Month: December 2020

Look who is winning at Candy Land!

This must have been some advanced physics class going on here.

Icing some Christmas cookies

Hanging the stockings

I’m sure one day we will look at this photo and say “Remember when we had to lift Sierra to put up ornaments?”

Advent calendar!

Sierra testing out her photo taking skills

Almost there!

Not sure if Ezra knows that his face can’t go through there

Who didn’t want a guitar at Christmas?  I remember getting a 12 string guitar for Christmas which was pretty amazing.  In fact, that came back into my possession recently and it’s my go-to guitar now!

For years I was looking for some poseable hands for my stormtrooper costume.  I was mentioning this to a friend and he found these on Amazon for me.  They worked out pretty good!

Glove on

Blam!  Pretty good!  Sometimes the weight of the rifle brings the arms down but it’s pretty good!  Also, my team really enjoyed the Christmas themed trooper costume in the backyard of my video conferences.

Sierra and Maman filling up the birdfeeder

 I love how the marshmallow dwarfs the hot chocolate.

Having kids has finally paid off!  While I can sip on a beer, Sierra wants to assemble the Christmas cards!

The Grinch has arrived!

Hanging out with Rudolf and friends

I had a good laugh at this!

Ha!  I forgot about this one!

Sierra has been learning about the nativity scene at school so she was telling me the names of all the people

I was thinking with an inch of snow Sierra could walk next to me, but nope.  I’m glad I brought the sled.

Christmas is officially on!

New look?  Nah.  Vero wanted to see how it looked.

Always great to have people drop by for a quick visit!

Across from the mailbox is this house with the most amazing Christmas decorations.  The kids love seeing them.

Christmas Eve!

Christmas Eve always brings out Mom’s sausage dip

Christmas morning brought me a great gift from Sierra

Your brother’s gifts are always more exciting than your own!

Sierra playing with her new camera

Some kind of neat weight game where you put the number 2 on one side and then put 2 monkeys on the other and it balances out

This was a really good whiskey from my parents.  St Pierre!  I’m glad Dad called and reminded me that I hid it in my closet months ago.

Having fun on a new toy

Playing a new card game

Mom called me a few months ago and reminded me that my old Legos were still at home.  I just assumed that they were property of Kapuskasing but no, I could have them!  So they sent a few down for Sierra to play with.  It was really great to see the old Legos that I grew up with.

We tried out a new trail in Cumberland Forest and I’m trying to remember why I was carrying Sierra at this point.  I think there were some thorn bushes that her and I got trapped in.

We actually went far enough down the trail to find an official geocache that a friend had tipped us off on!  I didn’t think we would get that close but sure enough, there it was!  Pretty neat!

 

Sitting at home wondering what to do tonight?

Tired of what Netflix has to offer?

Wondering what we’ve been up to?

Want to see inside the chaos of two parents and two young kids?

We might have what you need.

35 minutes of holiday fun…The 2020 Holiday Special!  Grab a drink, sit back on your couch and press play when you want to have a good laugh around the holidays!

Joyeux Noel!

*updated* Now with a little more Christmas traditions from Nanny Ruth at the end of the video*

 

He’s getting really good at climbing up and down the stairs!  You really have to remind him to go down feet first.  I find it hilarious that sometimes he’ll throw his entire body down onto the ground two feet before the steps, swivel and scoot backwards.  I guess he’s still going feet first!

Ezra found a new chair

Setting up the Christmas lights before the snow hits us

Ezra was pretty amazed with the Christmas lights.  Even as I type this a few months later (I am becoming horrible for keeping these posts updated), Vero has asked me to keep the Christmas lights on after Christmas because he likes looking at them from his bedroom window when she is rocking him to sleep.

Sierra insisted we bring some bacon dippers along for a snack so Ezra got to hold the box for our walk around the block.

Hanging out at the park.  Quite muddy!

Ezra discovering how the bell works

Everyone loves the “Where’s Ezra?” game

Ezra decided to jump around like a frog one evening

I wanted to find some really simple musical shows to entertain Ezra.  Why not go back to my youth?  I found some episodes of Mr. Dressup on YouTube and they are as fantastic as I remember them.  I really think about the people who are children’s entertainers and how much fun it must have been to go to work each day and come up with fun little things to do for a television audience.  Ezra seems to enjoy it.  I think he prefers The Friendly Giant a little more as there is more music in that one.

I think this is one of the four snowsuits that we tried out with Ezra this winter before settling on one which wasn’t a pain to get him into.  I remember this being a one piece except for the boots and the ends were VERY TIGHT so it was near impossible to get his boots on.  This suit might have lasted two weeks.

While not a mighty front yard hill, it’s enough for Ezra

The season’s first snowman!  I’m pretty sure the bottom of this snowman still exists even after the thaw a few weeks later

Ezra is starting to like to read by himself.  You will see him pick up a book and babble on as he is turning pages.  I wonder what things he is actually saying when he reads these out loud?

This must be around lunch time where I refuse to go outside because I’m preparing lunch but they want to go out!

I am sensing a trend here…Ezra likes using people as chairs!

Storytime

On November 28, 2020, Ezra successfully climbed onto the couch by himself.  And so starts the era of “OH MY LORD WE HAVE TO CATCH HIM FALLING OFF THE COUCH!” that all parents love.

The snow was fun for a week and then it left us

I feel like this is a scene out of Mario Kart

My sister sent over a Friends themed Advent calendar for Vero.  It was pretty good!  We will re-use it for the future.

Mario Kart

No one can escape the Sierra monster!

Might be the highlight of the Galaxy of Adventures line of Star Wars toys!  I really enjoy this figure.  Too bad they cancelled the line.  I enjoyed the look of these ones.

Need to teach Sierra proper focus techniques but at least she is framing us well

I don’t much about trees and berries and birds.  I thought it was very strange to see birds go after berries in December.  I always thought berries grow in the spring?

Pretty sure Ezra’s brain exploded when he saw all the Christmas decorations come out

Ah, the annual right of passage…trying to figure out how to light up the Christmas tree.

Much like houses with pets, we had to keep the nice ornaments a little out of reach

Christmas card photo shoot.  While we had a little motion blur, this was the one we chose for our card this year due to the excitement!

Helping a brother out

The start of a Grinch themed Christmas village

Ezra really likes dancing to the house music

Sierra testing out the camera

Hanging out with Rudolf

This year the community association had a drive-thru Santa gift exchange where the kids could see and wave to Santa from the car

Ezra likes to spend time around the lights before bedtime

Mailing the most important letter of the year…the one to Santa Claus!

Ezra really likes his dog guitar

Helping out with the snowfall.  This outfit was the snowsuit which worked the best over the winter

A nice afternoon with Maman outside.  Vero tries to bring the kids out each afternoon when the temperatures are warmer.

Years of not visiting an optometrist finally caught up with Vero