Can it be? Jaden's Three!!!

How can it be that my little boy is three years old already? Time flies when you're busy with three kids, I guess.We had his friend Nadiya over to celebrate on his birthday. She is just three days older than Jaden so we made a cake for both of them.But nothing like the amazing cake Auntie Kendra made for his party the next day!Thomas is the current favorite around here. He got his first set for Christmas and he plays with it all day, every day.Here they are with their cousins. Well, the little ones anyway.

Snow Day

We skipped school on Monday and it was closed on Tuesday so we had some fun in the snow:

Kaitlyn's Birthday Present

This is Kaitlyn's birthday present - a kitty! Kaitlyn named her Taya.

She is about 12 weeks old and not very brave right now.

But she will snuggle on your lap, which is really the whole point of having a cat.

November

In the beginning of November Darcy's brother Dale and his wife Cee came out for a visit. They haven't been out for 3 1/2 years! They hadn't even seen Jaden yet, so we had a good (but short) visit with the whole family.

Jaden really took a liking to "Just Dale" (he didn't want to be called "uncle Dale, just Dale" so that's what we called him!)

Rachael and Kaitlyn really like their "baby" Nika, the worlds smallest dog!

Darcy celebrated a milestone birthday this month. Here he is with his two brothers.

Jadenis getting really good at coloring. Look at how he stayed in the lines!

And we had our first snow of the season. It was pretty and stayed off the roads so it was nice. Kaitlyn will turn 8 in a few days. Time sure flies.

Big Boy Bed

Yesterday Jaden figured out how to climb out of his crib, so it was time to set up the Big Boy Bed. The first night he woke up a few times (his favorite pillow kept falling down) but he stayed in bed! Now if only he would nap there!

Summer Review

Since I was seriously lacking in my bloging over the summer, here's a recap of some of the things we did this summer:

we had some playdates with our cousins;

my grandparents celebrated their 65th (!!!) anniversary and my Grandpa's 90th birthday.

I think there's 24 great-grandkids with another on the way.

We ate lots of berries (yummy!)

and icecream and gelato, too.

We went to White Rock

where we had fish & chips

and saw the big train.

We went to Burnaby Village

and rode the carousel.

We went to the beach

and built some cool sand castles.

We went to the park

with our twins (Kaitlyn and her BFF)

and went exploring.

And we went to the waterslides. It was a fun summer!

First Day of School

I must appologize for my lack of posting during summer, but with the cameras on the new cell phones it makes it a lot harder to upload from 3 camera sources than just one. I'll try and get everything up to date one of these days, but in the mean time school has started again!

I cannot believe my little Rachael is already in Grade 5!!! This is her last year in elementary school!!! I am so not ready to think about next year so we'll just try and keep her a little kid for another year. (Good luck, I know.)

And little Kaitlyn is in Grade 3! Man, time flies. Wasn't she just 3 years old last year? Crazy.

At least Jaden is still my little boy, though he had to pose for first-day-of-school pictures, too. Don't grow up too fast like your sisters, Jaden.

The Beach

Finally we had weather warm enough to go to the beach! It's a family tradition that when we go to the "good sand beach" Darcy digs a hole and fills it with water which is kind of gross to look at but gets very warm very quickly. Well now we have three kids, so this means three holes. That's a lot of digging, so we don't mess around with no wimpy beach shovels, we bring out the big guns!

Rachael and Kaitlyn decided to connect theirs and somehow this lead to the idea that they should connect all three, and then remove the "island" in the middle, making a huge Mickey Mouse shaped swimming hole.

We thought about asking if we could borrow that big digger behind Jaden...

Uncle Gord helped shovel and even Jaden did his part.

The kids had fun playing in the puddle

and in the lake, too

But when it was time to go Darcy and Gord decided to break the walls of the puddle, which the kids tried desperatly to repair.

Here's hoping for some more sunny days!