Our Daughter the Bruiser

Poor sweet, empathetic Maeve; her little sister is a bossy bruiser!

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Yay, Yay, Yay, boo, booo... booo

Yesterday was a GREAT day! The sun was shining so, with our double stroller back in action, I loaded up the girls and struck out towards Kensignton Community Center. I've registered Maeve for a few preschool type classes and Yoga for myself! I figured it was going to be at least a half hour walk and to tell the truth, I was totally dreading it! Turns out it is a less than 10 minute walk along some cherry tree lined streets! Sweet! The park is great, they had sand, swings and a pretty cool climber with sides for big kids and sides for littler ones! So this was the first YAY.


Today Mark from Shaw came and hooked a brother up. We now have cable, internet and digital phone! Wahoooo, YAY number two!

Two lovely gentlemans from a little company called, "IKEA" phoned me to tell me my couch will be arriving in 5 minutes! Not 5 weeks, not 5 days, 5 minutes! Yay number 3

Now the boo stuff... boo means Vashti's oral surgery.... boo also means all the people at th eoffice who said, "its not a big deal" were not only liars, but liars that have never experienced the pain that is the first stage of a tooth implant. It is not fine, it is not easy.. I would rather give birth to be perfectly honest!

So, tooth removed, implant placed, bone graft done.. check check check.. last thing is my "flipper" tooth.. basically a tooth on a retainer to hold the space open, and also so i don't look any more hill billy than i already do... Well, wonderful Dentist places flipper tooth retainer in my mouth and... of course it doesn't fit! He says, you are ok to go without one until we get a new one right'? I was... uhh... ya.. really what are my options.. he sort of laughs and says.. well I'll just modify this one and we'll get anew one for you on tuesday... nice.. so that is yay yay yay boo boo booooo day from me...


The above pic is me and my new fake tooth on my sweet sweet couch with just one of the three people that I love so much

this is vashti, out!

a bed

Well boys and girls this is it. Our bed has finally arrived! Yahooooo! It got here in WAY better time than last time! The only thing is.... two boxes didn't make the trip. They weren't accounted for when they were unloaded from the container. boo... booooooooo guess what is inside? Photo albums.. you know, replaceable stuff... wahhhhh Oh well, it is only fair seeing as we lost ALL the pictures of Madigan's birth soon after she was born! Also the kids cd player, all my baskets for storing their clothes, AND my gorgeous cermaic bowl that we got for our wedding... wah wah snivel snivel.. ok I'm better... at least we have the girls toys!

They have SO many toys! I'm so glad there is finally stuff for them to do! Maeve is playing with her old skool fisher price people and Madigan is riding her billion dollar car/riding toy!

I have to go and put the bread in the oven!

Michael's happy our bed is here because he is going to try and put a bun in my oven!

hahahahaha

hope that grosses nearly all of you out!

sssh shhh shhh haa haa haa.... sssh shh shh haa haa haa

hehehe Happy Friday the 13th!


So here is another post with NO pics... lets call it a bulletin point about whats goin on in our lives

* Our belongings have cleared customs we are just waiting for the movers to fin a delivery date/time for us.. yahoo

* We ordered our new couch and it wont be here until after April 17th... booo.. but yay...

* Danica and Mike might be coming over! Yay haven't seen them in ages!

* My friend Angela is having a big birthday and me and Mel are going to help her celebrate it! Yay yay yay

* I have 3 loaves of bead in the oven and they might just be the best loaves EVER!



Random quotes from our kids:

Maeve, "Mommy, your teeth are yellow.... and your eyes are yellow too.. mine are white." Gee thanks Maeve

Madigan, "Look Mommy looooooook", "Lets go", "swing again, swing"

man they are growing fast!

Galloping off to a Great Easter Weekend

Here are the girls horsing around! Hahah So far the weekend has been great! We were at Horshoe Bay Ferry terminal for just over 3 hours... y es yes, awesome I know! Made it to Gramma Luvvies house on the Island, had some eats and went to bed...zzzzzzz

Saturday was fun got some great visiting in with Makenna Dawn and the cutest Saige ever!

I'll post some pics of the Eggstravaganza later! Happy Easter Everyone!

mOOooooooving right along

Hi faithful readers!


We have been busy! We successfully moved into our new place!~ Yay! Big thanks to Uncle Kenny and Auntie Erin.. no, not as a couple, as individuals! Auntie Erin cooked us a fab dinner on sunday night and let us stay at her place and Uncle Kenny slaved, heaved, ho'ed and drove to hither dither and yon to get some rather large pieces of furniture to us. Thank you both so much!

