liamisms ~ vol. 6

"daddy that's enough snuggles, it'll make me dizzy."

"ha ha. daddy pulled a beer out of his pocket.  that's so funny."

"my feet are dizzy."

"mommy that's enough snuggles.  you might keep me awake if you keep snuggling."

"i love myself because i'm a big boy."

me: you have to have this many more bites (holding up 5 fingers)

liam: this many? (holding up 4 fingers)

me: nope.  this many. (5 fingers again)

liam: ohhhhhhh, but that will make my tummy feel bad.

me: do you have to go pee?

liam: nope, i already went pee yesterday.

rob: you need to have a poop today liam.

me: yup, it might be a big one.

liam: will it explode our house?

"i love my robot.  he's my best friend and he's still alive."

 

hurray for the week being halfway done.

 happy wednesday!

 

 



life {lately} ~ vol. 29

last week was spring break.  minus the spring part.

we had nothing but snow all week.

terrible.  pretty sure that everyones completely finished with winter.

bring on the sun, flowers, bugs, anything but snow.

so instead of playing outside on the grass in the sunshine, we ...

went to the science centre and explored.

bought colourful tulips.

made green pancakes and green cheesy noodles on st. patrick's day.

willed welcomed spring on the chalkboard.

made silly faces, chocolate faces and played with mama's glasses.

got a pink potty for the moo.  just as an introduction.

ordered absinthe tickets for our girls trip to vegas.  mid-april can't come soon enough.

got a new mat for the front door, fits us perfectly.

and built a few lego robots.

it's snowed all day today and feels more like winter than spring.

fingers and toes are crossed that our seemingly never ending winter will end.  

soon.

hope you had a great spring break if you were off.

if not, then hope it was a non-snowy weekend.

life {lately} ~ vol. 28

thank goodness for sunshine and it almost being spring.

things are finally starting to thaw and i swear i can actually see buds on our trees.

maybe its just my imagination. 

or perhaps wishful thinking.

whatever, spring is officially here on the weekend and we couldn't be more excited. 

hanging out on the deck and playing all day in the yard is just mere weeks away.

until then, here's a snip it of what we've been up to.

our artist in residence has been furiously creating abstract art and underwater ocean scenes.

averie's decided that ironman frequently requires diaper changes.

we hung a curtain rod in the kitchen.  sadly we don't have curtains.  but we have a rod.

some rad dude went skiing with his dad, he's becoming a little pro.

i got crafty and spray painted some frames.  it was a fail.

meh, that's okay.  you win some and you lose some.  this time i lost.

loving all the fresh colourful flowers.

a pancake, bouncy house playdate with our neighbours.

liam picked out new posters for his room, ironman and ninja turtles made the cut.  

this kid loves his "big boy" room.

chicky cheese and crackers for a school snack.

and a little peek-a-moo.

hope your weekend was warm and sunny.

get outside

ugggggghhhhh.  we've been cooped up in our house for months weeks forever.  it's been the longest, coldest winter that i remember having in a long long long time.  and it started freaking early.  we've still got a massive snow pile separating our driveway from the neighbours and it's been so effing cold.  minus forty with wind chill.  wtf?  it's only allowed to be that cold in february.  and for like a day.  the end.

apparently mother nature overheard my weather cursing because within the last five days we've had a thirty degree temperature increase.  good timing because i think all of us were going a little cray cray.  we tossed on some rubber boots and went hunting for puddles.  so nice to be outside, enjoy the sun and not have your nose hairs or eyelashes freeze.  hope it sticks around for awhile good.

hope you had a fantastic weekend too!

liamisms ~ vol. 5

i swear the more i listen to liam talk the more i find myself giggling.  he's so serious now when he's telling us a story about something that happened in his day.  whether it actually happened or he's playing pretend.  and he's also becoming a major big brother to averie, scrap that, he's trying to be her parent.  both rob and i find ourselves telling him to stop being the mommy or the daddy and to be her big brother.  despite all that, it's super awesome to see him care so much about her.  and averie just eats it up.

but back to the world according to liam.

"when i was a baby a long time ago, i wore bows."

"i love toe nail stark."  (talking about tony stark and ironman)

"mommy, i could poop every morning."

"we can't stomp around in the snow.  it will make the snow come back and snow on us."

"i knew i was hungry.  that's why you should give me food."

"mommy is mari-jane, mari-jane is mommy and mommy's the boss."

me: it's getting cold outside.
liam:  yeah, my brain is freezing.

