SICK

Yep...all 3 kids are sick :(
Started with Matthijs...runny nose. Then in the middle of the night Ezra had a brutal cough, couldn't talk this morning if you know Ezra...she can ALWAYS talk. Isla too, she woke up every 2 hours last night and had a hard time sleeping and eating. Matthew got up with her at 4am...and she stayed sleeping in daddys arms for 2 hours...while Ezra slept with me.
I hate it when my sweeties are feeling under the weather...This is Islas first time being sick, and its sad to see her like this...she doesn't know what's going on!
Please God, heal them and make them feel better soon!
Love Mommy

Sleeping Giant Provincial Park

On Sunday we went to Sleeping Giant Provincial Park with great friends of ours, Krysta & JD and their kids! They just recently purchased a beautiful tent trailer and decided to go for the weekend...we met them out there on Sunday for a day full of fun on the beach, at the campsite, Sliver Islet, and of course a campfire complete with smores!
It was GREAT! Thanks Krysta and JD for a great time!!!
On the way home we were caught in traffic for an hour...then Matthew found us a way out! There was a bad accident that happened about a 1/2hr before we got there. The helicopter came to scene and air lifted two people to the hospital. The accident was only a kilometre or so in front of us! There is a photo of the line up and helicopter.


Isla is carried in her sling like this whenever & wherever we go!!!




Colouring inside the trailer with Ava and Andi


Matthijs skipped his nap that afternoon and ended up passing out on the way back to the trailer from Sliver Islet at 4:15 in the afternoon!



Ezras FIRST campfire...and roasting marshmallows for SMORES with Sam & Seth


SOOOOOOOOOOMORE YUMMY!




DVD player for the hour trip there and back...what in the world did our parents do without those things???



Traffic from the accident and helicopter


Isla after screaming for the past 15mins I took her out to feed her during the wait...she was happy about that!


Now it's Ezras turn to be ZONKED out...Matthijs' turn to hold the DVD...time for some Laurie Berkner!

Our 100th post!!!

Here we are at our 100th post...that first post was Oct.1.2006! Ezra was 2 1/2 yrs old and Matthijs was 6 months old. I didn't post much at all then and hardly any pictures on the blog then either. It was so new and I didn't really have the patience to figure it all out! Anyways...I'm into it now, can ya tell?
Actually 80 of those 100 posts we just posted THIS YEAR! So even though I started this blog almost 2 years ago....80% of the posts were in the last 8 months...crazy!
Thanks for sticking with us and following our posts this far!!!

another photo shoot...

yeah...I was allotted 15 mins before grocery shopping to stop and take the kids for a quickie photo shoot...I just thought they all looked so cute in their denim!!!






FYI: I took 150 photos of just my kids today...and I also had a photo shoot which I took 196 photos a grand total of 346 pictures in one day...not bad, not bad at all!!! There's been worse days than that!

paint & play

So daddy helped Sondra & Franz move into their new house today...leaving me with the 3 kids for the morning...turns out I don't want a 4th as badly as I thought I did! And Isla even had a 3 hour nap...(how bad is that!)

Here are the kids painting and Ezra being beautiful in front of the camera...of course shes beautiful when shes not in front of the camera too!

exersaucer time!

So...tried Isla out in her exersaucer for the first time today...she quite liked it...and so did Ezra and Matthijs! She spent a good 15-20 mins in it! Yeah Isla!!!! Add that to the list of things I can put you in when I can't hold you! Sounds bad, I know!
Love Mommy

picture of the day

really this was taken on the 10th....but it's just too full of emotion to not post it!
I don't even know what he was crying about...could've been just about anything!

In other news...the potty front...is going quite well! Despite the fact that we're not actually training him, Matthijs is doing quite well on his own. Just the other day we were on the top floor and he was naked and said that he had to go...so he made his way down 2 levels of the house to the potty and went pee! The day before that he was even wearing a diaper he all of a sudden ripped it off and sat on the potty for both #1 & #2 ! We are soooo proud of you Matthijs!

"Tum See Mommy, Tum See. I went poo poo on the potty. Flush it mommy? Flush it?"
You are soooooooo sweet my handsome little prince!
Love Momma
xoxo

3 months old already!!!!!

So yesterday Isla hit the 3 month old milestone...

* You are sleeping really well, fairly routined. You go down around 7-7:30 in your own crib now rather the bassinet in our room. You sleep for 6-8hrs wake for a 5-10min feed and then back down till 5 or 6 for another feed (sometimes you skip that on and wake at 7:30-8:00. I can TOTALLY live with that! You nap well during the day in your crib or wherever we are (the sling or carseat!)
* You still LOVE being held especially in your sling on mommy!
* You're a talker, smiler, and laugher!
* You love being held by your big sister Ezra
* You don't wake up when youre put down anymore (for the most part anyways!)
* I've TOTALLY given up on you with a soother...you have no clue what to do with it!
* It takes a good 10-15 min fight with you to take your bottle (so daddy & Krysta say!)
* You're a beauty...and I'll prove it...









Leave me alone, can't you see I'm trying to cry!!! Ezra does a great job at calming you down!

CLOUDS

I love this picture of my boy....
Starring out on Thunder Bay...on top of the world...okay, okay...Mt. McKay!

we musn't forget about ISLA!!!

I was just looking through all the pictures posted...and the only ones that Isla is in are the family shots....but no extras! We love you too sweetie!!!
So without further adu...here is my angel eyes...ISLA!!!

First time in bumbo!!



Laughing


Praying hands


Stunning eyes....