Tango anyone

So here are the girls and their new double stroller. It is the Zooper Tango! Bought it, took it for a spin. The girls seem to dig it! Its pretty wide, but then what can one expect! Not too heavy, nice storage bags and it came with a waterproof boot, sunshade and vancouver special rain cover! We walked for about 45 mins in the rain today. Oh what fun!!

Ballet Day!!!

This is the 3rd time I've tried to put these up so there is no clever and/or witty remarks! For some reason the pictures are going out of the green borders. Sorry all. Maeve did fantastic at ballet. She listened to the teacher and did exactly what the teacher did. Literally! Fun was had, pink was worn by all and all the baby sisters wore pink tutus too! The class before this one is Mommy & Me ballet. I didn't join because no one needs to see this Mommy in a tutu!!

Ballet Eve

Here we are all anxious. We've hung ballet slippers by the fireplace and everything. Visions of sugar plum fairies dancing in our heads! Well ok really I'm just waiting with baited breath to find out if we wasted 40$ on a class that she'll refuse to go to! We know a couple of friends whose parents thought they might like a class, and even the child herself has said she'd like to go, only to turn all bambi on the day of the class. Hopefully that doesn't happen for us. Hopefully Maeve will enjoy ballet at school as much as she likes it at home! We didn't do too much today. Baked bread, went outside and played "swiper", soccer and did sun salutations. There was no sun to be saluted but we tried to guess where best to salute based on how light the black clouds above were!I tried to get them to nap they didn't. We made it to the butcher and then to pick up Michael. Oh how my life has changed!! I just took the pics now, Maeve is wearing her I heart Daddy shirt while placing her cute feet in his stinky shoes. Madigan is discovering hands and batting at things and generally being all cute pink and clever. I am going to try to get to bed early! I'll hopefully let you know tomorrow!

Jacob Wingfield

Here he is, the man we have all been waiting for. Ok, really Papa George has been waiting the most!


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And our big girl

Here is our big girl. We discovered, quite by accident, that my little ponies have magnets in their feet! Maeve's ponies can draw on the magnadoodle and defy gravity on our fridge. Oh how much fun!!!

CONGRATULATIONS SARA AND BRAD

Well, they did it! Mostly Sara did anyway (Sorry Brad). Sara and Brad welcomed Jacob Barry George Wingfield into their family January 7th at 2:02am weighing 7lbs 2 oz and 20 inches long. We haven't seen any pictures yet but Sara assures us that he is gorgeous and looks just like Brad! I am waiting to see if little Jacob inherited the "Mussellam" cheeks! I got to talk to Sara this morning and she sounds great! We really can't wait to meet this little guy! This weekend we didn't do too much but we did manage to get Maeve her ballet shoes. Talk about sappy weepy idiot (Me) tearing up in the store because the second the lady put them on Maeve's feet she walks over to the barre on tippy toes! I'll get lots of ballet pics if she likes it on tuesday! I wont take any if she doesn't!!! ok maybe one or two to haunt her!! Well I have to go as Madigan is roaring! lots of love and YAY for Mommy Sara and Daddy Brad! Not to mention Max and Zilla who now have a brother!

Waiting for our new cousin

Ok, so here we all sit waiting for our Sara to have her baby! We got word yesterday from Uncle Brad that Sara had gone to her Dr. appointment and was then sent to the hospital. Apparently she had a small leak of amniotic fluid. Yes yes tmi for much of you but there are some out there that want to know! We haven't heard anything from Uncle Brad just indirectly from his mom through emails to Auntie Erin. The most current info I have is that Sara is 3cms dilated 100% effaced and on pitocin to get her to dilate further. We can't wait to meet the newest Wingfield and we'll see how dominant these "Mussellam" cheeks really are! I personally can't wait to hear if it is a boy or a girl! I can't wait and I wish Sara a safe calm and speedy delivery! We are thinking of you Sara and we are so proud of you! We love you soooo much!

ARen't they cute! No silly, not Maeve and Madigan, me and my recently affianced buddy Shannon. Yay for the Oldales, Kenny will soon take a wife! Not just any wife either, one that loves him like none other! Congrats you two! Ok, so briefly these are pics from New Years. The girls had a little sisterly snuggle before going to bed at 10:30! The cake and candle are for Auntie Erin who was drinking black cosmos all night! Lots of pics of me you lucky bastards! Now out of all these pictures the only one that frightens me is the one of Madigan looking up to Maeve adoringly. Now you KNOW that Maeve is going to make Madigan do stuff she isn't supposed to and Madigan is going to do it because she looks up to her big sister! Boy are we in trouble!!!!

picapalooza

Ok so here goes in point form.

#1 Stephen holds Madigan and does a great job!
#2 Madigan (our son) holds and eats a hammer
#3 Gorgeous Natalie teaches Maeve ballet
#4 The debut of our gorgeous Goldilocks
#5 Whole family dinner @ Auntie Lisa's

More pictures you greedy biznatches

Pictures!