Short blog and no pics. Sorry, as usual we are 'borrowing' internet! We have ordered internet thru shaw so we wont be pirates forever!

Saturday we had brunch with Granny Gracie then back to her place to check and see if a rabbit made a brief appearance.. surprise surprise he had!

Sunday as mentioned before we had to leave our luscious apartment downtown and head over to the ever hospitable Aunite Erin's. We had a wonderful dinner and Madigan did a REALLY good job sleeping! (ie only screamed like we were peeling off her skin once through the night!)

Monday brought the big move to our new place. Uncle Kenny (lifesaver) and Daddy (wonderful) did all the heavy lifting and driving and picking up of things. Monday also brought us a surprise visitl from Papa! Big ups for Papa as he played monster with the girls and they had SO much fun! He also brought some boxes of ours from Powell River! In those boxes were several items that I didn't expect... ie.. my cutlery & tray, my knife block with knives AND my toaster! I was going to go and buy all of those things on tuesday but super Papa to the rescue brought them to me and they are mine and I can't believe I packed those things and they were in with the few boxes he brought us! KARMIC! Totally bizarre the way the world works!

Thirsty Thursday

Helloo boys and girls! We are pretty good. Madigan managed to pull an allnighter last night!!! What I mean is she slept from 8am until 6am! I of course was up at 5 to check and make sure she was still breathing. Michael, god love him, was up at 2am for the same reason! That little bugger sure has us trained!!!

Yesterday we didn't leave the apartment! How awesome was that.. NOT... I felt like poop and the girls didn't seem to mind! This might sound horribly offensive to some of you but the girls logged alot of balconey time! I like to think they were viewing the urban jungle! Madigan got a little playtime on the computer. As you can see she loved it! PS turn down your speakers!







Today we hit Science world with the Kwan D'eons. We played in the kids section for a bit and then had a very cool picnic. The kids seem to really get along together. REally nice for me and Ange! After lunch we hit the first of 2 playgrounds. Fun fun fun! We only played at the first playground for a bit and i didn't actually grab any pics. Ange did and she is going to send them to me... Park #2 was a big hit! We slid, mokey barred (me not the kids) and goofed around! Poor Ange discovered where Maeve gets her heriditary plumbers bum. Sorry bout that my friend! And here are all the kids at the same time!! In the same pic!!!



ps Mel, don't forget to check on your boys

www.whilemelwasout.blogspot.com

Tuesday

Wakey Wakey, its time for.... ... nakey bakey!










Yesterday I made the best bread of my life. It was perfect.... and.. I don't have a measuring implement IN this place! I have eaten almost a whole loaf tho, and that CANT be good! We met up with team Kwan D'Eon under the Cambie Bridge and I had a great time! The girls were great, the boys were great.. then on my way home I found 20$! Hahaha what a charmed life I lead!!! Ok, truth be told like everyone else, some parts of my life aren't perfect hopefully things fall into place soon!


don't forget to check my babysitting blog Melanie Troyer

www.whilemelwasout.blogspot.com

Science world is fantastic!

Yesterday was gorgeous. Plan was to walk to science world meet up with the shorthouse fam. We got rolling, snack was packed, girls were ready, more remarkably I was ready! Off we go, half a block in Madigan falls asleep. Perfect right? Ya baby.. then I decide, ooh I should have some money for lunch so I pop into the old 7 11 for some bank machine action and start looking for my wallet. Great... no wallet.. Madigan sleeping in the buggy... now we are going to be late... and have no money. I thought I was so prepared! Back we go to the apt.. collect wallet, see how much time has been wasted... get into our giant non-eco friendly gas machine and drive down to science world. Oh the shame.. the humanity.. Oh well, fun was had Deb the little bitch looks fantastic with her gorgeous long hair! Cow.. I hate it when all you women are so bloody beautiful! Deb's girls are great, Emma is a hoot! Abby is adorable and Maggie, like most 2nd child i know, is so cute but has a "naughty girl" streak in her! I realize that technically Maggie is Deb's 3rd but must be second pregnancy related!

so we played at science world, hit up the grand mcdon for lunch.. boo.. went in the ball room at Mc'd's and then headed back to science world since we all parked there. As you can see the girls were picking some flowers.. Deb and I were killing ourselves laughing at all the bum cracks! Ok.. most of it was Maeve's but you do have to laugh! We sent the shorthouse fam on their way and went to Kits beach for a little sand action! Thanks to Ange, Milo and Theo for giving us some sand tools! Home again home again jiggity jig only Madigan napped! And only for like 20 mins! BOOO!





