Under the weather? - No Sick!

Ahhhh!   We are all sick AGAIN!  It sure feels like AGAIN!  We didn't used to get sick very often, but this year we have been getting virus after virus it seems.  I know we are busier now and out and about more so I think that has alot to do with it!  It is just frustrating!   Grrrrrr.  On Saturday I could not find Ambrose and after searching through the whole house I found him fast asleep in his bedroom!  I had to take a picture because I have NEVER seen this before!  And then last night Maisie came down with it and I guess during the night sometime she had to blow her nose!

I love Montessori

I would have never thought to give the kids a needle, thread, button and fabric!?  

(Click on the link below!!! .... it's the blue title!)

Cedar Valley Montessori Casa

Drawings of a three year old

Question:  What is this? 

Answer:  "just a chair"

Robie the Robot?

Finny the Whale

Sunny Afternoon in March!

The sun makes everyone happy!!  And do weird things like throw your lawnmower off of the swingset!!  

There goes the black handle...

And now the rest of the lawn mower...

I am dog-sitting "Summer" for 10 days

Rocky dog!

Renos Slowly Coming Along

When you own a home it seems there is always "something" to do!  When we bought this house 15 months ago it had an unfinished basement and we are trying to finish it as we can afford to.  It is coming along!  Even though we look around and there seems to be so much finishing work to do it was neat to see the before and after pictures to see that we are getting there.  It is so nice to have a space for the kids to use as their own and now that I will be looking after 2 other kids a few days a week the downstairs is a PERFECT place for us to hang out!

I just realized as I was looking at the the pictures below that they were taken a while ago (it looks like Chirstmas) and the room has changed AGAIN so I will try to take some updated photos.

A Place to Play!

Whew!

I fixed something!??   I  seem to have recovered some things and my layout tab came back!  Yay!  So it's not exactly how I wanted it, but it is all there AND I don't have to redo or create a brand new blog!!!  Relief!

Dang! I screwed it up!

I was trying to "doctor up" my blog the other day and I ended up SCREWING it up!!  I have lost a few things like my layout tab!!!  GRRRRRRRR!   I have spent some time today trying to figure it out, but I don't have a bloody clue!!  Sorry you have to look at this page with the tiny letters.  Hopefully I can do something with it soon........  I don't feel like posting anything until then....  Fingers crossed!!

Some Days You've Just Gotta Sing!

And make music!  One day the kids and I made a CD for them (just 5 songs) of music they wanted  (Life is a Highway-Rascal Flats, Real Gone-Sheryl Crow, Our Song-Taylor Swift, Stop in the Name of Love! and one more I don't even know the name of!).  We then made some microphones and a guitar!  Rock On!!  Air-band!  We played all morning!  I don't know who was having more fun!  I think I was!!  You can't tell from some of the pics, but we rocked!!  LOL
OH! And just so you know... it was morning and that's why no hair combing!   Actually, my friend Sarah pointed out that Rock Stars don't brush their hair! So there!

Maisie and her Bugs Etc.

Have I mentioned that Maisie loves bugs?  She loves every creature I think!  With or without legs!  With fur or without. Crawling, creeping, swimming, slithering or slimming, they are all her friends.  Here are today's new friends. She found them while we were at Cultus Lake this afternoon. This was the biggest, fattest worm I have seen in a long time IF NOT the biggest I have seen.  You can't see the whole thing in the photo, but it was long too.  Also in her mitten, with that big fat worm were two more smaller worms!  She carried them around with her for a while and asked me if she could keep them!  Oh Man!!  Grandpa gave her a bucket and we put in some dirt and made them a happy home.  When it was time for us to leave she forgot about the bucket and I DID NOT remind her.

The last time....

We went to the Vancouver Aquarium for the last time last Sunday. Our membership expires at the end of March so we wanted to do one final trip. We had fun as always, but it was so neat to see how the kids have changed just from our last trip there. Their attention spans were much longer and they were more interested in listening and learning rather than just running from one thing to another at lightning speed! I tried to take some pictures, but they didn't turn out. I have always been leery of taking pictures there, but people do it all of the time and there aren't any signs saying NOT too. The trouble is the lighting and the tanks. I don't know how to deal with either of those elements therefore I have bad, blurry pictures.

Performing the Physical Exam

Dr. Ambrose is in the house.

Checking the X-ray

Touching the Starfish

Watching the fish.

Kissing the Ray

Maisie kissed everything! - Snakes, Frogs, Fish, Beetles, you name it!   If it was there, it received a kiss!  Yeech!

The Jellyfish

Oh Goodness!

Yesterday I found Ambrose in the bathroom with this:

What the heck?

Apparently it is some kind of drinking device.  He invented it.  He actually sucks up water through that!  Weird.  I don't know if that his idea of a specialized straw?  LOL  I can see some fun times ahead!!!  

Below is a picture of our oh so sweet, quiet, gentle, thoughtful, little Maisie Daisy's "Other" side captured by the camera.  Hee hee hee  

What A Blast!

Of Winter that is!

I don't know why, but I was a caught a little off guard by all of the snow! I expected we would get snow, but I was thinking more of a "dusting" not a small dump!

Poor Plants!  

Double YUCK!!!!

YUCK!!!!!!!!!!

It's SNOWING!