The Library and Science Books

Daddy has been taking the kids to the Library every Tuesday as this is also Library day at school. One of the fun books they got was on pushing and pulling. Basically, all about forces. They spent one afternoon recreating an experiment from the book to learn about weight and gravity.

Pretty much perfect for kids who have proclaimed they want to be scientists* when they grow up.

*Ok, Koby wants to a scientist or a gorilla. It's good to keep your options open.

Calling the tooth Fairy

Last week my big 6 and a half year old lost his first tooth. It seems like everyone he plays with has already lost a tooth or two so he was happy to join in the fun. All my kids (and me too) were late getting teeth. They say if you get your teeth late then they come out late. My mom tells me I didn't loose my first tooth until grade 2. So I completely missed the "First Tooth Club" and was devastated. I have no memory of the whole thing so apparently I got over it.

He wasn't ready to give up his tooth right away so I put it in a ziplock bag and he carried it around and showed everyone. One of my work friends mentioned on facebook that her kids asked the tooth fairy to leave their first tooth as a keepsake. I thought it was a great idea so he wrote the most adorable letter. In order to ensure the tooth fairy actually saw the note (I guess he wasn't expecting money to be left) he wrote a box and asked her to mark it if she saw the note. In the morning we found she did mark the note and she did leave the tooth and a dollar!

The tooth next to it is wiggly too so we might get another Tooth Fairy visit soon enough.

Snow Day

On Feb 27th we had a bit of a snowy day. We decided not to go anywhere because daddy was at work and the car looked like this...

So we shoveled our driveway and sidewalk, and a bit for our neighbour...

When the work was done we went on to playing...

Another Scenic Walk by the River

Pictures from February 20th, by the Fraser. It was VERY cold and sunny.

Paddlewheeler

Tugboat

Trying hard to keep your balance

Ry jumping from rock to rock

Kobes

Nice view!

We spent a few minutes playing knock Daddy off the rock.

He finally went down

We finished up the day with hot chocolate to warm up. It was a great way to spend the day.

My Lovey Mr.R

Not as flashy as the other two he doesn't seem to get as much blog attention. Not that there isn't much to say about his sweet little self.

concentrating on a comic he is writing just for fun

This week Mum and Dad were able to go with R to his 'student led interview'. He showed us around his classroom, samples of his work and how to play some pretty fun math games. A few observations on that night were that he really does great work, but doesn't always think so himself. His teacher obviously enjoys him and is proud of him. Gotta love that.

Also we could see the wheels turning as he figured out some very complex stuff - doing math problems in more than one way, reading all on his own. It was a really nice time, in fact we stayed 3 times as long as we were supposed to because we all were enjoying ourselves so much.

One other thing that must be mentioned is his coordination. This boy loves sports. Here he is enjoying soccer with his friends. He also has done well at the intro to Lacrosse they have been doing on Friday nights. Picked it up right away. When I see him play I know he will be an athlete, it just comes so natural to him.

So proud of my boy!

My funny valentines

Valentine's Day was low key around here.

Fun presents from Grammie, two sick kids and Mummy working the evening.

But we did have a heart shaped balloon. That's something!

For some reason Blogger didn't want me to post this and refused to load the picture for 3 days now. Bitter maybe?

I am back dating the post to the 14th so I can feel like I was on time:^)

More Random Moments

My Grammie went to Hawaii and now I can hula dance!

My Daddy thinks this is how to clean me up after dinner....

I made this all by myself. Really!