I now have a four year old and a two year old. When did I become a grownup? I have to shop in the big kid department now, for both of them, which almost makes me tear up every time I'm clothes shopping.

But enough about me. Angelina has all kinds of stuff going on. She's still learning things all the time, like now she can do single-digit addition in her head. Like you can say "what's 7 plus 4?" and she doesn't even have to think about it. She has also become extremely friendly and will happily approach anyone we come across and chat thier ear off. Here's my beautiful, special little princess enjoying her birthday week.

Fakers

Did you ever see two fake-er smiles?

A Conversation Between me and Angelina

Lala: Mommy, I want to talk to you about the pwake.
Me: The what?
Lala: The pwake. That was when everyone got really sick and they died even.
Me: Oh, the plague! I see daddy has been reading your history book with you.

Funny Roman Pictures

This is really, really late, but happy Easter everyone!

This is what happens when I leave my son alone for one second!

Picking up Chicks

Plus riding their new trike

Lala's Haircut and Preschool Graduation

What We've Been Up To

This one cracks me up! What a goof. This is the map in Angelina's room, and she knows all the countries
Valentine's day

BFF

This was just last week, but the snow is all gone now!

My birthday dinner at Mr Greek.

TRuE LOvE

I will have the others to you soon....what a beautiful day that was! :)

Ang

I had no idea you were pregnant Ang, I'm so sorry to hear your bad news. And it seems like you're always waiting for things, and that's tough. Getting a downpayment is fantastic news, though. We had a big downpayment for this place, and it sure makes the monthly payments nicer. Are you allowed to use the downpayment for a house over here? Just in case you had forgotten, we would love to have you come here.

Happy Valentines from BC

WOW! You guys look like you are doing great!!! I am so happy for you.
I absolutely love checking out all of your photos on here...keep posting :) I still have those photos that I took of you and the kids at the park last sept. I will have to get them posted or sent to you.

Pre school already! holy! And they have grown so much. Angelina is so beautiful! She is going to be a handful when she gets older :) And Roman looks sooo much like Matt!!!

I am so glad you are settled in there nice and look like you are having a blast.

Not much is new here....hahah like usual... we are still in our holding pattern for our life to get rolling. Bryce is doing great at work and really likes it. He keeps getting promoted and having more work dumped on him which is pushing him more into management than programming (where he wants to be) but all is good. We are still waiting to hear back from project build in Winfield...the central okanagan foundation has chosen us as one of the successful applicants to have a down payment for a house donated to us...but we are in the holding process it seems, waiting for our mortgage approval. I have passed my major interview with the RCMP for 911 in Kelowna but I am also in a holding process for that as they are not hiring until after the Olympics... so ya! waiting waiting :) Things are mostly going great for us! I have been having some medical problems (Sleeping excessively and no motivation) since september and finally got a diagnosis this last week...so have been trying to get back on track now. I had a mis carriage in July and it all caught up with me in sept so the internist has finally diagnosed me with Post partum depression and they are trying to get me regulated with anti depressants for a month...I was very nervous about starting them and have had some issues so am now looking for another option... Other than that... Life is reasonably good!

Well hope to see more updates and photos of you guys! Take care!
Happy Valentines Day!

Baby Bear Gets an Education

Angelina goes to preschool now. Can you believe it? I can't.

Of course, she doesn't learn anything there. She's there for two hours and at the end the teacher tells us, "today, the kids learned about the letter m and coloured a picture of mittens." So it's just for fun. They switch activities litterally every 5-10 minutes though, and she doesn't enjoy that. I have to explain to her all the time that at preschool, we do just what we're told and do the very same thing as everyone else. It's the exact opposite of what I teach her in life, so I struggle with that a bit. The fact is that she already knows how to read and prefers to concentrate on one activity for a long time.Those are special and admirable qualities, not things to be trained out of her.


Our friend is pregnant and so Angelina loves to talk about how a baby is made. It's hillarious, she acts out the cell division and does little sound effects and stuff. We were in that section of the science center last week and wound up accidentally watching a video of a live birth- I didn't realize that the movie would show that. Anyway there we were watching a birth, and I was getting all squeamish and wondering if it's okay for Angelina to see this. But she was totally fine. She said, matter-of-factly, "look, the doctor is wearing gloves so she won't get covered in that messy purple stuff".

What an amazing kid.

My Little Scientists

We've been going to the Science Center in Toronto once or twice a week. It's the kids' favourite place in the world.

Angelina loves the human body stuff. She already knows all about anatomy and loves the models of skeletons and guts and stuff.

The second after this picture, Roman falls flat on his face. It's okay, he does it all the time.

This kid loves the stage!

And this one loves making noise. Maybe they will start a band together one day.

Christmas Fun

We spent Christmas eve with our friends

Roman slept through most of the Christmas party. The poor kid slept through most of his own birthday party too; that's what happens when you're a baby.

Every visit to the Glovers' house turns into a dance party



Christmas morning at home




Roman's taking his new chair for a test drive.

Hammy for Sammi

Here are a few pre-Christmas pictures, starting with Roman Hamming it up, especially for Sammi.

As promised

Matt got a Star Wars shirt for his birthday; now they have the same haircut and clothing.

Angelina loved this super wild ride in the back yard.

My little Christmas monkeys

Angelina sat with Santa for the first time, and had a great time

Done for this semester

Thank you Keira for the updates and all the pictures.

I love the Roman pictures where he is hamming it up; I can't believe he is two years old already. Before I know it, you will be posting first day of school pictures on the blog, and I will be hitting my head against the wall wondering where the time has gone.

I loved Angelina in her princess costume; she is a very beautiful young lady. You and Matt looked great in your costumes as well. It looks like there is so much more to do with the family in Oshawa which is great since Angelina and Roman are information sponges. The Viking group was very cool for the kids to see and ask questions...something different.

Do you have the house decorated for Christmas? What are your plans for the holidays? How is the winter weather so far?

Enjoy your holidays! I love looking at the pictures of the family.

Sammi

Spending a Little More Time Inside, These Days

The Last Baby Birthday

My bunny rabbit is two! I know a lot of people get sad as their babies grow out of babihood, but I am psyched. It's awesome that the kids are growing up. The older they get, the more we can talk to each other and do cool stuff and have fun.

Now that he can talk, I'm glad Roman can tell me what he wants, even though it is often pink cake. He can say a lot now, but the most frequent words out of his mouth are still "bump head" "hurt mouth" "hurt hand" "bump butt" and so on... he's a little clumsy. Another gem is "make toots!"

So my baby isn't really a baby anymore, but he's still the most squishable, sweet, funny little guy I know.

He likes his new ball pit. He yells "balls everywhere!" and goes ape shit.

Even though this was the easiest birthday cake I ever made, it was also the most appreciated.

He gets by with a little help from his friends, like Steve Harper.