Yup MORE pictures!!!

Baby Reaper

Cue evil laugh!

Just love this costume

Quiet thought

Ok so no more comments.. just cuteness!

Just the girls

My penguin

My super heroes (Zander left)

Just the animals

One more

Alex

In my Halloween shirt thanks to Gammie

With Snoopy

The CANDY

So I forgot to mention that last night while looking for something else Kathy found a stash of candy wrappers in Emanuel’s room… so I have an idea now where the candy has been sneaking to! But the best part was when we were cleaning it up (not a huge pile) and Emanuel was running the wrappers to the trash when Trinity walked in. She took one look at the stash and said “that’s not where you hide candy wrappers” and walked away! ACK! We waited til she was out of earshot and laughed our bums off. Although now I am wondering if my bottomless pit was the only candy snitcher! 

THE socks

The rest of the Hello Kitty potty training swag

Speaking of Emanuel – today was his official NEW BED DAY! Thank you Freecycle! Not only did the woman have a lovely single bed BUT she also had the sheets to go on it! Actually TWO mattresses and boxspring so we are debating what to do with the second mattress as that puts the bed up a bit too high. He is one excited boy, though we had to clean up the whole room to move things around and keep his nightlight where it is. Now we wait and see if he falls out of it tonight! Thank goodness his floor is carpeted. 

He set his bed up just how he wanted it

It was an Emanuel day. Ken has been slammed with work due to someone else’s error so he was unable to take the twins to the gallery for the drop in but they made up for it with movies in the basement and Trinity went with Karyn to the library. Emanuel and I had our afternoon fun! First a walk to the convenience store to get a slurpee (mittens were a MUST). 

He IS his mother's son

Next on his list – a bubble bath! I used lots of soap and he had a blast on his own… with his slurpee in hand. 

Ok so he needs a good book to finish it off as a proper relaxing bubble bath!

And then STORYTIME! We read some of our library books and let Echo and Trinity join us in the end. 

Storytime on the new bed

Hammy picture to celebrate the day

I got totally side tracked this afternoon while cleaning the floor and sorting the extras. While my livingroom is starting to clear out for the tree my kitchen table is a jumble. After finishing Trinity’s original Kitty’s friend I checked out a link a friend sent me and got started on THESE! I posted some up for sale on my Facebook page It’s a Hoot, but I figure there are so many bows out there for sale I will focus on these as mainly gifts! 

I think they are sooo cute

Kristen and Fydo dropped by to pick up some forgotten keys and visited for a bit so we have still have company today! I just wish Ken could beat these deadlines into submission and have a day off! It has been about 2 weeks now since he has had one! Cranky and unshaven Kenny is not much fun for the rest of the family… or for himself either! Thank goodness Fydo was able to spend a little time in the basement with him talking about programming. Thank you Fydo!

Another at home weekend of course. The van is not yet fixed, Ken is swamped and the house is still not to the point where I can pull out the trees. The never ending list of chores just seems to build up, but we are making progress… tomorrow there is no Sunday School with Remembrance Day and all so we will just have to work doubly hard to catch up! OR at least make some progress getting into two of the final closets of boxed items! 

She climbed in all on her own!

Some days just cry out to be boardgame days… today’s overcast weather left us with the blahs I think… so out came the games. There was some argument and a few games ended rather abruptly when those arguments could not be resolved but everyone had fun. Zander even taught the little ones how to play some new (to them) ones.

3D snakes and ladders

Echo took full advantage of her abandonment to crawl into Trinity’s room (that we cleaned yesterday… not that you can tell) and climb into what she considers her sized containers. The cradle my grandpa MacLean made me, the plastic bucket Trinity has her “pets” in… she has become quite the fearless climber lately. 

In the cradle and further proof she is still a lightweight... that is meant for DOLLS

She climbs FACE FIRST into this one!

And a bonus - she loves Trinity's little sofa

Emanuel and Trinity wanted to do some schoolwork so both brought out their workbooks. Trinity basically colours the pages and traces as she feels but Emanuel is motoring through his. We are working mainly on letter sounds and the numbers right now. Thank goodness for the mini math office. Having the numbers in front of him gives him so much more confidence. I have the numbers 1-20 up on the wall in the livingroom where our blue table is but when he and I are working together we are at the diningtable which is numberless. 

Workbook time

Gavin has been hard at work once again on his sewing… a lovely friend from an egroup is sending him a packet of various beginner patterns. I have not told him yet to surprise him but am under specific instructions that as the package is under HIS name HE is to open it! 

Another self design!

We are going the limited candy route mainly due to upset cold related stomachs lately. Lots of teeth brushing and EARNING of treats  though. With runny noses and copious coughing in the bedrooms last night I am watching them all rather closely.

Echo has gone through multiple wardrobe changes… messy diaper led to trying on an old favourite that was too big (seriously 6-9 month TOO BIG STILL?) and then settling on a sweet hoodie with a Piglet theme. I am amazed how many baby clothes are basically Halloween costumes in disguise!

BRIGHT

Piglet

I have fallen in love with a series of travel shows featuring Michael Palin (you know, one of the Monty Pythons). Tonight I finished Around the World in 80 Days on Netflix. I love his sense of humour and the actual life they show. Next is his Pole to Pole. And a stern reminder to myself NOT  to read the other viewer’s comments beforehand… they are never very complimentary as a whole.

We forgot all about our Wednesday story morning so that has been postponed until tomorrow… We have some factual books on mice to enjoy as well as the ones the little ones picked out last night. I have some book searching to do, it has been a while since I have had a lovely stack of books to read through and enjoy for MYSELF.

So otherwise we have started our talk about Christmas presents and making our own… this always has the boys excited! And I have started solid work on completing those craft projects not requiring my favourite adhesive (so nothing paper related). I hope to have a new feltie to show off VERY soon! Remember I AM selling the ones I have made so far one Facebook with my owls on It’s a Hoot! I would love to send a few off to new homes!  

Even fairies like a little help from a big brother once in a while