Some Humour

Needed a bit of humour lately?! The kids have the sniffles and fevers, we are fighting it and John has one last exam on Tuesday. I can't wait for a break!!!

Even if we are tired and a tad grumpy, I love my kiddos so, so, so much! Even when they are tired, whiny and impossible to deal with (especially the 3 year old), I have moments like these that make me smile and thank God each and every day for them!

I am not sure what he is pretending to be or do here, but most likely it has something to do with Cowboys or Pirates!

HAHA, gotta love this shirt that was a hand-me-down from our friends in Australia.

Someone found a new favourite toy--the doorstop! She was so, so proud of herself!

What a ham! Enough said!

Two more

So I forgot that we went to visit Santa and got a picture on Saturday. I will have to go back and make a layout about that. John wrote a final on Saturday morning and then after he got back we ventured out into the cold and went to the Mall in Balzac. They were doing free Santa pictures at Bass Pro Shop. Well, you get what you pay for--right. So yeah, I wasn't too impressed with the quality of the picture, but it was free and we didn't have to wait in a long line. Plus they had some crafts for Zech to do throughout the mall, so it was a nice afternoon out.

Dec. 9 layouts

Here's a two-pager for the 9th.

Christmas Day 6

Here is Day 6! I am falling behind.....

Thanks to Crystal for nominating me for this little award! What a sweet, nice surprise! I am going to play along, however I don't know if I have seven people to nominate?

Once the award is accepted, the nominee has to do the following:

•Thank the sender for nominating you.

•make sure you link to the person who nominated you.

•Copy the logo onto your blog

•List seven interesting things about yourself.

•Nominate Seven Kreative Bloggers.

•Post links to their Blogs

•Leave a comment for each letting them know of their nomination.

So here are some random tidbits that you might not know about me:

1. I hate the cold! I am so NOT a Winter person, it is sad! I love having a White Christmas, but that is it! I would love to have Summer year round!

2. If I had the money I would be a Professional Student. I don't necessary want to get the 'Piece of Paper'--I just want to take courses that truly interest me and that I know I would have a blast learning and studying!

3. I took my first plane ride when I was in Grade 11 (Bamfield Trip) and now I can't count how many plane rides I have been on since.

4. I wish I knew more languages! I also wish that I could get my Spanish back to the level it was!

5. I took piano lessons for 12 years and now it has been 12 years since I touched the piano! Sad I know, but hopefully soon that will change and we will be able to get a piano and provide the kids with lessons.

6. I have to ask to lie down whenever I get a needle. Even if it is just a blood test, otherwise I will pass out cold. I am not sure how I have survived two pregnancies with two c-sections! Thank goodness I never saw the Spinal needle!

7. I always wanted 5 kids. Twins and Triplets! Doesn't that tell you how NAIEVE I was!

I'm going to pass this award on to:

Melanie (maybe you will blog a little more if I try and force you too! :o)

Aunty Elaine (I have been missing your posts too!)

And that is all that I know of.....

Genesis at 6 Months

My baby is half a year old already! We are so blessed to have her in our lives!

So at 6 Months Genesis:

- Weighs 19 lbs. (about 8 kg)

- Is 27 1/2 inches long.

- Wears mostly 12 month clothing.

- Wears size four disposables.

- Is finally on a routine during the day. Morning nap at 10:00 am for an hour to an hour and a half and an afternoon nap at 2:00 pm for an hour or more--depends. At least she is napping good now!

- Started sleeping through the night last week for a week. It was great!! It's back to never sleeping now since she got sick. Erghhh!

- Is almost crawling!

- Loves to be on the floor and she goes everywhere. We have to do some serious GG proofing here soon. While she isn't crawling, she uses her arms and legs to push herself along the floor.

- Still loves the Jolly Jumper! I wish we could take it everywhere we go! She loves to jump on our laps too!

- Is still sooo smiley and happy. We are told all the time that she is the happiest baby ever!

- Is really starting to get vocal. She chatters away all the time to herself. She is even saying DADA! John thinks that is pretty cool (even if she doesn't realize what she is saying)!

- Sits up on her own.

- Is eating solids three times a day now. She loves her cereal and doesn't mind her veggies. Still not a huge fruit fan.

- Loves, loves, loves her bath time!

- Got Scarlet Fever and is on her first antibiotics.

- Has exzema and this weird skin irritation that we thought was exzema, but got worse and looked infected. The doctors were even really perplexed by it, so we have three different creams we are supposed to try on it.

- Sits in the shopping cart now with her big brother and she loves it.

- Loves stories and books.

- Loves her daddy and gets so excited when he comes home. She plays shy with him--it is so funny and cute!

- Had her first little ponytail!

Dec. 4th & 5th layouts

When I started this, I knew that I would not be able to complete every single day, but was going to try. So I missed the 3rd already, but I am not going to stress out about it and will just continue on with the days that I do have. While the prompts that Jessica Sprague provides for each day of this course are really great, I find that I want to capture more of what we are doing right in the moment. However, there are also some great ideas from the prompts that I wouldn't mind recording as well. So I am kind of mixing things up a little--creative liscensing--right! :o)

So here are my posts for Dec. 4th & 5th.