Cuteness

he crawls, or scoots... or something

FINALLY!

He actually started this almost a month ago, but I haven't gotten around to getting it caught on video until now. As you will see, he still needs coaxing, because well... he's a baby and thinks he needs to be picked up and carried around everywhere. Ha. Nice try kiddo.

He's stubborn though... real stubborn. Hmmm, he must get that from his Daddy. He could sit there all day and whine and whine at me until I finally give up and go pick up his cute chubby little body. It's true. He's done it on several occasions.

Thankfully now that a couple of weeks have passed, he is tasting his independence a bit more, and well I think he's likin' it. He now will venture down the hall into his bedroom, uncoaxed and unchaperoned. This is big folks.. BIG.

On a side note, the quality of the video isn't all that great, sorry!

snug as a bug

So call me a bad mother, but when there are important things to be done around this house, like laundry and dishes, I need a moment to myself without a whiny baby right on my heels.

Yes, his new thing is 'whining' every second of every day it seems. I'm learning patience and understanding and that the odd drink now and then never hurt anyone.

I kid, I kid. Drinking doesn't help the problem. But the Backyardigans do. It's the only TV program he will watch. And when I say 'watch' I mean, he will sit there from start to finish, without a peep, except maybe to shout some excited baby babble when they start singing.

Bless their beautiful creative cartoon hearts...

I love you Backyardigans. And so does my Son...

family home evening

We decided to switch FHE to Sunday nights at our house. Just because we can. Oh and we hate all things about Monday, so it was an easy decision.

Ya right. Although I really do hate Monday's. Except for in the evening when some of my best tv shows are on and I dont do anything but sit on my couch with a pint of ice cream and get fat. Wait, that's every night. My bad.

Noah and I are headed to Strathmore on Monday night to help my poor blind sister Janay. Who as of tomorrow will be glasses free! Woo hoo! Congrats - it's a long time coming. Hence the reasoning for Sunday night FHE.

Lucky for us, Noah is at that wonderful age where he would rather be tortured than sit through a lesson, and where sitting through a lesson with him is torture for us. So for now, we skip that part and get right to the good stuff. The activity! We took a short walk and spent some time at the park.

Clearly the kid does not get out enough. He was thrilled to be leaving our house. I hear ya buddy, I hear ya.

He liked the slide, although he didn't really know what to do with it, you know besides bang his little heels against it to make some neato noises.

Here he is discovering the icky, dirty playground rocks that were just so interesting.

And here I am lunging forward to grab a fistfull that was rapidly making its way to my baby's mouth.

His new love, the swing. He didn't want to get off of it...

...and neither did Ed.

hot hot hot

Our main goal this summer is trying really hard not to melt as the temperature has been ridiculously high. We've been successful so far but it was touch and go there for awhile. C'mon, 37 degrees?? This is Canada. Seriously.

Two words. Knee Sweat. You know, when the back, inside part of your knee gets all damp and sweaty? That's a huge indicator that it's waaay to hot out. Anyone else know what I am talking about? No? Well it's gross, and now that I have confessed to having sweaty 'knee pits' I hope to never speak of this again. Ever.

Moving right along...

Aside from the heat exhaustion, we have managed to lead relatively normal lives.

We've been snuggling with our Daddy...

Splashing around in Mommy's homemade 'water park'...

Playing the Wii...

Reading highly educational books...

Showing Abuela how to play with toys...

Playing Hide and Seek (a personal favorite)...

And all the while, staying good and hydrated...

In more fun news, Noah decided to start crawling the other day. After only 9 1/2 months, I say it's about time little monkey! Now I have to figure out how to baby proof my house. Woo hoo. The first thing on my list? An entertainment center with cupboard doors. Until then however, I have the lovely job of picking up piles of DVDs from the floor and placing them neatly back on the shelf... 100 times a day.

I gave up putting them back in alphabetical order after 2 hours. sigh. If he wasn't such a handsome little toot, him and I would be having some words!

I'm 24?...

Yesterday I was sitting in the Doctor's office and there was a cute little old lady sitting next to an even cuter little old man. As they were fresh out of the latest People magazine in the waiting room that day, I had to entertain myself with other things, so I started listening to their conversation. Here's how it went...

Little Old Man: "How old are you Dear?"

Little Old Lady: "Who me? Why I am 91 this year, next year I will be 92. I have a friend named Ronald, he and I are the same age."

Little Old Man: "91? Is that all? You're just a spring chicken"

Little Old Lady: " Well I would certainly hate to see what an old Hen looks like!"


I nearly wet myself. It was prossibly the cutest thing I have ever eavesdropped on. Sigh. I hope to be as cute and fiery as that when I am 91. Fonrtunately I have many more years until that birthday.

This weekend we celebrated my big 24. Whoo Whoo! It will go down in my books for being one of the most memorable I have ever had. Not because of any extravagant gifts or over the top surprises. Because of family. I had such a wonderful, relaxing time and I was able to enjoy it with lots of close friends and family. A huge thanks to everyone who helped me to celebrate and made it a birthday to remember.

One gift in particular was the highlight of the weekend. My handsome husband thought about this all on his own and with the help of Janay, Mom and Amber, orchestrated so I didn't know a thing until the unveiling. (not for lack of trying on my part though)

So without further ado, I give you... my birthday cake...

































It was brilliant, and I loved it! It took me awhile to cut it, because I didn't want to ruin it. In the end my hungry tummy won, and it was satisfied with rich dark chocolate cake and white chocolate raspberry filling. Yumo. Do they know me or do they know me?? It was DE-lish.

And now I have the pleasure of working off all the extra poundage I gained by eating 1 or 3 or 8 pieces.

