Davey got a new bed

So in anticipation we started decorating his room. He's got some wallies and a picture on the closet wall...


More pictures on this wall...


And wouldn't you know it, the bed arrived in time for Christmas! Sweet dreams little racer ;)

Fun in the snow!

Two of these little birdies have been hanging out in the tree outside our staircase. We think they're some kind of woodpecker, but that's purely a guess.

Today Dave and I headed to Delta where we met Alexis and headed to Kamal's Video Palace to check out movies. I was desperate for Main Hoon Na and anything with Amitabh Bachchan. I did manage to find 3 movies :) On the way home we passed these kids out skating in a field.

This was 50th Avenue.

Andrew trying to sled on the sandbox lid.

Tinky lies in the snow to get better access to eating it ;)

Then we found this magic carpet.



AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!




Then the kids brought some chairs out to watch the spectacle...



Kathi trying out for the Canadian Luge team.

Andrew decided to give her hand...

Check out the snow spray!

Then tonight Uncle Dave took all the kids out again.

He got out the wooden sled and showed them how sledding is done :)


There's three of them on there...can you find them all?

Face plant!


Peek a boo!
Jade on the sled!





I LOVE MY LAUNDRY ROOM!

I've been trying to teach my kids about the real meaning of Christmas. This morning I let them watch this presentation of Luke 2: 1-20. They watched it with great interest.




When it was over, Davey went and got Andrew's doll (from when he was a kid, he doesn't still play with it!) and gave it to tinker saying, "We already have a baby. That's what we'll tell the angels when they come here.

I think the kids are feeling better.

After lying on the couch all day and watching non-stop movies (thank God we stopped at Rogers on Monday night! No cable + sick kids would have made for a very grumpy mummy!) they both perked up considerably this evening. I just put the kids to bed. Read them three point five stories (the point five was a Noddy book which is far too long to read as a fourth story, so I made one up) and tucked them in. And tucked them in again. And again.

...and just now (after they both came down to tell us the TV is too loud), they were hollering from their bedroom, "We need kisses!"

yup, I'd say they're feeling better...

sooooo tired....

Sunday night Davey came down with the stomach flu. After a really rough night, he seemed fine on Monday. And also yesterday. So I worked my tail off in our house, unpacking gazillions of boxes and only sitting down twice between 7 am and 11 pm. So I was exhausted last night.

Unfortunately the barfing began again at just before midnight, with both kids being up about once an hour, but staggered so that it was really every half hour that I was changing bedding and jammies and washing babies or scrubbing floors. This went on until 530 and then thankfully Dave got better and only tinker was sick. Till lunch time.

so we're having a mostly quiet day (I did slip out to shovel our driveway and a path from the road to our house to mum's).


The kids seem better. I'm beat. Not even the strength to write Christmas cards...

Let the Christmassing begin!

We were so over the unpacking, so today we decided to mix things up a little: we decorated!

My sister started this thing with Elisabeth, where she let her wear the Christmas Tree Skirt around their house as a cape. Today she made off with both the cape and Santa's hat and tore around the house singing Christmas songs. Isn't she just precious? yeah.

The kids also decorated the fake tree. It was kind of like that Canadian Tire commercial where the tree only gets half decorated. Only Tink took it one step further...she hung all her Christmas balls on two branches.

And here's the merry Christmas picture.


We decorated the other room too, but since I'm in the throes of laundry (due to a sick 4 year old) so you don't get to see those pictures yet.

Elisabeth reads to her baby:

She even did all the sound effects. She's such a good little mother.

This was one of those moments where I really wished I’d had the camcorder with me and on!

Yesterday we were at my mum’s house eating lunch. She has one of those L shaped benches and me, David and Elisabeth were sitting at it. Both of the kids were happily eating their food when all of a sudden Elisabeth grabbed a napkin and started trying to wipe David’s mouth.

Of course he began squirming and trying to get away from her. Out popped her other arm, grabbing him firmly by the chin and holding him in place. He struggled harder. She set her mouth into a firm line; eyes determined and gripped him harder.

As he continued struggling, she adjusted her hold on him and also her position. She pulled his head down on to her lap (at this point me, mum and even Davey were having hysterics) and finished wiping his face to her satisfaction. She released him with a “that’s better,” and calmly continued eating her lunch as if nothing out of the ordinary had occurred.

She’s a little tyrant that one!

Random Stuff

Dad gives Andrew a hug after Andrew injured his foot this past weekend.

Yesterday in preschool Davey made a rice krispie star. He was pretty proud of it. Lately David has been wanting to help a lot more; he scrapes dinner plates into the garbage, loads the dishwasher, fetches drinks for people, tidies up without complaining, and loves to hold doors open. I love this new 'big boy' davey!


As Tink's hair gets longer, it tends to look stringy and fine. And it's her sides are still trying to catch up with the back. So last night I cut a good inch or more off the back of her hair. I think it looks quite good considering she wouldn't sit still!!

A busy, busy day.

This morning was so perfect we decided to go for a walk by the river. We couldn't bring the stroller so Elisabeth rode on this stick.

Here's the boys.
Andrew dropped a ceramic pot on his toe on Thursday night. It's still giving him a lot of trouble. It's angry and red and black and white and very sore. So he walked with a stick.

Ell being goofy.

I really liked the colours on these trees.

...and these ones.

And I thought these were pretty too.


This afternoon Grosspapa and the kids decorated their gingerbread house. They started with the cookies.


They did good, no?


Then it was on to the house. I was seriously impressed at the difference between last year's house and this one. Davey did awesome.

While Tink ate a lot of candy.

Or fed it to Grosspapa.



Davey even put Christmas lights on his house.