Promenade en traineau

Super belle journée à katoon aujourd'hui. Jean-Michel à apporté la gang en traineau dans le voisinage. Louis-Pascal avait hâte...

LP: "Papa, on va prendre le traineau et aller jusqu'à la mer!"
JM: "Ok... Chère, on va être de retour l'année prochaine."
Chris: ...
LP: "Prends un photo, Maman." (en mettant son bras autour de JS...)

Ah, mignons mes petits hommes.

Jan-Sébastien à 1 an

Nous avons célébré le premier anniversaire de naissance à Jan-Sébastien les 7 et 8 janvier derniers... Que le temps a passé vite cette dernière année. Nous avons célébré avec Mémére qui est venu du Nouveau-Brunswick pour une visite, quelques amis de la Saskatchewan et quelques membres de la famille sur Skype. Voici quelques photos de notre célébration. Bonne fête notre Jan-Sébastien d'amour...
Ca va mieux si on passe directement à la bouche sans passer par la cuillière...
Session Skype avec Grandpa d'un bord, et Parrain et Marraine de l'autre.
Même Tache a pu gouter au gâteau aux carottes que Maman fait pour les anniversaires.
Et une partie de hockey en bas avec les amis. Merci Vance! Quand tu viens, les enfants dorment toujours bien par après!!
Nouveau petit copain à Jan-Sébastien, Matt. Les deux n'ont que quelques semaines de différence.
Et à presque 11 mois, Jan-Sébastien a pris ses premiers pas, mais depuis son 1 an, il décolle vraiment! Il préfere maintenant marcher et se débrouille vraiment bien. Les marches sont devenu le nouveau terrain de jeux de préférence (qui énerve pas mal Papa et Maman) et il adore grimper. La semaine passée il a commencé à grimper sur les divans, le lave vaiselle... mais il dort mieux aussi! ;)

Saskatoon's WinterShines

We went to Saskatoon's WinterShines Festival today. After experiencing Ottawa and Fredericton's winter festival, I was a bit disappointed in this one... but the kids thought it rocked and it was above zero today!!! Beautiful day...
JS managed to get on TV with this pose... CTV News was covering the event and he was quite funny.
And off to the new Farmers' Market for a snack.
And on our way back home it was nap time...
Almost out...
And score!!

"Et si on allait sur la lune, Maman?"

LP and I had a date this evening... to the Observatory on the University of Saskatchewan campus. LP has been talking about stars, planets, explosions in the sky and walking on the moon... so this was the perfect activity. I couldn't believe it was open to the public, free, every Saturday night. I was so excited I told LP at the beginning of the week, which was a mistake, as everyday was a battle to explain to him that we were not yet Saturday...

So here we are before leaving... goofing around.
Here is LP in the observatory, looking at the telescope. It's quite old, and antique actually, but it looks just like the one he has seen in books.
Looking at what he could potentially see through the telescope and getting excited. He was actually jumping up and down!
So LP was able to see Jupiter tonight, and that was a big deal. Although he still wanted to go in space after we left... we'll have to play pretend for that...

Leaving the Observatory... it was a fun night.

And I will be catching up with quite a few posts in the next few days... with life somewhat back to normal, I can spend time on the blog again. Much to share for those far away!! ;)

We have a convertible!

I am really, REALLY behind on blog posts. So much so that I am getting nasty emails from some faithful readers. (as though I have many of them - haha.) Frankly, I have better things to do... like... renovations... being a mommy... soccer... vacations... arg... everything and anything the mommy world includes this summer. And plus, posting pictures takes a while, and I don't seem to have the patience lately, but I promise soon I will sit down with a large glass of wine by the computer one evening, and do them all. I have much to write about and to post... many new developments in our clan this summer.

But, I have one easy picture I can put up this morning. Beautiful isn't it? That's our new flooring JM installed over the wknd. That man works fast!! Thanks also to Grandpa Bert and Uncle Mark for helping. Ah yes, but the car in the picture... That's a dinky car. Small... yes, and those cardboard people are thus very small!! Thanks to Marraine Gigi, LP has people for his dinky cars, and not just any people, but his family, including Tache. I actually love my hair in that car, so voluminous.

Anyways, LP asks for crazy things every once in a while, and I don't have much creativity... but other members of the family seem to be able to deliver. So when LP asked for people to put in his car, Marraine Gigi delivered in less then 2 minutes. I hate you Marraine in these situations... you make me seem so incapable.

Here are other things LP has asked for recently:

-"Maman, est-ce que tu pourrais me construire une rivière?" To go fishing of course. And a pond (the bathtub) was not good enough... it ended there.

-"Maman, est-ce que je peut avoir une plage?" (additional information: this was in the middle of winter) Grandma delivered by bringing sand (additinoal information: sand for ice in the driveway) IN THE HOUSE, with seashells and sticks. yup. Aaaaaaaaaaaaanything for LP.

-"Est-ce qu'on peut jouer a Tiger Woods?" In our house this means playing golf. So Grandpa and Grandma BUILT him a 9-hole golf course on their property. No joke. I think I forgot to post pics of that one.

-"Maman, est-ce que je pourrais avoir un bébé giraffe?" ...

Thank goodness his imagination kicked in latety, in really high gear. Because he made himself a river in the house just this morning with this made up name I already forget. (but he was kind enough to make sure the kitchen was rocky so we could have breakfast) He also delivered himself a dragon and dragon babies when he wanted one (one green, one red, and they sleep in the kitchen). And when I told him he couldn't play baseball in the house... he played imagination baseball. (pretty good, hey?) Except I still don't understand why he makes himself miss when he tries to catch his imaginary ball in the air with his imaginary glove... I would be a pro baseball player if I imagined it myself.