I am going to try to start playing the piano more often, I think the kids would enjoy it. I started playing the piano when I was around 8 years old I think, but never really took it as seriously as I should have. I would love to be able to "tickle the ivory's" like some of my friends can.

Our trip to Tillsonburg

Today we went to Tillsonburg to see Grandma and Grandpa. Leah was being silly and wanted her picture taken with mommy. Grandma was taking the pictures and asked us to do a "crazy" face, and this was the end product.

Off to "Girls Night Out" tonight, so I'm sure there could be some "interesting" pictures tomorrow.

So today when Leah was at daycare and Zachary was sleeping I started playing around with the camera. I wanted to take a picture of something with bright colours and the only thing that I really could find was one of Zach's toys. This particular toy he really likes right now because he can bite down on it hard. The poor little guy's teeth are really bothering him, I can't wait until tooth #2 decides to surface.

By baby boy

Tonight I came downstairs after heating up some baby food for Zachary and I found my two boys chillin' on the floor. I thought that it was adorable that Zach was still without the lower half of his pajamas on so I quickly snapped a shot.

Zach hasn't been feeling the greatest for almost 3 weeks now and I is getting very tiring. He is not eating much food and is not taking nearly enough formula as he should be. I know that it is also teething causing this, but there is more to it. He has been to emergency a few weeks ago because he was getting dehydrated and they told me at the time that he had a "rotovirus" and gave me things to do to get him re-hydrated. It did help for awhile and he is no longer throwing up, but hopefully tomorrow's doctor visit will give us some more answers on how to get him taking more food. A plus, I did make squash for him a couple days ago (and froze it in ice cube trays) and he seems to like it a lot. Tomorrow I'm going to cook up the sweet potato and puree it along with some peaches and mangos.

Well, this was a belated blog, but the picture was indeed from Wednesday. Tonight Leah had her "Little Sneakers" class at Byron Somerset school. Today we were supposed to do T-Ball, but I don't think that the teenage instructors have any sense of time. The class is 30 minutes long, we spend 5 minutes taking attendance, then another 10 minutes doing a running game and stretching. The next 5 mintues was spent handing out balls and having our children learn how to throw a ball underhand to their parents. Then 5 minutes having the kids trying to toss their ball into a hula-hoop that was on the floor (many of these 3 year olds were trying to roll the ball because they didn't understand the concept of "toss"). This leaves only 5 minutes to "play" but at this point they realize the time and call us all back to the middle for a final stretch and group cheer.

The first picture is of the gym and how they did intend to actually play T-Ball (the T-Ball stand IS there!)

The next is me getting all artsy for you and I took an angled picture of the coloured mats that all elementary schools have piled up in a corner of their gym.

Next week is basketball, hopefully they will have figured out their "planning" and time management.

Just For Fun

So today Leah wanted a HUGE snack, or at least that's what she told me. I went to the fridge and thought, I wonder what I can give her so she won't say "I'm hungry". On her pink plate (any other colour and she would have a fit) is some honey ham from Remark (one of my new favourite places to go), summer sausage, cucumbers, cheese, half a banana (I had the other half in my cereal!) and a package of mini-chef carrots (the only package of "baby" carrots that Superstore had on the weekend!) and some of her favourite juice, the V8 stuff that tastes like fruit juice but also has veggies in it.

Then there is my little boy. He was sick for over a week and I still don't think he is quite himself yet. To get him to smile takes a lot of work, and usually Leah is the only one that can succeed at it. This picture of Zachary was taken by Leah, she's quite a little photographer when given the chance. Zach loves to spend some of his time in his swing, usually with his dukie soother in his mouth and his bear blankie by his face.

Finally our diva in the making. She flopped down on the floor and said "mommy, I'm posing, take my picture". Seriously, she's 3, how does she know about posing?? I was surprised that she "posed" long enough for me to take this picture, usually her "posing" is very short, so she can run to the camera to look at the picture!

Guilty Pleasures

Well today I figured that I would post pictures of some of my guilty pleasures. The first picture is the items that we got from Hollywood Tan today. Neb and I signed up for a 300 minute package in order to get some kind of base tan before going away in March. With the special that they have currently, we received a bottle of lotion (which smells wonderful). We are going to try to go on alternate days, or close to it, in order not to burn when we go south.

Next would be my guilty pleasure of chocolate, I don't really like just plain old chocolate, but when I bake with it to share with others, I'm really happy. I think I will try to bake something out of this new cookbook tomorrow with Leah. First we will have to tackle the grocery store for the ingredients.

I think I have decided IF I bake tomorrow, Leah and I will attempt to make the "Warm Molten Centered Chocolate Cupcakes", they look super yummy and fairly easy to make.

Dinner Possible!!

I decided to go all fancy for our Sunday night dinner tonight. Leah helped me out in the kitchen, she loves helping and I find that if she is a "cook" with me, she is more likely to eat the meal that we are having. So on the "menu" tonight was chicken breast stuffed with cranberry and brie (thank you Remark, it was delicious, expensive, but delicious), stuffing (Leah's choice), rice (Neb's choice) and peas (again, Leah's choice).

When looking at the two chicken breasts cooking, mine was the one on the right (smaller one) it was stuffed with cranberry and brie (as mentioned earlier) and on the left is Neb's, his was stuffed with a ridiculous amount of asparagus and mozzarella cheese.

Finally, my spinach salad (I didn't have to share with anyone, as I had it after Leah went to bed, and Neb doesn't like salad of any sort). It is baby spinach with mandarin oranges topped with a last-minute homemade vinagrette dressing, which was awesome! The dressing consisted of peach hot pepper jelly (from Niagara-on-the-Lake), rice vinegar, sea salt, sugar, a little balsamic vinegar and olive oil, it was wonderful.

My children are going to be my inspriation for this blog. I hope that I can bring some of the joy they give me on a daily basis into your life. I will try to give you a sneek peek at what goes on in our household, and some of the things that our crazy kids do. I will try to include pictures of other fun things that I like to enjoy, you'll just have to wait to see what I show.