Sunday Pictures

Asher – 7.5 years

Chancery – 5 years

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Chancery: “Hey, Brother, I am so glad that you showed up for pictures!”

 

Asher: “I have a little red truck to show you!”

 

Asher: “And my Calgary Flames hat!”

 

Chancery: “I think the people are just wanting to see us!”

 

Chancery: “Asher!  Did you disappear again?”

 

Chancery: “You can’t keep disappearing like that!”

 

Asher: “Well, I’m here now!”

 

Asher: “And here’s my best smile!”

January Trip

Since December is always a very busy time for us, we try to take a weekend away in January.  This year we headed to Moncton.  We stayed at a hotel with a waterslide, & happened to get a room with bunk beds!  I will definitely be requesting bunk beds again!  Had I known this was an option, I would have been asking at every hotel we have stayed at for the past few years.  (It is a lot harder to kick your sibling when you are in bunk beds!) 

 

The weekend was great.  The kids had a fun morning swimming, the parents had a fun afternoon at Costco & Princess Auto, & we all had a great time at Crystal Palace!

 

The Jumpin’ Star is very exciting!

Asher is pumped for the roller coaster!

 

Chancery really enjoyed mini golf this year.  She played the whole course twice!

 

Back on the roller coaster for another ride!

 

And the kids enjoyed a final ride on the Convoy.

More Stripes

Asher picked out a new church shirt when we went shopping a few weeks ago, & it reminded me of a shirt he had when he was little.

 

Only now, he’s got a few more stripes!

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 7.5 years

Chancery – 5 years

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Chancery: “ASHER!  Where are you?”

 

Asher: “I’m right here!”

 

Chancery: “Yes!  Now we can get these pictures done!”

 

Chancery: “WHERE DID YOU GO??”

 

Asher: “I don’t know what you are going on about.  I’m right here, Chancery.”

 

Chancery: “He’s gone again!”

 

Asher: “I just wanted to make sure everyone got to see all of my favourite books!”

 

Chancery: “I like the one about kittens too!”

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 7.5 years

Chancery – 5 years

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Chancery: “I hope you are not planning on shooting me with that, Asher.”

 

Asher: “No, but maybe I’ll shoot it at Mummy.”

 

Chancery: “Have you thought this through?”

 

Asher: “You are right.  I’ll just play with it after the pictures are over.”

 

Chancery: “That’s a much better plan!”

Snow Fort

We have a had a lot of snow already this winter, & the kids really, really wanted a snow fort, but the snow was not the right kind of snow for snow fort building (try explaining that to kids!).  Well, after awhile we had gotten enough snow that we just dug out under the picnic table, & viola, we had a fort!

 

The kids had a great time playing in the fort, but unfortunately (or fortunately, depending how you look at it), our snow has all melted, & the fort is gone… for now!

 

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 7.5 years

Chancery – 5 years

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Chancery: “I have a funny little monkey that I decorated with stickers!”

 

Asher: “That’s nice.”

 

Chancery: “Thank you, Asher!  That’s so nice of you to say!”

 

Chancery: “I love my little monkey!”

 

Daddy: “Smile, everyone!”

 

Asher: “Like this?”

 

Asher: “I have a black cat.”

 

Chancery: “And I have a black dog!”

 

Chancery: “So we can play with them together!”

Hello? Hellloooo?

A few nights ago, after PChad had put the kids to bed, Asher started calling out, “Daddy?  Daaa-ddy!”

 

I was tutoring, & PChad was on the phone, so neither one of us could answer him…

 

Asher: “Daddy?  Daddy!  Is anyone there?  Hello?”

 

“There has to be someone!”

 

“What if there is a fire?”

 

It was nice to know that he was so concerned about fire safety, but when PChad got off the phone & went to see what the fuss was about, he got this report…

 

Asher: “My neck is sore.  It’s so sore, it’s like it was cut off like Nearly Headless Nick!”

 

It was quite the analogy!

“Rested”

Talking with friends the other day & we were commiserating about the lack of sleep you get with babies & toddlers around.  Then, a few hours later I saw this article on Facebook.  Some parents of young children changed he lyrics to “Royals” by Lourde.  I had to share it with you all…

Click here for the song

 

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!

Snowmen

I recently went through my camera & found the first snowmen of the season hiding there.  It’s fortunate that the kids made these snowmen then since the snow we have had since has not been conducive to snowman building.

 

 

Here is Chancery’s incorporating the twine from the Christmas tree as hair.

 

 

And Asher’s has some dead flowers for hair.  We had carrots for the faces this time & did not need to use broccoli as we did last time, & the kids enjoyed the tortellini eyes!

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 7.5 years

Chancery – 5 years

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Chancery: “Happy New Years, everyone!”

 

Asher: “It’s 2014 already!”

 

Chancery: “Asher was so excited for the new year that he couldn’t sit here any longer!”

 

Chancery: “But I bet he’ll be coming back…”

 

Chancery: “Any minute now…”

 

Chancery: “See, I told you!”

 

Chancery: “What are you going to do this year?”

 

Asher: “I’m going to play with my sister!”

Mash-up

Here is a nice mash-up of Gangnam Style & Linkin Park… Enjoy!

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!

Shared Homework

Asher was helping Chancery with her French reading homework one night.  She only knows a few of the shorter words so far, so I thought the way they read through the book was pretty clever!