Lil chatterbox

Happy new year!

Aren't you all glad I didn't put it on Facebook!!

Skating day 2

> We went skating again - I did a video but it was dark on the ice so you can barely see him but had to video him as what an improvement from yesterday!! Love my boy so much everytime he fell over yesterday he said "don't worry practice makes perfect" and he was desperate to get back there today!!
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Eli's first time skating!

New PJ's

Nana made matching Pajamas for Imogen and her doll. I tried to get some photos tonight but trying to get her to stay still for two seconds was impossible -so of the 20 or so photos these are the least blurred!

 My beautiful boy got Buzz pj's from Nanny...also wouldn't stand still tonight!

Preschool Christmas Party

Here is my gorgeous boy all ready for his party. (Not great quality from my phone and bad lighting)

I've uploaded some videos of Eli's class singing! You can hear Eli clearly - he is the loudest one! (Seems only one of them has loaded. The other two must be lost in cyberspace as they have definitely been sent. I'm sure they will appear at some point!)

And here is Imogen being a monkey at eli's party!

When Santa got stuck up the chimney

Davids new office

Today we visited Daddy at work to see his new office that has just been built and go out for lunch with him :) 

Oh Christmas tree!

Here on the Island it seems almost everyone who is getting a real tree chops their own one so off we went today to cut ours down. Of course it was rain/snowing all day and not a nice day for trudging around looking for the perfect tree but if we didn't do it today it would be Christmas! Eli picked the tree - he did a pretty good job!

David made sure it was well and truly tied to the car. He must have wrapped the rope around the tree/car about 300 times. It wasn't going anywhere. We are now officially 'Islanders' as we have moved something on the roof of our car. (I have never known a place like Nanaimo for people driving down the highway with all manner of things either tied to the roof of the car or piled up so high in the back of their pickup that things go flying off all over the highway)

Trees that don't look so big outside with all the much bigger trees are actually pretty huge when you get them inside your house!!

Now to trim and decorate!

x

Chopping down our tree

My swimmer

So Eli has gone from not being able to swim in the summer to going through 3 levels of the red cross swimming program in 3 months.  I am so proud of him working so hard. Today was the last class before Christmas and his teacher got them riding the big waterslide! I just love this program as they are not just focused on how many meters you can swim but about enjoying the water and having fun in it...he was so scared at first to try it but once he did it once that was it and he LOVED it! The video below is kinda boring but hey...it's my blog ;-)

Noel

So last week we were out and I told Eli he could pick an ornament each for him and Imogen for the tree. He picked the one above for him and one that was a snowman and says 'Joy' for Imogen. When we got home he said to me "what do the ornaments say" so I said Imogen's says Joy and yours say Noel. He  immediately says to me it does have an 'L'. I burst out laughing and then was busy with something else and forgot all about it. The next day he said "mummy why don't those ornaments have the right letters for our names" so totally forgetting about the previous conversation I say because they don't say your names. Yours is Noel. Again he gets really upset and says 'It does have an L and my name has an L too'...so I try to explain 'NOEL' to him but literally everytime I say Noel he says "mummy stop saynig that it does have an L" Oh my goodness it was like a comedy sketch. This has gone on ALL week. He has no idea what Noel means as he won't hear me out!! 

Eli makes a gingerbread house...

Eli and Imogen 'help' with the painting

Santa the second

My 2 gorgeous boys

Cheeky monkey

'Did it'

Her latest today was to shout 'did it' and clap each time she got a straw/Popsicle stick through the hole. Will have to video her next time. She is just too cute for words right now!!

Girlie girl

Can't remember if I posted a picture of her with this before but she loves to wear it and this morning put it on and came to me saying "pretty". Sometimes she is so girlie and then there are times like now when she is looking for toys big enough to stand on so she can climb onto the coffee table!

Beautiful smiles x

Snoway days

Much happier than mummy to be playing outside!!

Snowy days

Climbing

She is pretty impressed with herself that she can climb on anything!

Stair fun

This is what the stairs look like at the end of the day. Imogen thinks it's hilarious to throw things over the bannister. It gets worse than this too!

Sunny day

Trying to get Imogen to stand still is impossible.

Christmas crafts already!

Cheeky monkeys

Notice Imogen clutching a Teddy. She always has a doll or Teddy in her hands awww.

And one of eli in the same spot. I have about 20 pics trying to get him to smile! I have a gorgeous one of him in the same tree when he was 2 so thought I'd try for an updated one but it wasn't working!

Bowen park on Sunday

Imogen hiding in the trees with daddy altho I was trying not to get him in the picture!!

Shady mile

There is a place in nanaimo nicknamed the Shady Mile. After Halloween everyone brings their pumpkins and leaves them along this stretch of road. A pretty cool tradition i think- pumpkins all along the road for miles (or a mile I guess!)

Halloween

This is what our little dalmation thought of trick or treating!

With his loot;-) he ended up being batman again for trick or treating and was a firefighter yesterday at the party. Didn't wear the knight costume that he wanted so badly!

Playroom right now!

Not much playing going on in here at the moment!

Halloween party number 1

On the Ferry

Thought this was cute coz Imogen was copying everything Eli did. If he stood so did she if he sat so did shet