The laundry basket has oh so many uses!

Enjoy :)f

A Visit from Grammie and Grampie

We had another great visit from Grammie and Grampie, unfortunately it wasn't so great for Colin. He had gone to the Oilers game the night before and must have eaten an under cooked burger as he was up the whole night vomiting and kept going well into the afternoon. He was throwing up so much that he popped a bunch of blood vesicles all over his face, it looks/ed like he had purple freckles all over his cheeks, eyes, forehead, etc. I think they're kind of cute but Colin thinks otherwise.

Grammie and Grampie came with a bag FULL of goodies for us. They got us a reusable advent calendar that Robbie absolutely loves, Grammie finished the baby's blanket (it's gorgeous!) and they brought their stockings for a template. I'm going to be making the family our stockings this year and I'm really excited to make them, stockings were always THE BEST part of Christmas and I hope to pass on the love of stockings to my kids.

This was the last visit from my family until our new baby decides to make her grand entrance... quite exciting!

Tis the Season

Tonight's Dinner

I tell ya, this little monkey always seems to be testing his boundries with us.

I made some chilli (with pasta) tonight and I didn't think we'd have any issues with it... I was wrong. He took one look at it and refused it and then proceeded to ask to watch one of his tv shows, to go downstairs and he wanted "chips" too. We told him he could have whatever he wants if he just has ONE pasta, he would walk up to the table and look at the pasta and you could tell that he wanted to just eat it and get it over with but he was having an interal battle. I tried cheering and coaxing him with blueberries but he ended up leaving the table. So we read books until it was bed time, I told him it was time to put on his PJ's and he looked at me and said "pasta then donkey?" (Shrek = donkey) I agreed... just like I had been doing all night. He ran over to the kitchen table, looked at a kidney bean, called it a candy and then devoured it! I gave him a blueberry as reward and he was all for having another bean and then another! Once he got the flavour of the chilli he was all for having pasta and I was able to sneak some ground beef and tomato in his fork too! I was ready for him to go to bed without any food and I know he was testing to see how far we'd go.

I'm really happy that he sees blueberries as a treat, I don't have to give him M&M's anymore!

Julia and Rich

Last night I got a call from Purolator saying there's 3 boxes waiting for me to be picked up. I went to pick them up and they BARELY fit in our Jeep! (good thing we don't have the mini any more) Toys R Us sent us these massive boxes on behalf of someone, we weren't able to open the boxes right then because as soon as Robbie would see them he'd want in. So I sent an email to Uncle Paul because that seems like something he'd do but he said it wasn't and thought it would be Grammie and Grampie, so I made a phone call and Grampie says it wasn't him. Once Robbie was in bed Colin and I raced into the garage to find something with a name so that we can thank them.... it was Julia and Rich!! Our kids are so lucky for all the gifts they got both of our monkeys, I can't wait to wrap them!

I met Julia when I was working at the Bridal Centre and we've been able to keep our friendship strong since my move up north. They've come to visit us a couple times since our move and Robbie really loves playing with them.

Thank you Julia and Rich, you definitely went overboard and I'll send you video of his reaction on Christmas morning!

Do A little Dance...

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Gido & Grandma

We had a nice little visit with Gido and Grandma this morning. Robbie was really excited to show Gido all of his toys and have someone who will chase him around.