our funny little family

Delaney drew this picture today of our family. She hasn't been into drawing much lately so I was thrilled when she showed me! Maybe she was more interested today because while I was in the shower she took ALL the paper off the printer and got out a PEN and went to town!

Anyway, her explanation of it went something like this: "This is our family, and here's an S for Stephen but I made that one funny so I made another one. And there's a D for Davin and a D for Delaney and an M for Mommy."

I especially like how she does "boy" hair vs. "girl" hair - boys have a scribble on the top while girls have the top scribble PLUS some side scribbles. :) I also noticed that I have an awfully big head.

peek!

Ever since he could walk Dav has loved to play with the cupboards. Every day he walks along the entire kitchen looking for a door that hasn't been latched. Lately he likes to squeeze in to the pantry and he thinks he's hiding in there. I guess he doesn't realize I can see the doors ajar and his little feet!
 

latest scrapbook pages

Hey scrappers, here's a few more recent ones. Thanks to JOANNE for the great title idea for Delaney's first trip to the dentist (hey girl! :)
You can click on the images if you want to see them bigger and to read journalling. The last one makes me laugh - Delaney used to sit in the sink to brush her teeth. :)

 

fun at Gramma and Papa's

Papa shovelled off a little ice rink for Delaney so that she can practice her skating. And hey - if you fall down while skating, just make a snow angel! Her favourite part of being there yesterday was riding the GT snowracer down their little hill. She had races with Papa and Daddy. :)

 

Delaney-isms

She's been coming up with some interesting ones lately. Here's a few:

- She wrote a letter to Santa on her etch-a-sketch and left it by the fireplace. Apparently it reads "Please come here every weekend"

- After picking up a small exercising weight exclaimed, "I'm so strong! I picked up one of those exercising bones!"

- Getting her concept of number a little confused. She usually knows that zero means none and that a hundred means a whole bunch, but yesterday she said "nope, none, hundred, nothing!"

- loves to play computer games but calls it the "um-pee-oo-tee-er", e.g. "Mommy I'm really good at using the umpeeootee-er!"

recent pages

Hey scrappers, here's a few recent pages I've done for the store - definingmoments.ca

 

Mr. Clean

Lately Dav's favourite toys are not your typical cars or toy animals but various NON-toys that keep him occupied. Things like the tv remote, Delaney's rubber boots or pulling all the kleenex out of the box are much more fun! But even better is the broom! He squeals with delight when I bring this out and cries until he can have a turn. Once I give it to him I can hardly pry it out of his little hand, he doesn't want to give it up. Finally my mom bought him his own little set last week which includes his own toy broom and dustpan, mop and pail. He likes to carry the mop and broom around at the same time. We even brought the broom with us in the car on the day he got it and he happily clutched it the whole time. I'm thinking maybe this is a good thing for when he's old enough to do chores?!? :)

My, how they've grown!

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Amazing - a look back

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We had our annual "kid-friendly" New Year's party with friends and had a great time. Always lots of fun and laughs, LOTS of laughs. :) Delaney was so excited to go and play with the kids. I think her highlight was probably the ice-cream sandwiches - they were so good! Looking forward to many more good times with all of you in 2007! (and we've gotta borrow the Ricky Bobby movie!)