THE LITTLE THINGS

The little moments always hiding in plain sight are the ones I love.

I'm loving my 5 year old today, even if he chewed 5 buttons off his shirt (above) yesterday. That boy loves to chew on things.

I'm just wishing time would slow down just a bit.

TYPICAL EVENING

This has been a typical evening around here these last couple of weeks.

A 3 minute dinner, followed by playtime on the street with the neighbours and Rocco. Even though I pine for a fenced yard, I'm going to miss this street when we move.

Tonight, the kids played "nature people" and "we are so poor we have to live in the car" (Jake's car).

Speaking of Jake...if you are reading this, we miss you!!

GOODBYE SUMMER

Summer seems so long ago already.

I think I'm OK with saying goodbye. I do love the coziness and crispness of Fall. And I love the feeling of starting fresh. Maybe we should go pick some apples. Anyone no where we can do that?

ME DO IT!!

Currently, this is Will's most used expression.

WEEKEND

(Daddy and some Daddy friends went to Pasley this past weekend to re-shingle our roof. For those Daddies who read my blog, thank you!! I understand that it was not a traditional "boys weekend" of drinking and leisure and a morning of golf, but rather a weekend of hard manual labour in the pouring rain. Anyway, we are very thankful to have a new roof over our heads).

So while Daddy was roofing in the rain, the kids and I spent Saturday with Annie and her girls over in her hood.

My kids love cats. Maybe because we we don't have one, and never will have one.

We saw the movie "Despicable Me" and I laughed my butt off. It was so funny, despite being anxious that Will wouldn't wear his 3D glasses and essentially watched an hour and a half of fuzziness.

(I had nothing to do with Sam wearing black socks with his crocs).

And my sister took Clara skating twice. Despite our efforts not to start up any sort of hockey program (we are encouraging summer water activities), sissy also took Clara to a hockey drop in (which she loved).

And I can't believe how old she looks in this picture (waaaa!)

CLARA AND KIT

Clara and Kit have been reunited after a summer apart. They have hardly left each other's side these past 5 days.

(overexposed, but I love it anyway)

SUMMER

I posted this on my photo blog, but it makes me feel happy. What amazing summer we had. Please bare with me while I do some catching up. Apparently I took a lot of photos in July and August...