It's a little hard to get a group picture

I've had requests for new pictures. It doesn't help when the camera goes missing for a month. The old touch doesn't really capture useful pictures. This is from the new phone. it's better but not great.


Poor RyRy has a funny look. Peanut is shouting "cheese" at the top of her lungs. However BigE is smilling. Which is rare so this is a keeper!

Water Rockets

This week we took a trip to the Science and Tech museum. One of the displays was the water bottle rockets that the kids got to fire. It was a slightly different setup from the one we have at home. It has fins and a cool pressure nozzle on the water bottle.

BigE lined up for a shot


Here's his rocket and one of the others


Peanut decided she wanted a turn. So big brother helped out.


Here's the shot:

Pictures are terrible because they were grabbed with my iPod touch. Which really has a terrible camera ... except compared to no camera.

Weeeeeeee

On the weekend we hit a friends house for a little Sunday afternoon pool time.

BigE getting some good leaps into the pool:


The new little miss brave, with Dada wincing in anticipation plus Rye hanging out by the pool

Happily Awaiting ...

... the pie!

See Dada its ready! Much more conventional then the infamous pie!

Re "A Visit to the Sugar Bush" I grabbed a small sequence of photos. The kids were hanging out in the little garden. They were looking cute at the end the of the pond.



Then Mama called out "I'm going to get you!"


Off they went with Mama hot in pursuit.


Around the bridge they ran to get away


BigE was faster a foot.


BigE proving that you don't have to out run the wild animal just someone else in your group. Poor Peanut lost. To be fair those boots probably slowed here down quite a bit.

A Visit to the Sugar Bush

On the weekend we visited the Sugar bush as part of Mama's birthday weekend. The kids had a pretty good time with an egg hunt, farm animals, and a giant breakfast.

On the way out we checked out the "Big Chair". The kids were quite pleased by it.


Some egg hunting pictures working from oldest to youngest.



Yeah Rye wasn't getting very far but he had fun chewing on the eggs.

The kids visited the animals in the barn


Here is Peanut checking out the rabbits. She was getting a boost up by my foot.

BigE and the cattle.


The gang out by the horses. Peanut with her "Do you see this? Hi horsey!!" look


Mama and little Rye checking out the horse.

Measuring Stick?

I'm not really sure what's going on here. I just found this photo of BigE and Rye.

Is BigE stablizing the two tippy towers? Is he measuring the height of his tower or brother? Who knows. At least BigE is very good with Rye.

Sick Report

Mama and Rye have the flu (temperature not stomach), Peanut is recovering but not 100%. BigE is tired but we think this is due to the week he had. I guess we'll see in the morning.

Dada A O K. Maybe that flu shot works.

The Goalies

Bige was in goal for his hockey team so he was wearing the goalie gear around the house to practice. Peanut, ever interested in hockey, wanted in on that action. She went and put on BigE's ball hockey gear.

The Kids Portrait

BigE was trying really hard to keep every one line for a nice picture.



And it just got worse.

BigE's First Hockey Tournament

BigE's first hockey tournament was the 67's Experience. They did a great job of giving the kids a sense of larger league play. Goals were announced over the PA and they had these great intros where the lights were dimmed and each player was announced by name.

Happy 7th Birthday

BigE is the big 7 today. He awoke to find an obviously wrapped composite hockey stick from us. However there still seems to be nothing like unwrapping stuff.

as we headed downstairs BigE found the Playmobil police station he'd been eyeing

Several police accessory sets

And the RC helicopter. It was a big hit once it got opened.

Where have you been?

I've been slack and I promise to do it again. Here are some pics of the kids.

Kids at the Park

BigE, Peanut and Oh Me on the saucer


Peanut hanging by her self


And joined by Oh Me

Monkey Sleeps Over

Unlike the WB I managed to only grab one photo of the kids chomping on pop corn during Monkey's recent sleep over.
There are no other pictures. What will we fill this post with? Hmmm. They were were watching Toy Story (first one). The small bowl was a cheesy popcorn with Parmesan cheese. Which BigE does not like. Hence the segregated bowls.

Also BigE want's everyone to know that they stayed up late. Monkey even later as we adjusted the sleeping arrangement to closer match his home. I'm sure BigE has done the same

Chipper in the Morning

Who needs coffee when you have soccer camp?

And for the record most mornings are not like this!

Peanut helps Big Brother wake up

but gets co-opted by the big person bed!

"Hey I kinda like this!"

Soccer with Auntie Karen

Speaking of pictures from a while ago there is these shots of BigE playing soccer with Auntie Karen in the backyard.
This was before the Canada Day Soccer field was built. But we still enjoyed the backyard soccer.

And despite a dozen photos this was the best the E-man took

Legso

Meet BigE's lego man drawing.

PS I should note that BigE wanted to title this legso. It's not a tpyo!

The Three in One

Small, medium and large all in one post. But two pictures.