Three of four... (video)

Here are a few videos clipped together of Sam playing soccer, Max zipping up his coat, and Ian playing ball with me.  Ian is actually throwing me the ball time after time!  He is using his left hand, too - maybe there is something about being named 'Ian' ?

Starting to look like Christmas

Max is already writing a letter to Santa !

1950s style dinner party

The five families (Wards, Karns, Wicketts, Hyndmans, Calkins and Rosses) decided we would get together for a dinner party every once in a while. With their new kitchen and reno. Diane and Chris started us off.  We had a nice dinner, including a lovely jello/carrot salad by Darcy, followed by charades and games.  Backing us up we had a fleet of babysitters, and unfortunatley Sam fell to this month's gastro :(  They handled it well, though, and fnished Charlie and the Chocolate factory in one night...

Aside from the bow tie, I stuck to square black and white photos for the occasion.  The Wickett sisters wore their Nana's dresses, while Chris wore his high school grad pink bow tie !

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I don't want to spoil the surprise for anyone who hasn't yet read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but Sam was very excited last night when we finally found out how Charlie got the ticket.  Sam was convinced Charlie would get a ticket, despite it seeming like he was almost out of chances...  So much fun now that we are reading 'real' books.  Max is interested, but definitely not as involved in the stories as Sam.  We've also read James and the Giant Peach, and Charlotte's Web.

Almost walking

Yesterday Ian took to pushing around a shopping cart, and stood for 10 seconds!  Seriously - can he be any cuter?

Family swim

 With everyone off today we hit up the Y for a family swim...

Once in a while...

Every so often we get a fun date - 11/11/11 at 11:11am.  Also a good time for Remembrance...

Ellie and Ian eating (video)

Ian playing

He didn't exactly stumble into a plain blue box on a white sheet, but I got some cute shots of him while he was playing...  Plus a few from earlier in the day:

Bedtime?

 Katy and Henry were super cute after bath and we found them reading books in twin beds :)

Sunday dinner

Darcy and I did the usual Sunday morning workout with Dawn.  With the extra hour at our disposal we managed to arrive 10 minutes late - go figure!  We traded Sam for Daniel and the kids played for the afternoon while we did some chores.  Daniel and Max played in Lucy's old crate for almost two hours with headlamps!

This michevious grin will serve for all the kids after they pulled out all the strings on Darcy's four string serger, and then she got a 'haircut' from the other kids!