Pure Cuteness ;)

At bed time tonight I was sitting in the glider in Reese's room while she played around with her new fan.  She was talking into it, enjoying the way it distorted her voice!  It was really funny but time to get moving on the bedtime routine.  I asked her several times to come over to me.  She would just laugh and run around the room, talk into the fan, etc.  Finally I said, "Reese, please come see Mom.  It's bedtime."  She didn't respond so I said, "One ..." She stopped, looked at me and said, "Twoooo!"  I said, "Three ..." and then she raised her arms in the air and said, "ast off!!!!!"  (blast off) OMG, I almost died!!!  It was SO cute!  So of course we did that a few more times before moving on to bed time ;)

Reese loves her sleep sac's and I recently bought her a lighter weight sleep sac, hoping she could wear it through the summer.  She's been wearing it up until today (sometimes with just her diaper underneath!) but today at nap time there was no way she could wear another layer!  It's usually around 28 degrees in the kids bedrooms on a hot day and today was HOT!  So I layed her down for her nap, placed her favorite blankie beside her and her favorite teddy bear on the other side of her, as usual.  She was very tired and had sleepy eyes, as she looked up at me and said, "eep sac?" Awwwww ... melt my heart!!  She was sad because she didn't have her sleep sac on :(  I told her it was very warm in her room and she would be too hot.  She just looked up at me with her beautiful blue eyes and said, "K."  And off she went to sleep.

It is a lot of fun watching Blake, Emerson and Reese play!  They usually play quite well together, although the older two do get frustrated at times because Reese is in the 'mine' stage of life ... everything is hers!  If she wants it, she grabs it and says, "MINE!"  We're working on that ;)  But Blake and Em are always quite accomodating and typically give in to Reese's every whim ... I'm thinking the 'baby' in the family is pretty lucky!!  It is really cool to see Reese joining in Blake and Emerson's games!  I love hearing them giggling and planning and schemeing!  Warms my heart!  We also enjoy joining in their games.  Last week, every day was a tea party/dance party/monster truck party!  Poor Blake is out numbered but he still manages to fit in his trucks/trains/superhero's ;)

Captain Blake Cameron (proud as punch!)!  

Em & Cal peaking up into the fish pond at TWOS!

Reese enjoying TWOS!

We've been enjoying our Canada Day long weekend!  Friday we visited the Telus World of Science for the first time.  We bought a family membership (thank you Telus Employee perks for the great discount!!) and we will be back!!  The kids had a blast visiting the various exhibits and seeing "Born to be Wild" at the IMAX theatre.  This was Blake and Em's first movie theatre experience!  They did well and really enjoyed the film, as did I.  Emerson had a lot of questions.  Her main questions were, "Why did their Mommy die?"  "Why are the baby elephants scared?"  Some interesting conversation ensued!  Blake and Em both really love animals and I think it was a great introduction to the movies :)  I don't think Emerson is ready for the big theatres, though!  She can't sit still for much longer then 30 min!  This film was 45 min.  Blake, Em and Reese's favorite part of the day was definately the Discoveryland area.  Blake already asked to go back today!  It will be the perfect rainy/snowy/retreat from the heat destination!  We enjoyed an early dinner out after our TWOS visit and a bike ride outside!

This morning we visited the St. Albert Farmer's market.  Our main goal was to purchase carrots from Peas on Earth :)  As Blake says, "They're like candy!"  And they really are!  So delicious!!  Nothing compares to an organic, farm-fresh carrot!  Of course you can't leave the market without an assortment of other goodies ... hair accessories for the girls, cheese buns, cookies, roti and curry (NOT for Cal ;)) and raspberry/apple loaf!  Last weekend we loaded up on our favorite chicken from Sunworks Farm!  Once again, nothing compares to organic, free-range chicken :)  If you have a chance, you HAVE TO TRY the rosemary chicken sausages.  SO delicious!!  Just ask Blake ;)  They are his absolute favorite and he often asks if we can have them for supper!  Too bad organic meat is so darn expensive.

After the market the kids and I napped/watched a movie and cooled down inside while Cal ran his 10 miles.  He was smokin' hot when he came home but glad he got it done!  It was then out to the backyard for some sprinkler fun!!  The kids love running through the sprinkler and turning the slide into a slippery slide!  There were many water, watermelon and ice cream breaks in between running around the back yard :)

Tomorrow I am taking Em and Blake to a Canada Day party at a local park.  Cal and Reese will bike over and join us when Reese wakes up from her nap.  Monday is also a day off in our house but I think we'll take it easy and get ready for the busy week ahead!  Blake is in a superhero day camp on Tu, Wed, Th and Fri mornings!  My girlfriend Jodi also has her 2 boys registered in the camp and Blake's preschool buddy Evan is in the camp as well, so Blake is really looking forward to it!  Jodi and I and the girls will probably go for a coffee and hopefully a nice, long walk around Beaumaris Lake while the boys are at camp!

We hope you're enjoying your long weekend and wish you a Happy Canada Day (tomorrow)!

xoxo

Cal, Tracy, Blake, Emerson and Reese