This and that...

Immy teaching us a geography lesson about Canada!

Eli and his friends painted Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'

Spending time in toys r us dreaming about what Lego they would like when Daddy gets a job lol!

Poor sicky had a man cold this week ;-)

Skating in their friends back yard rink.

 I found them cuddled up in Immy's bed a few nights ago. Eli was reading star wars stories to Immy!

Concentrating!

 Out for a walk at Lake Simcoe with Darth Vader :-)

Frozen Marina

Snow instead of sand and ice instead of water. There were still people out ice fishing and it's April tomorrow....hellooo where is spring.

Crafts from Nanny!

Thank you Nanny for the Mr Maker kits and the stickers! As soon as they opened the parcel they wasted no time in getting started!

The concentration face!

One of the finished sock puppets. I forgot to take a picture of the other one!

Some of the little bug friends that Immy made. 

David needed somewhere quieter than the kitchen table to make phone calls and do his job searches and make connections. We are not always quiet homeschoolers hehe and he needed a place of his own! The best we could do was an office in my closet! (luckily we have two giant walk-in closets in our bedroom) Named the 'Cloffice' by Eli.

 Mean faces?!

On Thursday it snowed (what's new?!) I suddenly remembered that in Nanaimo on the one day a year it snowed I used to let the kids have food colouring in a squirty bottle to play with in the snow! Can't believe we are on month 5 of never-ending winter and I only just remembered. I filled a bunch of old sippy cups with different colours and let them go wild. Eli was interested for 10 minutes but Immy would have happily been out there all day mixing potions!

 I have been telling the kids about how Helen and I sometimes used to sleep 'tops and tails' so they decided last night to do the same!

Immy watching a kids documentary on spring....seems to be that a documentary is the only way we are getting any spring this year!

There is a Star Wars obsession in our house right now! Today we made light sabers! I think they look awesome if I do say so myself! Eli's is a double ended with light saber and Immy's is some made up name that has a pink one lol!

We went for (another freezing cold) walk today. So done with winter and so are the kids (see below!)

Mud!

Sun and above zero temps!

So first, some exciting photos taken by Eli when he went 'behind the scenes' in the bowling alley!!

Told ya' they were exciting ;-) 

I've been on a crocheting kick lately! Here is a headband that I made for Ava. And below is a hat I made for myself (and made David model for me - of course he will kill me for posting this picture :-))

Immy working out! I recently noticed that it said on the treadmill not to let kids under 13 within 10 feet of the treadmill. Oops.

Immy has a teeny tiny Hello Kitty doll (we're talking the size of a coin) that she loses on a weekly basis. We were searching everywhere for it when she picked up my phone and says "I know, I'll ask Siri to find her" ....totally different generation lol!

Last weekend we went sledding to a big hill in town. 

Eli is REALLY into Star Wars right now! 

This week they got the trains out again. It's been a while! They've had so much fun building tracks (Eli) and playing trains (Immy)!

We went to Legoland (again!) with our homeschool group

Today the temperature got as high as ....wait for it....5 degrees!!! OH MY! hasn't been that warm since about October! We went for a walk by the river and I can't tell you how nice it was to see the sun, slowly walk along, playing Star Wars with Eli and bears with Immy (yes, at the same time - made for an interesting game!) without shivering and freezing my face off. I NEED spring to come fast! Sadly the forecast is more snow and freezings temps later in the week oh joy!

Below, the frozen river.

Digging in the snow. They were trying to find ice below the snow!

Eli doing a Jedi pose and Immy a bear. 

Just after this picture she jumped out in front of a jogger and did her best bear growl at him! Fortunately he couldn't stop laughing!

Good tree climbing tree's!

Crawling like a bear! She did this for half of the trail.

Back home cuddles with Daddy

And lastly....Eli was writing a story this morning using a mine craft story starter and Immy insisted on doing one too. This is her story dictated to me!