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!

Wonderland with the cousins

Yet again, we had an exciting Saturday. Never a dull moment for this family!

In the morning we went to Wonderland with some of the cousins. Auntie Beth and Uncle Andrew both had never went on a roller coaster before, so everyone thought it would be a great idea to start them off with a ride on the Behemoth. LOL

While Daddy went to the Behemoth, Logan, Mommy, Auntie Claire, Auntie Shirley, Jacob and Hannah went off and did the kiddie ride circuit.

Logan really liked Diego. He keep wanting to give him high fives and kisses.

What a great morning!

Auntie and Uncle invited us over for dinner so on our way we decided to stop and get some melons. On our drive of to the grocery store Allan spotted a funnel cloud. Freaky! I have never seen one in person. Ekkk! The sky didn't get green like on Thursday -this just came out of nowhere! This is really rare for Markham. OMG!

It was a bit scary driving home because it started to rain really hard and we couldn't see where the funnel was. We thought we were driving away from it but we weren't completely sure.

We turned on 680 news and they said funnel clouds were spotted in Markham and that they were closing a section of the highway that is just south of our house ---I guess that was where the police cars were headed. The tornado caused some debris and it was blocking some lanes.

Then by the time we pulled into Auntie's subdivision like two minutes later, it looked like things were getting better. Most of the streets were flooded though...

Phew! We made it to Uncle and Auntie's house safe and sound! --And hung out in the basement for a good while!

Our Weekend

Logan is a very big boy now -he has mastered the use of a spoon and can now eat cereal by himself. Saturday morning we got Logan's haircut. I wish he would stay still for us at home!

Hannah's 2nd and Jacob'4th Birthday party was at a gymnasium.

Happy Birthday!

Hannah and Logan didn't want the party to end.

While people were leaving, these two were still getting down.

Saturday afternoon it poured. When it's raining hard, Logan likes to go to the front porch and feel the water on his hands.

And then on Sunday morning after waiting in line to get into Wonderland...it started to pour! It wasn't suppose to until after lunch! Since we have season tickets, we decided to leave rather than wait a few hours for it to pass. Thank goodness we can we can go into Toys R Us, play with the toys and then leave without a full tantrum....likely won't last much longer. Daddy taught Logan to push the trains and say 'choo-choo'. Very cute.

To celebrate the arrival of a new cousin in Vietnam in 216 days we went out for Pho's.

Logan loved it and was very well behaved.