Blizzard 2010!!!

Yep, that's what the news channels were calling the snowfall we got this past weekend. You know it's big when they just call it Blizzard 2010 :) We totalled out at 17 inches of snow which was the 5th highest snowfall in recorded history. I went to work on Saturday morning when it really wasn't too bad but at 2pm I was given the option to go home so I did. By then I had to dig my car out of it's space and the roads were pretty nasty. We were supposed to have a family Christmas party that evening but we opted to stay home and be safe which was probably a good choice. Now we have so much snow on the ground it's hard to know where the rest of it is going to go!!

Tomorrow the Curry's arrive from the UK and I think we are all ready for their arrival. Oliver is very excited for his cousins to come and visit. That, on top of the general Christmas excitement is making one crazy little boy in this house!! And he doesn't even know about the trip to the waterpark next week!

Emily continues to do well. Now she is trying to stand up - obviously not content just to crawl! We are fast running out of safe places for Oliver to do his puzzles!!

Well, I just wanted to get a little update on before things get really busy here. I'll try to get some pics on before xmas!

Reading time!

Yep, she loves the Christmas tree!!

My first Christmas card!!

Hey Oliver, did you see what I got?

Sillies!

Oliver found his football.....

.....and caught it loads of times!!!!

Emily finding a tasty toy at a play date

And Oliver colouring with his friends Celia and Chase (Chase is wearing the monkey costume!!)

What I discovered when I left work on Saturday. It doesn't look that bad in this picture but the snow behind and in front was too high for me to drive through.

Emily was more than ready to get out; Oliver wanted to pose!

The morning after........

Thank goodness for snowblowers!!!

And the wonderful roof art on our garage :)

Emily playing this afternoon

Thanksgiving 2010!

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend with Grandma Colleen. Oliver and Mikayla had lots of fun together as usual and Oliver enjoyed having someone else to entertain him! Emily did great too so I think she is finally getting used to being with other people (fingers crossed......).

Emily's crawling has really come on and she is fast now!! She follows Oliver everywhere and is pretty much a one woman wrecking machine. She is even trying to pull herself up to standing - using people or furniture! She got herself on her knees this morning using Oliver's train table. He wasn't impressed with that as this is his new place to do puzzles since he can't use the floor anymore. Maybe we need a taller table!

We put our Christmas tree up the day after Thanksgiving. Oliver really enjoyed hanging all the ornaments on it and loves all the lights. It's great if we go out at night because he is just fascinated by it all! And if he had the money to buy all the outside Christmas ornaments in Target he certainly would. I was doing the ironing this morning and gave him all the toy magazines to look through and he pretty much wanted everything (apart from the dolls and anything scary)!

We are now on the countdown to the Curry family arriving for Christmas - yay!! They arrive on the 15th so only 10 days or so to go. Very exciting :) Hope they don't find it too cold, ha ha!!

Daddy, you're home!!!

Probably not the best place to crawl Emily....

Our Christmas lights (which haven't worked for about a week now. Hopefully the slight technical issues will be fixed soon!)

Thanksgiving baby!

Hanging out with Grandma

The kids helping with the Christmas tree

Oliver after eating a candy cane

And Mikayla showing us all her blue tongue :)

The finished tree :)

Love the look on Emily's face. I'm not sure what effect Matt has on her :)

I want to get out and play with Scoop!!!

Happy playing with cars

Mummy and Oliver being silly - he wanted me to keep kissing his hand :)

We had a fantastic snowstorm on Friday night (while I was at work) and this is the aftermath before the ploughs came around. Those are my tyre tracks coming up the driveway - it was a crazy drive home!! And now it's flippin' freezing!

8 months old and on the move!!

Emily turned 8 months old at the weekend and pretty much started crawling properly the same day. She has been close for a while but now she is all over the place and just loves getting into all of Oliver's toys!! Her favourite thing to do is break apart his train track which doesn't go down too well :) She is very proud of herself of course and now we have to have eyes everywhere!! And we have to follow her around with a muslin cloth. She still pukes - A LOT - and you never know when or where you are going to find it. Safe to say we will be needing new carpets in this house when she's all done with that.

We had our first decent snowstorm the weekend before last. Oliver's face was a picture when I opened his blind and he looked outside!! He was so excited and the association between snow and Christmas is quite amazing :) He went outside and played in the snow with Daddy while I took Emily swimming and had a blast! Since then we have had freezing rain and more snow is coming tomorrow I think. And it's very, very cold!!

Speaking of Christmas, we now can't go into any shops without looking at all the Christmas things - two or maybe three times. Oliver is fascinated by all the lights! And of course there is lots of talk about Santa and how he expects all the children to be good :)

This weekend is Thanksgiving and Grandma Colleen is coming to visit. Hopefully the expected snow doesn't cause her any delays. I think Oliver is excited to make a trip to the airport to meet her :)


Still at the practising stage of crawling!

"Go outside Mummy???". Ha ha!! Oliver loves to play outside in the snow - his favourite thing by far at school

Driving up our road during the snowstorm

And coming up to our house

Yeah, I can stand (with help) - so what??!!

Butter wouldn't melt in Little Miss Crabby's mouth :)

Posing together - this is a good time as both of them like having their pictures taken!!

Bath time!

Don't think I'm cruel and make Emily sleep in just her nappy - I had just taken her PJs off to throw in the washing machine and I thought she looked all chubby and cute ;)

Our handsome boy

Oliver likes to go crawling with Emily!

Talking (well, sort of!)

Yes, Emily has decided that it is high time her voice is heard in this household!! At lunchtime on Saturday she just started to properly babble and clearly said Dada while looking at Jon! I am still working on Mama - if I say it to her she just looks at me and grins :) At least she knows who I am!! She also decided that sitting down is pretty boring - she pulled herself up to standing in the car at the playground (see the pics below). So it has been a week of development for the little lady!!

Niki is over here from the UK for work at the moment and she spent the weekend with us. Oliver just loved having someone else to play cars with - especially when that someone brings him a new bus and a taxi to play with!! Sadly I don't have any pictures of her with the kids - I think they were all too busy having fun!

I have started working part time at Target - just evenings and weekends - so everyone is getting used to me going out to work now!! So far, so good. The job is only seasonal for the time being - we'll see if it turns into anything more permanent after Christmas.


While Oliver is napping, Emily will wreck his kitchen ;)

Oliver being a silly billy!

Playing doctors

Ha ha!!! Emily will also chew on Oliver's robot!

Sitting in the car nicely......

But look what I can do Mummy!!

I am so cool :)))

Women drivers ;)

Oliver is smiling for us here - yes, really.

Awwwww, rubbing his sister's head while watching some afternoon TV :))

Does Oliver look really guilty or what??!!! Ha! This morning he decided to take all the ice cube containers out of the cupboard - Emily loved it!!