Life is Sweet

Oct 2, 2009

Next stop - Greys Anatomy!!!!

Abigail and Sam are practicing for roles on Greys Anatomy.....or future jobs as surgeons at least ;) We bought this game of Operation this week - it was one of my favourites as a child and so we snapped it up when we saw it - but BOY has it changed since I owned it!!! You no longer get the cards with it - it talks instead and tells you what to fish out next!!! So weird!!! Why do they change things????

Learning the recorder....

Susannah has been teaching Abigail to play the recorder. Abigail can now play 'Ode To Joy', 'Hot Cross Buns' and a couple of other tunes ......

I love that Abigail is enjoying this new skill - I just wish it wasn't quite so OFTEN!!!!! I know they say practice makes perfect but STILL!!!! ;)

Walk to Remember...

www.globaltvedmonton.com/video/index.html?releasePID=g3CZ7YcMx_gXpb50HRglMiaekcJKukS6

Tomorrow is the second annual 'Walk to Remember'. A walk for families who have lost a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth or sudden infant death syndrome. You can hear more about this walk at the above link or read about it on the website below. I have several friends attending the walk and will be hoping the sun shines down for them!!!

www.walktoremember.ca/

If you or someone you love has been affected by baby loss, and are in the Sherwood Park or Edmonton area, you may find the following website useful:

www.members.shaw.ca/heartsbabyloss/

Sep 30, 2009

The red balloon...

Excuse the bad piccies lol but Susannah came home from school with a HUGE balloon and I couldn't resist snapping a few pics of her letting it fly through the kitchen to Sam :)

Swimming and stuff...

Yesterday was another 'free choice Tuesday'. Sam had PreK and so Abigail was free to choose what to do for the day! She chose to go swimming as our local pool had reopened the day before after having been closed for a month! We were in the pool by 9:30 and swam until 11 and then sat in the hot tub for 15 minutes. The pool was lovely and empty which was a VERY good thing as a school class had just arrived as we did and when I asked if they were swimming I was told YES!!! YIKES!!!! Luckily they weren't swimming until after lunch :) Phew!!!

In the pool we had great fun - chasing each other across the pool and around the whirl pool - and trying to walk the wrong way round the whirl pool - which we managed to do :) not easy if you don't hold on to the sides :) We also played volleyball and catch for quite a while with one of the balls there.

After the pool we had an early lunch and then Abigail went in the playground for a while and I sat with my London Fog :)

Then we headed to the grocery store and did a BIG shop - Abigail was in charge of the grocery list and also chose quite a few things for some recipes she wants to make!!! This week we got a free dvd player!!! Then over to Dollarama where we got supplies for a geocache, some things to include with our cards for Aaron and some other bits and pieces including a recorder for Abigail and some Fall decor....

Back to pick Sam up - Abigail played at the playground for a while. Then home to pick up Susannah and unload the groceries. Then off to the school to watch Laurences volleyball game and meet Lloyd and Chris! A great volleyball game and the Mustangs won :) Go Mustangs :)

So, swimming was Abigails choice for this week! She was also happy with the trip to Dollarama and hanging out at two playgrounds today!!! Oh and she had fun at the grocery store because she got to choose a lot of things AND push the cart ;)

I need a baby!!!!!!!

For those of you who live in my area, do you know a family who has recently had a baby? I believe the baby needs to be between 2 and 4 months old by mid October.

One Preschool in our area has been chosen to run the wonderful 'Seeds of Empathy' program.

www.seedsofempathy.org/

This is the preschool version of the very successful elementary school program Roots of Empathy' program. Roots of Empathy is an evidence-based classroom program that has shown dramatic effect in reducing levels of aggression among school children by raising social/emotional competence and increasing empathy. Seeds of Empathy grew out of Roots of Empathy and brings the messages of that program to three-to-five-year-olds.

I believe the parent/ baby would have to visit the preschool once a month for about half an hour. There would be no direct contact between the children and the baby. The baby is given some books, a special 'teacher' vest (for teaching the children about empathy)!! and there is a celebration at the end of the year!!!

Please contact me if you know someone who may be able to help or who would like further details - thank you!!! We need a few families quickly! The time is almost here. We promise it would be a lot of fun and the preschool is a wonderfully warm and welcoming place :)

New Fall decor........

I added a little something to my Fall decor yesterday - a black cauldron that I filled with some Fall leaves - total cost $3 from Dollarama ;) I got an extra cauldron to fill with candy too :) I can't find candy corn anywhere though......hhhmmmmmm!!!

Sammy at the school.....

...and I didn't get struck by lightning ;)

Go Mustangs!!!

The Mustangs won their first game of the year yesterday :) Laurence is the team Captain :) It was a very exciting game - though I have to say that it is a dangerous spectator sport!!! The ball kept flying in to the crowd!! I was there at the start, and Lloyd arrived halfway through with Chris, as they got there after work/ school. It was nice to have the whole family there to watch!! :)

Sorry the pics aren't great - I just snapped them with my iphone!!!

Sep 28, 2009

The finished pumpkins!!!

.....and a painting Abigail did with leftover paint!! She was happy to explain why she painted the sky ALL the way down to the grass (her art teacher has taught them all that the sky is NOT just a line of blue at the top of the paper but that actually if you look, it goes all the way to the horizon, where it meets the ground (or whatever it touches first) - I think this is an important skill to learn as an artist and she was very proud to have learned it :)

Painting pumpkins!!!

livelifecreateart.blogspot.com/

Sam saw me looking at this blog yesterday and thought it looked soooo much fun!!! So while we were at Saver on Foods, we picked up some mini pumpkins just to paint!!! This afternoon is windy and nasty outside and very Fall-like!! The perfect weather to do a Fall craft - like painting pumpkins :)

A work in progress....

I've been working on the 'base' of my mini album for the online class I took last week - 'Fall in Love' .......now to do the fun part and fill it with all the interesting 'stuff'....answer all the juicy prompts, journal the memories, get creative and collage!!!

Touches of Fall......

a few snapshots of Fall touches around our home.....

Edited to add that most of the things in these pictures come from Homesense lol - my Sister Karen will be just THRILLED to hear that - she used to work for them ;) I LOVE Homesense :)