Mish Mosh of Events of a Weekend

We spent each morning hanging out on the Sixth Step.

Bobs got spiderman pj's from Mormor for his birthday. The hat says on it that it isn't meant to be slept in.

We went to another birthday party for 3 year old Marseille. She has a little brother McLean, and both are born the same months as Mads and Bobs.

The birthday theme was Dora the Explorer. Mads and Bobs have no clue who she is.

As Marseille's dad is British, the food was a roast and yorkshire pudding. Mads didn't like the yorkshire pudding and I was pretty surprised. I said it was because he prefers the Danish side of his culture.

We also went to an early Stampede breakfast in a community in the deep south of Calgary called Chaparral. Joshua and his family live there and they invited us along with Cael and his parents.

The community is quite nice, once you get out there. It's on a human made lake and they had a fair set up after the pancake breakfast.

These boys got to bounce in bouncy castles two weekends in a row! I think their favourite was a big huge inflatable slide that they lined up for twice.

Mads hung out in the middle of the fair in a grassy area with his ball and he had fun entertaining himself.

All in all, a busy weekend. Thank goodness we have the work week to rest....

Riley Park

We had a Dr. appointment and also a picnic with friends at Riley Park today. When Dr. Singh asked Bobs if he can ride a bike, he told her he has two bikes. It's true. He also skirted the question - he isn't very skilled at riding a bike yet.

Mads loves to copy everything Bobs does including hanging out on what they call the 6th step with Bobs' blankets.

We met up with Camryn and her mom ( a friend from elementary school ) and Elliott and Sarah for a picnic on what is so far, the hottest day of 2011.

We intended to picnic without heading to a wading pool. Then we decided last minute once we met up at Camryn's house, to head to Riley. I just happened to have Mads' swimsuit that I was going to give to Elliott, so Mads wore that, and Erik borrowed a swim diaper. They both loved the water.

This purple dress is my signature summer outfit this year. You'll see a lot of it!

We brought two balls for Mads because he can be entertained anywhere with them.

Mads has no fear compared to Bobs. He will run right into the deeper part of the water.

Even almost 5 month old Elliott had some water action. The weekend after this, we are heading to their cabin near Fernie for some more lake/beach time. We are so glad to have summer finally here!

Happy Father's Day

We hosted a Father's Day brunch at our house with birthday party leftovers and breakfast dishes. Bobs also got his birthday gift from Mormor and Morfar. It is a handheld gaming device.

Then we bounced in the bouncy castle a few more times before packing it up, and also played with trains and purple balloons. Happy Father's Day! And to all non fathers who take an interest in Mads and Bobs.

Bonus Purple Birthday Pictures From Pat

Happy Purple 3rd Birthday!

Happy 3rd Birthday Bobs!

Today is Bob's third birthday. What an amazing and lengthy day that was three years ago. Uncle Tim came over last night for a visit. We haven't seen him in a long while. Bobs remembered who he was though.

The birthday boy gets pink/purple pankcakes this morning for breakfast. They are from Jessica Seinfeld's book of course.

I don't follow the recipe completely, as I add vanilla yogurt instead of ricotta. Who has ricotta on hand?

Unfortunately is is quite wet outside today so we don't see ourselves getting to a park today. Perhaps we will pick up a cupcake at Crave though.

On saturday is Bob's big purple party. Then on sunday, we will celebrate father's day with my parents here with a brunch and leftovers from the birthday party. Let's hope for sunshine!

Stanley Park Picnic

This morning the sun came out after a day of rain so we headed to Stanley Park for an early picnic.

The Juvenile Diabetes association was having a walk a thon fundraiser and they had bouncy castles and other fun things for kids to play with so we crashed that for a bit.

Bubble and BBQ

This morning we spent time with JJ and KC as their mom was going into work later. She had some great quality bubbles for the babies.

Then we played with a neighbour and her kids who are the same age. When Daddy came home we had a BBQ. Bobs had a cream cheese sandwich in his fort earlier of course.

Cream Cheese and Jelly Sandwich

Erik had his supper for the second day in a row up in his fort. Yesterday it was a peanut butter and jelly, and today thanks to AMK for the suggestion, it was cream cheese and jelly.

We played in the park near the house before heading into the backyard and there were about 10 neighbourhood kids all playing together. The older kids were dictating the play. Apparently they were building a 20 storey hotel.