Wiggly Tooth!

At the beginning of the week, Michael discovered he had his first wiggly tooth! We were all so 

excited!  Those who know me, know that I LOVE pulling teeth out! LOVE LOVE LOVE it! of course I have a child who made me promise NOT to pull his tooth out everytime I touched it! Soo hard!...but I didn't because I knew he really wanted to let it fall out when it was ready!

Well today, Wednesday February 25th 2010, it was ready! Michael lost his first tooth at school this afternoon!

He looks so cute with the little gap between his bottom teeth! Here are some pictures of my proud boy (hat hair and all!)

Still red cheeked from playing outside...but we were both so excited about his first tooth falling out that we wanted to capture the moment as quickly as possible! My baby boy is growing up! 

Snowshoeing!

With Steve and Jason (Mary's husband) away, Mary and I have been able to spend a lot of time doing fun family activities with the kids. The kids get along great so it's always a pleasure to hang out. On our last Snow Day we decided to take the kids (+1) snowshoeing. It was a beautiful day...sunshine and hardly any wind! 

Here's the gang resting under a tree and then continuing down the "trail".

Snowshoeing is an awesome outdoor activity BUT with five running kids, lots of fresh powder and only two adults you are inevitably stopping often to readjust straps and fasteners. Here's a picture of one of the many readjustment times!

On the way back...we didn't fight it any longer. The picture says it all! ha!ha! F*$% the snowshoes...RUN KIDS RUN! teehee!

Super Bowl 2010!

Today is the big Super Bowl game. THE game football fans wait for all year. This game means only two things for me...exciting half time show and my husband will be glued to the TV all day! I don't have a clue who is playing...but I do know that one of the teams is NOT the Patriots. Steve loves the Patriots so if they were in the Super Bowl I'd surely know about it. Found this Maxine comic that describes my feelings about the game perfectly! bahahahahaha!

SO sweet!

If this isn't the perfect blackmail picture I don't know what is!?! If Michael ever misbehaves as a teenager I'll threaten to show all his friends this picture! ha!ha! I think it's beyond sweet that Michael offered to paint Abbey's toes...but of course a mother would!!!! 

Haiti...

Steve's mission in Haiti is still going strong and they are seeing positive changes which is nice. We took the map out this week so that Abbey and Michael could see where their Daddy was. Abbey said "It's not too far!" ha!ha! ! The blue Bakugon is us and the red Bakugon is Haiti!

Here's a cool video of the Herc landing in Jacmel. Click here to see it! Go Steve Go!

Eagles!

Today a caravan of us journeyed down to the New Minas area (with the Poole Family leading the way!) to see the eagles! Who knew it was so popular....follow the signs!

Pics of some eagles hanging out in the trees waiting for the food.

It was a sunny but cold day...with not a cloud in the sky! Check out this cool picture!

Here are pictures of the farmer dropping off dead chickens (you can actually see them flying out of the van...we saw this part) and then the eagles feasting (we missed this part but Trina got pictures for us).

Abbey, Michael, Sophie and Jackson trying to summons the eagles down! ha!ha!

There were 300 plus people lining the streets to see these eagles. Some had lenses on their cameras as long as my leg, obviously my little compact camera was not going to do the trick. This was a situation were size really did matter! Thanks to Mary and Trina for taking the pics to make this post possible!

Well, I've now seen the infamous eagles! I'm glad I did it once but won't be rushing back to see them again.

I Am Woman....

Here me roar!!!! First two snow days of the year and guess what? Steve is away!!! Quelle surprise! Over 3000 km separate us! (Halifax-Port-Au-Prince) Who's going to shovel? That would be ME and my two super cute but not-so-efficient helpers. As I pulled out the shovel and looked at our sparkling new snow blower in the corner of the garage, I thought "I can do this!". So after a quick tutorial over the phone by Steve...I was ready baby! It was a little intimidating at first because there were at least 15 men across the street putting up a new house but I carried on my merry little snow blowing way!

Off to a little bit of a rough start...forgot to switch it from c

hoke to run....and then there was the time I forgot to switch the snow blowing hose thingy (very technical term) to NOT blow straight into the wind and my whole right side got COVERED in snow...but I DID it! and I loved it! Totally empowering experience! I wanted to do the whole street...but quickly came to my senses! lol!

Next time I might even try taking it out of first gear! bahahahaha~

Here's how beautiful my driveway looked on Thursday afternoon! WOOHOO!