Funny Things the Kids Say

Charlie has an incredible sense of smell.  A few minutes after eating something, if you go near Charlie he will say, "I smell oranges."  Or, "Mommy, I smell chocolate."  The other day I made popcorn, put it in my room, then went to check on Charlie who was still not asleep.  Charlie needed a diaper change.  He says, "Mommy, I smell popcorn.  It smells like popcorn in here.  Mommy, were you making popcorn?  Were you, Mom???"  I say, "It doesn't matter since you're going to bed now."  Charlie says, "I wonder why it smells like popcorn in here.  What would make it smell like popcorn in here." (etc., etc.)

Charlie, looking at the first snowfall at the grocery store: "Just like at our house!"

Anne: "Let's go on a W-A-L-K."

Charlie: "I can throw a book at you?"
Daddy: "No Charlie, we don't throw books."
Charlie: "I can throw a little book."

Charlie: "I had some water.  It's in my tummy.  My tummy is big.  I can go to the hospital.  I have a big baby."

Charlie: "The cloud looks like a skunk."
Mom: "Oh I don't think so, I think it looks like waves."
Charlie: "It's a skunk at the beach."

Charlie, referring to a skeleton: "Skelle-bone"

Anne: "Mommy, how was the first person in town born?"

Charlie calls tic-tacs "contacts"

Charlie: "I put my tic-tac in my shoe.  I didn't want to lose it."

Charlie: "Dad, do you know that people don't eat houses?"

Charlie, while in his bed at night, "Is anybody's phone in here?  I heard a bing-bong sound!!"  (Sure enough, Daddy had left his phone in there.)

Charlie said, "Bun and his family were buried under all those breasts.  Bun and his happy happy family."  He meant bras from the laundry.

Mom: "What am I going to do when you're all grown up?"
Charlie: "Die?"

July 2016

Summer time means many weekends spent at the land, and many trips to the market.  It also means the kids are out of school, so Anne tried her first camp: a circus-themed dance/craft camp extravaganza.  

The Land with the family:

Ada and Tommy, stumped

The babies splitting some firewood

All baby hats should have ears

Do you think I'm cute yet?

What is marshmallow?  Why is marshmallow?

Quality family time eating corn on the cob

Greta and her girls

So pleased to be here

Also pleased to be here

Tommy re-entering Earth's atmosphere

Tommy returning to orbit

Anne and Darwyn finding a treasure hunt clue

The elder four cousins, posed

The elder four cousins, candid

The elder four cousins, fleeing

A clue on the treasure hunt

"Up top", in search of the next clue

Horsmen

Grandma with half of her grandkids

Grandpa, smoking?

Charlie driving the tractor

More tractoring practice

Charlie at unsafe heights

Grandpa getting a haircut and hopefully no scars

More trimmage

Trimming hair on the construction site

The market was one of our favourite places to visit this summer (especially the farm animals and the cattle auction):

Anne feeds sheep

Charlie feeds goats

Louisa and Charlie feed bunnies

Are these labels adding value? Can you tell which child and which animal it is on your own?

Three year old human feeds three year old holstein

Kids pet cow.  Kids' pet is a cow?

Anne ponied up the cost for riding Honest Abe's wild broncos

Her enjoyment more than justified her expense

Jessie's bridal shower:

The kids got toilet papered.  Perhaps there was alcohol at the shower?

Ice cream with Maddie and Joy:

Charlie had a raspberry sorbet which made him look like a vampire.

Anne and Maddie: two peas in a pod.

Anne's circus-themed summer dance camp with Darwyn and Maddie:

Anne showing off her dance moves

Proud performer

Anne beside Darwy-doodle

Dancing!

Anne learned how to swim this summer

June 2016

We had a very exciting month in June.  The kids participated in their first triathlon!  They did a single length of the pool, followed by a 300 m bike, followed by a 100 m run.  For the swimming portion they wore life jackets, and Anne swam all by herself!  Charlie had Daddy's help.  For the biking part, Charlie used his balance bike and Anne biked without training wheels. Finally, they ran to the finish line where a police officer gave them a sticker badge and a volunteer gave them a freezie.  They loved it (especially the freezie)!  In fact they wanted to do it all over again right away and were sad when they found out they would have to wait another year.

Anne and her friend, Maddie, are ready for the triathlon

Daddy and Charlie are ready for the triathlon

The whole family ready for the triathlon

Charlie "swims" with help from Dad

Charlie does the swimming portion

Charlie and Dad move from swimming to biking

Charlie does the biking portion

Anne swims all by herself (there is a volunteer in front of her in case she needs help)

Anne biking

Anne again

Anne and Charlie show off their medals after the triathlon

Our street's annual Canada Day party:

The kids finish off about a million water balloons (which took me an hour to fill) in about 3 minutes.

Anne enjoys some pizza

Charlie enjoys some pizza (and beer?)

A rare photo of Anne and Charlie both smiling

We went on an awesome camping trip with Gramma and Grampa B:

Anne on our 1 km hike, which was entirely bordered by poison ivy.  Which of course Charlie touched.

Anne and Charlie in the tent

Anne had her last day of gymnastics.  Her class put on a demonstration of their new skills:

And here are a few more random photos:

Anne and her friend Livie on a class trip

Anne and Livie

Charlie and Louisa on an old railway track at the heritage village

Grampa G and Charlie mow the lawn

Charlie feeds the goats at the market

Anne feeds the goats at the market

Anne poses with a sign at McDonalds (her idea)