marching on: family update on the fly

After the last week of rocky rock-bottom-ish sleep (Jordan Jordan Jordan), last night's four hour stretch felt like four-ty-eight hours of shut-eye (you know it's bad WHEN...). But (sigh), he's been sick (runny nose, mild cough) and is teething, and maybe he knows that I'm going away sort of soon - and he's protesting. This will make those all-night New Zealand sleeps (I hope) even sweeter, unless that strange thing happens where/when you finally get time and space to do something and you can't because you're missing what you left behind. Anyways! I'm hoping the littlest hub starts feeling better and sleeping better and drinking from a bottle... we still haven't had any luck on that front.

Fam-dam-update day? Sure. This is completely unplanned so here goes.

MOI
Quoi de neuf? Our volleyball season at Western is in its last legs - the team left for the OUA Final Four in Toronto last night, and I'm spending the weekend at home with all of my chickens. I made it to two practices this week and one club practice, and that felt fairly maxed out with nary a second to spare between one practice, dinner prep, dinner, dinner cleanup, feeding baby and rushing out the door to get to the next event. I'm trying to get multiple workouts in every week, with varying degrees of success (and consistently sore legs) - I should have hit the gym this morning but opted to stay home and hang out with Steve and do some housework (oh yeaaaaah) since I'll be alone for the next few days while he's at the men's Final Four in Hamilton. I've been working hard to get a presentation in order for a coaching conference that's coming up next week in conjunction with  Nationals in Toronto, and I'm hoping that the time I've put in will combat the mild nerves I'm feeling about presenting and knowing my stuff. This will be my first solo conference presentation (1 hour), and I hope it's a good one! There must be more but that's all the information my brain feels like producing about myself.

Steve
This one heads to the Hammer this afternoon for Mac's Final Four games, and then will likely be on a plane heading west early next week for Nationals (if Western makes it I'll make it into Toronto where the Women's Nationals are being hosted at Ryerson) - hosted by the University of Alberta. He's been working a bit with some contractors, dealing with the usual random house and car issues, and has put in a few more hours with Mac's volleyball team in the lead-up to the end of season.

cute!!!!!

Jordan (almost 10 months)
The youngest of the fam one gets an A+ in eating, and a near F in sleep - though it could be worse so really I should give him a C-. As my dad says, he's in Search and Destroy mode, crawling everywhere and immediately finding whatever item or piece of flotsam that is the least appropriate for a small baby: plastic bags, cords, tiny objects etc. I keep meaning to look back on the other two and see what they were doing/eating at this stage, but, well, I'll add it to the mental list. He's eating a variety of mush: rice cereal, applesauce, yams, squash, chicken, egg yolk, pureed fruit; and little bits of small food - Cheerios, blueberries, kiwi, orange, cheese... maybe more? Probably. He's super happy and easy going (at least during the DAY he is) and couldn't get much cuter. LOVE him but hope he starts sleeping better again soon (how about tonight!).

it was wear green day today at school - Hendrik got an A+ for spirit!

Hendrik
Oooooh Hendrik - Hendrik's latest thing is pushing limits as far and as hard and as often as possible, with whoever happens to be there (or not there). It's frustrating... exasperating... and so difficult to stay calm and collected to respond appropriately (whatever that means) - without TOTALLY exploding like a crazed psychopath. He's in bed now, reading, and I'm not far behind him. What else is new with him - hm; he aced his spelling test today (50/50, woohoo!), is SUPER excited for Spring Break (because he doesn't like all of the sitting he has to do at school - I get it), and still picks Bey Blades as his toy of choice. Next.

with one of her besties, ngawang

Alana
Alana is a social butterfly and LOVEs school - she loves spending time with her friends and comes home with notes and pictures from people and notes and pictures for people. More of these are created at home - for her friends and for her family members; she drew a trophy for Hendrik the other day because he won a family BeyBlade Burst tourney (that's right, we had one) and then drew and coloured in a beautiful heart for Steve just because. She also likes playing with Barbies and stuffies/toys at night before bed (while Hendrik reads) and she's probably fallen asleep in the spread she had laid out all over her bed, with doll arms and legs sticking out willy nilly. She's into Barbie books (she brought home Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale from school - ugh!) but thankfully she hasn't discovered the show. I picked up a few movies from the discount bin at Best Buy this afternoon and has to pass over a few Barbie DVDs... Even though I know she would LOVE them, I just can't! There must be more to say but I need to go to bed. Fingers crossed that tonight is flooded with SLEEP!

some at-home art

reasoning-to-have-a-bath lists

"hideout hendrik"