1-2-3-GO!

We had dinner at Tim and Linnea's house, and Isaac and Simon had a ball racing around with their cousin Liam. (Abby peacefully slept through their squeals and laughter.) They would stand at the doorway and yell: "1, 2, 3, GO!" before racing to the other end of the deck, where we were sitting, often falling down before making it to us. It's still unclear who laughed more: the kids or the parents!

Crash!

Simon says: "I didn't do it!"Say "cheese!"

How Quickly Things Escalate

Isaac was clapping to try to scare away some birds who were eating our grass seed. (This is slightly more kind that his parents' tactics of throwing ice cubes at them.) Simon wanted to get involved, and you can see how quickly situations in our house can escalate. Boys will be boys!


(And when you hear Jane yelling: "Don't you..." at the end of the video, she is telling Isaac not to throw Simon's hat over the side of the deck - which is exactly what he did.

More Picnic Lunches

We don't look forward to the days when it's chilly enough that we have to eat indoors, because the boys love to have little picnics on the deck

Strange Sleeper

Isaac's 'big boy bed' was a hit for a while, but he's not much of a fan of it anymore. And we have been finding him sleeping in the strangest of places!

Road Trip

We went to a beautiful seaside wedding in Liverpool NS a couple of weekends ago. The boys came along for the getaway and, lucky for us, so did Uncle Tom. Tom babysat the boys in the hotel room while we attended the wedding festivities.

Dave Myers (the groom) and Matt McGuire are on either side of Josh in this picture, and were his roommates for 3 years while he was at UNB.
The hotel we stayed at gave the boys a pet goldfish to look after for the night. They were totally intrigued by every little move this fish made. (And did you know that fish like quiet and darkness? Neither did our kids until we told them that at bedtime. Worked like a charm!)

Family Day

On Isaac's actual birthday, we had a fun family day.

We started out playing some basketball in the driveway or, as Isaac calls it "taking shots." We wonder how long it will take until someone overhears and misinterprets our family's pastime.

Isaac goes in for the steal...
...and takes a jump shot...
But Simon scores a dunk on the rebound!
We then had a trip to a new playground that Josh scoped out, which is just a 2 minute drive from our house. Isaac now refers to it as "Daddy's Park". Does he think Josh goes there without them?




Isaac worked the ice cream counter

Simon drove the school bus (and then slipped and hit his head on the steering wheel and got a bit of a black eye, but we don't need to go there...)Post head-bump, Simon and Josh took some time to chill out in the playhouse.Meanwhile, Jane and Isaac headed to the slide - where a daredevil move just happened to be caught on camera.

Mid-day, Grammie & Grampy Logan and Erin & Kevin stopped in to see the birthday boy. Unfortunately, we didn't get any pics.

Then Isaac opened his present from Joe, Marla, Sam, and Aiden. The Saxoflute was an instant hit!


We finished off the day with picnic at the Irving Nature Park, which is just what Isaac told us he wanted to do for his birthday supper.

All in all, a fantastic day!

Isaac's 3rd Birthday Party

Isaac was on cloud nine for the entire duration of his birthday party. He was genuinely excited as each and every person came through the door and took great pride in playing host.

It was a circus/carnival theme, and the kids had fun with a bean bag toss, ring toss, balloon animals, and some circus colouring pages.

Someone REALLY enjoyed his first experience with popcorn! (His impression of the cotton candy was a little less enjoyable: "This isn't copper candy. It's all hairy!")

This is the only cake shot that shows Isaac singing along with his guests to the Happy Birthday song. He was just too excited to contain himself!

And here are just some gratuitous cute shots of some guests. Our friends and family have such adorable kids!

Mya on the move

Liam making a get-away

Sweet smiling Elyse

Bubble Snakes

Thank goodness the brainy woman behind Skip To My Lou scours the internet for great ideas like this for us. The Bubble Snake has been a seriously hot item in our household this summer. We've had snakes that stretch about 4 feet long! Make one - You certainly already have all the materials laying around. And in case you need a little more convincing, here are a few pics of us having fun with some with ours.

Our Family

Marla snapped this photo of us walking up Nan and Pop's driveway last weekend. It's rare that one of us isn't behind the camera, so it's nice to have a little family photo...and one that shows off the babe en route.

Isaac and Simon went with Jane to her doctor's appointment today and heard the heartbeat. Isaac later told Josh: "The baby's heart goes wa-wa-wa-wa-wa..."

In the very few minutes left unattended while we carried some laundry upstairs, Simon was busy. Isaac started yelling: "Mama! Simon broke the compeeger!" We returned to find this:

A New Medium

Isaac and Simon love to paint, but sometimes we are a little pressed for time or we don't want to make a big mess. We were excited to find water paint books at Mardens last week, and they love them! (and so does the unofficial clean-up crew)

Experimenting

Auntie E brought over some pickled lemons last week. Simon is always game to try new food, but we were a little surprised that Isaac wanted to try them too. They didn't like them, as you can probably tell from the expressions in the photos, but at least they were willing to try! Simon actually spit out a piece and then put it back in his mouth at least three times, but we don't think that he ever ended up swallowing it.

Here are the sour pusses