Santa wuz here

Well Christmas at the Mussellam house what an exciting event! Auntie Erin and Gramma Susie were up at 7am and the very patiently waited for us lazy bums to get up at 9:30! I got to wake Maeve up and tell her that Santa came here while she slept! Now, she doestn' exactly have the concept of christmas down but boy can she remember presents! Everyone gave the girls LOVELY gifts. Maeve loved all of them. This is the gift that Santa brought for Maeve. She loves it! Daddy and Mommy exchanged words while putting it up but dang don't it look fine!! Auntie Erin is hanging out with Maeve, Gramma Susie is getting ready while Daddy and Madigan chill out. I am going to go get ready too because tonight we are all heading over to West Vancouver (said with a snooty tone) to Great Auntie Lisa's house! Hopefully Maeve's second cousin Natalie will help Maeve play the piano again! The girls will get to spend some time with Great Gramma Mimi, the afore mentioned Great Auntie Lisa and Natalie, Great Uncle Peter and her second boy cousins Stephen and Braedon. Hopefully we'll squeeze a nap in before we head out on this great adventure! Merry Christmas everyone!!!

F'n SmitherGees

Check out all the pics from our early xmas holiday at


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If you are going to laught AT me politely do it under your breath!!!

Xmas early

Holy stockings batman! Count them out! 29 or some obscene number like that! Xmas with my family is officially over now there are the 2 celebrations with Michael's side. It was great, Uncle Jaycie and Auntie Barbie hosted another fantastic christmas celebration! As usual they are the bravest nuts in our family that actually invite us back holiday after holiday! Ha suckers! OOps I mean, aren't they great?
The girls got to spend some good times with Gramma & Crappa, Auntie Caca & Emilee, Auntie Robin Siobhan and Sean, Auntie Lindsay Uncle Bro and Makadoodlenut, Uncle Todder Auntie Rowena and Lanny Mel and her two children Coral and Nikkaio. The food was GREAT, the company was great and the gift exchange was alot of fun even tho I'm a moron and I chose the gift that Michael put in! The roaster coasters I made were "THE" item for xmas this year! I had terrible pictures of everyone in the family that I mounted onto marble tiles with terribly witty burns on each one so I called them the roaster coasters. It was really funny. The coaster with me on it looked awesome of course!
We are home now and we all have colds with drippy noses so thats awesome! Maeve is wearing her sleeping beauty dress with the requisite pink heels while Madigan is catching some snooze. I am in my pjs and have so much to do but can't figure out what to do first! Generally all my days start like this until I pull my head out of my butt and actually get moving!
I think we are all done xmas shopping because I don't think Michael would stay married to me if I dragged him to the mall again! I'll probably hit it tonight as I haven't done anything re: stockings! Only 5 more days until christmas!!!

Pink + Blue = ADORABLE

Here is our beautiful pink one with little boy blue! Today we went to Theo and Milo's place. We had a great lunch and some good times! Ange took this picture while I was out getting lunch with Maeve! Steamrollers rules and its such a nice treat. Ange says that the turkey/tater steamroller is the best. There is currently a countdown calendar at the place telling how many days left before you can get said steamroller. I think they might really be burritos or wraps but I call them steamrollers! Theo and Milo gave Maeve a Dora backpack with all sorts of hair accessories! How "Maeve" is that! She is sitting on the couch brushing her hair that is already in pony tales! OUch! The gang got Madigan and I a gift too.. Madigans is the cutest pink sleeper and mine is M&Ms! So you see, not only do I love my M&M's but I also love to eat m&ms.. you with me? Well I best run while my little M is sleeping so I can get my big M some yoghurt!! ps thanks Ange!!

grouchy

Ok, overlook the fact that she is pissed at someone. Apparently self defense starts at 2+ months! Madigan can pull herself up to a sitting position.. Goood lord am I in trouble!


GOtta run

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Whole fam

The very kind McEwen clan actually managed to capture all of us in a p hoto! So, here we all are enjoying the bright lights in stanley park!

Xmas Train

Wooot wooot! All aboard! Today we hit Stanley park with our friends Craig, Roan and Hilary. After a lovely chicken dinner we got the kids all primed for the bright lights train ride around stanley park. OOps, we got them primed a little early. There was a lot of waiting because one of the 4 trains was out of commission leaving 3 trains holding 50, 75, 75 passengers each time for 5600 people! It wasn't a bad wait and the children did really good. Madigan even got a turn facing out in the baby bjorn! Maeve seemed to have had a blast, up on Daddy's shoulders then up on Craig's shoulders. Granted the view from Daddy's was much higher! ha ha burn Craig!! The lights in the park were gorgeous as were the fire fighters who accepted donations! Oh what a night! All in all not a bad night. Saturday am we went to home depot, got some lights for the house and a tree that we'll trim later today. At 1ish I ditched the fam and went to go pick up Lisa and we headed down to Yaletown to get our nails did. I"m not sure if you can see it in this picture but dayum do they look good! I can't stop staring at them! My girlfriends gave me the "Glamour Girl" package for a shower gift and boy do I love it! I'm going to ask for one treatment for each special occasion! I'll be all spa-ed out before you know it! Well I have to run I'm off to make pancakes!!

