Princess Amy

All hail Princess Amy!

It was a very snowy weekend!

Picture a la Joseph

Joseph looks wasted but it's really just juice shooters!

This is how we spent our Saturday morning.

It's hard to believe that Mom and Dad are only 3 hours North of us, because we drove through a snowstorm Friday night and passed three 8-car pileups within 2 km of each other, and it snowed all weekend...and then we come home to find out that there was no snow in the city over the weekend, our snowman is just about melted away and all that's left is grass! How strange is that? It was a good thing I packed snow gear for the boys to wear, they did enjoy playing in the snow, although it was short lived for Joseph he had a fever on Saturday that pretty much knocked him out. Hope everyone else had a good weekend!

PS There will be more trips down Memory Lane coming soon...Mom and I went through the final box of unsorted photos and I've got some good ones, including Princess Amy!

Hello Auntie Kathryn!

We're off to Edmonton tonight to visit Mom and Dad, and maybe Minard and Christian. Auntie Kathryn's going to try and come visit her boys tomorrow at Mom's.  She seemed pleasantly surprised with Alex's good phone etiquette today! He talks to Nannie and Daddy on the phone at least once a day...must get that from me.

Can you see the resemblance?

Here I am in the eyes of Joseph, although he still signs his name Joey.  He was just so proud of himself you can't help but smile!

Lesley & Michelle's Preschool Adventure!

Oh my gawd! What a night!
It started off way before we even left the house, do we bring Alex and Connor to check out their new preschool or leave them at home so we can fill out paperwork uninterrupted?!? Well we went with option 2 and left the kids with the daddies.
We get there and find out that we were like the only two moms who didn't bring their kids...but we got over it and actually felt sorry for the moms that brought their kids, I think the photocopier took most of the abuse from the anxious little button pushers.
Next comes the checklist for your postdated cheques...$165 for each 11 weeks, three cheques in total, $20 non-refundable registration fee, fine, no big deal, $5 for each police cheque for volunteering...and here's the icing on the cake...THREE CHEQUES FOR $200 EACH WHICH YOU WILL RECEIVE BACK AFTER EACH 11 WEEKS IF YOU MEET YOUR VOLUNTEERING QUOTA! I just about walked out right then and there! I couldn't believe that no one mentioned it on the phone to Michelle or I or the other ladies filling out the forms. But the ladies said it's not much volunteering just 5 hours out of classroom (making playdough, fundraising...) and 6 hours of in classroom (1 morning per month). So, I anxiously/nervously phoned Aaron to get the wink and the nod from him to continue with the registeration. He agreed but was not really excited about being forced to volunteer. It's either he does it on his days off if they coincide with preschool days (as if they will) or I have to renegotiate all of my contracts with the parents that I need one morning off a week to volunteer at preschool...I doubt it will go over that well...especially if Michelle goes back to work and I'm stuck driving Alex to and from preschool. I think that was one of my best selling points as a daycare was that Joey and Danny were dropped off right to my front door so I didn't have to drive/walk to the bus stops...I guess we'll see what happens. I've got until September to figure it out but I'm sure everyone knows me well enough to know I won't be able to let it go until I have it all figured out and crossed off the list!

Some days you just can't win!

This pretty much sums up how my weekend was!  The boys had no interest in going outside to play and proceeded to make messes wherever they went.  By the time I got the upstairs rooms straightened up Alex had shredded two rolls of toilet paper downstairs and once I had the downstairs all tidy I came upstairs to find 'the fort' which is made of all of Joseph's linens, Alex's linens, both of the boys toy boxes as well as the teddy bears from one of Joey's shelves...they were so proud of themselves that it made it hard to give them heck for the mess, but eventually it got cleaned up, thankfully before Aaron came home from work. Needless to say it was an early bedtime so Mommy could have some down time, Aaron went to the Car Show with his friend from work.  It was nice and quiet!!!

A preview of everyone's Happy Spring card

Mackenzie's baptism card, I realize now that the verse is crooked, good thing Mackenzie is only 11 months and won't notice, LOL!

Danny's new baby brother card...only 9 more days to wait...

Aaron's birthday card

I've got  a huge list of cards to make and got a few done last night. If the boys cooperate tomorrow I'm sure I'll be doing more of them and starting on the Easter dayhome projects...chore charts, ID kits (I'm sure I'll have stories to tell about the whole fingerprinting process!), and fridge magnets of the letters of their names. Where do I begin?