Harrison takes a boat ride

My husband thought it would be fun to teach our son to play boats....somehow this wasn't what I had in mind.

Nutcracker Tickets

Just a friendly reminder that Victoria is dancing next weekend at the Atlantic Theater Festival in the Nutcracker. Tickets are available now for all 3 shows. Just give me a call or call the Acadia box office.

Why do I have a feeling this will cause more problems in the long run?

I know travel security is a big business but this seems a bit extreme.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/101122/oddities/us_aviation_travel_security_offbeat

This is why in a few years the NTSB or some other agency will make wearing underwear on a plane illegal.

Happy Halloween

Harrison Jack has arrived!!!!!!!!!!!

Harrison Jack Floyd made his entrance Sunday October 24 2010 at 3:38am. He was 7 pounds 14 ounces and is 21 inches long.

Despite all the problems with the pregnancy he was perfect and made it to term at 37 weeks.

Who would like to teach me to count???

Okay I am obviously missing something. I am starting to think I fell asleep back in preschool when they taught us to count to ten. 2 weeks ago I put out the following on garbage day for collection:

1. 1 clear bag of garbage

4 blue bags of bottles and cans and plastic

2 blue bags of paper and cardboard

and the green monster (also known as the compost bin)

I came home to find a tag on 3 bags of recycling saying I was over my 8 bag limit. Uhm...wait 4+1+2=7 and if I'm not mistaken isn't

7 less than 8???? My cousin lives in town and her limit is 5 bags total. I called Valley Waste Resource Management and for my area it is a total of 8 bags. This week I put out the following for collection:

1 clear bag of garbage

5 bags of glass/bottles, cans and plastic

1 bag of paper/cardboard

and the compost bin (aka the green monster)

AND.......everything was taken!!! I am so confused....how can 7 put me over my limit one week but be acceptable 2 weeks later???

I swear you need a degree in waste management to sort and take out our garbage in this county!

Family Update

I can't believe how long it has been since I updated this blog! Life over the last few months has been crazy!!! I have been off work since July with complications in this pregnancy. I was in the hospital for a few days at the end of July in threatened preterm labour and got some lovely steroid injections and medication to try and stop or at least slow things down. Obviously it worked. I had a couple more ultrasounds and my due date was changed BACK to November 11 2010. I was allowed home and was to stay on bed rest. Well that was driving me nuts. The first few days of doing nothing was FANTASTIC. Then it got old...REALLY quick! Things seemed to be going well. I was uncomfortable and still having the odd round of contractions but nothing that was causing major changes so I was allowed to stay home. Then I did something really stupid....I had a shower.

Now you may be asking yourself how having a shower is stupid? Well for ME it is stupid to shower when no one else is home. I somehow managed to slip, fall and land OUTSIDE of the shower. That set everything into motion. I had a prenatal appointment that day and called the doctor office to tell them what happened. They told me to come right in. Event though I was have contractions pretty regularly the doctor assured me she thought all was okay and just to go to Labour and Delivery for a monitor strip as a precaution. Well that didn't turn out so well. I was starting to dilate and efface (which had been a change from when I was at my obstetrician earlier in the week). The doctor on call had done a fetal fibronectin test which came back positive. The monitor showed regular contractions and a follow up check showed I had dilated a cm in 45 minutes. I was put in an ambulance and sent to the women and children's hospital in the city. I spent 2 weeks there going between the birth unit and the prenatal special care unit. I was on total bed rest and was given drugs to stop the contractions. I was finally allowed to come home on more rest but still it was home.

I have finally gotten Internet up here that works at a NORMAL speed and not that of a snail stuck in tar. Hopefully that will help me stay motivated to keep this blog up to date.

So now we are here...waiting and just trying to make it to 37 weeks so we are considered term. That will be Thursday....1 more full day and 11.5 hours....Not that I am counting.

When exactly...???

When exactly did window shopping stop being me looking at shoes, purses and clothes and become me following my husband around home depot looking at power tools??

I think I need a girls night!!

Happy Birthday Victoria!!!

HAPPY 8th BIRTHDAY VICTORIA!!!

Victoria got carried away packing....

...And packed herself!!!!

First Picture of Baby Floydee

This isn't my best ultrasound picture but it was the only one that doesn't have all my personal info written across the top! Oh well still a cutie! Baby will be making an appearance early November!

Canace Academy Grand Finale "Fireflies"

I tried to upload my little video clip of the grand finale but it didn't seem to want to work. So here is the video the dance school uploaded to YouTube. This was something you really had to see in person to truly appreciate. It honestly gave me chills. Everyone of the little lights you see is a Cadance student. If you pause the video at 2:19 Victoria is the second one in from the right side in the silver angel costume.

Short Clip Of Jazz B "I'm So Excited"

Here is a very short clip from Jazz B dancing to " I'm So Excited."

Enjoy!

The Big Finale: Dance Recital Part 4

The grand finale was danced to "Fireflies"

I will try and post some videos as the pictures don't do it justice.

Little Angels...Dance Recital Part 3

Here are some pictures of the grade one RAD class dancing as "Little Angels."

I'm So Excited...Dance Recital Part 2

Here are a few pictures from the Jazz B class dancing to " I'm so Excited!"

It was really hard to get shots that didn't come out blurry with this dance!

Dance Recital

Victoria was asked to dance (as a special guest) with the pre primary class at the end of year dance recital. She was Mary from "Mary had a little lamb" and all the younger kids were her little lambs. It was so cute!!

I will be posting pictures of her other dances over the next few days.

Random Pictures From the Picnic Park

Moving

I hate moving.

I hate boxes.

I hate mess.

I seem to be dealing with an overabundance of all 3 at the minute.

Anyone want to clean the new place, pack everything, move everything, unpack everything, put everything away, clean (again) and buy/unpack groceries for me??

No???

Didn't think so.

Stupid Time Change

Only I would get stuck working DAYS on the day the time goes ahead....5am is early enough on its own thank you very much. ICK...next year I am taking a vacation day....

Some Vacation Pictures

Starting to think I shold NEVER fly again!

I should have known winter flying and I just don't get along. Back in December we went to the UK to visit my husbands family for part of the holidays. When we came home we had to connect through Montreal. To make a long story short there was a HUGE storm here in Nova Scotia so ALL the flights from Montreal to Halifax were cancelled. We were stuck in Montreal for two freaking days!!! Last weekend we flew home from Barbados via Toronto. There was a messy storm in Toronto and a different storm system with high winds affecting Halifax. We were over an hour and forty minutes late leaving Barbados. We made up time in the air and landed only 15 minutes late. The bad thing was there was no gate open for us to deplane! We were stuck on the aircraft, sitting on the runway for over an hour! After getting updates every 15 minutes for about 45 minutes Victoria looks and me and says " Mommy does he think we are dumb? Even I know it has been longer than 15 minutes!". Leave it to my seven year old! Once we got off the plane it took over 2 hours for the ground crew to get our bags off the plane and to us! By this point it was after midnight and there were no more flights leaving Toronto that night! Just freaking great. We waited 4 hours in line to get re-booked and to get a hotel room. We couldn't get a flight out until the next night at 10pm! Honestly we have no luck! We spent a few hours at the hotel before we had to check out and then hang around the airport just waiting...it was horrible. Our flight was delayed an hour but at least we made it home. Honest to goodness I don't think I am supposed to fly!!