Oh and Mel,

This link is for you!

www.whilemelwasout.blogspot.com

What a beeee-yooooooo-tiful day

Here are the girls partially dressed on a gorgeous morning in downtown Vancouver!



Where are we going? (clap clap clap)

Where are we going? (clap clap clap)

To Science world!

Yesterday I had the day off and spent it with some very wonderful, and in some cases very pregnant ladies! Me, Ange Mel and Hilary all met up for breakfast and Michael had the girls all day. They ran him ragged!!! He did a great job and made sure they ate and napped! Keeping a schedule is tough work but Michael did it.. he did it.. he did it .. YEAH lo hicemos!

High school reunion

Here are the girls having a morning pj couch tv time!


Ok, so it wasn't a total reunion but my high school friend Vanessa came over from Nanaimo for a visit. My highschool friend (more mine than Vanessas' anyway) Mel came out for dinner with us. We went to the Cactus Club.. I had one of my favorites and it wasn't that great. Looks like I'm going to have to go out for dinner without the kids at least one more time! hahahahha I had a great time. I tried to not talk about the girls too much. Vanessa is out of the baby phase as her gorgeous daughter (see photo) Avery is 9 almost 10. Avery is really polite and really quiet. She is also an amazing gymnast who might teach Maeve how to do a cartwheel! After dinner at the cactus club we went to "Death by Chocorat" It was great.. ok, the whipcream was fantastic but the slab of fudge that I ordered wasn't good. In all fairness the chocorat lady did try to dissuade me from ordering it so... at least I didn't eat a whole piece of cake.. just my whipcream, Vannessa's and Avery's! Hahahah some things never change!!!

My children are.....

cuckoo.. cuckooo... cuckooo! but they sure do love each other and Michael and i love them more than anything!

Having 2 is challenging.. but worth it!

The Party

Heya faithful readers! So we went to WALMART yesterday.. .yes yes... supporting the American Machine.... blah blha...so we got some much needed items.. stepstool so Maeve can wash her hands by herself... lamp for Michael's work.. very important m&ms for Vashti to eat. Madigan got some new sippy cups... then we capped it all off by buying the movie peter pan for Michael and his girls...


got home... went to put it in to watch and,.... pabam... no movie in box... weird Michael said he should have kjnown because some of the security features were missing. Maeve.. tears....almost incosolable.. Michael, defeated.. thinks they'll never believe that the movie wans't in the box and we are trying to rip them off. Me.. hopeful, I'm calling them back right now! We'll get it sorted! So, the girl says, "crazy, no problem.. come back and we'll get you a new one!" I said great, let me grab your name so I know who to ask for.. she replies, "Danica"! There ya go dink.. now you have to top it by finding someone that has the same name as me! Oh, good luck@!!


So the party.. big hit.. In the car on the way over Maeve asked if it would be allright to ask Logan to marry her. I stifled my giggles and explained that she doesn't have to get married just yet, while Michael informed her that he gets to choose who she marries!! ahhaha Kelsey and Lisa had a fantastic home. Really cool and I loved the colours they painted it... Kelsey and Lisa made a fantastic spread! We saw our friends from California, Gen Barry Logan and Veronica as well as Michelle and Klaus! What a party!! The kids had lots of fun... I had lots to eat! All in all a really nice evening. Here is some video of the dancing;





No, I'm not drunk. Yes my eyeshadow is green. Yes Michael always rolls his eyes when I am talking. Infact, he can usually be heard saying, "groan".



Michelle and Madigan sharing some one on one time. Not a very great picture of Michelle but Madigan sure looked cute! Here are some shots of Maeve doing cinderella sippy cup shots while her Parents look on in the background. Mommy's double chins look bettter and better in each successive shot!

Happy St Paddy

New family tradition.... ST PATRICKS DAY GREEN PANCAKES!





And of course the eating of the pancakes in the most natural form...... NAKED!!!


We have a big party to go to tonight and we are excited. I hit old navy for their St Patricks sale stuff! We are all going green tonight baby! There are going to be at least 2 other children there so hopefully it'll be fun for the girls. We are really just bringing them to be designated drivers. Maeve can steer while Madigan works the pedals!!!

peace bitches!

