25 posts tagged “2008”
Our biggest and best news of 2008 was our lastest (and last if you were wondering) edition, Annika. People ask what's it like to finally have a girl? It's pretty much the same as a boy at the same age. It's not like she's dating yet. Her brothers adore her and won't leave the poor girl alone.
ET and Carts turned four and two this year respectively. Which is hard to believe they are that old.
Anyone with kids will tell you it's better to keep them active and busy and boy did we ever this past year.
Once more we got our season passes to LaRonde and easily got our money's worth from it. Donna being pregnant sat our the rides but ET was tall enough this year to go on all the kiddie rides himself. That left me able to sit with Carts.
We also made it up to Bark Lake a few times this summer. Not as much as I would have liked to but with gas the price it was I'm not complaining. There was even some nice weather and my sister Kimberly and her family came one weekend. So all the little cousins could play at the lake together. I didn't get to go sailing for one reason or another (mostly rain) this year but there's always next season.
When also went to the Caban au Sucre, the Biodome, met Dora and Diego, saw Arthur l'Aventurier and the animals at Granby Zoo (which I only now discovered I never posted about), Lake George, Thursday car nights and an insane number of birthday parties.
The boys really enjoyed the holidays this past year as you would expect.
ET knows that Easter is just around the corner from Christmas, which is really cute but can also wear on your nerves.
On Saint-Jean we went to the local train museum with my parents, but Donna had to work as she deals with Toronto and they were still open. For Canada Day we watched fire works and the kids played, I was even interviewed by Ronald McDonald. ET even tried out some rock climbing. Labour Day saw us visiting friends in the Eastern Townships but only for the day.
We were also really lucky that a number of my family from out of town were able to attend ET's 4th birthday party.
You wonder why there is so much voter apathy when it seems every two years there is either a Federal or Provincial election. So even though we just had a Federal election we now have a December 8th Provincial vote.
Remember to get out there and vote people!
As per tradition of the past few years my parents came over to see the kids (I have to say kids now, not boys. Having a third kid is really starting to be work). My dad comes out with us and my mom helps hands out the candy, which was really helpful this year as Donna might be feeding AR and can't exactly make it to the door.
You might not think Scooby-Doo and Batman necessarily go together but they do trust me.
We cast our net wider this year and doubled our normal route. Taking turns of pulling the wagon (but my dad did most of that. Thanks dad).
I've perviously made mention of the lengths some people in my neighbourhood go to decorate their homes for Halloween, but seeing is believeing. These people certainly have some imagination and time. One of the places had one cropse face down with a knife in it's back and a gallows with another hanging. Yikes!
A little after we got home trick or treating and my parents left we got nailed by a pack of teenagers that nearly cleaned us out. I quickly turned off the lights and moved the pumpkins to the back balcony before the next batch could descend upon us. Today Donna estimates we got 120-130 kids show up. Yikes! That's alot of kids.
Till next year everyone.
After all the work that when into our Halloween pumpkins there was no way I was going to let that squirrel start munching on them.
That was the plan. The video tells another story... certainly not my finest hour. But in the end he jumped into the hedge and (knock on wood) the pumpkins are un-nibbled upon.
As any of you with children know that their next favorite seasonal event after Christmas is almost upon us.
This year the boys painted their own little pumpkins and Daddy couldn't help get in on the fun. ET did a great face on his and was done in five minutes and Carts took at least thirty minutes plus painting his.
I guess he wanted to make sure he painted the whole thing. ET said my Nightmare Before Christmas one was cool, but I had to explain to him that daddy cheated and used the internet and his was much better because he thought it up himself.
So what has your family planned for Halloween this year? Pumpkin carving? Costumes and trick or treating? Or turn off the lights and hide, hoping your house won't be covered in toilet paper?
Have a happy and safe Halloween!
My sister and her family also came up, what a great surprise. I don't know what it is but the boys seem so much more manageable when they have their cousin around.
On Sunday morning the boys woke up at 5am! I had to light lanterns in the gazebo since it was still dark for the next hour. I was not in the best of moods. Thankfully at 7:30am Donna let me take a three hour nap. I felt human when I woke up at 11am.
And a big thanks to Kim & Phil who took all four kids for a walk and boat ride in which my two fell asleep (maybe because they woke up in the middle of the night!?!)
The funny thing is that I forgot my digital camera at home. For some that's like forgetting their arm. So my mom let me use her's. Thanks mom!
And to top off a great weekend, there was no traffic coming home.
All I can say it thank god we started winning some medals! I was starting to get worried there.
Although this has been my least watched Olympic Games ever (not from lack of interest, just lack of free time), I was still keeping an eye on the Canadian medal count. Unfortunately, for about a week the count was stuck at zero. I'm relived that we're not going to be walking away empty handed.
I am disappointed with the lack of sailing on CBC's on demand site, I would like to have seem some sailing and see how the pros do it.
Holy crap, way to go Australia!
When we (the parents) finally got up (as apposed to the kids who were up sometime around 5 or 6am), it was over cast but a few sunny breaks.
We ate at this great old retro dinner and we got a corner both to fit all of us. The boys had to be sat apart as siblings at this age usually have to be. Downside to not being a coffee drinker, you don't get free refills, orange juice is not cheap.
Then we hit the outlets. I still can't believe that there is not one consumer electronic out store in the whole area, they would clean up with all the board husbands with nothing to do.
Funny story. We got caught out in a thunder storm across the street and down quite a bit from where we parked the car. So we called my mom so the kids could say hi, since last night they were asleep when we called. So we waited out the storm.
After finishing off the left overs from Pizza Hut we spent the afternoon at The Great Escape.
Thanks to the thunderstorm the park was less busy then yesterday so the boys got to go on a few more rides (the Train) and visit their favorites (the Motorcycles).
Went swimming in the heated pool at the Lynn Aire Motel. ET loved and Carts did a great dive into the pool. He wasn't even scared, but it finally got him in.
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