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!

 

A Little Bit of Christmas

I just love the gift giving part of Christmas.  I love the hunt for the perfect gift for each person, & then watching them open it.  We opened our gifts as a family on Christmas Eve this year.

Chancery was delighted to receive some My Little Ponies.

 

Asher had conveniently stated, “I wish that I could see inside my body!” a few days before I attended an Usborne Book party, so he received the See Inside Your Body book!

 

Asher gave me The Book Thief Book (and so did PChad!) apparently they both knew what I wanted

 

Chancery was over the moon to find 2 new nightdresses in her present!

 

Asher was not quite sure about the slippers & mittens he opened, but that boy has lost so many mittens this school year!

 

PChad loves Volkswagens!

 

PChad decided to stop trying to fight against my love of hoodies.  He gave me a really nice one, so that I will be happy & warm whilst wearing it, & he will be satisfied that I am a bit dressier than normal!

 

A Volkswagen tablet case?  How perfect!

 

Asher asked at one point, “Why do I keep opening books, books, & books?”  Then he answered his own question, “Because books are awesome!”

 

Chancery wrapped a little gift on her own for Daddy…

 

And it was 2 McDonald’s Happy Meal toys!

 

Another Volkswagen shirt!

 

What could be better than seeing that delight?  Celebrating Jesus’ birth!  The ultimate gift all wrapped up in swaddling clothes.  It’s pretty awesome to think about!

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas!

Dinner Dislikes

We were having Moroccan Chicken a few nights ago for dinner, & the kids have definite parts of it that they do not love.  Usually at the end of the meal we find all the tomatoes from their portions still in their bowl, but the raisins are always a favourite!  The recipe calls for 1/3 cup of raisins, but since I love them too, I tend to add almost a full cup!

 

So, we were dining on our Moroccan feast, & Asher turned to me & said, “Mummy, I do not really like these egg peas.  They are not my favourite.”

 

“Egg peas?” I inquired, “What is an egg pea?”

 

Asher: “These little brown round things.”

 

Me: “Oh, you are silly!  Those are chick peas!”

 

Asher: “Well, I couldn’t remember what they were called, and anyway chicks do come from eggs!”

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 7.5 years

Chancery – 5 years

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Asher: “Today I’m showing everyone one of my trains!”

 

Chancery: “I don’t have anything to show to the people.”

 

Asher: “Let’s think of something you can show to them.”

 

Asher: “Looks like we are all out of time, Chancery!”

 

Chancery: “Let’s just show them a nice picture of us, Asher!”

He Knows Me Well!

PChad just walked into the room a few minutes ago & asked, “What are you watching?”

 

Me:  “The U.K. Christmas special.”

 

PChad:  “Is that Robbie Williams singing?”

 

Me: “No, it’s Gary Barlow.”

 

PChad: “They sound the same.”

 

Me: “Well, they were both in ‘Take That’.”

 

PChad: “He sounds a lot like Robbie Williams.”

 

Me: “Robbie already performed.”

 

PChad: “I thought so!”

Sunday Pictures – Christmas Edition

Sunday was a snow day, & since I knew we’d be taking Christmas pictures, I decided to just wait rather than take pictures of the kids in their jammies!

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Asher – 7.5 years

Chancery – 5 years

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Chancery: “I’m being a reindeer!”

 

Asher: “I got a new Sonic the Hedgehog DS game!”

 

Asher: “See?  There are 4 games on it!”

 

Chancery: “I like your tie, Asher!”

 

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

A Lesson in Innocence

Saturday night we went out to dinner, & a few booths over, we saw a familiar face.  Chancery was trying to figure out who we were talking about, so she started pointing to various people.  We have tried teaching her that pointing at people is bad manners, so we were trying to discourage her pointing to everyone in our vicinity.

 

Asher decided to weigh in on the conversation, “And especially don’t point with your middle finger, Chancery.  It means a very bad word.  It means the ‘S’ word.  I don’t want to say it, but it’s S-T-U… you know what.”