Talk about living out of a suitcase!!!


I'm still feeling crappy. Can't wait to kick this cold! The girls are getting a little bit stir crazy living in this apartment. I shout, "NO, Stop, don't, get off..." constantly! Can't wait until we move into our new place. Since it will be almost entirely empty while we re furnish, I think the girls will have a blast with a big open space! I checked on our belongings arriving from England and they are still green lit for march 29th! Who knows what will actually happen. I do know that the girls will be thrilled because all we brought back to Canada was their toys and our bed! Some other things too but the toys are the most important!

Michael has Maeve at work today. How nice and what a change from England! Michael came home for lunch and took Maeve to work with him. He phoned once they got in and there are 2 other girls there today too.. big girls and Maeve sounds thrilled! Madigan and I are having a tough time with naps these days. Seems she prefers to sleep for under an hour and only once a day.. boooooo...

Here is Dr. Maeve the friendly vet. Note Maeve has her head aimed at me but refuses to take her eye off the vet gear up for grabs on the table! We met up with Theo, Milo and Ange at the Vancouver Aquarium. It is so great and fantastic and so amazing! We bought a membership because along with the previously mentioned qualities it is also VERY EXPENSIVE! So worth it tho.



Have a great weekend. We have a St Patricks day party on saturday and lots of window shopping to do!

Hows this for a Jammy Dodger

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Originally uploaded by Clan Mussellam.

Hello everyone! We are doing a bit better! We have found a new "home"!!! We were accepted into a pretty cool family complex just off Victoria Drive! It seems pretty great, 2 HUGE bedrooms, an office space, lots of cupboards AND we'll be able to put stuff up on the wall!!!

This pic should be titled, "Madigan vs Breakfast"

Today is relatively stress free for me.. no more craiglisting, phoning and lining up appointments to drag the girls to. I do have to add that the girls have been pretty fantastic about being dragged around from hither to dither and yon. Madigan is suffering from the same cold as I am. Maeve seems pretty fit and happy. I think we'll do just fine in our new place! Oh and here is some other good news... blogger still wont let me upload pictures and I magically remembered my flickr account name! Wahooo! So click on Madigan to see some other random pics!

Suckity suck suck

Hiya faithful readers! The Mussellam family is hurtin'... ok, just me! I have a cold, and infected tooth that has to come out AND I have to pay for the pleasure, the girls are driving me batty AND we don't have a place to live yet! Can you say stress much? Well, to top it all off blogger wont let me show you how gorgeous our girls are! Of course I can't remember my flickr account name or password either. That would be waaaaay to easy!


At least it is a gorgeous day! Maeve wants to go to science world and team Kwan D'Eon is heading for the aquarium! Team McEwen-Nicol are heading up to the Capilano Suspension Bridge and we are stuck here deciding what to do. We have a viewing at a place at 4:45 and we have to be downtown to pick up Michael. hmm, much head scratching. Doesn't look like Madigan is going down for a nap, maybe I can get some lunch in them and meet up with Ange & co and be back by 4?


Sorry for no pics, I'll figure out what is going on some day!

H to the A

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUUUUU

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOOOO YOUUUUUUU

HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE JAYCIEEEEEEEEE

WE SURE DO LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU


I had this really awesome pic for your birthday but blogger wont let me upload it... Damn you blogger!

Finally Friday

Hello everyone! Hope you are all doing well. We are doing well. We have been lucky enough to have a couple almost through the night sleeps! I totally screw myself when it happens tho because I have been staying up to watch tv! I was in tv withdrawl and now I have to get back to going ot bed at a decent hour.

So today was filled with tears, screams and tantrums! Wahoooo! Maeve is convinced that her feet have outgrown every sock in our house and refuses to wear them. I'm sick of hearing my voice tell her she needs socks. So, today she went sockless. No biggie, in my head I just repeat, "choose your battles, choose your battles." Big deal if she doesn't wear socks, she can't die from it right? So, sockless we went to Science world.. again.. it is so great! Both girls had a blast and we met up with Lainey with her two girls Rachel (4months) and Charlotte (3). Charlotte is so big I haven't seen her in ages! Rachel is sweet and cute. Michael and I used to play hockey with their Daddy, Colin. Or "Big Dog" as some of you know him! After science world the girls fell asleep in the car so I drove around looking for area's I think we might want to live in. No luck so far... gotta go.. the screams are starting again!

