Rainy AND Snowy Weekend

We had both rain AND snow this weekend. Someone needs to send Mother Nature a memo and let her know it's almost May. We kept busy this weekend doing lots of fun things inside.
Making muffins is always fun for Logan. After dance class, Logan helped by counting out the muffin liners and putting them in the tin.

He loves licking the spoon just as much as eating the muffins.
Tip: We use an ice cream scoop to fill the muffins up -great for toddlers and gets the perfect amount in! Logan now knows how to press the button on it himself.

We went to the larger library in the afternoon. Logan found a few books about dancing and even a book on Usher!

Reading the Dance book

Reading a book that Logan picked out called the ABC's of Art -it shows a famous painting for each letter of the alphabet. Logan even recognized a bunch of them from the Little Einstein videos.

We went on a "treasure hunt"; up the elevator to the top floor!

Logan spotted a painting on the wall: "Look, Mommy! It's an art show!!"

Logan's always excited to help out in taking care of his sister.

It wouldn't be a complete weekend without dressing up as MJ and singing and dancing.

Logan's been wanting a headset like Micheal has in some of his concerts. He has a microphone stand and a microphone but no headset! Oh no! He use to hold the microphone at the side of head for these parts. We looked at the toy stores for one and then Allan just took the XBox headset and tied up the cord for Logan --perfect!

Playing with magnets

Snack time!

Doing something a bit different for bath time...

We worked on some Mother's Day crafts. We were watching the show Calillou and we saw him make flowers out of paper and pipe-cleaners. Looked pretty easy in the cartoon so we gave it a try ourselves!

We used foam instead of paper and drew out flower shapes to cut. Logan was having some trouble cutting the shapes so instead I cut a circle and he put snips all around the edges.

Poke a pipe cleaner through and you have a very simple and easy preschooler craft for Mother's Day!

We also decorated a box for Uncle D.

Logan loves stickers and we have a bunch of these, so this was a good craft --plus it actually turned out looking very nice too!

Logan gathered all the books about babies and read them to Kalia and I.

In Logan's swim class they took the boat again to the deep-end.

This time they had the kids get out of the boat and stand at the side. Each one took turns jumping into the deep-end with their life jacket and then floating on their back and kicking. We're so happy that Logan is enjoying his classes and it's such an important skill to know too!

We also met up with Uncle D -to give him the box we decorated and to ask him to be Kalia's Godfather!

Thriller in a Box

Can you guess who is inside the box?? And can you guess why he is the box?


Fast forward to 6:50 to see what our three year old is copying...

He thinks they're funny and they "need to take a bath". We're leaving the explanation at that.

Weekend in Niagara Falls

We spent the weekend in Niagara Falls at Lolo's and Lola's with the cousins. We left Friday night until late Sunday. Logan and I went to Walmart with Lolo and Lola. Lolo gave Logan $20 to shop with. Surprisingly he took this task very seriously. We went down every aisle of the toy department twice and Logan would ask if we had enough to but different things. In the end he bought the classic Hungry Hungry Hippos game to play with his cousins, a bag of party mix chips and pretzels for the pajama party later that night and bag of BBQ chips for Dad. Very interesting choices for a three year old -plus he's saving the change in his coat pocket.

For a month and half year old, she sure can hold her head up well!

Logan tripped and fell in the living room and smashed his head into the leather ottoman. As soon as I heard him cry, I knew he was hurt bad. There was blood on his face and he was screaming. It was just Lola and I there and we panicked --she took Kalia from me so I could hold Logan went and got Lolo from upstairs. I took Logan to the front door and got Daddy from outside as he was shoving the driveway. He got a gash above his eye, a scrap across the bridge of his nose and a bloody nose. Logan cut a band-aid to hold the cut close above his eye and after kisses he was fine --he just requested that he cuddle with Mommy and Kalia and watch tv.

The aftermath. Looks like he'll have a slight scar over his right eye.

PJ party!

Watching Micheal Jackson in Lola's room.

All of us slept in one room. Logan only got woken up by Kalia in the night once and asked to be taken to the washroom before falling right back to sleep.

Not even the flash woke him up!

Eating freezes with the boys.

Friday with Mommy

Logan spent Friday at home with Mommy while Daddy had to work until mid-afternoon.

Here he is watching his Owl Babies video with his buddies.

When we read this book we change the names to Whoo-Whoo, Barky and Logan Owl.


We made ice again for bath time. We made the "train of ice" again with buttons and string and then the larger ice blocks that we got from a Makes and Takes blog post. Logan thought putting toys in ice was hilarious and loved making them.

And since we we were talking about ice, coldness and freezing, we ended the activity off with a yogurt popsicle!

Here is "Grandpa Jr" with his tool belt from Uncle Ron and his tool box from Uncle Chris.

He helped hang a picture and put stickers on the wall for his sister Kalia.

Playing a "drum" to a Micheal Jackson song


Listening to the sounds that coins make when you drop them into the drum...

A great day and a great way to end 2010!