The best part of Christmas...

...according to a toddler.  

I'm pretty sure he was more excited about watching Mickey play the bells than he was about the presents and his stocking.  Though all of the chocolate he ate would definitely be a very close second.

Holiday Fun

I haven't had much time to write lately.  Work and school seem to be getting in the way.  Add to that a sick toddler and I just haven't had much time to myself.  It's been a bit of a rough month.  Silas has been getting sick repeatedly and every time he ends up having trouble breathing.  It now seems to under control and he is finally sleeping again.  Well, sleeping as much as Silas sleeps.  Hopefully, these two weeks off give us the break we need to get back on track.

Anyhow....Christmas!  Every year, we decorate a gingerbread house before Christmas.  Caleb and Sophie love it and Silas was very excited to help this year.

Sophie was happy to help Silas put candy on the gingerbread sleigh and house.  And I was impressed that Silas wasn't just eating all the candy.  Because he really likes candy.  A lot.

Of course, it didn't take long for Silas to discover a game that he liked better-dumping the candy from one container to another.  He is at the age.  The age of filling and dumping.

Unfortunately for Caleb and Sophie, Silas dumped most of his candy on the floor.  So instead of putting candy on the house, he started taking it off.  I guess he is not quite ready for gingerbread decorating.  Oh well, there is always next year.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

Caleb and Sophie were so excited when they woke up to snow on Saturday morning.   They have been waiting, rather impatiently, for it to come.  Sophie was quite disappointed when I told her she would have to wait to make snow angels because we were heading out.  They did play a little bit while waiting for the van to warm up.  

Silas did not remember the snow from last year and was quite concerned at first.  He kept pointing at it with a confused look.

But he was soon laughing and playing with the other 2.

Which of course led to me putting a screaming toddler in the van.  Because even though it was time to go, he was not finished yet.

Just when I think it's gone...I find more glitter

I've been having a rough time lately.  It's been a hard transition going from working part time to full time.  Much harder than I thought it would be.  Plus, Ryan's been on crutches since the September long weekend and while he is definitely feeling better, there is still so much that he can't do.  And of course during all this, Silas has been teething.  Which means he has been waking up every hour throughout the night....and only wanting me.  And he's been chewing everything....including me.  Lately, I'm ashamed to admit, I've been wondering what we were thinking.  Thinking that I can't handle 3 kids.  That I'm not cut out for this.  But then I listen to Sophie teaching Silas how to sing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.  Or watch him try to build lego with Caleb.  Or wake up to slobbery kisses.  Or see him stop nursing just to sign 'milk' and then latch on again and I just can't imagine not having him...he is what made our family complete.

Trick or Treat!

I was curious to see if Silas would go trick or treating this year.  Earlier this week, we tried to put on his costume and he was less than thrilled.  I was hoping that he would wear something and go to a couple of houses with Caleb and Sophie but he was not interested.  And of course, he didn't want to stay with Ryan so up on my back he went.  Just looking at the picture, I can tell that he is not impressed.

After he realized that people were giving out candy and he got a box of smarties, he did cheer up.  Sophie and Caleb had a great night.  Sophie was so proud that she went to just as many houses as Caleb.  She's never done that before.  Here she is waiting for Caleb.  

And one of both Caleb and Sophie, before we went out.  

Happy Halloween!

Twas the night before Halloween...

Caleb and Sophie are beyond excited about Halloween.  They have been waiting to carve the pumpkins all week and Sophie has been making bats at daycare to hang on the banister.  We finally got around to carving the pumpkins this afternoon.  We have 3 this year.  The older 2 explained to me that 3 kids = 3 pumpkins.  They did have lots of fun scooping out the seeds and drawing on the faces.

Silas was right in there this year.  I don't think he realizes that he is so much younger than the other 2.  He usually wants to be doing exactly what they are doing.  Here he is scooping out the seeds....

And here he is putting them back in.  I suppose it makes sense-that is his favourite game.  Dump things out, put them back in and dump them out again.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Usually on Thanksgiving we head out to the pumpkin patch.  I love Thanksgiving weekend.  Ours is usually very low key and it allows us to hang out and enjoy the fall weather.  This year, we needed something with less walking and standing so we spent part of the afternoon at the nature centre today. The kids all loved it!

We weren't able to go on any trails because of Ryan's leg but maybe next time.  All 3 kids managed to keep themselves busy and had a great time.

Especially after Silas realized that they were doing some construction just outside the window.  Once he saw the diggers, he wasn't interested in anything else.