sweet everythings

I'm quite sick today with a horrible throat infection.Tonight, after t-ball, Kini came home and asked to do trade-sies with me, which is where I kiss the palm of his hand
and then he squeezes his hand tight so my heart is now in his heart, and then we reverse. (this started when he was having separation anxiety when he was younger). After trade-sies, he said "don't worry Mommy, my hero germs will fight your villain germs and you'll get better".

ach, I couldn't love him more if
I tried

one snaps and one claps

Nuby has really been enjoying clapping these past few days, an showing off his 4 teeth. let's hope
we get a bit of a break: 4 teeth in 4 weeks felt like I was being punished for something!



As a special treat today, I was holding Nuby and he started making the sign for 'milk' and when I responded by asking (and signing) "would you like some milk?" Nubs started grinning and clapping his hands. I LOVE that they pick signing up and can really show you what they're looking for.

little milestones

a few things going on here: pouring over the Scholastic book order form (a right of passage, in my opinion), the ever present Lego Star Wars ship in various configurations in the background, the bracelet that holds the reward beads for practicing his music every day, and my sweet boy showing off his new found skill: snapping his fingers. He finally got it!

new friends

Kini found a few new friends in our townhouse complex which is thrilling beyond belief for both of us. they're older kids, in the 10, 11 and 12 range and seem to enjoy the novelty of having a much younger kid around. it's completely changed the dynamic of our day: Kini now asks to go outside and see if the kids are there. if they are, off he goes with them, while I periodically check outside to see if I can hear them as they tend to play around the corner. if they aren't around, he's opting to play on his own outside, while a very confused little brother looks on.

life lesson #27

you don't have to love your lunch, but you do need to eat it.

holy cripes is this ever a difficult concept!!!!!!!

daily smile

tonight during his bath, kini asked "why do they call the national anthem 'Old Canada'?"

I burst out laughing, I couldn't help it. Ahh, the sweetness that is the 4 year old boy.

and, in his defense, I remember when I actually saw the words to 'Oh Canada' written out after many many years of singing it in school, I was shocked at how wrong I'd been singing it!

my girl

I failed to notice in all of my excitement the specific writing on one of the hearts...



Kini eagerly pointed it out to me a little while ago.

Sometimes at night before bed I say 'you'll always be my boy' and he replies that 'you'll always be My Girl'.

ahhhhhh. my sweet, sweet boy.

happy heart day

ahhh, how I love Valentine's Day crafts.. and a teacher that made this possible!




I should mention that while Kini is on the couch, Matt went up
to school this morning and dropped off the valentines for Kini's classmates and picked up this one for me. :)

what a winter!

We're working on week 6 of straight colds, flu, fevers, chills, coughs and eye infections. I've never been this sick and certainly not the boys either. Nuby has had a cold for a solid month now with no improvement and Kini is on the couch with day 3 of a fever. I realized we'd be exposed to more viruses through Kindergarten but this is ridiculous!! I'm reeeeeeallllllllllly looking forward to Spring, maybe that will help us to break this non-stop sickness cycle.

here are a few of my favourite photos from the last month or so..



nuby discovering that the strikingly handsome baby in the mirror waves back!



nuby, having just just scaled Mount Kini went on to suck on the vacuum hose



Kini teaching nuby about peek-a-nubes (peek-a-boo)



Kini and his love for building complicated Lego Star Wars battle ships and then immediately disassembling them to build another, more complicated ship (note the blasters and missiles)



look what someone learned to
do!

it's certainly been a fun winter, how can it not be when you're watching two boys grow up.

is it Spring yet??

MAMA

update: I just got my first 'Mama'!!!!!

cheers all around.

B

this morning kini and I had the pleasure of hearing Nuby discover a whole new sound: B!!


here's to baby babble on a blustery cold Monday!

by the day

morning slow dance

shiver me timbers!!

bringing in the New Year with a Bang!

or at least kini looks like he's been to a pretty bang-up party. yes, he dressed himself. yes, thats a tic-tac in his mouth. Nuby in the background has pulled himself up to kini's piano and is a) in awe of his bigger brother and b) ready to let loose with some good key pounding.

it's been a crazy few months but my resolve is here to post again. it's such a nice way to remember the fun and mundane of day to day life.

Happy 2012!!