yanking out the tooth

Roughan...determined that the toothfairy was going to come THAT night! It's only sideways for a second...

It's about TIME....

Time, something I never seem to find! I never realized how having a child in school triples the amount of Christmas activities you have to attend. The hardest past for me is remembering to send money on a particular day, and today it was remembering the treats for the party, as well as the gifts for the the teacher and the bus drivers....

Anyway I managed to remember everything (fingers crossed that I actually did)...

Yesterday was the Christmas bazaar at R's school. Parents donate gifts to the PTA and they set it up and the children can all go in and buy a gift for their mom and their Dad. The gifts range from $1 to $6....and they were also selling tickets on a basket.

So I sent him with an envelope containing $15...

When I picked him up from the sitters last night he was excited that he had gotten Cliff and I each a gift. When we got home I asked if he had any change.....he proudly pulled out the envelope, opened it up and pulled out a $10 bill, then proceeded to pull out a twoonie and a loonie. Then asked to get his tooth fairy money so he could put all the money he "saved" together.....

Needless to say we can't wait for Christmas morning to see what treasures our penny pinching little darling picked out for us!

London 2009

Celebrating 7 years of marriage...on our way to Nobu for the most AMAZING sushi
River Cruise on the Thames
The Tower Bridge
Big Ben
The National Gallery

Buckingham Palace

The Queens Guards

Everyone sits here to watch the changing of the guard
The Canada Gate

More London....some of the funnies!

The Ritz...for the poor people!
Regular lineup of stores on Oxford...then you see this entryway!
Best part was, when I took the photo someone was going down! LOL
The amazing Theatre district....bordering Soho
OK...so when you go for tea in London there are no foil ketchup packs or squeeze bottle....you get your own mini-bottle! How Posh! LMAO!

Say Hello To My Little Friend!

Everyone in our neighborhood has been talking about this little guy and we hadn't seen him until yesterday, while opening a window I saw him climbing the tree out front....Abby was out and just sauntered (waddled) by him and luckily didn't come face to quill with him.
Roughan and I watched him for quite a while...I never knew Porcupines could climb trees so well. Anyway I'm sure we'll see him again soon since he seems to be living very close by!

This, That and The other things

Gotta love the slobbery grin!!
My Tough Chick!
Martinique with Dan and the kids....Danielle, David and I seemed to be avoiding the camera!
Sweet Toes!

The Girls!
Finishing off the landscaping...

She likes the tractor ALMOST as much as Daddy does!
Primary Orientation Day...the big boy is going to school!

So this is my post of lots of Random things, I've gone way too long between updates and there were lots of photos to share!

My little Picasso!

Roughan's coloring skills have improved so much in the past little bit I had to share his latest "bad guy" piece....Great job for a just turned 5 year old!

Rhys still has a ways to go to get to this point...for starters we'd like to get her to stop eating the crayons!

New pics of the kiddos will be coming soon!

XO

Hulkamania

Some things in life require no words....

Birthday Bash #1

On April 11th the entire Gaetz Clan and Nanny Glena came to celebrate Rhys' 1st birthday and at the same time we celebrated Roughan's birthday with the family. Rhys thoroughly enjoyed her easter cake covered with Chocolate eggs...Thank you so much to Stephanie for all the wonderful photos!!
Ready to dig in!!


The older crew!

Our High tech toys....

Rhys and Roughan spend a lot of time playing in their"cars"....You'd think our playroom wasn't filled with 10,000 toys!

I love these shots, they are perfect depictions of my children...the happy go lucky Rhys and the more serious Roughan! You can almost envision her telling him to cheer up!

Happy Birthday Rhys!

It was one short year ago that we were shocked to be blessed with a baby girl!

Rhys is now a Happy 1 year old and I promise to post some birthday pics soon but right now I'm very busy preparing to go back to work tomorrow..... :(

And She's Off!!!

Although she's very cautious about it... she's off and walking...yup my baby is walking...so sad!!

Beautiful Day!

Yesterday was warm and finally felt like spring. It afforded Rhys her first real chance to get outside, get down on the ground and play...of course she really just wanted to eat the rocks.

Roughan took advantage of our last thread of winter to sled one last time.

I promise I'll post some new pics soon!

It's been a very busy week. Cliff was in Newfoundland for work and then Sugarloaf for play....So the kidlets and I headed out on the road. First to Sydney for some great quality time with Nanny Joan (Roughan spent his quality time with Christophers Xbox), then we headed to the "country" for a much anticipated visit with Nanny Glenny...and Nanny Colleen and Willie as well.

We got back home on Sunday in time for Roughans final skating class.

Yesterday was our first day of Ferberizing with Rhys (AKA "crying it out") She has to learn to sleep on her own :( I've never been a huge fan of Mr. Ferbers method but with my return to work coming so soon I don't have much choice. As much as it breaks my heartto let her cry!!!

My next post I promise I'll have some recent pics!!

Ode to My Maternity Leave

Exactly 4 weeks from right now I will be on my way to work after Maternity Leave.

Rhys is a big girl now, she is standing and likely will be walking by then.

Roughan has grown into a big boy who is ready to go to school. He has matured so much in the past year.

In the past year we moved 4 times, with a preschooler and a new baby. We are very lucky that we made it through that time for the most part unscathed and that we had family like Floyd and Janice who let a homeless family of 4 bunk in their home...and even sang to my baby!

So here is my ode to the past year, as sad as I am to have it gone by I am so happy to be in my wonderful home with my amazing family! We are very fortunate to have such a great life!

Snow Dog

Abby came in from outside looking like a chocolate donut covered in powdered sugar...I sure hope we don't see anymore snow this season!