The Kids – Page 13 – a hippie with a minivan

Playing outside…

We got snow yesterday… and during the night…

enough that a friend of mine that was supposed to come over cancelled because of the road conditions…

The boys were really excited to go out and play this morning… so after Xavier got up, we ate breakfast and the played a bit we all got dressed to go outside…I did some shovelling a bit and played for a few minutes and then came back in while the boys continued to have fun…

They got out at about 10:30 am and Khéna was the first one to come in about an hour later…

(I love the hat hair when their toques come off)

Not having their little brother around, Xavier and Colin headed to the front yard…

(Here is Khéna saying bye to them)

(this is the front yard… but here it looks a lot bigger than it is… the tree in the background is actually across the street)

Colin then came in at about noon and headed downstairs to play with Legos while Khéna fell asleep and had his nap…

Xavier continued to play outside for not another hour… but for 3 more hours!!!

I couldn’t believe it he stayed out there for 4 1/2 hours…

he just played… nothing and everything…

he licked the snow and watched the clouds, he watched the cars and the big trucks… he brushed off the car and slid down the hill the plow left…

Before he came in, Khéna woke up and he went in the back with his little brother again… and then they both came in to eat…

Days like this you know are just good for them…

a few pics…

I spent all morning editing the pics I took yesterday of my friend Gen… they turned out so well and I can’t wait to show her… I am really pleased with them…

I do have a few pics of Khéna that I want to share from his birthday on Friday… we did things really quiet… ordered Pizza and got Sushi and I made a Carrot Cake…

It was just us… and it was perfect…

Sushi… at his request… really he is the one that said it…

Seeing his cake…

Blowing out Candles… he actually did it the first time so quickly that I didn’t get a pic so we did it again..

proud boy…

My two year old..

Khéna is two!

I need to write a bit more but for now I am just going to share the link to his birth story…

What an amazing 2 years it has been… he is such a joy to be around…

a little more later along with some of my fav pics…

So what is new…

Well… first… I have signed up for NanBloPoMo so I have the challenge of writing a blog post per day for the whole month… So expect a lot of posts in the next 30 days…

what I realized though is that I haven’t given an update in a while…

The boys are on a video game kick at the moment… Lego Batman, Lego Starwars and Lego Indiana Jones are big hits along with Spore… Colin is more into the Lego games while Xavier is having SO much fun creating creatures and spaceships in spore and having his creatures live and evolve.. and I have to admit that I am enjoying that game also…

Colin has also been having fun on Starfall… not long ago he did not catch how to use a mouse nor did he have much interest in the computer… not like Xavier who was great with the mouse at 2… but when he caught on, he caught on quickly and frequently asks to play the “letter game”… and well he is good at it also… I have a feeling that he will be reading sooner than later…and the funny thing I find is that as much as Xavier wants to hide that he knows more than we think… he corrects Colin and reads things for him when he thinks we are not listening…

As I have said before though… he doesn’t like to show off what he knows if he doesn’t think that he can do it according to his own standards… So I have a feeling that he will not admit that he can read, or sit down with a book until he is certain that he can… yes… I am admitting that Xavier rarely, or almost never looks at books… but as I have been learning myself… books are not the only places where words exist and they have plenty of time to fall in love with books…

Another thing is that Xavier and Colin are fighting a lot less… they play together a lot more often, and make up scenarios, plan things and talk about things… they are not just brothers but they are also friends…

And Khéna… well he is growing and changing and becoming such a little man… I am realizing everyday that we no longer have a “baby” in the house… he follows his brothers everywhere, wants to have everything like them…but he also plays by himself a lot and has been doing a lot of pretend play… he loves to take care of his “bibi” (baby) and walks her around the house in a stroller and brings her to me to nurse… it is so cute! he is starting to talk a lot more and using more words to communicate everyday… he is such a little sponge…

Halloween pics…

I love halloween…

The crisp air, the kids all dressed up, the sound of the leaves and actually seeing the people that live in your neighborhood… Some of the homes have amazing decorations and some are quite simple but inviting…

Simon took the day off and after I ran a few errands we sat down to carve the pumpkin… Xavier couldn’t handle the texture but he did try…