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Elsa made a little nest in one of our grocery store crates then she climbed in and quickly fell asleep.

Liam and Mr. Bingley relaxing on the couch together.

Elsa being cute as always :)

Liam and Elsa riding dinosaurs while on a shopping trip with mummy and daddy

Elsa all bundled up and trying out the slide in Victoria Park for the very first time!

Oliver and Elsa at Victoria Park down the street from our house

My sweet happy little boy Liam

Family yoga session. Elsa and Liam decided to join in all on their own. This photo wasn't staged a bit which is what makes it SO darned cute! I use the Nintendo Wii to do my yoga.

 

Mr. Bingley getting some morning loving from Elsa

Elsa, Boo and Mr. Bingley. This is the last photo I took of Boo before she passed away.

 

Kindergarten Here We Come....I think

Liam at the park recently. Photo taken with Instagram on my iPhone. 

Liam is growing up too fast! My little boy has been enrolled in kindergarten which starts in September I believe. Far too soon for this mum I tell ya! We recently brought Liam to meet his teacher and do a short evaluation to see where he's at. It took 45 minutes for his teacher to evaluate him and the results? Liam should see a speech therapist. I pretty much expected this news but it seems harder to hear from a stranger than simply in my head. Liam has had little to no experience with other children other than the occasional trip to the park and most of the children he meets there are around 1 - 3 years of age and not conversationalists themselves. So really it's not that surprising that he would be a little behind. 

Tomorrow Oliver and I have a meeting I arranged with Liam's teacher to talk about what  she thinks of Liam and if she feels he is ready to be thrown into the mix of things so unprepared. I think Liam will get on fine after he settles into his new place in the world although I will be a mess lol! My biggest worry is Liam being bullied and having his feelings hurt quite badly. Liam has a huge heart, he is very kind and he is terribly sweet and trusting. You would think that other children of his age would be of similar temperaments being so young still but I've seen some pretty hateful angry children on the playground and chances are Liam will wind up in the same class as some of these children and I won't be there to protect him. I know I just need to stop worrying but being a mother it sort of comes with the territory. Wish us luck! :)

Family Photos

Here are some fairly recent shots I've taken around the house of the kiddos, the dogs and myself using my iPhone and Instagram. If you follow me on facebook you may have already seen these.

Liam has quite the time trying to look like a normal child in photos! I sure do love my little clown!

Elsa all dressed up for the outdoors. Elsa's aunt Monika made her that fabu hat! Can't believe I just typed "fabu"!

Yes.... I really am THAT weird! And here I am showing off my supreme weirdness. Funny story, I once made this same face except with my tongue sticking out to the side in a family picture. A family picture that consisted of most of my mother's family, many of the aunts uncles and so on and so forth! I obviously was a kid then but I think if I were in that same photo now I'd do it all over again! You only live once and if you don't have humour what do you have?!

Liam hard at work on his first collage! My little bug is quite the artist!

Elsa playing in Liam's room.

Elsa and myself

Liam and I being silly!

 
My little girl sound asleep in my bed.

Boo enjoying the comforts of my bed. I woke up to find this silly dog in exactly this position on top of my covers :)

Mr. Bingley looking pretty.

 
He's always beautiful!

A little sleepy

Heading out for a walk! OH the excitement!

 
Bundled!

He fell asleep on the couch with an apple slice in his hand :)

Devouring her daddy's fruit veggie smoothie and NOT sharing!

Me :)

Elsa wearing the pajamas given to her by our Super cool friends in BC :)

At the grocery store

Even little bunnies need to go to the grocery store every once in a while!

Elsa sleeping in her daddy's arms.

Oliver and Elsa all tuckered out!

She loves to sit in the toy basket like a little doll :)

This little monkey stole my heart almost five years ago and no matter what sort of mischief he gets into I just love him more and more every day!

How Liam eats a donut! He bites the icing off the top all the way around and leaves the rest lol!

A Walk to the Park

 
Victoria Park in Downtown Charlottetown

Today was a really nice day.  It started out with cleaning, one of my favorite activities! I cleaned the bathroom, oh joy!  Then I worked on some papier mache.  I'm attempting my first papier mache project, a rabbit for Liam.  Then later in the day because it wasn't raining yet but the sky was threatening it, we went for a nice walk to Victoria Park.  Liam enjoyed playing on the jungle gym, Elsa had her first swing experience and I took plenty of pictures.  All in all it was quite nice!

