Mothers Day

So I'm finally getting around to blogging about Mother's Day. With 2 kids in school and a creative husband the presents were endless. First of all, we like to celebrate Mother's and Father's Day on Saturday; since on Sunday there are meetings, church, the no shopping policy....etc. Besides, the kids can hardly wait to share their presents.

Spencer made a wonderful pancake breakfast, then Megan had soccer pictures in the morning and then we all braved Costco...so I could get some prescription sunglasses (still waiting to get those back). Then home for a quick lunch and some tidying up. Then Megan and I were off to the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Kids series to listen to Mozart: Boy Genius. It was really good and fun to get out with Megan. We both enjoy the Symphony and she says that she wants to continue on for next year.

(Megan conducting a string quartet)

Upon arriving home we decided that it was "time". So Aaron started things off with a nice red balloon with a note attached that says how much he Loves me...and he enjoyed chasing the balloon around the living room. Next Spencer and the boys shared with me some sugar cookies that they freshly baked. They even made 3 that spelled out M-O-M. (Evan was snitching them all week!).
Evan shared his gift that he made a preschool. A lovely card with his hand print and a painted ladybug rock in a beautiful box. He was so happy to give it to me! His ladybug is one with inverted colors...a black bug with red dots!


Megan then gave me her present. A lovely spa basket with bath bombs, Epsom salts, nail file, fluffy puff, rose petal soaps, and bath gel. They all smelled lovely and they made everything at school. So far Megan and Evan are the only ones to have tried anything...they enjoyed using them a lot in their own baths.

Spencer then handed me a couple of gift certificates to go to a spa....I get to pick from a group of spas that accept this GC. So I'm trying not to lose that special little paper.

At church the next day, all moms were given a candle and cookies. My kids all tried the cookies, Megan broke hers in half and shared with me. Thanks Megan. Happy future Mother's Day to you too! Then I had a nice nap after church and a lovely dinner. It was a full busy weekend.

Bathroom Tile

For obvious reasons this will be a pictureless post....read on...

Just for today, I'm glad for having tile on the walls in my bathroom (although I do strongly dislike them). Let's just say that after 2 years of trying to teach Evan to sit to use the toilet...I think that it is impossible for little boys. Quite frankly they are designed to stand...so now we are trying to teach him to stand and do his business (or Spencer is anyway), I'm there for reminding and encouragement. GO Evan GO!



P.S Good luck to any others out there with the same problem.

P.S.S I have seen little training urinals....that may be my only other option!

Biking

Here is our bike riding set up...for one. When we all go on a ride...Megan is attached to my bike and the boys are in the trailer attached to Spencer. Aaron isn't quite so sure about it...the helmet is a bit tricky, but he is getting better at enjoying the rides and sitting in the trailer...he is still quite young.

Tender Tootsies

Sorry, I've been so terrible at posting lately. Nothing too earth shattering has happened for us. We still are plugging away with work, school, playing, cleaning, errands, sickness, and biking.

We have been back to the parks and exploring new ones, with the nicer weather. The one problem that exists for Evan is that all the parks that we go to have sand. If the weather is nice I tell him to just quickly put on his "crocs", which he is happy to do. Until we get to the park and every 5 seconds he has to stop to dump the sand out of his shoes. I don't blame him, I've been wearing sandles that get sand into them as well and it does hurt your feet! All those winter months of wearing socks and slippers and boots.....

Occassionaly we are smart and Evan wears his rain boots or shoes to the park, then he has a really good time and can actually enjoy himself and play.

Spring Break...

I have actually been enjoying myself with the kids this week and their spring break. We have been keeping busy....

Monday- was our mostly at home day...tv, computer, Wii, then we hit the library and went to play at the park (hooray for nice weather!)

Tuesday - was our visit to the Royal Alberta Museum. There we enjoyed looking at a few exhibits about our natural surroundings, Alberta Wilds and Robert Munsch. The kids also got to participate in a sock puppet story and craft all themed around the Munsch exhibit. We packed up our own lunch, but on the way out we did stop by the gift shop and each picked out a treat.

Wednesday - Spencer joined us for a day at WEM. Cheaper than Disneyland and closer. Then kids had a blast at Galaxyland. Megan was brave enough to go on some new big kid rides by herself and she joined Evan on a few rides as well. Aaron got to experience a few rides too; the train, and hot air balloons. He was mostly exicted for all the movement and flashing lights and sounds....We enjoyed lunch at the food court then back for more rides. Megans new favorite ride was the Swing of the Century. We then wandered the mall for a few minutes...and Megans good eyes spotted a store that had Webkins on sale...so generous dad bought them each a new one. It was a fun, full day.

Spring break is only half over and I'm exhausted. We'll move from those activities to running more errands and getting ready for Easter.....Hoppy Easter and April Fools Day!

Busy boy

Aaron has also been rocking on his hands and knees lately. He is starting to get the idea of how to coordinate it all, so he can actually move and go faster than what he is doing now; which is army man style; pull with the arms, kick with the feet....propel myself forward...cry and get picked up!

Toothy grin

Here is Aaron with his toothy smile. His first 2 teeth broke through in March, his seventh month. That is the earliest of all our kids. He sure is enjoying chewing on things with more texture....