CC was in his element on the weekend. Lego everywhere and a truck to help him pick it up. Plus a teeny tiny shirt! Awesome!!
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Be Bike Riding in -10 degrees Celsuis
We’ve had a few hurdles to overcome lately! Do you get that impression?
One of our barriers to jump over has been our cars. More than once in the last few months, I have left my interior light on which has cause my battery to die. Just over a month ago, right before my mom’s surgery in Vancouver, my husband was in a car accident.
This morning we woke up with my husband’s car leaking fluid, probably related to the accident. He then was planning on taking my car, but my car had a dead battery! With stealth speed and a positive attitude, he managed to maneuver his car into position, jump my car and then get to work! Whew!
This left me to first bike ride JC to school, then down the other way to CC’s preschool and now back home. We will do everything in reverse in about an hour.
We did it all with a smile on our faces in the -10° weather.
Here are the boys ready to go:
Here I am on the path to CC’s preschool. CC and OC are in the chariot bike trailer.
All I could thing about as I rode was mom’s words as she walked out of the hospital yesterday and she breathed in the cool crisp air: “ahhhh, that feels good!” I agree Mom!
Be Missing School
Last Wednesday, JC woke up with a bit of a fever, I kept him home!
It was a PJ, truck playing, leaf gathering, door jam hanging, hockey equipment wrestling kind of day.
Today, Nana is getting sprung from the hospital so we are going for a visit.
When deciding on what to do, I often ask myself, “When (insert name of son) is eighteen years old, is this going to matter?”.
A whole day with his brothers and now a day with Nana and Papa, yup these days matter! Sorry school!
Be Winning a Colouring Contest
While I was getting ready for my day one morning, JC was sitting at the kitchen table.
He proceeded to flip through the newspaper, find a coloring contest, color to the very best of his ability and then cut it out. He finished off the task by writing his name and then calling me to show me what he had done. I was incredibly amazed. We added our phone number. Then, I noticed that the coloring contest was ending today. I dropped the coloring contest paper off at the local newspaper and voilà the task was done.
Two weeks later we got a phone call and JC had won the coloring contest!!
Here is his coloring effort as well as the great prize that he won:
Be Hanging With Your Baby Friends
friend
frɛnd/
noun
1.
a person with drives one hour, hops on a ferry and drive another four hours to come visit you.
2.
a person who also brings their six, four and two year old.
3.
a person who also brings food for your freezer, crafts and “meaty” conversation. (My friend is a vegetarian. 😉)
There is nothing like friends who go the extra mile.
I am extremely grateful for this mommy friend, D, coming to visit this weekend. Our boys have known her and her brood since they were all in utero.
Look at the fun we had:
There is nothing like the friends you have known since you were a baby!
Be Thinking/Reading in French
We are one year and two months into our first child in school.
We decided to put him into French Immersion due to our life before children living in Europe, class compositions in French Immersion and the brain/future benefit of learning another language. The only language that is offered is French, otherwise we may have preferred Spanish or perhaps even German.
As parents, we question many of our decisions that we have made for our boys. Today, we were given a small pat on the back that for our oldest French Immersion is the right track for him.
Today, we were in the car.
JC yelled out, “Seven cars. There were seven cars lined up at the light!”
I had a light bulb moment and asked, “Did you count that in your head in French or English?”
JC responded, “French of course Mama!”
My first thought was: thanks for translating to English for me and then I was surprised he was counting in French.
Here’s our Grade Oner reading his home reading tonight:
JC reading in French
Be Cutting Down a BIG tree!
We were in boy heaven this morning!
This tree had to be cut down :(.
We had a tree company show up with cranes, huge saws and a humongous tree cruncher.
The excitement started off with one of their workers putting on his harness getting attached to the crane and getting pulled to the very top of our tree
He then attached himself to our tree and attach the crane above him. Next he went to work.
They cut about 20 feet off the top of the tree and then pulled it up with the crane and took it down to the street so they could cut off all the branches. The trunk of the tree was still attached to the crane and it went flying through the air like Mary Poppins and was put on a trailer farther down the street. They did this FOUR different times.
A chain saw sitting on the trunk.
The huge trunk flying by my kitchen window.
Grinding up the stump.
Lastly, they cleaned up the street and left us a little bit of memorabilia leaning against one of the other trees.
Now you’re probably wondering why did we spend thousands to cut down the tree.
Back in September, we had a fairly large windstorm and we were watching the tree. We noticed that it was swaying quite a bit.
After we inspected the tree further and had four different arborists come to look at the tree, we realized that the tree had been cabled in two different places to try to keep the branches together. (This is the trunk that came flying past my kitchen window!)
Just note to self: if you ever buy a house take a close look at the trees because they can be expensive to remove!
Let.
There.
Be.
Light.
Our new view.
Be Having Some Hideouts
My boys are incredibly creative when they are outside. They seem to go with themes, sticking with them for a month or two then they move on to something else. ( uHmmm… Might be interesting to think about as we school our boys.)
We have gone through swinging, soccer, bugs, tree climbing, treasure hunting, obstacle course making and probably a few other I am forgetting.
Here’s one of their most adventurous creations.
Right now they will look at something and immediately see “hideout”! I am letting them go with it. So far nothing has been destroyed, demolished or hurt in the process of their outside fort making.
Here are four new hideouts they have discovered in the last month:
Under the front stairs.
Under the side stairs.
Underneath the juniper beside the pool deck.
They spent hours pruning the juniper so that they could all fit underneath.
This is their latest hideout and I was the ‘bad guy’!
Lets just say they were pretty easy to catch.
"Be" ENOUGH 