Sunday Pictures

Asher – 4 years

Chancery – 2 years

**************************************Asher : “Today we have each brought a dog to show you proper pet management.”

 

Chancery: “Asher is now demonstrating how you should NOT restrain your dog.”

 

Asher: “That’s right.  Dogs don’t like to be grabbed by the neck & squeezed, even if you mean it in an affectionate way.”

 

Chancery: “Here’s a fun fact for you.  Our cat, Thanet, doesn’t like to have HIS neck squeezed EITHER!”

 

Chancery: “You should also have appropriate toys for your pet.  Otherwise they will play with YOUR toys & they might wreck them or lose them.”

 

Asher: “Remember, NO SQUEEZING!”

Chancery: “See you next week!”

No Americano

It’s raining here today.  For some reason people seem to think they can’t drive any faster than 30 km/hr.  Must be the beginning of winter.  This song always perks me up.  Enjoy!

HAPPY FRIDAY!

Singing In The Car

Asher has been sitting upstairs with me in church for the past few months, and they always have a children’s song after the children’s message.  He rarely sings with all the other kids, claiming he doesn’t know the songs.  Apparently he might just catch on slowly.  Here he is singing last month’s song…

First Day of School

Last week Asher started Pre-K.  He has been very excited about this for quite some time.

The chance to use his new backpack was the biggest bonus for him.

Though it seems kind of silly to carry a backpack back & firth to school when the only thing inside is your lunch kit with a snack. 

 

But I suppose having a backpack is a rite of passage.  You can’t go to school without one.

Chancery has started missing him already.  The other day we got home & she asked, “Where’s Asher?”

 

I told her, “he’s at school & we’ll pick him up at lunchtime.”

 

She responded, “Can we have lunch NOW?”

Speaking Properly

I have noticed a trend in Chancery’s speaking lately.  We’ll ask Asher a question, “Asher, would you like your juice?”

 

And Chancery will respond, “I want my juice as well!”

 

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Me: “Would you guys like to go to the park?”

 

Asher: “Yes! I want to go to the park!”

 

Chancery: “I would like to go to the park as well!”

 

I know we are sometimes sticklers for correct grammar, but I think she’s just taking the piss.  Honesty, what two year old do you know who speaks this way?

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 4 years

Chancery – 2 years

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Asher: “You may have noticed that we are on a different couch today.  That’s because Daddy is preaching at another church & we all came along for the weekend.”

 

Chancery: “And the people we are staying with have some very cool toys.  I’ll show you one!”

 

Asher: “Chancery, may I have that truck?”

 Chancery: “No, Asher, this is my new favourite toy…”

 

Chancery: “…and I will NOT LET YOU TAKE IT!!!!”

 

Asher: “Wow, you must really like that truck, Chancery!”

Friday Music

Recently a friend of mine brought this music video to my attention.  I’ve listened to it a few times & I just love how different it is from most mainstream music, yet I can still listen to it with the kids around.  And the video’s pretty good too.  I believe it was filmed in Iceland, but I could be wrong… it’s happened once or twice before.

 

Now I’m just wondering what Derek thinks of it, seeing as he’s a self-proclaimed music snob…

 

How do you feel about it?  Like it?  Hate it?

 

HAPPY FRIDAY!!

Rite Of Passage

Chancery celebrated her birthday last month & since she doesn’t really get the whole birthday present thing, we only gave her a few small presents.  I was looking for a mermaid type toy she could take in the bath with her, and what I found was a beach Barbie.

She was quite chuffed with her new “girl”, and played with it for a few days, but as is typical of kids her age, now a month later I’m not sure she could even tell you where it is.  It has been forgotten & left in some remote corner of the living room.
A few weeks after Chancery’s birthday someone asked her how old she is.  Chancery has that one down, “I’m TWO!” she excitedly reported.  Next she was asked what she got for her birthday.  She didn’t even pause to think for a moment before shouting, “I get a VITAMIN!”

See, every morning at breakfast Chancery would watch Asher eat his vitamin & she always lamented, “I want a vitamin too!”  We always told her, “when you are two, you can have a vitamin like Asher has.”  Apparently the morning vitamin is the most exciting thing that has happened in her 2 year old life.

