Dear Blog, it's me, Andrea.

A body at rest will stay at rest. So, that's why I haven't blogged for a long time. I have the LAWS OF PHYSICS working against me.

Lots has happened in the last couple of months. These are the highlights.

Chase:

You love shoes. YOU. LOVE. SHOES. You love your green dinosaur crocs and if we try to help you put them on you chuck a wobble. You love putting Zoe's shoes on. If she tries to take them from you, you chuck a wobble. You put my boots on. You look silly. But, you don't care.

You love meat. YOU. LOVE. MEAT. It's pretty much all you want to eat. I remember not long ago I was freaking out that you were turning out to be a vegetarian (let's face it, they're all weird) but phew, that phase is over. We picked you up from daycare one Friday and the girl there said "Boy, Chase sure likes his sausages. He had about 6 or 7." I informed her that we try to cut him off at 2. No one that's less than 2 feet tall should eat 7 sausages. Ever.

You're still albino. White hair, blue eyes, pale skin. I still cut your hair and do a marvelous job each time.

You love your cars. You don't do anywhere without cars in your hands. Usually hotwheels, or the "neenoo" which is the ambulance, or "kachow" which is Lightening McQueen. You drive them on my couch, you drive them on me, you drive them all over. It's a one track mind. Until you're 14 of course. Then you'll be into video games. Ha.


Zoe:

You are such a lovely little lady. You are polite. You are a good conversationalist. You don't like it when it's "too quiet" in the car. We tell each other stories and I love hanging out with my little mini-me. You still like to tell everyone you see that "I'm a big girl, I'm FOUR YEARS OLD". And apparently you told the termite inspector that you sleep with 5 animals, not 6, and not your baby because she's too hard, and not that baby because it makes noise. I'm sure he was riveted.

You are getting much more confident in your swimming lessons and you still love school. Dancing is a favourite of yours, and so we have "dance parties" in the lounge room all the time. I like this, well, because, I don't get to go clubbing anymore, so this is my replacement. Jumping and arm waving with my 4 year old to the Black Eyed Peas.

RJ:

Still enjoying the stay-at-home gig and had a surf trip to Bali with his friend Jer. Just recently built a most beautiful deck to which he exclaimed "After 3 long, hard, back-wrenching days building a deck… I'd rather watch the kids!".

Andrea:

I had a blast on my sibling trip to Vegas. It was just my sister and brother and I in the city that doesn't sleep. Shopping by day, gambling by night. My visa keeled over and told me she had a headache, but I gave it a couple ibuprofen and off we went!! After just a couple days, RJ had to send me more money. I was "up" from all the gambling, but down down down from the shopping. Then off to Calgary to meet my wee nephew William, what a cutie!!

Am officially a permanent employee with Chevron (was previously contracting). If you are wondering what I do, I'm in IT (for Geosciences). That's all I ever tell non-industry people. RJ doesn't even know what I do. I think he always tells people "something with computers".

I plomise it won't be 4 months again until my next post. Especially since Halloween is coming up, so I'm sure there will be some scaaaary stories. Well, "Chase ate 9 sausages and barfed on the dog" scary, I'm sure.

Take care all.
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