Horsies in the summer

Horse riding in the summer is much more fun for the rider (and viewer!).  The class is outside in the fresh air and no one stinks when they come home. 

Video Game Design camp

Paige had an awesome time at Video Game Design Camp at Appleby college.  She made her own spectacular game, which was mind-blowing.  She really learned a ton and is super comfortable with computers.  She wants to go again next summer. A great thing about the camp was that they fed her lunch too! A great treat for me in the summer!

Potty Training 3.0

Well that wasn't so bad!!!

Henry may possibly be our earliest poetry trained child! He started wearing his undies full time at the beginning of july.  26 months old.  The girls were early too, but he may have been a bit earlier.  Plus, as he was a boy,  I expected so much later.  Everyone always said that boys potty train so late.  I had visions of him starting school and not being potty trained. Or even worse--going on next summers Disney Cruise un-potty trained. Gasp! 

I followed the same routine as I did for the girls and it just clicked.  He has been trained for about a month now and has had 1 accident in 3 weeks.  Unlike the girls, however, he still wears a diaper at night.  He can't make it that long, and even if he goes in the middle of the night he still pees again by morning.  I don't think his little bladder is mature enough for that.  But as for holding it and going during the day he's doing awesome.  The other amazing thing is that he goes at the mall, grocery store, and any other public washroom.  Even in the car on the way up to the cottage he will ask to go and hold it until the next stop.  He seems way too little, but he's got the hang of it!

After he finished his first potty chart I gave him a Thomas train--"Henry". 

Paige's 8th Birthday!

Paige on the morning of her birthday! She got up early and opened presents and had a pancake breakfast.  Then it was off to Video Game Design Camp.  For dinner we went to Kelsey's and they sang Happy Birthday. 

For Paige's party we went to Laser Quest with  6 of her friends.  Laser Quest was super fun and even Mike, Henry and I got to play.  There were 3 parties running around there and Mike got the high score both games, which may not have been fair to the kids...

The Creeper cake I made for Paige.  Learned a lot during this endeavour....like make cupcakes next time.

One year older! Happy birthday Paige! Love you!

Dance Recital 2015

Rose did an amazing job at her recital.  Her costume was so amazing and she looked so beautiful that we had to make sure to take photos before we left on such a nice sunny day! Of course I forgot to also take a photo of her in her Acro costume, since that was her second dance.  Luckily there were photos taken at the studio in May.  Auntie Amanda babysat Henry, and brought Rose some incredible roses.  

We got in the car close to 9:00 and Rose was DONE

May long weekend

What to say about the May Long Weekend.... hmmm.  Something about the bugs perhaps? 

We pulled the girls out of school around 12:30 and got a head start on the cottage traffic.  The lack of traffic was probably the best part of the weekend.  We raced up north where it was raining.  This was actually great as we were able to go for a family rock to the river to skip stones as the rain was ending.  Then the kids went to bed and Mike and I played a round of Quirkle.  The weekend seemed to be going well so far. 

The next day we quickly realized that the great outdoors was teaming with black flies.  Like so bad that we couldn't even venture outside. We attempted to walk to the river again but had to turn back.  Instead we tried to amuse all of the kids indoors with colouring and games.  Henry just wandered around and attempted to enjoy himself outside on his own while swatting away the flies.  Poor guy.  You had to feel sorry for him as he was so desperate to play with this one truck. We tried to have a campfire and roast hotdogs which was almost torturous.  After a day and a half of this we decided we would enjoy ourselves at home more and got in our car first thing Sunday morning.  

Playing Rukshuk

A burger and fries on the way home.

Scout enjoyed the car ride home so much that she kept jumping back in as we were unloading the car.  It must have been cozy back there.

The rest of the weekend we spent hanging around in our backyard, swimming, playing on the swings, etc.  Not a bug in Sight!!

Skills Day

Almost at the end of the gymmastics year.  The held a skills day for the parents of the various pre competitive groups. Rose was really scared and extremely upset the night before.  Once we got there though and she saw all of the other girls and they went through their warm ups, she was totally fine and rocked it! I think it was a turning point in her gymnastics as she has felt really confident and proud of herself since then. 

Going onto the floor for her solo routine. 

Practicing with coach amanda

Here's Rose with her favourite coach Amanda.  We started with her at a different gym club when Rose was just a toddler.  When she moved to a new club we followed her over.  Hoping Rose can be in her class again one day.  Amanda asked to take this picture with her.

She earned a medal for a job well done.

Only a couple of weeks left of gymnastics until the year end Gala.  She'll get a few weeks off of training and then will be moving into the pre-competitive 4 hour group.

Fun at the park

 If you look closely, you can see Henry's face.  He is super bummed out that he can't go in this vehicle.  He thought it was part of the playground.  I took him over to see it and he mistook that for being able to try it out.  TRY!!! TRY!!!

Happy to live by the lake!

Training Scout

Scout Sit!

DOWN!

Get it!

Outside riding!

FINALLY!!!!!!