Jan 7, 2009

paddington.....


Susannah with her Paddington Bear that Lloyd brought back from London - he made a trip to Hamleys - the toy store in London and bought toys for the children - including a teddy for Abigail that says 'I love Scotland' because she was born just outside of Edinburgh.

Birthday cake time.....




Happy birthday Sam!

(and this is why I miss my slr - you can't get a good picture of all 5 children smiling and looking at the camera at the smae time with a point and shoot - the camera is too slow...)

Few more museum pics...




In the dinosaur gallery, mountain goats, and lunch at the museum.....then home again to open gifts with Susie and Laurence and Grandma and Grandad Spicer phoned from England to sing Happy Birthday to him as always! We ended the day curled up watching Kung Fu Panda.

Sams bison




Here is Sam with his bison scene at the museum - he LOVES this diorama!! He has seen it soooo many times and often talks about it :) I know, I know...weird for a 4 year old lol!!! I blame the Father ;) hahahaha! This is what he wanted to go to see for his birthday - yes, for his 4th birthday he requested to go and see his bison - not the live bison at Elk Island park, but the dead bison with the blood pouring from its mouth at the museum :) Some kids ask to go to the cinema...some kids ask to go to Chuck E Cheese. My kid asks to go to the Museum to see a dead bison!!!!!

I see therapy bills in our future ;)

Birthday gift opening



Sam opening a few of his gifts...

Sam and Daddy



My poor Lloyd looks so tired!! He was determined to give Sam a great birthday before giving in to his tiredness from his trip though!

A Taste of home.....



Some of the goodies Lloyd brought back from England......yes...just ONE of the suitcases.....

Yummy!!!! :)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to any Ukrainian Albertans reading my blog :) I know there are a few of you! Have a wonderful day of celebration today!

Happy Birthday Samuel!!!

Happy 4th birthday to my BIG BIG Samsam!! I can't believe my baby boy is already four years old!!!! Poor Lloyd - he doesn't want his little boy to get big already - he loves having him all little and cute and cuddly! Already he is four years old! Time has flown by so fast!

Today we are off to the Royal Alberta Museum - Sam loves going there - his favourite part is the Native history section - he loves the dioramas of the Natives killing the bison etc etc- he had a miniature bison and a Native Indian with a weapon type thing (Val help me out here) in his stocking and likes to pretend to kill the bison....

My favourite part of the museum? No, NOT the bugs or dinosaurs (surprise surprise lol) but the gemstones and fossils...those gemstones are just STUNNING!!! I also like to see the sections that change - and also the animals of Alberta.

Mind you, the whole museum is just glorious - we love going there. If it had been warmer today we would have gone to the zoo to say hi to the baby tiger cubs too but its just too cold and snowy - so we'll do that another day!

Home for Kung Fu Panda cake later and presents with the children after school :)

Happy Birthday my Little Man! Love you lots!

I need to fly more...

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So Lloyd flies business class...and of course when I fly it is always with five children so I do NOT fly business class...so when Lloyd phoned from TO yesterday and said he was hungry I reminded him he was back in the land of Tim Hortons!! He of course was heading up to the lounges to get free drinks and food because when you fly business class they provide free drinks and food for you! I did NOT know this!!! Lloyd laughed and said 'you need to fly more baby'.......I guess I do!!!! How did I not know this???? Free food????? Free drinks????????? Free shooters????????? Free wine??????????? OMG!!!!

Lloyd keeps saying I should go home for a weeks holiday to see everyone - and fly business class :)

hmmmmm free wine :) FREE FOOD........sooooo tempting :)

Tuesday....

Yesterday, we had some good news - the workmen have finally tracked down our sunroom and windows from the new kitchen! They were delivered from New York over Christmas but there was no one in Edmonton to receive them so they stayed on a truck since then and no one knew where!!!

Yikes! We had visions of them being returned to NY and them having to be re-ordered!!! that could take WEEKS!!!

Thankfully yesterday morning we heard that they are fine and will be arriving this morning and so the sunroom and kitchen and walkout basement will start TODAY - woohoo - the house will start getting closed up!! Heat and warmth and my new kitchen :)

I think Tim and Denis will be very happy to be working inside too! So cold out there!

Sam went back to preschool yesterday, same class he was in before Christmas. He has a few new children in his class but mainly the same ones. The teachers are the same thankfully. His class is held in a big sports centre, so now that Abigail is homeschooled, we will be aking use of all the facilities there during Sams class. He still goes twice a week for 2.5 hours a time, so we will go swimming, ice skating or running on the indoor track etc.

Yesterday Chris came with us and he went into the gym for a while a worked out before going off to shoot hoops. Abby and I went swimming. We had a great time - when the wave machine was on she would get in the paddle boat or go in the lazy river. We sat in the hot tub for a while too which was nice! After the swim we went in to the indoor playground for a while.

Sam's class focused on snowmen today - they made snowmen out of doilies and painted snowmen too. they do crafts on Tuesdays and then do ABC's and 123's on Thursdays. He will take a treat on Thursday for everyone because of his birthday! His show and tell day will be March 5th this time! Last time he took his Wall-E.

It's nice getting into our normal routine again - I soooooo wasn't in the mood for Christmas and I'm glad its over with and we are back into the new year and our day to day stuff again!

He's home....

.....and all is well in my little part of the world :)
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