Family Life – Page 32 – a hippie with a minivan

a few fun things…

I just wanted to share some of what is fun in our home right now…

Drawing and Playdough are a big hit… especially with Colin and Khéna… Colin can spend hours at a time at the kitchen table with either…

Video games:
Spore and the Lego Series (Lego Star Wars, Lego Indiana Jones etc)
Zelda: Twilight Princess (though Xavier and I both finished our games last week)

Board Games:

Meta-Formes Colin likes this one… it is a logic game and you follow the instructions in the book on where to put the shapes…

Architecto I bought this one for Xavier because he loves to build… there is a book with shapes to build and you figure out how to make them with the blocks…

and well… I guess my own love of logic games shows because another favourite… (though it is a new one because I bought it Friday) is

Camelot Jr

This is a really fun one… the book shows a starting position of the blocks and which blocks to use to complete the puzzle… you need to get the knight to the princess…

Toys:

Lego are always a hit… so are Playmobil…we have a great selection of both…

Khéna is loving any type of vehicle at the moment… and Xavier got a Barrel of Monkeys in exchange for his lost tooth and he plays with it pretty much everyday…

and something that had been put away for a while but just came out again is the marble run… I love our Marble run… we had put it away for a while because there was no place that they could play without Khéna getting at it and making it fall or getting the marbles… but now he is bigger and there is more space because of the changes we made, so we took it out again… it is amazing to see how much Xavier’s abilities have evolved in the time that it was away!

Here is one Xavier made this morning…

new haircuts…

I finally gave two of the boys a haircut… everday I would think about it since their hair was getting in their eyes… Xavier didn’t want one so I’ll either get him another day…. or not if he chooses to have long hair again…

Here are some before and after pics…

Khéna’s hair is a bit shorter than I wanted because he kept on moving….

lost teeth…

Xavier has had a few really loose teeth for a while now…

under his finger was a tooth that has been near to falling out for a few weeks now (he was showing me that it could bend completely over)…. and the top tooth which used to be on the left (he lost the right one a few years ago when he knocked it out on the kitchen floor) has been migrating to the middle of the space for a few weeks has been so loose also…

well… today while eating lunch the bottom one fell out and then while he was playing outside with Colin the top one get knocked out!

It fell in the hill of snow in the front yard… (about 6 feet of snow) and though he and Simon searched for it for a while it was no where to be found…hopefully we will find it in the spring…

anyway…

It just seems so weird at times when I realize that my kid is getting older…

old enough to be smiling at me like this now…

few new pics…

I realized that I haven’t shared new pics in a while…

Xavier won’t let me take many pics of him… so these are from a few weeks ago….

He is a really cool kid and getting older and changing so much…

he loves video games and is really good at them… At the moment his favourites are Zelda for the wii and Spore…he is also a champ at wii boxing and he can beat pretty much anyone… He plays a lot with Lego’s and makes spaceships of all kinds…

He has lost a few teeth now and there are 2-3 that are loose and he should lose soon…his smile is so weird right now because of it…

the most amazing thing though is to see how all the information that he has been accumulating over the years is now coming together and making sense for him… and it just gets more amazing everyday…

I took these of Colin yesterday…

Colin is a such a sweetie… he is easygoing and fun… he is also a bundle of energy and agility… always running and jumping and tumbling and turning… I really would love to get him into gymnastics or circus or something because it is amazing what he can do with his body….

Here is a pic from a few weeks ago of him jumping up and down in the kitchen trying to see how high he could jump…

He is really into Star Wars and Indiana Jones… he loves his action figures and always has a few with him whatever he is doing… he also loves to play video games and his favs are Lego Star wars and Lego Indiana Jones…

and of course Khéna…

Khéna is a cutie… he is always cuddling and wanting to be with us… Like Colin, he sings almost all of the time… he is in a language boom and everyday he talks more and makes more sentences…

He looks up to his big brothers and follows them everywhere… he is very nurturing and very loving… and I love seeing the kid that he is becoming…

I think we might turn orange…

I have been eating so many oranges lately…

Not because I choose to get up and get one out of the fridge and peel it…

no…

it is because Khéna figured out that he can peel oranges and loves to do so but doesn’t like to eat them… so many times a day he gets an orange out of the fridge, peels it and brings it to me… or to his brothers…

At least they are good for us… lol