Why Girls love having a little girl around

I know I can only dress her up like this for a little while.  But she's so cute!

Jeremy Quotes

Jeremy is pretty funny, here's some things I've caught him saying lately:

"I don't want that Brad Paisley on my macaroni" referring to the parsley

"I have a headache right here in my tummy"

"Mommy, I found a pineapple" he said while holding up a pinecone

The Amazing Spiderman

Elijah has decided that he is going to be Spiderman when he grows up. He honestly believes this to be a real job. It's very sweet. He's just waiting for the radioactive Spider to bite him. He also thinks it's okay if Anna (his 'girlfriend') wants to change her name to Mary Jane, but has decided not to officially change his name to Peter Parker as he doesn't want to pay the government to do that. Sometimes when we are talking he will say things like "my spidey senses were tingling about that." He has decided to study physics when he is in university because that will help him with his web building. When asked why he wants to be spiderman he says it's a good job to help the police because he will know when a crime is happening and can report it to the Daily Bugle.

Giveaway Alert!

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Elijah's Art

Until a few months ago Elijah was not one to sit down and colour...he's very active. These past few months he's been very inspired to create. He has a making box (named after Mr. Maker on Treehouse) and collects every box and scrap he can get his hands on to create. Here's some of his recent artwork.



Hockey House-this is actually 3D


Valentine for the family - made at school



Sticker Art



A Map of the Atmosphere



Olivia



Spiderman



Hockey Player



Hockey Goalie




Knight Helmets


Superhero mask

Who my children are right now

My Olivia has hit the "I'm over 2 months old now, so I'm not going to spend all my time sleeping anymore" stage of life. Because she was a preemie, she is still small for her age (she's on the curve though). At her 2 month check up she was 3.8 kg (almost as big as Jeremy was at birth). The comment I get most often from people is that she looks like a little doll. And she does. She's very cuddly and loving (it's amazing how much she speaks through her eyes.) She's starting to smile socially - today you should have seen the big, big smiles she had at church, so lovely! She's also starting to spend time playing, looking at different patterns, noticing her hands, interacting with her brothers...it's really neat to have another little person around discovering the world.
My Jeremy boy is creative, investigative and very loving. He is cuddly and funny. He is social and very, very 3. He insists that his name and age are one. Up until March 5th he insisted on being called Jeremy 2. Now that he is 3, he is Jeremy 3. If I had to guess what he would be when he grows up at this moment, it would either be an actor or a scientist. He's quite a ham with different voices and characters. He will at any moment be a frog, cat, dog, octopus or elephant. At the same time he is noticing everything (so much so that I have to remind him to watch where he is going when he is walking, otherwise he's asking questions about airplanes, bird nests, squirrels, cracks in the walls...He calls pine cones pineapples and pineapples pine cones. He looks up to Elijah as the person he most wants to be like, copying most everything he does. He is comically dramatic. When he found out that Jonathan ate all the french fries the other day (which Jeremy though he should have had some) Jeremy told him off with such righteous anger, beating his chest for emphasis, and then folding his arms into a big pout. He is very loving and gives the best big hugs. Jeremy loves playing with trucks & cars and watching Cars too. He is a sweet, sweet boy.
My Mr. Elijah is right now my most intense child. He loves with a passion and gets angry with a passion. He feels things deeply. He is very bright and constantly amazes me with what he can read, know and remember. He is completely enamoured with his little sister (he prayed for a sister you know, for years) and sees himself as her stand in care giver/protector. Elijah is quite athletic and love, love, loves hockey. Most recently he's become quite crafty, making things. Any paper, cardboard or stickers that he can find he will claim and turn into art. And he's such a pack rat, refusing to throw even the smallest scrap away. He's also very loving and cuddly (I'm quite a fortunate mom to have these cuddlesons). We snuggle together being all cozy. His teacher told me how much she enjoys having him in her class, that he has been a good influence on some of the rougher boys and that he is so kind to some of the littler kids. He's a great, imaginative storyteller. He finds comfort in togetherness, but enjoys his own downtime too. He is my sweet, sweet boy.

A Visitor

"Well, there's a creature we've never seen before", declared Elijah looking into our back yard. Maybe he hadn't, but I knew exactly what that creature was, a raccoon. Yes, an injured raccoon found its way onto our backyard patio. It did leave eventually, after I had visions of calling in animal control (a much more costly process than you would think). Gone for a week on its own until yesterday when Jeremy looked out and said, "Mommy, there's that raccoon again"...sure enough there he was drinking rainwater off a patio table. We don't have any food sources out there, but we didn't think about rainwater. Jonathan scared it away this time. Now, how to keep it away? My mom told me ammonia would work (obviously not after a night of rain), but we are worried about putting a corrosive substance out where the kids play. Obviously, I'm now checking every nook and cranny before sending the kids out to play, very vicious creatures raccoons are. Please neighbours, don't leave out any food to attract this raccoon back in (I know it was the same one because of the sore leg it has).