Cripes!

Wink, wink!

Can you guess where this is going??


Probably not...brace yourselves!

CRIPES! 2 mosquito bites and this is what Karin looked like on Sunday. She got the mosquito bites on Friday at 5 PM, somewhere between the daycare and the Green Park, which is a 7 block bike ride. When I took her out of the Chariot, she had two bites on her right cheekbone, and I thought "Oh this is going to swell up"...but I had no idea! She is much improved now (Benadryl, Benadryl, Benadryl) - but her birthmark appears quite dark and dry...I'm thinking from the swelling/stretching of her skin. We'll see what happens with time.

This is Saturday morning....bad enough, but Sunday morning was the worst. New nicknames: Hugo, Lumpy, Taz (this one fits more because of the language she's been spouting lately...she sounds like the Tazmanian Devil from Bugs Bunny).

Auntie Jen Visits

This is what Jen managed to teach Chance in the week that she visited us in May. He still does it, more than 3 weeks later.

Piano time!


Cuddles with Auntie Jen.

This was a pretty good photo!

It could definitely be worse!

Rainy Week

Finally finished decorating the kids' play room. I bought some curtains, new duvet cover for the futon, a yellow japanese lantern (envisioning it as a paper mache solar system one day), and a bunch of light plastic-paned frames (if they fall they won't break) and hung up a selection of Karin and Chance's artwork. I'm pretty happy with how it looks, and Chance liked it too. Karin was oblivious...

Blowing bubbles in the back yard last Friday. We had sun on Saturday too and since then it's been raining. Looking forward to more bubbles one day!

Vocab Explosion

Karin's newest words:

Bapple (Apple)
Mee mee (Milk. Give me milk. Or whatever you're eating, I want it.)
Lookitdat! (Look at that!)
Koo koo (cookie)
Cha (Chance)

She has also starting to pair words together like "Bye bye Dada" - when she really means "Hi Daddy!".

She is responding very well to simple commands, like "Go get your shoes." and "Give this to Mom." Not so much with very simple commands, like "Sit" or "Wait". Oh well.

Quick Pics

Kids are glad that Cam is home. I am too!

Pooh Nap on Saturday afternoon.



Butterscotch pudding!

Already the kids are pretty tech-savvy. Here they are Skyping with Gramma and Grampa in Regina.

Just got home from a run with my friend in the neighbourhood. Lovely evening!!

Things that 4 Year Olds Say:

On seeing two helicopters in the sky: "Wow, I think they're gonna fight".

When viewing old photos of himself as a baby: "Aww...so cute. Was this when I was a girl?" (I had explained to him why boys have nipples.

On what's for dinner tonight: "Chicken boobs". Which quickly turned into a game of putting the word "chicken" with anything else funny: "chicken bum", "chicken poo", "chicken stink".



One day I'll write a book about being a working mom and call it Chicken Boobs.

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