I'll put pics up later!

Double blog day

So, we are caught up on blogs. Today the girls and I are just kicking it at "home". I have a sore throat, sore tooth and a headache. Awesome! The girls are good. They slept MUCH better last night. Maeve went to bed at 8 and was up at 8:30. Madigan went to bed at 7:30 up for one feeding at 5am then she was up for good at 7ish. Papa George is on his way to us and we are excited. Ok, well he isn't just on his way to see us, Tori had a baby girl on Tuesday and he is on his way to see her too. More girls.. looks like Jakers will be the only boy for a while. Anyhoo, Tori's baby's name is Emilia. I may be totally wrong on the spelling but I spoke to Tori's partner but didn't ask how they spelled her name.

the girls were playing princess/queen and Maeve had this red blanket as her train but by the time I got the camera and cornered them for photos they were on to another game. The girls seem to really enjoy each other's company these days and let me tell you that is great! Especially when I'm having one of my crappier days! Michael came home with lunch for us. What a treat! We didn't have any bread in the house and I'm so totally against paying almost 5 bux a loaf so today was breadmaking day.


Lisa, this pic is for you... only because I am the perfect wife, mother and baker.. I never have down days and I'm always at the top of my game... HAHAHAHAH NOT! I thought I'd skip "accidentally" panning past the bread 'conveniently' rising in the background and give you the money shot! Hahaha I love you cookie! Wish you were here!

Wednesday

So today's is a backlog blog! Yesterday, we had a bit of a rough morning. There was a war over socks, jackets and finally shoes. I wont say who it was that was warring, only that I was the victor! hahaha I don't know how many victories are in my future but I hope it is at least 50/50! So, after trying to get out of the apt at a decent hour, we finally made it out around.. ohh... 1:45! ahahhaha what a sad sack of latey pantses we are! We met up with team Kwan D'Eon for an awesome science world adventure. Earlier in the day my mom gave us the gift of membership which was AWESOME! So back to the plan, we spashed, slid, built, laughed and had a great time. The boys were great and my girls were great .. it was nice.. Madigan got a little sleepy so I packed her into the stroller and hoped and prayed that she slept! Eureka she did! Maeve and I munched on popcorn and then made our way home.
Uncle Kenny came by to visit around 5, it was great to see him. We all had dinner and chatted.. well talked over the two beasts anyway. Ken had to head out around 7 so it worked out well for baths and bed times. Yesterday's blog was a partial success. My friend Mel *did* manage to call me and we arraged a coffee date. So, once the girls were bathed, boobed (ok just madigan) and put to bed I flew outta here like a bat out of hell! Poor Michael, I did the same thing on tuesday night with another friend named Mel! The second Mel was considerably more pregnant than the first Mel! Anyhoo, again I digress... Mel and i had coffees and then came up to the apartment to hang out. She is great btw (Jason) she still looks gorgeous.. cow.... hahahaha now I'm just waiting on you Vanessa!
All in all moving back to Vancouver has been working out for me! Re connecting with old friends. Taking the girls to AWESOME places and Michael only being 2 blocks away. Life is sweet for the Mussellam Clan. Here is a british classic entitled, "Maeve".

Melanie

Melanie Fellers aka Troyer.. hheheheh phone me will ya?

my cell is 604-341-5390

oh and Vannessa if you are reading you should give me a ring ding ding too!


actually, anyone can call me.. unless you are a perv.. then don't call, just come over..

hahahahahah Michael will think that last part is hilarious!

Wetter is.... er.... better?

So today we woke up and this strange shining orb was in the sky. Yes, it was a beautiful sunny day! We had planned to hit the library with the Kwan boys but lo and behold there was sun! Second Beach called us and away we went! The kids did really well. Milo is so sweet! He is very careful and he was really good at reminding Maeve what is safe and what is not ie. it is not safe to go too far without "the" parents! Angela looks good and great and I had a fantastic day! Theo is a clever little boy with LOTS of words! Seems he may have a strong preference for things coloured blue and you can't fool hiim either, he knows what is blue and what isn't! We walked from our place on richards/robson up davie to english bay and then along the seawall. FANFRIGGINGTASTIC i LOVE vancouver!!! It was so great... the sea.. oh the glorious sea!!! the mountains.. oh everything was so nice! So sorry, i digress! Anyhoo, along our walk up davie Maeve was in heaven... there are rainbow banners all the way to english bay and PINK.. yes PINK bus stops and benches! Maeve was in heaven and Theo.. well, he may not have liked it so much! hahaha all in all a great day for me. The kids.. well, they seemed to have fun too!

