Look who likes playing in the leaves!
Larose Forest Log
Look at this little rock n roll dude walking around!
Earning his keep
He might think this is fun but we sure don’t!
Swapping stories over an apple break
Poppa and Ezra hanging out
Ezra showing Grandma how cold the water can get
Ezra looks like a deer in the headlights!
Swapping jokes
It’s not often we get family photos so whenever anyone is around we ask them to snap a few! Grandma takes the best photos!
Grandma sandwich
Vero wanted to take a photo of this because supposedly we have a similar one of Sierra.
Here it is!
All Poppa is thinking is “Stop with the photos, I want some cake!”
Here is a mess none of us wishes to clean up!
This may look like the greatest mother and son photo but what you don’t know is that Maman just stole some food from Ezra and he’s plotting his revenge
Picking out a pumpkin
It was a dreary day but the company made up for it
Vero’s school suggests doing some 15 minute exercise classes before school starts each morning. When I first read this I thought “Yeah right, we’ll do it once and that’s it.” Surprisingly, we all enjoy doing them in the morning, even Ezra! It’s hilarious seeing Ezra trying to join in on these exercise videos. The exercise video on the television is a favourite of ours from Cochon Dingue.
Hanging out before bedtime. At the time of typing this, Ezra typically gets to watch Passe Partout with his sister around 6PM, then a bath at 6:30pm (which he loves) and then it’s brushing of the teeth and pyjama time before a bottle, a book and then bed around 7PM.
He’s getting pretty good at feeding himself! A little messy but that’s to be expected! But most of it ends up in his mouth.
I am not sure where he picked this up but he has been giving us the duck face once in awhile and we laugh every time he does it
Ezra is getting pretty good at walking these days. When he is outside it’s a different story as sometimes he just stares and marvels at the sounds around him.
Ezra’s first time in the hot tub I believe, or maybe the second? He didn’t know what to think of it at first but after ten minutes a smile crept upon his face and ever since then he can’t wait to go in!
Making sure the Hallowe’en costumes fit
Ezra hanging out on the big kids slide
Ezra loves hiding under his crib whenever he gets the chance
Ezra in his snack chair. I’m not sure how Sierra snuck onto the chair with her snack though!!
I believe it was Carleton Cards that was going out of business at my office and I noticed they were selling this rack for $25. Now, if you know me, you know I collect comics. I have been looking for a spinning comic rack for ages and I thought this would do the trick. Unfortunately, it was a little too big as it was meant for calendars. It sat in the basement for months until I finally said “Well, I might as well make use of it at least.” and put in some vinyl. It looks quite good now!
An early Christmas gift arrived in the form of some Kapuskoise cheese! Thank you Maureen and family! I pretty happy that this cheese factory really took off up in my home town.
OH BABY, Christmas came early! I have been on the hunt for these newly released Masters of the Universe origins figures for a couple of months but no luck until Maureen found a bunch at Wal-Mart back home! She sent them up with Vero’s parents who came down for a visit. We haven’t opened them yet as they will be under the Christmas tree.
Hallowe’en was a different affair this year. We set up a little area and invited a few friends from around the neighbourhood to come and pick up their candy.
Spooky! Sierra loved the spider that dropped down when you made a noise!
Sierra was always cutting up construction paper into pieces. One day I told her she should do something with those pieces and I showed her how if she just starts glueing them onto a piece of paper, eventually an image will appear. In this example I started glueing until I ended up seeing a witch!
With Hallowe’en arriving on a Saturday afternoon, we set out to pick up some candy from various friend’s houses in the neighbourhood.
A last minute costume change for me as that morning we got the news that Sir Sean Connery had passed away.
Picking up a candy bag
Poor Ezra was not feeling his best on Hallowe’en. He had come down with a fever and was very tired on this walk. Very cranky. We thought it might be teething but weeks later we didn’t see any new teeth and Vero figures (and confirmed with the doctor) that it was probably related to him taking a very hard hit on his teeth earlier that week and it was his body fighting off an infection. Ouch! Poor kid.
Sierra wanted some help climbing up to this tree house to get some candy. It’s quite the great view from there!
Back home with more candy than we picked up last year! It should last us a year as Sierra has a candy a day.
Enjoying a campfire after picking up some candy. We told scary stories. My scary story was the story of how one day Danielle left Gaetan and he couldn’t figure out how to make soup! We all had a good laugh at that.
Picking the last of the apples
Someone got his energy back after a nap! Here he is looking through all his candy. Special thanks to all the friends around our neighbourhood who made our kids Hallowe’en a good one.
Ezra making sure Grandpapa does a good job.
A good visit with Grandmaman et Grandpapa
Two happy people
Hanging out with Grandmaman
We’ve been Ezra to crawl up and down the stairs but he hasn’t been comfortable going down a lot of stairs until now. Here he is exploring the basement and hanging out in the circus tent
Passe Partout!
First snowfall of the year!
We generally send out calendars for Christmas so it’s our mission to try and snap some family photos when the snow hits so it can be used for the month of December
Where’s Ezra?!
Here’s a classic example of Ezra not wanting to crawl down all the stairs
I don’t think Ezra is smelling roses in there!
This video demonstrates a few things. 1) You think you’re setting yourself up for a fantastic video of him blowing a dandelion but it turns out all he wants to do is eat it. 2) It shows that he is really starting to understand what we are asking him to do. 3) Watching him try and blow on things is hilarious.
Bath time!
I can’t even remember what was going on here but I think Grandma was having a good laugh at the fact that Sierra was clicking on the ‘take a photo of our Facetime conversation’ while she was showing off a new hairstyle
The Master teaching her Padawan
Fredo!
I had a good chuckle at this
The last trip to the Castor River before the snow fell
Having a snack
Fun in Ezra’s room
