Who had April 2 in the pool?

The batteries in the 911 book are starting to go!!

Big C's mailbag

Don't know what happened with Canada Post this past week but the mail was not moving at the same time. A couple of the neighbours have mentioned having trouble as well so who knows.

Grandma sent a card to Big C and it has now arrived! Yay! He tore it open on Mommy's lap and then proudly showed it off to everyone he could find.

DpoD April 22nd - Earthday Mailbag

Another postcard arrived today and Monkey was overjoyed to open it.
He carried it patiently down the hallway while daddy asked him politely to wait until he had the camera ready before he opened it.
He stuck in his finger and pulled the envelope apart.
And inside he found...
A picture of him with the fish that he made at grandma's house. Was he excited?
ohhhhhh yessssssssssss!!

The April birthday Part-ay

Saturday night was a fun one chez WB. We had 22.5 people (including us) at the house. That was made up of 12 adults and 10.5 children ranging from the oldest at 4 years and the youngest at 22 weeks gestation. It was a *wee bit* of a zoo. That's cool, we loved it!!

We had some birthdays to celebrate and we did it up in style. We had a big pot luck with lots of food and a reasonable amount of drink as well ; )

One papa needed a high chair to feed his little one. We no longer own such a contraption...what do we own in large quantity though....you guessed it!! This little darling has never been so secure during a meal.

We had the basement, backyard and main level crawling (and reverberating) with children and their joyous noises. I tried to get some photos of the melee as well as a video.I need to remember next time to get a video of the bunch of them doing laps around the main level.

We ended up with an extra blue serving platter...does this belong to you??

Since my photographing was haphazard at best I managed not to get any head photos at all of anyone whose birthday we were celebrating-oops!

Sleeping Buddies

I have no idea why Monkey is asleep in the middle of his bed.

Big C will soon need a bigger bed, not to accomodate Big C, but rather to accomodate all of the toys that he sleeps with : )

Adorable

Another fun sleepover at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

DPoD April17th - More Mail!!

yay! More mail for Monkey and Big C.
We love it!!!!
Thanks so much Heather and Nick, the boys were absolutely overjoyed!!

DPoD April 15th - A sign of spring to make Mommy smile

We're here!

Monkey's view:

Daddy's view:

(We took our pictures at different times. I didn't even know that we'd each taken pictures of the same flowers out there. Personally, I like his better. What a great little camera!!)

We love you mommy and we love spring too!

Happy Birthday Dave!!

After the excitment from Grandpa's day wore off read:Grandpa had a good sturdy nap, the rest of us went out to celebrate Dave's birthday and Cadie's visit at the Lone Star.

We are family...I got my sister and my cousin with me...

Grandpa is feeling better

On Wednesday Grandpa had 5 hernias operated on. By Friday night he was vomiting and feeling quite dreadful. He was re-admitted to hospital.

The troops rallied and a deck of cards was brought to the hospital to see how badly his thinking process was compromised. We all remember the game that aunt Heather "never actually won or lost" back in 2001. Well, the score is well documented this time. The winner is clear. Grandpa later announced that he had trounced me...take a look big guy-here it is!

Once the doctor came by and checked him out, Grandpa was allowed to go home on a liquid diet easing slowly to solids over the next coupleof days. His little buddy was really glad when he came home.

Grandpa, we're all glad that you are home.

DPoD April 12th - Our first postcard

It arrived on Thursday and both obys were ecstatic. Big C moreso than Monkey since we met the mailman at the post box and he handed it right to him. We were sure to give Monkey a piece of mail as well so that he felt part of the game.

Thanks so much to the Triemstra's for having the first one in! I hope that it's the first of many and we all appreciate how truly Canadian this one was!

(though that squirrel sure seems to think that we're going to take his nut)

DPoD April 10th - More of Monkey Photos

Here are some of his recent photos from the camera he received at Christmas:

Monkey apparently getting ready for this dentist appointment next week

Daddy shovelling snow in the yard to get it ready for playBig C sleeping
up close and personal
'daddy, say cheese!'

Could this be arriving at your house?

Monkey and I worked on some postcards yesterday. Here are the 3 cards that he wrote out. Each says 'Dear ________, I love you, Monkey'
His penmanship and writing ability are really coming along nicely. His confidence in writing is also soaring, so if you get the chance to tell him either by voice or written word, please do so.
These 3 should be in the mail today or tomorrow, so keep an eye on the mailbox as one might be headed your way.
Hopefullly there will be more to follow!
(check out the trademarked pumpkin design on the front of each one!)

DPoD April 9 - MMMMM

The children are using smelly markers at school.
Any guesses as to how I figured that one out?

(check out the nose!)

DPoD April 8th- Monkey and the Pedometer

Monkey found a pedometer in mommy's office this afternoon and has been keeping track of his steps moving around the house. He was proud to show off when he hit 100 (after about 15 seconds!) and then was off checking the distances between many items around the house. Here are a few shots of Monkey making sure that he's staying in shape:

A little homework - an idea stolen from the Busseys

I was checking out our friends' blog and noticed that they asked people to send their son some postcards. What a great idea. So I stole it.
Monkey LOVES mail. When we get stuff with his name on it, which he can read, he just goes bananas. If you've giot a moment and 51 cents, please send one along. I can guarantee that the coolest ones will be highlighted on the blog. Check that, I'll put pictures of all of them on there and you guys can vote. Let the fun begin!

DPoD April 3rd - Duck Duck Goose

E-man is over playing again and I overheard them in the basement playing Duck Duck Goose. Doing some quick math in my head I recalled that there are only 2 of them down there. How exactly do you play?

Then I got the explanation.

The game is to call out items in the basement as duck,duck,duck...and so on. Then you yell goose and both boys get to run a big lap of the basement. What a great idea to burn off some steam!

Who know's what'll come next?

DPoD April 1st - Thank You Grandpa and Grandma W!

Big C and Monkey received some big mail yesterday. Since Monkey was out with mommy having fun, Big C opened up his mail first. Here he is working on the envelope

Shaking out what was inside:
and seeing that it is an Easter bunny puzzle!
Then the twirling and dancing started.
He was absolutely overjoyed!
We called right away to say 'Thank You!'.

Later, Monkey arrived home and was able to open his mail before he went to bed. He opened it up and found.....Lightning McQueen pens! What a great way for him to work on his writing! He's been spending the afternoon drawing faces and writing lots of words. He's even written his own message:

(Thank you)