Sunday, December 25, 2016

Merry Christmas

A quick update on us, I will post more Christmas pics soon as we have taken some on our camera as well.

We have been getting quite a bit of snow lately

Making our walks to school fun. Just doing my duty to look
the part!

Owen has been loving all the snow

Another dump a few days later

Yes, there's underwear on his head but
more importantly, he's eating an egg. A
very rare occurance

Owen and Rob decorated the mantle this
year and I love it

Owen and his buddies playing on our snow
mountain, Monique watching the boys

while I watched the little ones.

Kate was determined all week to sit up and
by Wed. she could do this

Owens interpretation of the sign -
"cars go underground to
collect the diamonds"
Pretty smart dude.

On Thurs we were at the hospital nice and early
for Owen to get tubes put in his ears. Our wait quickly
went from this...

to this...

to this. At least he wasn't nervous!

Owen was a very brave guy for the entire procedure,
we're pretty proud of him.

Timbits for breakfast after we were all done

Spaghetti and meatballs for dinner that night. No
side effects from the antestia, this was him
giving me the all ok look

Playroom in the basement is finally complete

Just hanging with my cutie

The 24th, last day of the advent calendar

I havn't got much done as Kate has been
looking for lots of cuddles lately. I'm happy to help

Decorating cookies for Santa

Our finished cookies

Christmas eve jammies 

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

This Week In Pics

Bath time entertainment

It's a crummy photo but an important one...

December 9th and these are the last of his
halloween candy. Impressive!

While Rob was working on reno projects, we worked on ours.
Owen decorated gingerbread, Kate tried to grab her toys
and I worked on my wreath

This is what happens when left alone!

Kate and I hanging out on the floor in the family room while...

Owen made a fort and had some soup

Owen's writing is getting really good,
he did this all on his own

This is what teething looks like

Another snowfall and Owen has been
out playing in it every moment he can

Before school cuddles

It's been getting pretty cold so staying
warm for our morning and afternoon
walks has been priority

I have been busy working on some projects

Owen had his Christmas concert last night and he did such a
wonderful job singing

All the JK and SK classes were together to sing four carols

This morning Kate found it quite
amusing while I was wrapping her so
I couldn't resist a photo

Monday, December 5, 2016

Our Lives This Month

It's crazy how tired one can be, even with Rob doing most evenings/bedtime routine with Owen I am still completely exhausted by the end of the day. Luckily Kate is an excellent sleeper so far, giving me anywhere between 7 and 8 hours in the night.

Here's what we've been upto the past month.

Middle of Nov. one early morning the sun
was catching the last of the fall colours

Don't be fooled by my little helper, the blower
kept him distracted so I could actually
rake and pick up the leaves

Surprise

Owen has made a new friend at school who lives around the
corner from us, the boys decided we needed to have a
candy party and Monique generously hosted!

It was four boys and Kate, she wasn't too impressed

I whipped together the mobile one naptime
and Kate loves it. I can put her into the crib
and she will start smiling and chatting
away to it, So cute

The end of Nov. we got our first snowfall but
it quickly disappeared

She's a very smiley and happy girl most days

Owen happily helped decorate the tree

Rob has been working on finishing the basement
so trips to Home Depot are frequent
but fun

Like I said, she's a pretty great sleeper
right now

She loves our twice daily walks to Owen's school
and often I will walk for an hour or so after
dropping him off

Hey, where's my hug and kiss?

That's better

You can't tell from this pic but she's 24" tall
and close to 13 lbs, she's growing so fast

This is what we woke up to this morning

it was deep and really wet

Owen was super excited to get outside

and even more excited to get to the school yard

Kate was bundled nicely so she was happy

I was undecided!
You can always tell how tired I am by my right side,
doesn't matter how much coffee I have, some days
my right eye just wants to go back to sleep.