisha, it was excellent. While Julie was over Amelia managed to get into her purse and get out her work tag and put that on as well at Julie’s scarf. She puts everything over her head, is that weird or is it just me??? She did look pretty cute but talk about dangers, hmmm. Saturday morning, Jeff, Melie and I went for a walk in High Park. It was beautiful and sunny but brrr abit on the cold side. The Spring Runoff was on so we cheered on and dodged the runners. Saturday afternoon Jeff cook for Damon’s 30th birthday pot luck and I played with Meals and tidied the house etc. Damon’s Birthday was very nice, it was great to see a bunch of friends who we hadn’t seen in awhile. While we were out Julie babysat Meals for us, she was even brave enough of take on bath time :). By all reports things went well. Sunday was gardening day for us; we went to Plant World to get expert advice on what to do about our lawn. I am always amazed by the people that work at the nurseries and plant stores, it never fails I always go with a huge list of questions and not once have the people there not be able to help me. I don’t know how they retain all this knowledge about all these different plants etc either that or they are all very skilled at talking out of their ass. As usual the guy we talked to was VERY helpful. I wish I could figure this whole plant/gardening thing out, I wander around looking at all the pretty plants and flowers in awe, I even have a book but still I am totally overwhelmed. After our trip to the plant store, I potted my little rosemary plant (the only thing I knew at the store but I did have to get very clear directions on the care) and Jeff racked the front lawn. While we were both doing stuff on the front lawn we borrowed out friends kiddie pool and put that on the front lawn with toys in it and Meals played, she did take one header out of it but she wasn’t that fussed about it. Sunday afternoon/evening we went to IKEA and got a new carpet to replace out dirt infested rats nest of a flikarti rug in our living room. I still went for the impractical cream but this time it is much easier to vacuum. We were a little worried about the smell of sour gas/farts that the new carpet emitted but by this morning the smells seems to have gone, thank goodness. Sunday night we had dinner at Julie’s apartment, yumm yum yumm. I made brownies for dessert, big mistake, someone PLEASE come and take them from me….. So this week in Melie news… Well lets see not much new other than the fact that my daughter has turned in to the DEVIL’S CHILD when it comes to eating, BAH!!!! I don’t know what we did, she used to eat everything now it seems like she has figured out that she likes some things better than others and she is going to put up a fight until she gets what she wants. I can currently here my mother laughing all the way from South Africa, I guess Amelia comes by it honestly and all I would eat was blueberries and yogurt, eew I can’t imagine what the output from a diet like that would be…. Okay bad visual. Anyways back to my troublesome toddler, all I have to say is BAH BAH BAH!!! She won’t even try things before she has her lips clamped and turns away, seems the only way we can get her to willingly open her mouth is to cheer for her when she does eat something and I can’t imagine how this is going to screw her up as a teenage. She has also mastered putting things in her mouth then pushing them back out, grrrrr. Meals woke up this morning with a cough and sniffles, poor thing. She is abit crankier than usual and more snugly but she seems to be fairing pretty well. Well beautiful day today so I think we will go for a walk. Ohohoh tomorrow our last piece of furniture for the basement arrives, our desk, I can’t wait no more sawhorses and wood slab. YEAH!!! Poor Meals may no longer be able to sit on her thone under the desk (the subwoofer).