 
Liam

 
Elsa enjoying her first swing ride

Another Elsa Picture Just Because :) 

 
Liam loves the playground!

BALD!

 

So over the weekend Oliver thought it would be such an ingeniouss idea to chop Liam's sideburns off without first checking with me.  I was not impressed. I was purposely leaving them be because I loved them and suddenly they were gone! Without the sideburns he looked like he had a huge poof on top of his head like some strange sort of hat!  This morning I decided to de-poof my little boy.  Unfortunately he had no intention of sitting still for the de-poofing and after much frustration I finally turned on the electric clipper and buzzzzzzzzz, off went ALL of his hair! It had to be done, the sideburns were removed in such a choppy manner and with his wiggling and fussing the de-poofing was even choppier so I really had no choice.  I don't mind it though, I think he looks cute, like he's trying to look like his daddy :)

 
Elsa is riding around in a similar boat.  She no longer has the full head of hair she once had but for completely different reasons.  Poor little Elsa had a mild case of cradle cap and most of her hair just went and fell right off of her sweet little head!  At first I thought it was just a case of bad dandruff but after noticing that her hair was thinning and my mum suggesting that it might be cradle cap I decided to do some research.  I came to the conclusion after much reading and staring at picture after picture on the internet that she did indeed have cradle cap.  I treated it myself without the help of a doctor who would have been of no help since cradle cap is pretty easy to deal with in the first place.  She is now ick free but she's also a wee bit hair free as well, lol!  Thankfully it's already starting to grow back and even with less hair she's still an adorable little hobbit :)

Happy Birthday Liam!

Today is Liam's birthday, he's now a whole three years old! I could say it seems like it was just yesterday that we were bringing our new baby home from the hospital but it doesn't really. So much has gone on in our lives between then and now that I feel like that was ages ago. Liam started out a sweet well tempered little bug and he hasn't changed much in that way. He's still very sweet, very cuddly and very happy :) Happy birthday Liam you are well loved!

A Recycled Collage

This collage started out as a colored pencil and marking pen drawing of a bird's nest surrounded by flowers. It started well, it ended poorly. When I was about 3/4 of the way done I lost interest and wound up rushing my way through the rest of it which is never good! Anyway, not wanting to just throw it away, especially since the first part I did turned out nicely, I decided to do a little collage work. For the collage process I used bits of antique paper as well as salvaged pieces of a print I made some time ago of one of my older collages that the printer decided to destroy and also a tiny square I cut out of an old painting that I did which I hated (but I liked the little square enough to keep). So there you have it, I not only like to recycle bottles and cans but also artwork :)

And here's a shot of Liam that I took this morning because he asked me too :)

Another Day at the Beach

Today after I spent the morning working on my Christmas ornaments for this year's tree, Oliver, Liam and I took a walk to the beach. We were there for just over two hours slowly scouring the beach for treasure. Oliver likes to look for neat looking rocks and he also picks up any sea glass he comes across because I'm fond of the glass. Liam just today decided to take up collecting as well and his favorite happens to be rocks just like his dad. Although he's been fond of rocks for quite some time. Something we noticed him doing today was picking up rocks, looking at them closely and then tossing them into the waves while he says in the cutest little voice " to the moooooooon". The reason he was doing that is because lately we've been watching Tintin cartoons together and there is an episode about a rocket ship that goes to the moon. In the cartoon the Professor says "to the mooooooon" in a funny little voice and Liam likes to copy that. It's very cute!

We all had so much fun and were very tuckered out on our return home! Hopefully tomorrow I will get around to taking some pictures of the Christmas ornaments I'm working on so I can share them here. Well, I'm off to cook some potatoes and a pot of brown rice for dinner :)


We came across two VERY tiny Sand Pipers. They were a little bigger than a finch, maybe canary size. I've never seen them so small which made me think they were possibly just young ones not quite babies but close. They were adorable! We found them hiding in a horse's hoof print in the sand.