What the boys are up to while mommy is sleeping

We pull out a big cardboard tube and turn it into a huge tunnel for cars. Check it out:

The WB Family Awards the prize for the contest

It has been said that we have forgotten to award a lollipop or two in the past. We wanted to be sure that no such claim could be made this time. Here is photographic evidence that Shayla was awarded her prize for winning this week's contest.

Momma's not feeling well

Momma's been home sick for a couple of days now with a rotten cough, sore throat and just feeling yucky. Big C was more than willing to come and "snuggle up" with her when he got home. Did I mention that momma was watching TV??

Mommy was gone on Saturday morning

So what are we to do?

Bus and O-train baby.

(I'm gonna miss it when they don't want to do this anymore....but they'll be about 30, right?)

Mmmaking Cookies!

Friday night Big C was on a sleepover, so mommy decided to have a little fun with Monkey.
Here's some pictures of them goofing around and making happy face cookies and happy face Smartie cookies.
Love you two!

Contest hint day 2

Apparently day one was not at all obvious! Not even one guess. Well that or you guys don't like the prize... Here is the hint for day 2.

Playing Spaceman

Monkey and daddy have been engaging in 'special time' - a time when Monkey makes all the rules and the grownup just gets to play along. The other night it took the flavour of Buzz Lightyear and some space adventures. It was absolutely awesome!!
Here we are doing some exploring of Mars with 'Daddy One' communicating with 'Monkey One' as base control. We checked out the trampoline as part of the expedition and went over, under and through lots of stuff. It was by far the most fun that I've had in weeks. When I wasn't smiling I was all out laughing.I'm not sure who had more fun, him or me.
I love you Monkey!

Contest!! Contest!!!

The WB Family is running another contest. The prize for the winner of this one is 4 tickets to the Ottawa 67s game on Sunday December 6 at 2pm. The first person to sucessfully answer the question (int he comments section or by email): where were these photos taken? Will win the tickets. We have more photos that we'll post daily to help you figure it out.

Sorry Christy, Kendra and others from far away, we will put you up at our place for the weekend, but we wont pay your travel expenses!!!

a Busy Weekend Ahead

Our weekends are starting to get crazy!! Tonight Big C has a sleepover. Tomorrow sees swimming lessons start up again for the little people and mommy will be at the car seat clinic all morning and into the afternoon.

Sunday will be church and then another good 'ol hockey game followed by dinner with dear friends.

Blink and the weekend will be over!!! Should be lots of great photos though : )

Eczema

Monkey has always had dry skin. By conicidence we have always used a really great stick moisturiser on him sold by Rocky Mountain Soap Company. It fit in the diaper bag, my purse, ect. We ran out this year and started using generic moisturisers on his hands. Eeeek! They got red and scaly and angry! I started using grapeseed oil mixed with vitamin E oil. This should be lush and fantastic. Instead of helping, it made his hands REALLY ANGRY.

My poor child was crying and upset a lot of the time. Finally grandma clued in that it is eczema. Of course! No wonder the Eczema relief body butter has worked so well all these years! He actually needed that specific product!

Nuyanne loaned me some Skin Fix and I have the tail end of a body butter stick that I'm using on his hands for now. I've ordered more of the body butter as well as some Skin Fix (free shipping from well.ca) and am anticipating thier arrival soon. In the meantime his hands are doing much better with the Skin Fix and he is striking a balance between using the alcohol based sanitizers all the time at school and still washing enough to stay clean and healthy.

It is crazy hair day today!!!

Big C could not be more excited!! It is crazy hair day at his school and he just loved the dye job! While it looks like he is breakdancing here, he is actually just standing up from a sitting position!

Apparently when Dave dropped him off he was VERY excited!! They have their hands full today I'm sure!!

Surprisingly, Monkey was totally okay and never asked to have his hair done too. We really thought that this could be a problem but he seemed to get that this wasn't his day.

At the Good Ol Hockey Game

Today we had another set of tickets for the local junior hockey team, so we were off for the 2 pm start.
What a hoot!
We met up with H near the arena and made our way to our awesome seats.
Monkey decided that he need a better view, so he treated his like a booster seat to see just like the grown-ups.
The boys had a great first period, so we were off to the concession stands for a little popcarn (the 2$ variety, not the $5.25!). The second period was pretty quiet.
During the next intermission Monkey asked to spend some of his allowance on a popsicle. I was in.
We traveled the entire circumference of the inside of the arena and found it almost as we returned to our seats.
Not only was he overjoyed...it was the least expensive thing in the whole place!
Here he is enjoying his Spiderman popsicle.
Meanwhile mommy was hooking up Big C with some free stuff. Here's the pink hat the he got....with the Nascar patch on the side. I don't know that he'll ever take it off. At least he's ready for his teenage 'so cool' phase.'
We all had a great time. Especially I think mommy and H, who snuggled up for this photo op.
Thanks ladies and boys for a great afternoon out.

Helping Daddy

It is time to start thinking about keeping the bunnies away from our trees this winter. Big C and daddy are outside wrapping the trees.

Responsibility is a funny thing

In the last 6 months to a year we have deemed Monkey responsible enough to do things like pour his own milk and cereal.

This morning Dave was working on the boy's Christmas present from us and I was flitting around and the boys were hungry.

BigC has decided that he is also responsible enough to get his own food. Only some of it ended up on the floor and he is awfully proud of himself!

While the big boys are away, the rest will play

The big boys were away on Friday night into Saturday. So on Saturday morning big C and I trucked off to his Disney World of the North, the Museum of Science and Technology. We saw the rocket:

He lined up the school busses in the store:
Did I mention he was awed by the rocket?
He is really in to the lighthouse:
He drove us to Grandma and Grandpa's house:
He drove the snowmobile:
Went down the world's slowest slide.
running through the tunnels:
a couple of chrismas/birthday present ideas at the Lego exhibit: