Birthday Wishes

Happy 78th Birthday to (Great) Granny Foulds!

Great Granny with her 3 great grandchildren this summer.

Out with the kiddos.

Everyday I try to get myself and the kids out of the house and I am usually successful. We go to a couple different playgroups, swimming lessons, library, or for a walk in the nature trails by our place or to the park. The last couple weeks have been pretty wet and rainy here but yesterday was sunny! Hooray! We of course took advantage of this weather and went out to enjoy it.

Every time we go over the bridge Marin stops to look for fish that have come back to spawn, check out her crossed legs.

When we got to the park she had fun running and stomping around her new winter boots.
She was also making some serious looking faces, not sure why.

Yo Mom, word up!

Corban was feeling restricted by his jacket and all the other clothing I had bundled him in so he just sat there watching Marin run around.

And giving me a look that said, okay enough already, please take me to the swings.

So after a couple more pictures...
My boy and I,

and my girl and I,

we went to the swings. They both love them and it is where we always end up when we go to the park. Oh well they are happy so I am happy. :)

On a different note.
Did any of you notice anything different about me in the picture of Marin and I?
I got my hair chopped off.
Some before pictures.

And now.

I like it, it is so much lighter, and easier to manage.

Happy weekend to you all!

Geography with Marin.

Marin enjoys puzzles, I have mentioned this before, and few weeks back we took a little trip to the mall in search for some new ones. She had basically memorized the ones she had and I wanted to get her something that was a little more advanced. We were successful and one of the puzzles also acts as a geography lesson. We bought her the big Canada floor puzzle by Melissa and Doug.
Yesterday morning while Corban was napping we brought it out and put it together (this was not the first time)

Figuring out the islands in the north.

Almost finished.

Yay I am done!

Once the puzzle was together I thought I'd ask her some questions about this wonderful country of ours.

We apparently still have some work to do...
This video makes me laugh though, she is such a nut.

While we are doing a bit of product placement lets show you some pictures of our sweet boy playing with his blocks.

And I will also mention that he is crawling everywhere and loves it!
And his 3rd tooth has now come through, his top right.

Now I am going to jump back to the cute girl and show you a few random pictures of her and tell you a few things she has said. Oh and I will tell you that she is a whiz at letters and can identify all her letters both upper and lower case.
Here she is with her doodle pro and the "T" that she wrote.

A while back at lunch time Corban decided to "fill his pants", I thought he was finished and then he added some more. So I said "More poop, I am really afraid of what is going to be in your pants little man". Marin then piped up and said "You don't have to be afraid Mommy." "I don't? How come?" I asked. "Because God is the biggest!" She replied.

She is not allowed to say (yell) "no" to us when we ask her to do something, we have told her that she should say "no thank you" because that is more polite. The other day she asked if she could do something and I told her no not right now. She then informed me "It is not appropriate to say no."
(In this picture she is helping Ian make Welsh cakes)
She was playing with some cards the other day with Ian, they where matching pairs and passing them back and forth. She started trying to pass them with her knees and Ian asked her what she was doing. "I am passing you the cards with my knee, cause that is what Marin's do. They tend to pass cards with their knee to Daddy." was what she told him.

During another lunch time conversation she announced "God is with me!" "Yes He is" I said "God is with everyone." "No just me." she said. So I tried to explain "Well no God is everywhere, and is with everyone all the time." She then asked me "Does God sometimes go to other peoples houses?" So I told her "Yes God is with everyone all the time." Looking for confirmation she asked "God is with me?" "Yup, all the time." I said.

Well that is it for me for now... toodles.

We have a crawler in the house.

This evening Corban did his first bit of real crawling! I caught it all on video too. :)
He has been inching around like a little worm for a while now. He would also go into the crawling position, but then sit back up or go onto his belly. My guess is that by the end of the weekend he will have learned all the benefits of crawling and will be into much more. Time to re-baby proof our cute boy is on the move.

Little Swimmer Dude.

Corban is currently in his first set of waterbabies and he is really enjoying it!
He is great at going under the water and he loves floating on his back. He also likes to try and jump in the water anytime he can get his feet to touch the bottom of the pool.
His class is in the evening so we have made it a family night and we all go, Ian and I take turns taking Corban to his lesson and the other takes Marin swimming. It works out well and we all have fun. The only problem is that with both Ian and I in the water there is no one to take pictures. This is of course no good, we can't have no pictures of him swimming, so we went a little early one day and snapped a few before the lesson started.

Last class his teacher brought her underwater camera, and she is planning to bring it again next week. She is going to email us the pictures so hopefully they will turn out and then I can share them all here. :)

Sister & Brother.

I was looking through some pictures the other day and saw that there were some cute ones of Marin and Corban together, so of course I must share them with you all.
Enjoy the cuteness. :)

Since I am in a sharing mood :) check out this link, it is a good reminder of how we can worship God as moms.
And check this out too, who knew the harmonica could sound so cool! It is Marin's favorite right now, she likes dancing to it.
Okay I am done sharing now. :)

Birthday Wishes

Happy 30th Birthday to (Uncle) Dave!

Halloween!

Happy Halloween to you all!
(This year's pumpkins)

This is Marin's 3rd Halloween and this year she picked her own costume. When we asked her what she wanted to be she told us she would like to be a "Dolphin Racer". She got this from Backyardigans. Basically she is a jockey, but she rides a dolphin. To do this I put last years costume to use and with a poll, some tape and pillows I turned it into this. I also asked my mom to send my riding helmet and riding crop down, put it all together, with some boots, leggings and a coat and you have...
Marin the Dolphin Racer!

Pretty cute I think.

Happy Halloween to you!

Yay candy!

And then we have the sweet boy of course.
For him I decided to use the "Thing 1 and Thing 2" onesies that Marin wore her first Halloween. He's not really old enough to trick-or-treat anyways but it is fun to put him in it and take some pictures.
We started with the "Thing 2" side, it seemed appropriate.

He thought it was pretty fun. :)

I love his round little diaper bum in this one.

And now a bit of "Thing 1".

So there you have it, our cute kiddos on Halloween.
We are off to go Trick-or-treating.... mmm candy. :)

Marin's 1st Halloween.

Marin's 2nd Halloween.