All about me!

Finally, some photos of me! Takes a birthday to get people snapping :)

Science center

We had a whole crew together at the Science Center today. Here are a few shots...

Ryan and Daniel on the train (and me in the window):
Sam and Andrew riding in the 'moving' part of the train:

Lily and Daniel assembling a car:

Moving beads around in Wow Town:

Home from school

They aren't in Kindergarten yet, but after signing them up for next fall they seem older every day. Here is Sam, Andrew and Rogan walking past the high school on their way home from pre-school...

Katy learning to crawl

Katy is up on her hands and knees every day now when we go to get her out of her crib. Here is a quick movie of how she is doing:

Sam paints too...

There seemed to be some confusion over the shots I posted a few days ago with Max as the 'artist'. The one really colorful shot was a super closeup of a scrap, and unknown who cleaned their brush on that piece :) The one of him actually painting is what he was working on, and here is the one Sammy ultimately put his name on (as per Mum's advice) - so everyone would know who painted the beautiful painting when they came down the stairs!

Skating party '10...

Ali and Matt (with a little help from their friends) put on a nice skating party at their house on Saturday. Due to a mix up we forgot what time the pre-school people were invited so when we invited family, etc. we went for 11am-1pm for lunch and skating. It turned out we Ali had decided on 2-4pm originally so it turned into an all day event. The kids must have skated for a couple hours...

Here is Lily licking the ice (what else?):

Heading to the rink:

Max puttering with his black stick and blue puck - don't try to get him to use anything different or touch his puck when he hits it out of reach :)

Matt, his Dad and others:

Matt and Ro:

Katy in a cute hat

Katy was looking adorable yesterday in this cute hat:

Both Katy and Max got their H1N1 shots yesterday... Katy ended up with the seasonal flu shot as well, but Max didn't. After he got his first shot he rolled up his other sleeve and was very disappointed that he wasn't getting one in both arms!

Max painting on his art easel

Max is enjoying his new art easel, as are the other kids. Last night Sam asked his Mum how people would know when they came down the stair who had painted the beautiful picture ? She suggested he put his name on it :)

Another funny story from yesterday: Max had gone in the potty and emptied it but got his hand a little dirty. After he washed them he asked to have them dried. Mum suggested he dry them on the stove (thinking the towel was hanging on the handle). The towel wasn't there so he just wiped his wet hands on the front of the oven door!

Tipper-Totter

Lest we forget - 'Tipper-Totter' is Lily's new word for 'yellow'...

But Mum...

Darcy was getting frustrated yesterday as we tried to get the kids to clean up the many totes they had emptied during the day. Many of the nicely labelled buckets were missing the labels. Darcy asked the kids 'Why do you keep removing the labels from the totes???' Sam replied: "But mum, we can't read!"

Happy New Year's 2010

Happy 2010! (Two-thousand-ten)

We had a nice adult night last night with a couple of babysitters looking after the five kids. Overheard in our interesting conversation:

"Have you ever read a story where the Papa bear is actually smarter than the Mama bear?" - Brad