three pirates on an adventure!

Tom is always keen on having “adventures”. This usually means we sit down and draw a list of all the items we need (we have been to the jungle, the desert, to sea etc) and then hop on a plane to take us to our exciting destination (the living room...). Today we drew pirate maps and then went out to find our treasure. Flora got in on the fun and was pretending to be a pirate too. Her pirate noise sounds a lot like a lion, bear, truck, elephant....

We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo....

 Two special cousins stop to have their photo taken together.

 First trip to the zoo for Nanton! Amazingly, he was awake for pretty much all of it!

 I asked Flora what an elephant said and she growled...need to work on the trumpeting noise!

 Big smiles for Tara.

Tara rightly pointed out that she is an Aunty elephant. And what a perfect elephant she is!

Dancing machine

We were watching the X Factor tonight when Rihanna’s performance came on and our future clubber went wild bouncing and dancing to the music.

weekend at the farm

In the farm truck to go and check cows!

Flora and Ira Sanchez

We had a very relaxing weekend at the farm with Mom and Ron. Flora had a great time playing with Ira (the kitten), and we think Ira had a great time playing with her! She went out for her first morning of chores with Grampa and survived the -27 weather.

Rich just got back from hunting camp looking a bit worse for wear, thankfully with no blood on his hands. He said it was too cold to leave the tent. I am sure playing cards and drinking made up for the weather!

First drawing!

Yesterday Flora coloured her first picture! I was so proud that I actually got tears in my eyes. She still tried to eat the crayons but mainly used them to color!

I have been up since 7 (Flora’s usual wake up time), have showered and had a cup of tea and that little tinker is still in bed (It is now 8:27)! I tried to stay in bed and take full advantage of a rare lie-in but all I could think about was how this would impact her naps later in the day! Silly mother brain.

We are off to the farm for the weekend so I won’t be posting anything until Sunday night. Rich is heading out to the hunting camp with Milt, James, Jordon etc and I didn’t fancy a weekend on my own!

Flora is wondering “what the heck are you doing?”

“Ok, I’ll do it too!”

Adrenalin junkie!

This video shows Flora’s new favourite game to play, it is incredibly dangerous and we are worried she is going to get hurt soon! At least she usually gives a little warning squeal before she decides to drop.

Flora enjoying her first grilled cheese sandwich, courtesy of Thomas who couldn’t finish it!

It was freezing yesterday so I took the kids to the indoor park which was surprisingly good! We only stayed an hour, that seems to be a max out point for most activities with the two kids (apart from the zoo, thank god for the zoo!).