Thanks again everyone - it was fantastic!

Love,
Kevyn

Our little life

Maybe you've noticed, maybe you haven't, but I've been gone for awhile. It's cruel how time slips away so quickly without us even noticing.

It's been de-junking/organizing central at my house this past week. I got kind of a late start on the whole "spring cleaning" frenzy. Ah well, better late than never I suppose.

I'm tired, but it's a feel good kind of tired. Those kinds are my fav.

Any old how, now that my house is organized, so is my head so I can fill you in on all of the purely exciting happenings of our life. Or mildly exciting happenings. It really depends on your idea of exciting. And let me tell you, once you have children, your standards in that area drop dramatically. Excitment to me is staying up past 10 o'clock. Whoo hoo.

We went to BC for the 'long' weekend at the end of June. It was nice to get away, and spend some family/friends time. It was nice to do nothing but laze around and work on my tan. Pffft. As if that happened. I was constantly taking care of my Son, I may have mentioned him before.. short little guy, crys alot. I'm sure you remember. Anyways, vacationing is sooo much different with a baby. Next time we're leaving him home with the Grandparents. Kidding. I love my babe, I'll just hire a nanny next time we go anywhere. Problem solved.

As promised here are 3 whole pictures of the big vacay. Aren't you lucky. My camera died the first day and me, being the most responsible packer in the world, forgot the charger. Oops. We had fun anyways, its just not documented.

This is what Ed did for the duration of the trip...

He also wanted me to add that HE was the one that caught the first fish.

Way to go hunnie! You outdoorsman you.

I'm so proud.

This is what Noah did for the duration of the trip...

His first experience in water of any kind other than his tubby time. As you can tell, he was thrilled. In fact I heard him say when we pulled up to the cabin, "whoa that's the biggest bathtub I've ever seen!" It was cute.

And this is what I did for the duration of the trip...

That's right. I sat right under that tree for three whole days. Well, I did venture out once or twice, but I was burnt to a crisp in 30 seconds, so I thought it would be safer to stay shaded.

All in all it was a fun time.

Other than that little trip, we've just been hangin' out at home which has officially been dubbed the 'Sauna' It heats up in our little house like the inside of an oven. If you ever need to clean out your pores, c'mon over.

We can all hardly wait until the end of the summer arrives and we get more time with our Daddy when he goes back to school and his schedule calms down a bit.

Here are my two boys reading scriptures before bed the other night...

Sigh. Life is good.

Ooops

Okay so I know the blog looks really super horrible right now. I have been playing with different backgrounds and somehow screwed everything up. Its a little late and I'm real tired right now so this mess will have to wait until I've had a nap....


thats all :)

he's an oldie!

Happy Birthday to our favorite Husband and Father

Would you believe that I couldn't find a single picture of Ed without Noah for this post? That's just an example of how he is. Whenever he has a spare moment it is spent with his family, but most especially his number one fan, Noah. They're best buds.


This post will be a bit early. Ed's birthday is actually on the 29th but we are going out of town for the weekend to enjoy some fun in the sun with our boy. Pictures to follow.


He'll be 27 this year! Go ahead, say it... WHOA. He's an old man. I tell him that all the time. I also tell him how incredibly lucky he was to land a much younger and much prettier wife. He agrees with me of course, because that's just the way it works around here.


I couldn't tell you enough good things about this man. He's everything I've looked for in a Husband and Father of my children. All the good things, and all the bad things. His faults are something I truly enjoy about him, because they remind me that no one is perfect. Especially me. (shocker I know) they also add variety and excitement to our life. His stubborn qualities mixed with my own ensure that our time together is never dull! Our life is far from perfection. it actually borders on crazy... but it's ours and I wouldn't have it any other way.


I love you for who you are and who I know you will become. I love all of our jokes and funny names for each other. I love how you support me and are considerate of my feelings. I love the way you smell. I love the way I fit perfectly in your arms. I love the way you love our son. And I really love that I've fallen more in love with you everyday since the day we met. ( I could go on, but people would probably start puking if I did) :) Happy Birthday Babe - I hope it's a good one!


And of course it wouldn't be a proper Birthday post without a little word from our son....

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Just in case you don't speak "Babyslammingonkeyboard" allow me to translate...

"Dear Daddy, I'm glad to hear it is your birthday because, as you may know I have a bit of a food obsession and birthdays=cake. You can imagine how excited I am. Oh ya, I love you. Happy birthday! Love, Noah"

I also must mention my greatest apologies to one of my cutest Nephew's Conner for not sending him a happy birthday post on the 20th. Sorry little buddy, I dropped the ball on that one. I'll be better next year I promise. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me. (Something tells me that theres more than my lack of birthday posts on a 3 year old's mind. I think he'll still love me :)

Shout out

AUNTIE BIRTHDAY TO OUR HAPPY JANAY!

(sorry kids, inside joke)

This is what Noah had to say about it all....

Whoo! Whoo! It's your birthday, raise the roof. Whoo! Whoo!

Hey congrats. By the way, hold old ya gonna be?

Say WHAT? 29? Holy shozbot. I can't even imagine being that old.

But hey, power too ya, you're only as old as ya feel.

So whatchya gonna do for the big day?

Exsqueeze me? Did someone say something about cake??

Ohh I am SOO there. Have I told you how much I love birthday's?

And most especially birthday cake??

Alright, now if you'll excuse me, I need to finish my bath and get myself ready.

Don't even think about startin' without me.

After all, I am the life of the party.

Have a wonderful birthday Auntie Janay! We love you so much and can't wait to share your special day with you!