Getting Ready for Christmas

Putting up the tree! At Last! I made them wait until Nov 30th! They'd been begging since Nov 1st!!





What a picture! So pretty :-)


Waiting for SANTA CLAUS! Our little town's Christmas Parade, they hold it in early evening just after sundown, so the lights on the floats look all magical! I think its a French-Canadian tradition.

Yes, it's a little parade, but the kids love it!

scrambling for candy canes! Oh my - Looks more dangerous that it is! The cars / floats are stopped when they through the candy!


Hurry Up Santa!!
He's HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Random Photos

some random photos first! Making sock puppets (thank you Aunt Krystine and Uncle Robert!)




Hannah's hair is getting LONG now! I can FINALLY french braid!!! I love it and so does she!!

Josh in our town's Remembrance Day Parade for Cubs

Trick or Treat!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Here are some photos of us getting ready for the Big DAY! Notice the spoooky house!


Hannah just thought the whole processes was so interesting. She couldn't wait to see inside the pumpkin, she was so curious. Well, as soon as we opened it up, she said, "Hey! I know this!! My China Mama and Baba ate this!" I said, "Oh, did they cook and eat the seeds?" (We'd eaten roasted melon seeds at restaurants in China). NOPE she said. I asked what they did with the seeds? "Put them in the garbage and cook the inside and eat it!"

We also made a SPOOKY Graveyard - Josh's idea!

Halloween Night! BOO! Very scary Josh!

INCREDIBLE HANNAH!

Her first house. Hannah was excited and nervous but had her friend Blake right beside her so she was fine. She ran right up, knocked loudly and said even louder : TRICK OR TREAT! When she got her candy, she said also very loudly: THANK YOU! and came running over to show me her candy. What a great holiday eh?!

New School, Birthday, Thanksgiving, Early Halloween

OK, as always very late to post! First off, my little boy turned 8 yr old on Sept 11!! How is that possible?! He was so excited and loved all this presents!!
Little sisters were also very excited!! And very good considering none of the brightly coloured presents were for her.
Hannah did buy Josh a present with her own money, a Rubics Cube from Dollarama. Completely her idea... what a sweetie. Josh thought it was great!



EIGHT!!! so exciting!


New School Year
Hannah and Josh started a new school this Sept - Academy St-Laurent. How smart they look in their new uniforms!
Thanksgiving

We went home (Kitchener) for Thanksgiving. Of course I forgot our camera! Luckily Danien had hers and took some great shots of Hannah and Sarah hanging out together. They had a blast playing together. Hannah would take Sarah's hand and off they went!


Hannah also loved playing with her youngest second cousin, Baby Amellia. I wish I'd had a picture of Hannah walking Amellia around. She talks about Sarah and Amellia everyday! I wish we lived closer!

Halloween!!! spooky fun!!

so, we've explained to Hannah what Halloween is. Can you imagine trying to explain the whole concept and idea of Halloween to a 5yr child who has never heard of it? SO.. we dress up but often like SCARY DEAD PEOPLE and we go house to house asking for CANDY!

When we got to the pumpkin thing she was completely confused... so, you carve a face in the pumpkin? Why? to keep away ghosts? WHY?! and why only on Halloween night? What about the ghosts on other nights? Why are we putting spiders, ghosts and witches up around the house? Why are we making a graveyard with skeletons on the front lawn. I want a to write on my TUMstone! What are you writing on your tumstone Josh?

Her first idea was she wanted to be a frog for halloween. I asked her if maybe she wanted to be a Princess? NO WAY! FROG! great... how to find a frog costume that would fit!

Then we got Josh's mask... very scary! Josh was worried it would scare her too much. Nope, didn't seem to phase her.

Last Saturday we went out for her costume. She told me she wanted to be a SUPERHERO! OK... I *assumed* like Spiderman or Superman. We saw a Ninja Turtle she said she'd consider if we couldn't find a SUPERhero. At the 3rd store we still hadn't found the "right" superhero... so I said, "what does your SUPERhero look like?" RED with an i on it! OH - Incredibles I said! YES!! She said!! THen the lady beside me said, "oh - I saw an Incredible costume at Value Village" AWESOME! We raced over there and got THE LAST ONE!!! Thank goodness it fits! Well, better without clothes under.... it will be atight fight on Halloween night, especially if its cold. I did try to tell her if its snowing she will have to wear a jacket over it... don't think she was listening though. She put it on in the store and didn't take it off ALL weekend... we slept in it Sat, Sun and tonight as well. Wore it ALL day Sat and Sun and she would have worn it to school if they didn't have uniforms! She switches between being MR. Incredible and Elastagirl... usually she is MR. Incredible :0)
My Halloween Crew! They rock!


On Sunday after shopping and yes, we did wear the outfit shopping! so cute! we brought in the boxes from the groceries and played RESCUE with her stuffed kitty. Then she ate and INCREDIBLE lunch, followed by RESCUING Mommy and others, making INCREDIBLE muffins and an INCREDIBLE Carrot salad from her cookbook aunt Krystine and uncle Robert gave her, follwed by a snack fit for a SUPERhero! Sliced apples :0)

FAMILY GAME NIGHT

I just had to post these too... Sunday night we played games... of course H is INCREDIBLE!
But we also had a visit from Indiana!! Watch out!!

who can resist dressing up to play Operation with Mommy?! You can see Hannah is beating Daddy in the background at Guess Who!



I'll try to post again for the REAL Halloween, and when our graveyard is finished. We cut out a lot of tombstones out of cardboard tonight.

Summer, gone by so fast

Our good friend Taira took us fishing at Petrie Island. We all had a great time, and Taira is a great teacher! We even caught a BIG ONE!

We all took turns reeling it in!



We were READY with the net!!

It was hard work! But alas the log got away :0( no worries though....

We did catch a frog, some minnows and even a TADPOLE?? In September??

La Ronde Six Flags Amusement Park with the Kids!

I'm trying something new, click on the photo to see all the pictures of our trip to La Ronde in Montreal. Hannah was very nervous at first, even the Carousel scared her a bit, I had to put my hand on her back. I took the first photo after the ride was over. But she's a brave little one and soon tried several other rides. Josh was great with her and helped make her feel more comfortable too. You can see the CRAZY Vertigo ride Josh went on all by himself! I took it when they were UPSIDE down!

Sept 09 La Ronde and Lego

July!!

OH MY! I just logged in and saw I never posted this!! SORRY!!!!

Who can resist a boy and his cat! We swear Tommy thinks he's a kid too!

Grandma and Grandpa came for Canada Day, which is also Grandma's birthday!

The kids decorated a delicious chocolate cake - Yum!

Grandma and Grandpa also brought a great present - make your own garden paving stones. Grandpa is a WHIZ at mixing ciment, pouring and setting it all up!

one of the very few times Hannah a) wore that dress and b) wore sandals!!

Our artists creations!