Bubble Bubble

There have been some pretty cute bathtub movies going around so I thought we'd hop on the tub train! Here is our son Madigan.. ok ok, our daughter Madigan having a bath.




Today we went to the library, urban fare to pick up pork chops or chork pops as Maeve said, then we went to the park under the cambie st bridge and met up with Awake Angela with sleeping Milo and Theo. The Kwan D'eon boys fell asleep enroute to us! Neither of my girls napped this afternoon. After the long cold walk back to our apt, Maeve said she felt tired and needed a sleep. I put the timer on to let her sleep no more than a half hour! A half hour comes and goes and neither Michael nor I could wake the tired big girl. She'd wake briefly, talk to us then.. zzzzzz! I blame the jetlag! So, we just tucked her in for the night and are praying she doesn't decide that 2am is the new 7am! Hahaha. Since the Mussellam girls didn't really get to kick it with the Kwan D'Eon boys, we're going to attempt another rendezvous tomorrow. I think the library will be our destination if it is rainy again. What are the odds of it raining in vancouver two days in a row? Hahaha.. I'm happy to be back here, rain and all!

Well we can let it all hang out now

Hiya boys and girls, the cat is out of the bag... the jig is up... the whistle, well it has been blown... the Mussellam Family has very sneakily arrived back in Canada.

Lots of tears, a little anger, more tears and lots and lots of joy. We managed to surprise everyone with our sneak attack.



We arrived back in Vancouver Monday February 26 around 8ish. We took a few days at Granny Gracies to shake some jetlag and then on thursday Michael started work at his new company, "Action Pants Inc". Craig McEwen works at AP (as I call it) and Michael is thrilled to be back in the country! AP has us all set up in a 2 bedroom fully furnished apartment downtown Van about 2 blocks away from Michael's work. So, Michael is happy, I'm happy to be back in Canada and the girls are having a bit of trouble with sleep but are fantastic!




Right now we are in Nanaimo, we surprised the HELL outta the fam. We hid in the bedroom and let the girls come out to surprise Gramma Luvvy. Video to follow... everyone is over the MOON to have us back. We are equally happy to be back. England was great.. Vancouver is better!!! hahahahah

London part deux

Hallo boys and girls! Ok, so first let me let you in on a little secret. The picture I put up yesterday should have had a disclaimer. I looked horrid! Hahah the girls and Michael look great but I only look great because Michael moved a lamp to give the illusion of greatness!!! The first pic was TERRIBLE!!! HAAHAHAHAH there wont be any pics of me posted where I don't look "great" haha

so, yesterday we had no internet in the hotel room. Yes, we did purchase an internet voucher but for wahtever reason it hates our mac. So, that is why you didn't hear from us yesterday. the hotel 'wifi' still hates us and i am writing this courtesy of the internet cafe down the street. No pics my friends, so sorry. I'm really just supposed to be getting us tickets to go on the London Eye! I'm sneak blogging while Michael gets the girls down!! hahah awesome!

Today was fantastic, we were at the London Zoo with our friends Neil and Fil! The boys joined us this am and after we hit the worlds GREATEST comic show we saw all sorts of animals. Actually, in some cases we just saw where some animals should be but were mysteriously missing! After an awesome day at the zoo we met up with Fil's friend Leah and Sam and Andrew Lawson (ex mainframers) wE WENT to dinner at this place called 'Giraffe', What a way to cap the day.. it was fantastic and the girls loved it! It was really nice seeing Sam and Andrew, they look really great and really happy!

Well, this is where I leave you, if I don't come home with London Eye tickets Michael may kill me!!

haha big love peeps
xo
v

My london london london

This is a picture of us in our hotel on the mac!
so we made it! Yesterday we caught a lift into LONDON! Can you say dingy? Our hotel is super clean and nice, only problem is there is NO BATHTUB! Yikes! Can't complain tho, we do have our own toilet! So, we settled into our hotel, grabbed a bite to eat and then walked around our hotel area a bit. Pretty busy little area. Lots of Middle Eastern restaurants and whatnot!

today we are taking the girls to the Natural History Museum. It is all about Dinosaurs right now. What they eat, how much they poop. Maeve says she doesn't want to touch the poop because it is stinky! hahahaha She cracks me up. Madigan doesn't walk anywhere anymore... she runs.... full tilt, full steam ahead and no looking back!