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xmas party

Well we had so much fun at the Radical xmas party that this is the ONLY pic we managed to take. Maeve wouldn't go in this bouncey castle by herself and I'm pretty sure Michael and I are a bit big to go in. Emily, holding Maeve, jumped right in with an, "I'll take her in". Now as most of you know I don't generally share my Maeve very well so you'll all be surprised to hear me say, "sure!". Maeve was in there for a good 15mins. Poor Emily must have lost a full pound sweating herself up a storm as Maeve would only jump if she held her! Too funny. I don't know what it is but when you have a second child you certainly let up and let others help a bit more! I still would have liked to have been the one in there but I don't want to damage her psyche by being the mom in the bouncey castle that popped it!!!!!

Just Maeve

Hi my name is Maeve. I eat some ponies! I am not under bed. This is my bed. My pillow is on my head. My bed is a me ss .


Ok now it is Maeves' turn to type!

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Extreme closeup

Hi gang! Here is our littlest big girl! She is growing like a weed. Auntie Sara has some outgrown pink coming her way if she likes it or not! This morning we are chilling at home because this afternoon is the Radical children's Christmas party! I'm so excited. Maeve wasn't terribly keen on it last time so hopefully being a little older and wiser will help her enjoy it more!
Bye!

Tuesday December something

Hello to everyone! I had hoped that today would be joyful tuesday after being crappy monday but nope. It seems to be poopy tuesday! Big Big progress with Maeve tho. She has told me twice BEFORE peeing on the floor that she had to pee! My big girl is growing up but being the gemini that I am its not fast enough and too fast at times! Madigan has a horrible cough and it is hurting me alot more than her. I can't stand to hear a baby so young coughing. Poor honey. Well today is hangout and cleanup day. I have managed to clean up the bedroom dresser and Madigan's change table. Madigan is having a snooze and after playing "Mommy & baby" my little pony, Maeve is watching Blues clues! This afternoon we are going to hit science world with Milo, Theo and Angela. That should be fun. AFter science world I am hoping to scoop up Michael since they are a block from each other then come home for dinner! Tomorrow night Auntie and I are going shopping! Wahoo no kids! Have a great tuesday y'all! Now if you all were on the pic of the day list last year you can go through 'em and see if you have a match with an old pic of Maeve. Every day I see more of Maeve in Madigan!

Two parties in one week. How grownup do I feel? Ha ha! We had a great time at Tomo & Tricia's xmas party. We got a chance to see some good friends that we haven't seen in ages! It was great to see Rhod. He is just such a sweetie! Tomo and Tricia have a gorgeous home. I really liked their place. We haven't seen Mashi in AGES and he looks really good. Andre Weaver was there with a bunch of doods I don't know. Adam Sera looks all growed up and adorable with his beard. His girlfriend Rhiannon I think was just lovely. Really a nice girl. Good ole Steven Yu was there with his pretty lil lady and Walter Hsieh escaped the girls for the night to come celebrate! Walter is the proud new Daddy of Audrey who is three weeks old. He also has a 2 year old Ava and they are adorable. What a good Daddy who carries around recent pics of BOTH his kids! There were tonnes of others there and we had a really good time. Too bad Madigan didn't. My mom has been stuck with her for 3 nights now and she has fussed/cried and was generally miserable for all of them! I say 3 because Michael and I snuck out to go to a movie last night too! Hey.. don't hate, just make sure you use your sitter wisely! Make sure when Gramma comes over you can spread the joy of her over a few days or a week! So far since Madigan we've been able to hit 2 movies! Ahh this is the good life!

Mommy gets out

Thank goodness for Grandmas! My mom has come over from Nanaimo yet again to watch the girls so Michael and I can go out. This time we got to go out to Radical's staff Xmas party. What fun! It was a casino night! Michael and I were up 18,000! We cried a little seeing as it was radical money and not real money. We probably wouldn't have been up so much if it had been real. We definately gambled a lot harder since we wouldn't really have lost any real money! As you can see I got my hair did. Just for the record bangs are back in at the Mussellam household! Expect them to be around for a while since it is such a pain trying to grow them out again! Madigan is sporting an awesome old man pant action. She really is cute I guess she just doesn't photograph well! This weekend we've forced my Mom to stay over so we could hit Tomo's first annual xmas party. It should be fun! I haven't hung out with non pooped/puked on adults for a while and I get to twice in one week! Today we had to bring our poor baby girl in for her first round of shots. NOt only did it totally suck for her but our Dr gave Michael and I flu shots too. How rude! We weren't expecting that at all! I'm really looking forward to the sore arm pain that is scheduled to arrive in roughly 6 more hours! Needles suck!