February 23rd

Little Natalee Ann with her pink bear.

And she's done! Off to play and spit up somewhere on the white carpet. Crawling sure is fun!

Caleb's Family Snack Club

On Monday, our first Louis Riel Day, we had our first "Caleb's Family Snack Club." At school, Caleb is in a Snack Club (part of the school's winter special interest groups that meet once a week, and Caleb's snack club meets Monday at lunch time). However, because there was no school on Monday, we had Snack Club at home! Caleb had made fruit salad before at Snack Club at school, so this was a great first snack for us to do at home. And that meant that Natalee could also enjoy it with us!

We started off with cutting up apples, oranges, grapes, bananas, and kiwi...Caleb LOVES to use knives! (yikes!) He is very careful. He also likes to help me make supper whenever he can. He has cut onions for me before and is working on his salad making and tossing/mixing skills .

Oh, don't forget the chocolate sauce on the fruit salad! They did this at school, so of course, we had to do exactly the same thing...
YUMMMMMMMM!

Now for Snack Club, Part II - Spiders

Get 2 round crackers, put peanut butter on them... insert some licorice legs (preferably eight), sandwich the two crackers together, add peanut butter again to the top cracker, and use two candies for eyes!

Another good snack! Joshua and Caleb both made their own. I made Andrew's, as his peanut butter spreading skills would be too much for my patience threshold. Happy Snacking!

February 16th

Natalee, still in toque with suckie in place after a walk home from school, finding stuff to play with...she loves to crawl!
Andrew enjoying his wrap at lunch time. He eats as much as I do!
Caleb thinks it's funny to be difficult when it comes to taking pictures...ha ha, Caleb!
Andrew's favourite books. He has never shown an interest in books until Christmas. He got, among others, these two books, which he likes to call his "home reading". (Caleb and Joshua have home reading books we need to read and record every school day). Anyway, these are two which we read on a regular basis, sometimes more than once a day. His favourite stories in the "Farmyard Tales" are "Runaway Tractor" and "Tractor in Trouble".
Some interesting cloud formations I saw yesterday...waiting for yet another blizzard/snow storm that did not affect us too much here in Winnipeg.

On the Move

As you might assume by the title I've chosen, Natalee is finally getting somewhere! Not very far nor very quickly, but there is some intentional direction to her movement now! It's only a matter of time before she will be crawling everywhere!
Checking to see how the "rear wheels" are doing...
Look where I got today!
Andrew in his Lightning McQueen p.j.'s. He's super excited about them! About the only movie he'll ask for is "keen", so getting these p.j.'s really made his day!
Caleb wearing his "spy gear". He got it for his birthday last year but we only got it out the other day and put batteries in it. Surprisingly the batteries haven't run out yet, and it's already been 48 hours!