The morning's quotes:
Leah: "I'm not sure how to design it to you." Describe is the word she was looking for. Or. "She doesn't have any barrettes." But when I suggested she share some of her barrettes with the unfortunate person she looked at me all puzzled and pointed to her forehead, "but I don't have any either. " She actually meant bangs.
Sam, after fighting a learning-to-skateboard-battle and losing said, "Mama, maybe when I be a Papa I can get both feet on the skateboard and not fall off." For now he's sporting a fat and scraped upper lip.
Cam: "LOOKIT!!!" when inviting you to share in his latest amazing discovery. It's actually more like, "LOOKIIIIITTTTT!!!!!"
Cody and Cara are both working on more teeth and as of last night Cara is slowly but very surely crawling an up-on-all-fours type of crawl. Cody remains loyal to the very effective army crawl.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
A few notes about this week. It has been mildly tiring with all the decisions and indecisions!
Cara and Cody have really gotten to interacting with each other this week but it wasn't all good. It seems like they are finding the need to establish some sort of pecking order and so there has been some screeching and tugging between the two of them. Cara seems to be slightly disadvantaged as she is a sitting duck when Cody decides to zip over and investigate the toys she is currently engaged in. It kind of goes like this. Cara is sitting quietly playing with something as small as a soother or as big as a push toy. Cody looks over from where ever he is at that second and goes in for the big grab. He grabs hold of whatever it is and Cara lets out a screech. She continues screeching as long as he's tugging. He stops tugging for brief moments and gives her a look that speaks volumes about his opionion of her decibel level. This can go on for minutes until often Cam comes tearing in to help solve the problem. He pulls the toy away from both of them and makes them madder yet. I recorded it as I think it would be worth showing them one day.
As for other news. Cam and I have been spending some quality time together while Leah and Sam are attending VBS. It has been fun and special and I've been doing things like giving horsie back rides, "tossing a football around", a bit of tee-ball and a lot of reading. Cam's really been a book worm the last little while. How come its not always easy to devote a couple hours to a 2 year old?
Cara and Cody have really gotten to interacting with each other this week but it wasn't all good. It seems like they are finding the need to establish some sort of pecking order and so there has been some screeching and tugging between the two of them. Cara seems to be slightly disadvantaged as she is a sitting duck when Cody decides to zip over and investigate the toys she is currently engaged in. It kind of goes like this. Cara is sitting quietly playing with something as small as a soother or as big as a push toy. Cody looks over from where ever he is at that second and goes in for the big grab. He grabs hold of whatever it is and Cara lets out a screech. She continues screeching as long as he's tugging. He stops tugging for brief moments and gives her a look that speaks volumes about his opionion of her decibel level. This can go on for minutes until often Cam comes tearing in to help solve the problem. He pulls the toy away from both of them and makes them madder yet. I recorded it as I think it would be worth showing them one day.
As for other news. Cam and I have been spending some quality time together while Leah and Sam are attending VBS. It has been fun and special and I've been doing things like giving horsie back rides, "tossing a football around", a bit of tee-ball and a lot of reading. Cam's really been a book worm the last little while. How come its not always easy to devote a couple hours to a 2 year old?
Monday, July 6, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Celebrating Canada's 142 Birthday
We started off with a work day. Dad M. came over to help us get a few projects done before Thursday's building inspection. (I thoughtfully got the camera out as they were finished.) Big thanks, Dad!
Haven't got one like this in a long time, if ever.
We went to the neighborhood "party in the park" celebrations at our local park but they had hired a band and it was a bit too loud to stay. Before we left again Leah and Gramps made a Happy Canada Day crown. The visor Leah is wearing is a project we had made at home the day before.
The RCMP bear... they weren't quite certain but they did get their sticker.
Cara is so easy as she is content to sit and play in one spot. Note the sand. She ate quite a bit.
I was one of the last people to come down those rocks in the background and this is what I saw, a whole line of shoes the kids tossed off immediately upon hitting the sand.
You may not want to know how high up on the mountain side this gang was.
Cam and his Gramma.
And again.
And once more.
If you can click on this one you will see where our children get their mountain goatness from!
This was after Sam and his DEAR Auntie Shelly scared the willy nillies out of me in the middle of the longest, darkest cave! (Sam thinks he might marry Auntie Shelly some day)
Cam and his Gramps.
Sam and his Gramps.
Haven't got one like this in a long time, if ever.
We went to the neighborhood "party in the park" celebrations at our local park but they had hired a band and it was a bit too loud to stay. Before we left again Leah and Gramps made a Happy Canada Day crown. The visor Leah is wearing is a project we had made at home the day before.
The RCMP bear... they weren't quite certain but they did get their sticker.And then off to the tunnels with Dad, Mom and Shelly. These are all out of order...
Cody was delighted to get out of the car seat at the end and explore the sand, rocks, sticks etc.
Cara is so easy as she is content to sit and play in one spot. Note the sand. She ate quite a bit.
I was one of the last people to come down those rocks in the background and this is what I saw, a whole line of shoes the kids tossed off immediately upon hitting the sand.
You may not want to know how high up on the mountain side this gang was.
Cam and his Gramma.
And again.And once more.
If you can click on this one you will see where our children get their mountain goatness from!
This was after Sam and his DEAR Auntie Shelly scared the willy nillies out of me in the middle of the longest, darkest cave! (Sam thinks he might marry Auntie Shelly some day)
Sam and his Gramps.
Tuesday Afternoon
It's a warm Sat. night after a beautiful day. Want to get these posts done but I admit I'm a little short on energy. So short but sweet.
All good sea horses and dolphins living in the park need to be fed and petted. Most common bark mulch food is apples.
All good sea horses and dolphins living in the park need to be fed and petted. Most common bark mulch food is apples.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Picture of the Day
We had identical buckets we were using for a "water fight" until he decided his made an ultra cool hat. This boy makes me smile!
Thursday, July 2, 2009
River Otter
We spent the afternoon of "Canada's birthday" at Othonellol Tunnels (pardon the spelling but I'm too tired to look it up!) with L's Dad, Mom and Shelly. It was a wonderful afternoon with LOTS of pictures taken. I didn't have time to pick some favorites yet but I thought I would share this with you. This is so Cody. He gets everywhere, over everything and at lightening speed.
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