"my girlfriend is bits and james."  (both of his cousins)

at breakfast the other morning he was staring at his bowl of cereal and said this:
"oooooooooooo, it's so carbonated."

what a guy.  love him to pieces.

life {lately} ~ vol. 27

almost a month since i last dumped my phone pics.

it's been super duper cold here.

like minus forty with the wind chill cold.

um, isn't it march??

we're pretty much done with the cold, i could do with some spring.

and although it's been effing freezing, life has continued to be crazy and fun.

coffee, blog reading and cameras.

hunting for new bedding for liam.

finished the mudroom bench cushions, with the exception of the added the velcro.

guess that only makes them mostly, almost, 95% finished.

another family road trip ski weekend.  this time to fernie.

beer time.

completed our first attempt at hanging wallpaper.  more on this later.

canada flag art during the olympics and some olympic hockey watching at work.

new art on the wall in the pantry.

reading stories and putting diapers on baby dolls and bo-bear.

project kid art

many weeks ago, we were still painting the stripes in the kitchen (side note: turns out the walls are gradient stripes not ombre.  love 'em anyway), liam and i busted out the paints and made some modern art for the playroom.  nothing fancy.  but totally fun.  we had a blast and some how managed to not get paint all over ourselves and the floor.  total win.

liam got our master piece started and moved on to other projects.  so i continued to add to his creative vision and we ended up with something pretty freaking awesome.  liam stops to look at it once and a while as we're playing downstairs and say something like "mommy i made that" or "oh wow mommy look at my painting."  it absolutely is little man.  all it took was a painting smock, a bunch of craft paint in random colours, a really large sheet of paper and someone to watch the terrorising toddler.

and the master piece

we had a blast.  love that we've put something completely original in the kids play space.

life {lately} ~ vol. 26

life has been really really busy lately.

like stupid busy.

like, we both work out of our home full time, have two kids and feel like pulling our hair out busy.

like, we need to get our shit together and re-prioritize it busy.

like, i don't have time to take a pee busy.

and it doesn't appear it'll slow down anytime soon.

but if we put all that busy aside, life's pretty darn good.  i'm pushing the positivity here.

there's been some pretty good meal makin' and eaten' going on.

a few beers here and there.

valentine's on the chalkboard wall.

finally have one of the mudroom cushions finished and working on the second.

saturday morning cartoons and snuggles with scruffy.

early morning paparazzi shots in the car on the way to the day home. 

(i'll try anything to stop the madness/craziness in the morning)

and moose.  lots and lots of moose.

last sunday night after dinner four of them wandered into our backyard.

best dinner theatre ever.

liamisms ~ vol. 4

"my pee is all gone today."

liam: daddy what's your favourite, cats or dogs?
rob: cats
liam: mommy what's your favourite?
me: dogs
liam: oh, mine's race cars.

"my bum hurts because i want some milk."

liam: i have a meeting today.
rob: is it an important meeting?
liam: yeah, it's like blah blah blah.

"come here and kiss me averie."  this was said as he was chasing her and she was trying to get far away from him.

liam: scruffy is wet.
rob: why?
liam: 'cuz i licked him.

i just love love love this guy to pieces.  wish we could record everything that he's saying lately.  he cracks us up daily.  both rob and i are constantly telling each other to "write that one down" and about sixty percent of the time we forget.

life {lately} ~ vol. 25

the past week or so has had it's share of ups and downs.

i'm down with a cold right now, rob and averie are coming down with it too.

liam seems to be alright, but i'm sure i've jinxed it now.

hopefully the colds won't last long.

before the plague sniffles hit us we were having a lot of ups.

kitchen painting is almost done, in fact the last coat is going on today.

may have taken us the entire month of january to finish, but it'll be worth it.

tons of snowy mountain pics from our drive to whitefish.

rob and i got some kid-free time to shred the rad on our boards.  together.

we rob built liam's big boy bed.

bye bye toddler bed, hello bed that'll last you until your eighteen.

beer drinking, hot tubbing and valentine creations.

just a week (or so) in the life.

can't believe it's already february.

happy love month.

life {lately} ~ vol. 24

it's been a whirl wind week or so.

averie had her first hair cut ... and liam just got a hair cut.

we had some snowy iPad movie watching on the couch.

some kitchen painting action.  can't wait to share it.

took the kids to their first hockey game ever. 

it was totally awesome.  

has some major family time with gramma's and cousins, uncles and aunts.

and liam hit the slopes again with rob.

all in all not a bad start to the year.

keep the good time rollin'.

liamisms ~ vol. 3

listening to liam these days is part "where did you come up with that?" and part "you should go on tour with that bit."  i seriously love this kid.  most days he drives me absolute nuts and then he says something that totally makes up for it.  you never really know what you're going to get.  could be totally random, could be funniest thing we've heard all day.  we just never know and really, that's the awesome part.  here's some of the random/funny things that have left his lips as of late.