I'm almost tired of listening to my own voice telling them, don't touch the lights, don't play with the safe, stop mucking in the shower! ahahhahahahah oh well, its a 'holiday' right? Ya right! I don't expect to every have one of those for another few years!

Sweet Sisters

Table for one? The girls sharing a treat and some sweetness. They are the cutest sweetest little girls who are rarely, if ever photographed wearing pants!!!

hahaha crappy phone pictures again but it was all that i had handy. and on my phone they actually did connect on that incredibly sweet kiss!

Antics

Hello folks, here are our weekend antics thus far. Michael Neil, Fil and Laura went out binge drinking on friday. Michael left here around 7 and didn't make it home until 1am. Yes, in a land where everyone drinks, is drunk or is recovering from a drunk fest the pubs close at 12:30am! Cuckoo. I honestly wasn't expecting him til later and me and Maeve were snuggled up when he stumbled home! Michael doesn't get a chance to go out with his buddies very often so I guess I can let it slide every now and then! I actually stayed up and chatted on msn. I miss everyone alot and I'm glad when I can catch you on msn! Even if you are totally bogged down at work and really are to busy to chat with me!



So, saturday morning it was our usually pancake breakfast and then off into town. We met up with the usual weekend gang, Neil and Fil with the added bonus of Laura. Michael and Neil worked with Laura at Mainframe ages ago. So we all walked to Nicholas Park. Neil, Fil and Laura were going to continue on to Warick Castle while the girls got their play on. Neil and Fil were horrified because Madigan screamed for almost an hour. NOTHING was working for her. Not booby milk, not Mommy holding, not Daddy holding, not stroller bumping NOTHING. I finally managed to bring her off the ledge and calm her down enough to settle into a really short light nap. While she was, "napping" Maeve got a chance to ride on some of the kiddy park rides that aren't usually on. Maeve drove a helicopter, a pink barbie bug and a train! Michael rode the train but opted out of the pink helicopter and bug! They sat right up front and Maeve got to ring the bell. Sorry no pics of that, Michael had the camera!



After the girls got their play on we walked on to Warick Castle to meet up with Neil & co. The plan was if Madigan napped for longer than a half hour she might be decent enough for us all to go out for dinner together. Madigan DID nap for an hour and a bit so dinner was green lit! To recap, we walked from LSPa to Nicholas Park to Warwick Castle to Warwick to the saxon Mill then after dinner to Milverton. Needless to say I totally burned off the AWESOME salmon, coconut milk prawn & chili pasta! I had a really nice dinner out. I did have to take Madigan outside and have a talk with her. No children were beaten but she was driving me nearly up a wall! So after our talk she did much better. I think I have been treating her like a baby and letting her get away with stuff. Now I explain things simply and wont put up with her screaming. We are on this crazy learning path with her that we never had with Maeve! A C'est La vie!

So that is the end of my novel, our weekend antics I'll try to upload a vid of Madigan's sweet sweet temper tantrum! Here is a pic that i LOVE it was from last week when our friendly neighbourhood cat Leo broke in for a visit!

truly scrumptious, thanks danica

Holy Happening

Halloooo family and friends. Prepare to be so jealous... more jealous than ever before!

Michael is taking us into London for a 5 day vacation!! Woooooot wahooo and yeeehaw!

We are going to do all things touristy and hopefully have a blast! Wish you were here!!!

Here are some random shots of the girls and a special picture for the Uncles... ;)

Happy Valentines Day

Happy Valentines day everyone!! Michael got the girls and I beautiful roses! Granny Gracie sent two big GORGEOUS cards!! Gramma Mimi sent the girls each an adorable card and our good buddy Milo sent the girls a card and a pink 'cutie' bracelet! That Milo has a bracelet for all occasions! Thanks so much everyone!! Today is pretty low key. Madigan was up ALL night. Every hour on the hour. She has been running a fever for the last 2 days. She has alot of drool so I was inclined to think it was teething related but.. its been going on for a bit and now seems a bit worse. I know that fevers are the bodies way of creating an inhospitable environment for bugs so I'm watching her really closely while she rides it out. Poor thing. It sucks being sick. So, we are just going to have a nice quiet dinner and maybe watch chitty chitty bang bang for the 10,000th time! Hope everyone's valentines day is better than ours!