ABC Bento

An ABC themed bento to go with an ABC box.

Kinda fun, eh?

The letters were cut out free-hand with a fruit leather, apricots, alpha-bits cereal (not very healthy but on sale at costco - so why not?), another fun find at real canadian superstore is the pretzel letters (the kids love them!) and of course not healthy in the least ABC pasta (boy, does young master gobble this up!) and finally some grapes to make it seem a little more healthy.

Verdict, everything consumed but the apricots!

Silly kiddos

This is my first attempt to see if I could upload a little video for family and friends to watch. It was taken a couple months ago, when we still had a ton of snow. Thank goodness it is finally melting away. Hooray for Spring!

Shopping for letters

What is the deal with toddler obsessions and compulsions? Stuntwoman routinely climbs into the bathtub to snatch the foam bath toy alphabet letters and has scattered them about the house. She became frustrated about dropping them as she carried handfuls of them around. So the other day so I pulled out this old bag, a freebie from a makeup purchase. It was instant love!

She can now go shopping for letters and any other toy that strikes her fancy. Boy this hunter gatherer instinct is an early aquired skill it would seem.

So this is how a Mother trains her young to become a shopper!

Bean Bag Fun

So Wendolonia made these adorable beanbags she saw on WhiMSy Love . I fell in love with the idea too. They were super easy and should be great fun for our upcoming trip. We are headed to upstate New York for March Break! For those of you who are asking what is March Break?!? It's what Canadians call Spring Break, but I guess they don't really have Spring here yet so hence March Break. This is just my random logic at work here.....

I ended up making some red bean bags after this but already had taken this picture in my excitement over the project.

Young Master liked them right away!

He practiced tossing them on his hopscotch towel from Grandma VO.

His next game was matching them to the rug squares in the living room. I think he liked them!

Maple Syrup Festival

Last weekend we went to a maple syrup festival.

Master loved toting around his buckaroo umbrella!

There was a nice toasty campfire.

Still some snow on the ground....

A time out taken in the woods....

Mmmm, pancakes and maple syrup.

Yummy!!!

Close up

I still get a kick out of uploading young master's pictues from his camera to see what he is taking pictures of .

Here he has produced a series of up close and personal self portraits!

One can never have too many nose shots!

It really is funny to get a glimpse inside his little mind and see what he is thinking about.

Good thing his nose is clean!

Fun in a Box

What to do when the weather is yucky outside???
Well you can have fun in a box!!!

I taped together 2 of our moving boxes, saved from the move last spring from Texas to Canada.

We decorated our box with markers and paint. The kids have really enjoyed playing in it alot!

Flat Stanley

A couple of weeks ago we had a visitor at the house. This is Flat Stanley. One of our nieces in Texas had a school project involving him. Her first grade class read a story about Stanley and how he became flat when a bulletin board over his bed fell on him. His adventures really began when his parents mailed him to friends in California.

So her class made Flat Stanleys and mailed to family and friends from all over so they could learn about other places. Some specific things they asked for were the weather, symbols, and traditions of the area.

Poor Stanley was colder here so we had to outfit him with some winter gear. We picked him up a Toronto Maple Leaf jersey to wear back so he could tell the class about hockey and how popular it is here. We told Flat Stanley to tell her class that we have had 198 cm of snow this winter. That's 78 inches or 6 and a half feet! It was fun to have him visit and share a little bit about Canada with our niece and her school.

Update

Thanks for your prayers and well wishes. Wow, kids are so resilient. You would never know this little guy just had surgery. He is doing great, no complaints of pain. He just has sutures at the incision site on his groin area. He should heal very nicely. We will have a 6 week follow up with the surgeon. I must confess, I expected this to be a lot worse and it was a breeze. Big Praises go to Daddy for all his hard work, he got the yucky job. Mommy was too stressed and worried which would have been hard on Mother and child. So Daddy took Master to surgery and had to hear all the crying and complaining for something to eat/drink and for Mommy. They would only allow one parent in recovery and Daddy really wanted to be there for him. So I stayed home with Stuntwoman and I think it was a good choice.

This is a self-portrait young Master took with his camera about a week or so ago!

Hydrocelectomy

This has been a big year so far for Young Master. Turning 4, starting preschool here in Canada, potty training and now Surgery. Tomorrow (Mon. 23rd) he will have an outpatient surgery for hydrocelectomy. I am not feeling up to explaining it in detail, google it if you don't know what this is....

This poor little guy has had tubes at 15 mos. At age 3 a second set of tubes and adenoid gland removed. And now 4 years and this.

Please pray for our family as we keep him comfortable during his recovery and for things to go smoothly and a speedy recovery!

Get well soon Young Master!