Peterborough Zoo

Well after a extremely rough week of illness after illness we woke up today feeling the need to escape the house.  Somewhere fun and somewhere free!  Off up Riverside Park and Zoo in Peterborough .  Perfectly sunny day.  Packed a light picnic, saw the animals, rode the train and called it a day!

Birthday x 2

Yesterday our sweet Charlotte turned 1.  I picked her up a couple small gifts.  A glow worm and leap frog spinny toy thing.  More so for Chris and Sophia to see her get something.  I picked them each up a helium balloon to pls with. I'm sure Charlotte was saying balloon, sounded more like ball though. We had cake from Riverside bakery and pancakes, sausage and bacon for supper. (Pancake Tuesday) we spent the evening doing what I love. Being with the 4 most important people in my life.  Oh and Parker to.  

Today our Christopher turned 3!  

He is absolutely the most interesting person right now.  Every day he just wakes up smiling and eager to make everyone's day brighter.  In absolutely love our mornings with him.  He just wants to snuggle right in.  

After we got up and around he decided to take Daddy's ipAd to his room for some quiet time before breakfast.  

He heard me mention presents and whisked his way down the stairs to see what I was talking about.  What a great smile he has. We spent the morning lounging around and then saw Daddy off to work.  We watched Frozen and played.  Once Jason came home we headed into East Side Mario's for a special birthday supper.  The staff even sang to him. , which he didn't like.

After supper we quickly picked up a chocolate cake and headed to Great Grandpa Thompsons for some celebration.  Aunt Jill, Kevin, Makayla & Jackson were all there too.

Perfect way to close out a couple great days.

Christmas 2013

Well it was here and then gone in a blink of an eye!! The weekend prior we travelled to Oakville to spend Christmas with Jason's parents.  The kids loved spending the two nights at the holiday inn.

Christmas Day was a hoot!! The kids were absolutely spoiled rotten by Santa.  

Charlottes Cheese face

In January every time a camera flashed in front of Charlotte she would make this hilarious cheese face.  Over and over.  It never got old.  Sadly it was just a phase because she no longer gives us this happy grin.  

Sweet moments

It's the moments like the one tonight that make all the sleepless nights and constant bickering worth it.   I came into Sophia and Christopher's room tonight to check on them and I found them curled up on the floor beside each other.  Total heart melting moment. 

Man I love them. 

First rEal snow fall of 2013

Yesterday morning I was woken up by Christopher at about 730 saying mommy it's snowing outside.  Sure enough the ground was covered in snow.  The heavy wet kind perfect for Making snowmen. So we put on our gear and outside we went.  All this before 8am.  Gah!  

Jason was working at Kevin's shop so it was just me and all three.  All the busses were cancelled so I decided to keep Sophia home.  After a good hour of playing outside we came and had some breakfast.  We decided to do some Christmas decorating.  I remembered a  I had seen on Pinterest involving handprints forming the shape of a Christmas tree. We made a mess but we're really happy with the results.  Both Christopher and Sophia managed to play well so I tidied.  Charlotte napped which was a nice treat.   For supper web decided the Kitchen was to clean the mess. So we packed up our things and went to the black dog across the road for grilled cheese and beef au juice.  

After supper we decides on a winter walk.  When we got home it was still early and the kids were anxious I stay outside.  Even though it was dark.  So we shovelled the driveway (I shoveled the driveway). Soon we went inside I warm up and watch Tv while we got ready for

Bed.  Christopher ended up passing out on the floor at 6:30.  Ha!  It's days like these that appreciate the job of a stay at home Mom.

Family

I seriously have the best family ever. I love just having family around the table on the Sunday night.  Nothing fancy really, we just threw together some spaghetti and I decided last minute to bake a pumpkin pie for Kevin and I to share since no one Else loves that flavor.

I tried making a butter base pastry that actually didn't turn out to bad!