"daddy i'm the boss of the christmas lights, and your the boss too.  and mommy's the boss too.  but not averie.  she's only a little bit of the boss."

me: take that book out of the tree please.
liam: no, never!

to me after i ate my dinner "you're going to get big like a monster?"

"i'm never going to get a present." (said after he refused to eat his dinner)

"ironman is coming to our house on tuesday."

"you're gonna smell like boobs over there."

"mommy your necklace looks like a slide."

"your not santa.  i'm so cross with you guys."

liam: i'm building a castle.
rob: a castle?
liam: yeah, a castle of noodles.

"dad, pigs can't have muffins.  only people and cows."

life {lately} ~ vol. 23: the most wonderful time of year

first, i just realized that most of these are of averie.

guess i was a little more paparazzi with her than with liam.

and second, the last two weeks have flown by.

christmas came and went, it was both joyful and triumphant.

we said good-bye to hermey and a see ya next year.

liam looked for him on christmas morning and was a little sad that he was gone.

then he realized santa had come and everything was okay.

presents were opened, merry christmas was said, eggnog lattes and mimosas were consumed.

this was of course followed with the playing of toys and the eating of turkey.

we had some sleddin' action and snow angel building.

liam hit the slopes for the first time and rob and i got a couple runs in too.

we said good-bye 2013.

and welcome 2014.

that was our last two, pretty fantastic, weeks.

 in a nut shell.

see ya next year

and with that 2013 is over.

our family had a great year.  

complete with travel, birthday's, fun food, floods, snuggles, smile, happiness and good health.

for 2014 we wish for more of the same

and wish it to you and yours.
thank you to all who read about our little family.

happy new year!

cheers to new beginnings, fun and adventure.

snow much fun

during our christmas holidays (two weeks for me and three for rob) we've been able to take full advantage of mountains of snow that are every where.  seriously.  we haven't had this much snow in december since 1904.  i'm so not complaining.  just means we have more snow to sled on and make snowmen with.  precisely what we've been doing.  and we've been doing it almost everyday, even when it was -20.  the kids are troopers.  we also got liam out for his first ski day yesterday.  it was a total success, kept asking to go again and again.  absolutely zero complaints of sore/cold feet.  and to top the day off, rob and i were even able to get a couple runs in.  just the two of us.  but more on our ski adventures later.  back to sledding and snow people.

liam rocked the old school gt snow racer like a champ. circa 1990's.

only reason he wanted to go inside was because "mommy i'm frozen!"  and he was.

averie got towed around the snow by her big cousin and was perfectly happy having her valet do so.

the rest of us took turns using the blue circle of death (think chevy chase in christmas vacation)

and the other various sledding choices.  

zero children or adults were harmed during the making of our snow fun.

inside for hot chocolate and beers, followed by some good 'ol hanging out by the christmas tree.

weather got warmer here just after christmas.

we tried to go sledding again but it was more like a sheet of ice. 

so we built a snowman snow angel, with her own set of antlers.

her face is a little questionable.

 kids had a blast making it and being tossed in the snow.

and really, that's the only thing that matters.

oh ya and when did averie stop looking like my baby girl?  

when did she turn into that little girl in these photos?

baby averie no more.  hello toddler-hood.

sugar cookies

'tis the season to eat, drink and be merry.  so in keeping with that was better way to celebrate then making a ton of cookies.  some of which will be eaten, most of which will remain in our freezer until may.  these sugar cookies are one of the easiest cookies to make and are totally pre-school helper friendly.  other than the mountain of flour that ended up everywhere, liam and i had high fives all around as we bake our christmas cookies.  i think liam's favourite part about the whole cookie baking thing is decorating them.  mostly i think it's because he puts icing on the cookie and then into his mouth.  repeat.

it's almost christmas.

we're spending the next couple days tobogganing, eating, wrapping, light seeing

 and hanging out with family.

merry merry.