Along The Boardwalk

When Travis & Katie were out a few weeks ago, we decided to go out to Greenwich Provincial Park near St. Peter’s. 

We headed out in style

Our first order of business was finding a place to eat our lunch.

 

We settled for an apple we found on the apple tree growing beside the trail.  We figured we could wait for lunch until we made it to the end of the boardwalk.

 

The trail was a nice mixture of low shrubbery…

 

…and shady forest.

 

The kids found a nice spot to sit & wait for us to catch up with them.

 

The boardwalk was spectacular.  We saw lots of bird & even a few beaver dams along the way.

 

“We finally made it!!”

 

The beach was a lovely red sand beach & had I planned a little better we could have played in the water

 

We found a nice log to sit on & eat our lunch

 

And then it was time to head back.

 

I’m not much of a trip planner, so it was really nice for Travis to take over the planning of our site seeing.  I’m pretty sure I would have never found this place on my own.  We’ll definitely have to add this to the list of places PChad should go as well.

A Day At The Races

Yesterday was PChad’s birthday (he turned THIRTY!!!), so we decided to celebrate by going to the annual Demolition Derby in Oyster Bed.  Since it’d been ingrained into us that when you go somewhere you arrive early, we were at the racetrack 1/2 an hour before things got started.

Lucky for us, it was audience appreciation day, so they were giving the kids rides in the race cars.  Chancery told me afterwards, “I helped the driver drive the car.”

Asher took rides in 3 different cars…

…he then gave me the lowdown on how many times he went around the track in each car.

The kids started off excited…

…but the lack of naps soon caught up with them.

Asher discovered that he could see people under the bleachers, so he spent the bulk of the afternoon saying “hello” to anyone who would listen.

And of course, it looked like fun, so Chancery had to join in too.

We had a great time.  I was a bit surprised that the kids did so well (don’t get me wrong, they weren’t angels) seeing as we were there for over 4 hours.  My only complaint was that the demolition derby part was so short.  When I’ve been to them before, the entire afternoon is different heats of the demolition with different cars; yesterday was a day of stock car races with a 15 minute crash up derby at then end.  But it was a fun way to spend our last weekend of summer.

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 4 years

Chancery – 2 years

*****************************************Asher: “Do you want to play a trick on Mummy today, Chancery?”

Chancery: “What did you have in mind, Asher?” 

Asher: “Well, I thought when she tells us to smile, we could pretend we can’t open our eyes…

I CAN’T SEE!”

Chancery: “While I found that to be funny, I think Mum’s going to see right through that.”

Chancery: “I have an idea, why don’t we show her how old we are?”

Asher: “I’m two!”

Chancery: “And I’m FOUR!”

Asher: “That was a great idea, Chancery!  I think we may have fooled EVERYONE!”

Banana

 

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

Talking Turkey

I mentioned yesterday that the turkeys talked to Chancery.  I knew there would be skeptics out there who wouldn’t believe me unless I posted some proof.  So prepare yourselves for the talking turkeys…

…NOW do you believe me?

I’m sure many of you noticed that the video stops quite abruptly at the end.  That is because I had to stop Asher from ‘helping’ the turkeys escape their pen.  I suppose I should have worded things a bit differently to the kids, shouldn’t I?

Our Trip To Avonlea Village

Last week, my friend Katie & her husband Travis came to visit us for a few days.  We got the chance to explore a bit of the Island that I hadn’t seen yet.  Our first stop was Avonlea Village.

Asher & Travis took their turn drawing on the slates in the schoolhouse.

We inspected the chickens.

The kids both really enjoyed their laughably short pony rides.

And Chancery held a conversation with the turkeys (they actually spoke to her… really!)

We also saw our friend “Mr. Richard” who works at the grocery store as well as Avonlea Village.  Since Asher’s such a celebrity, he generously gave the kids a few prizes.

The Village was fun, but perhaps geared toward a bit older kids than mine.  We were told it can take 2 days to see everything, but we were out in less than 2 hours since the kids had no interest in watching the short plays.  Perhaps when they’re a bit older we’ll have to try again.