be yourself...everyone else is taken

I let my kids dress themselves, this is a dangerous phrase. But I do. Somedays they look great, they can really suprise me! But some days they just look plain ridiculous. I'm sorry, once again no picture of the fashion faux paux's that I'm about to vividly describe, You'll just have to use your imaginations.

Fashion Victim #1 - Will

Today's wardrobes choices were as follows:

• underwear ( i think)
• pj pants with rockstar guitars on them
• blue basketball shorts over top of those pj bottoms
• one superman shirt
• one spiderman jersey
• one matching pj shirt to the before mentioned rockstar guitar jammies.
• fireman gumboots

Will and I even left the house today with that array...

Fashion Victim #2 - Aubrey

• underwear ( i know)
• a dress that was WAY too short
• one pj button-up shirt over top

So amazing. I wish that I had enough confidence to walk out of my house wearing tights with basketball shorts, a swimsuit top with my bra on the outside and a big fuzzy toque on my head with high heels on. Maybe I will one day.

I love my kids, they are awesome. They help me learn things everyday, like WHO CARES for instance and ACCEPT IT. THIS IS WHO I AM. TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT. DEAL WITH IT because World, I'm coming outside with ALL this and you can love me or hate me.

And really who can't help but love kids with that much fashion sense? And whose to say, maybe in a few years shorts over pj's will be all the rage.

Oh, these two...

9 months

Don't mess with her, she's spent time on the inside...

Penny Ray turned 9 months today. How can this....

...turn into this, so FAST?!?!

I like when my kids turn 9 months, they have officially lived in the outside for as long as they lived in the inside. It's just neat to think about.

Penny is crawling, climbing onto short things like boxes and stools and the first step of the stairs. She's pulling herself up to stand by things, she's letting go and balancing. She chews and chews and chews. She has the eyes of a hawk and picks up the tinyest little things off the floor to pop right into her mouth. She's clapping and waving and drool-y. She's sprouting teeth and her hair is getting all luscious. AND in 3 months she will be one year old.

Stop it already!

policemen

We like this video in our house...

What is a Policeman?

Narrated by Paul Harvey

buds

It's safe to say , that these 3 are crazy about eachother and I'm enjoying it while the feeling lasts.

I love Penny's face in the bottom picture, It screams out..." excuse me......WHY THE "H" ARE WE SITTING IN FREEZING SNOW?!?!"

Remember Remember the 11th of November

Have you ever had a person in your life that is AWESOME?

My Grandpa, Burns Wood is one of those people. How could you not be awesome with a name that is a verb and a noun?

My Grandpa's house is full of cool stuff, he like to collect things like indian artifacts, neat owl figures and glass grapes.

He has the best stories, he tell the funniest jokes, he can juggle and I for a fact have seen him walk on his hands (he used to be a gymnast). I could hang out with him all day and never be bored. He's smart and interesting and I love that guy.

I remember once in Grade 1 or 2 we were learning about Indians and my dad took our class down to the coulees, we were all gathered in a group of trees and then from behind a tree, steps a REAL indian chief, in a head dress and everything. It was Grandpa , he told us legends and I thought that my Grandpa Wood was native until I was at least 10 years old.

Not only is my Grandpa Wood all of those awesome things above, he's also a Vetran of WWII. So yesterday he was asked to give a speech at a Remembrance Day ceremony. It was wonderful. I've never REALLY appreciated the meaning of Remembrance Day, because like so many people in my generation, we've never fought in a war or lived in the time when the world wars were happening. Wars don't affect me, to me they are being fought far from where I live. So therefore don't really have a large impact on me. Yesterday at the ceremony I was thinking in my head how many of these things I've been to and how many times I've taken for granted the men and women who fought to make the land where I live a safe and peaceful place. Then 3 names came to my head....

Burns Wood

Ray Evanson

Bruce Bullock

In my grandpa's talk he mentioned that the greatest things that came from the war were children, he talked about the Baby Boomers and how their children are your grandparents today. He had Inga's kids and my kids join him up at the front and talked about how sometimes from bad things, LOTS of good things can come.

He spoke about Standing on Guard and what that means, and he really spoke in a way that helped the kids of the Barnwell School to relate. His speech was fantastic.

Burns Wood is a fantastic person.

sheer intensity

Best Picture of Aubrey's Life Time so far.

the fly swatter

I can't believe I'm actually doing this, a pictureless post AGAIN, this goes against everything I stand for. I just wanted to share a funny thing that happened at our house today...

Our big bay window is some sort of a breeding ground/vacation spot for flies this time of year. So lucky Will gets the job of being in charge of the "fly patrol". This morning there seemed to be an abundance of flies on the window so I told Will to, " Go and get the fly swatter!" After saying this Aubrey jumps up and says "I'll get it!!!" Great, this is going to be bad I think. As I imagine both kids running to grab the swatter and inevitably getting in a HUGE fight over it. But suprisingly, Will took off towards the closet where we keep the swatter and Aubrey ran into the kitchen (which I thought was weird, but whatever) So Will runs back and says " I got it!" then Aubrey says " NO, I GOT it.", she walks into the living room carrying a bottle of water.

So Will heard, " Go and get the fly swatter!"

and Aubba heard, " Go and get the flies water!"

So cute. I haven't laughed as hard as I did in a long time!