Monkey's New Outer Space Room Is Coming Together

For a number of reasons, we bought a new queen sized bed and put it in Monkey's room. Now when folks come to visit, they (you?) will have a comfortable bed to sleep in while you are here.

The new bed, of course, needed new bedding. We also suggested a new theme. Monkey jumped right on my suggestion of an outer space themed room. We bought the Olive Kids Out of This World comforter and pillow sham (not here yet) along with the Wallies for decoration. We painted an accent wall and a half and then, last night, we put up the Wallies.

To distract Big C, I gave him the camera and let him have at 'er. Believe me, this is a lot more helpful than letting him at the wallpaper cut outs!!! I've included some of the photos that he took for your enjoyment. Do keep in mind that he is 4 and was jumping up and down pretty much the entire time!! I took a few so that you would actually be able to see what the room looks like.

Monkey is over the moon (pun intended) with the new room as it comes together.

The L-man's sleepover

This past weekend we had the L-man for a long awaited sleepover. The boys were overjoyed as L-man joined us first thing in the morning and stayed until the next day. Since we had the day to ourselves we joined up with the B's (all 3 of them now) and headed for the 'Airplane Museum'. It was a huge hit and very relaxing for the grown-ups. Here are some shots of the group having a blast together: E-man and L-man as pilot and co-pilotL-man checking out all the trains, planes and trucks in the play room:
L-man and Peanut playing together:

L-man the pilot (based on the facial expression we're hitting some turbulence):
Big C and mommy working on some of the puzzles together. They did all four!
The boys taking on the helicopter exhibit:
Pilot Big C:
This thing isn't so easy to parallel park:
Last, but not least, apparently some fives for doing a job. Well done.

THE Good Friday post

This was a glorious Good Friday this year with a rather large crowd to boot. We had Uncle J and his girlfriend N up from the southern part of the province, as well as Uncle Phil and Aunt Jane (the new grandma and grandpa ... woo hoo!), Ross, Pawl and H, K2 and our crew. It was sunny, warm and beautiful!
We had the usual fare of goofing around with the little ones (including climbing trees!) making smarshmallows on the barbecue, and firing up burgers n sausages. Mmmmmm....followed by butter tarts, maple treats and cinnamon buns. The family group shot was a large one this year. The more the merrier and it was certainly nice to have Uncle J and Nicole up for the journey.
We made the traditional trip to the creek where both boys got only a little dirty (I'd feared much worse and had brought a change of clothes). It was so much fun to have the boys so involved this year. Ross was sure to join in and help out in jumping over the creek.
The bunny made his appearance while we gone and everyone enjoyed chocolately treats, neat-o books from H and Pawl, treasures from Lulu, an interestingly shaped banana protector and some DVD's and underpants for the boys.
All too soon it seemed we were packing the cars back up and heading for the return trip home. This was another great year to remember with plenty of fun family memories.

The MASSIVE Easter Egg Hunt

We were lucky enough to get invited to join a massive annual Easter Egg hunt. Reports said that this hunt had over 3000 eggs hidden! What a great deal of work : )


This hunt was VERY organized. there were rules even!! We all had to wait until the bullhorn went off, then collect 30 eggs. Well, the kids : )

It was hard to wait. Waiting is hard when you are 4, but he made it through.
The goofy girls helped : )

Finally, it was time
This container used to be full of mommy's homemade cinammon buns. They were GONE in about 3 minutes!

The Good Ol Hockey Game with K2

K2 was offered 4 free tickets to the 67's game the other night, so we decided that taking Big C while Monkey stayed at home to cuddle with mommy was the smartest choice. We brought Rockette along with us and the 4 of us were off.
It was Home Depot Clapper giveaway night, which was very popular. Here's the bunch of us at the game:
Shenanigans with the clappers:
More silliness with the clappers:
Big C enjoying some of Rockette's lemonade....ummm, just the lemon at the time of this photo:
And finally a shot of the girls enjoying the game.
It was a great game with the home team winning 7-2.

Plant Project Part II

Here we are about a week later.
Woo hoo!
We have some sprouts growing successfully.
A few casualties along the way.
The kids are so excited each morning when they get to see what changes happened overnight and each day when we get home from school to see what else has gone on.
Here's Monkey taking a close look with mommy on hand.