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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Castle-Building Part II

We decided to take our castles on to phase II - the painting stage. Thanks to some previous purchases by mommy and a gift of some tempura paints from Aunt H, we had lots of colours to choose from. Here are the boys getting down n dirty (thus shirtless) in finishing up their castles.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Castle Building - Part I

After going through some of the supplies that we have in the basement, it was noticed that we have:
a) An enormous number of popsicle sticks
b) tempera paints in black, white, green and brown
c) glue bottles x 3
In going through the kitchen we found
a) pirate cupcake wrappers
b) pirate flags.
In looking through the garden outside we found:
a) raspberries
looking in the bottom of the fridge we discovered:
a) rhubarb

So here's what we decided to do:
Step 1: Make raspberry, rhubarb pirate muffins (emphasizing the 'RRRrrr' in both fruits)

Step 2: Make pirate castles

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Boat Ride!!

The boys got an invite for a boat ride care of Uncle Paul and they were absolutely through the roof! Once we had the green light weather-wise the boys were both stationed at the front door until it was time to leave.
We headed on over and got ourselves into life vests.

Uncle Paul put on a fantastic afternoon for the boys - a full discussion of boating safety and how to boat properly, a trip through every part of the river that we could see, the boys favourite - a chance to drive the boat,

going FAST!

, and a delightful afternoon snack of cherries, blueberries, chips n salsa out on the open water. It absolutely blew them away. Thanks so much Uncle Paul for a wonderful afternoon!

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Big C on 2 wheels!

The boys have been working on some biking fundamentals today. Here is the evidence of what they've been up to:

That was only his second attempt!

You can see his smile from ear-to-ear in the photos that I took on his future rides.

He's pretty proud of himself.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Big C n Daddy Day

A little while ago I had a thought.
I've always wanted to take a day each summer and just do nice stuff for other people. Kind of a 'pay-it-forward' principle.
And then I had another thought.
Why not share it with each of my boys.
So today, Big C and I took what I hope is the first step of many.
Since it was something new and Big C still has some learning to do on the subject, plus a rather short attention span, I thought it wise to start by focusing on just having some fun.
So he got to pick everything that we were going to do.
Here's how it went:
Step 1 : Get out of bed. Not easy considering that with the new bed mommy now has free reign to come in a snuggle her little guy again. Roxy can also get up there with ease.

Step 2: Dancing in the car to the tunes on the radio.

Step 3: Sprinkly donut at Tim's. Yummy!

Step 4: Dancing while we wait for the bus.

Step 5: Dancing while we wait for the O-train.

Then ride the O-train

Step 6: Ride an escalator while waiting for our first stop to open.

Step 7: Go to the currency museum and learn about money! Big C can now check his allowance for authenticity.

Then make your own currency (note: yes, ironically enough he does know that the 10 000 000 dollar bill he made is in fact counterfeit)

Step 8: Throw coins in the fountain outside parliament

Step 9: Go up to the Peace Tower and check out the city.

Step 10: Go to Chapters to look at books. Take pretend photos of daddy while he takes real photos of Big C.

Step 11: Off to the 'do things for others' activity - we went to Rideau Centre and held open the main doors for people. Most people walked right through the open doors that we had ready for them. Some people didn't (weird). We stayed for a good while during the lunch crowd and had at least 50 people go through each of our doors. Many, many people said 'thank you', much to the delight of that little boy.