From the mouth of my babe!

My daughter, god bless her, is just like me! She talks... a lot! She talks about everything and she also listens to everything! She is like a parrot and is learning to use words and sayings in the proper context! There are three things she has said in the last week that would make anyone laugh their ass off and say "yep, thats her daughter!"

On a recent trip into Whitehorse we were in the Superstore.We had finished buying our groceries and were having a quick look around the flowers and cards. Like usual the stuff was piled way out into the aisle and I being typical got the cart caught on a bucket full of flowers. Well the bucket tipped over and the water in the bottom spilled out all over the floor. From in the grocery cart the sweet sound of my daughters voice says to me "Mom, your sure having some issues today huh!" What do you say to that!!! LOL All I could do was agree and laugh!

The day after halloween Dani told me that for next halloween she wants to be a princess. She also thinks that zach should be a dragona dn her dad will be her prince to save her. After a little bit of thought she said to me "Mom, you can be my servant and put my shoes on!" I just about died!!!

After picking her up from playschool yesterday we were going to go for a walk. She was having a serious meltdown about her coat. Here is how the coversation went:

Dani (crying): I am having a real problem today mom!

Me: Why whats wrong?

Dani: I can't wear my pink coat I have to wear my purple one!

Me: Why whats wrong with the pink one?

Dani: A bird got in my coat and left its feathers in there and they're poking me!

Me: A Bird!!! What kind of bird?

Dani: A white one, see here mom, its a feather!

She has a down jacket!

All this right out of the mouth of my nearly four year old!

I can only imagine what she will think of next! As for the bruising from the fireworks it is from my shoulder into my elbow now and has turned various shades of blue, black, red, yellow and green! Quite impressive actually! I can't walk down the street without people pulling over to see my arm and asking if I was the one who got "blown up". Small Town!

Fireworks Mayhem!!!

As anybody who reads this has probably figured out by now I am a volunteer firefighter and have been for the last 8 years! 8 YEARS already Dad!!! Every year here we set off fireworks on halloween night. It is too light in the summer to do any kind of fireworks so we do it on this night instead. Our fire department has been trained in firework detonation and doing light displays. We have three teams to run them, the loaders, the lighters and the cleaners. Tonight I was one of the cleaners. I was going down the line with the other guys, there was three of us, and just as I was getting close to the 6" tubes somebody yelled "DUD". So I went to back up off the line to see where the dud was and before I knew it something exploded and nailed me straight into the arm! It FREAKING HURT!!!! It felt like someone hit me with a freight train! The tube where the dud was, was about 4 tubes down from the one I was cleaning and when it exploded it shattered the tube and sent pieces flying everywhere! It went through all but one layer of my fire jacket and left this huge superficial cut about 5 inches long on my upper arm! This happened about halfway through our display and I didn't take my coat off until after we were done. I just bit my lip, sucked it up and jumped back on the line! After everything was over and i took my coat off it was already swollen and starting to bruise! It has been four hours since it happened and my freaking arm is HUGE!!! It is bruised from the top of my elbow right up to the top of my shoulder. It looks like somebody shoved a baseball into the sleeve of my shirt! I imagine tomorrow will be interesting!

Anyway our trick or treating went well - Dani and Zach loved it! Dani was a giraffe, Zach was a monkey and Ry was a tiger - I went as the Zoo keeper! I am going to bed as I will have some chillins up early tomorrow! Night all, Happy Halloween!!!