We will miss you Great Grandma

Today we lost one of our most important blog readers and one of the reasons for the inspiration behind this blog. Great Grandma Joyce. She was a warm, and intelligent woman and I enjoyed that she had opinions. She loved desserts and being with family. She was at our wedding, and Bobs was able to meet her two and a half years ago.

Rest in Peace Great Grandma. We are thinking about Great Grandpa Doug and the rest of the family who are missing her.

Garbage Guys

Helping Daddy empty the garbage cans on garbage day is the boys one major chore they have to help with.

Mads likes to do it more than Bobs does. Interestingly, Bobs wants to be a garbage collector when he is older. He loves the garbage trucks.

Until saturday morning swimming commences, Mads and Mommy are staying home while Daddy and Bobs are at skating. Mads enjoys having free reign of the toys.

Here is a video of Mads asking for me to draw more balls, and saying please.

Daycare/Pre School

Bobs likes to practice his alphabets at daycare. The director of the daycare says he concentrates so hard, that he doesn't even notice what is going on around him.

Mads got moved into a bigger kids class. He is now one of the youngest in his class, and many of the kids are talking, which is great. I find he is a bit behind where Bobs was at this age. This could be because Bobs will often speak for him and tell us what he thinks Mads needs and is saying. Mads is in the green shirt here having lunch with his little toddler friends. On fridays, Mormor, or one of us will have the boys at home. They are in daycare 4 days a week and it is working out well so far.

Dinner at the Wyatts

We had skating lessons this weekend, and saw two new houses that some friends just bought. On saturday, Mommy helped Sarah move things into her kitchen of her new house, and on sunday night, we went to the Wyatt's new house. Mads and Bobs spent a lot of time in the basement watching Toy Story on their large screen. They also claimed the Wyatt's blankets as their own. The boys were well behaved and played together in different rooms while we caught up on all the new and exciting news about how the Wyatts are having a baby in June. Yay!

Bobs' First Skating Lesson

Bobs Godmother hooked him up with skating lessons at the Oval that Daddy used to skate at.

Mads and I sat in the stands and watched.

There were saturday morning races going on, that Daddy used to participate in. Funny enough, J Spence was in the lead.

I hate to say it, but Bobs was the most unfortunate skater there. His legs were like jelly. They said he should stand tall like a tree. No such luck.

Kristin put another former speedskater and her daughter in the same class.

Bobs will be doing this every saturday morning for the rest of winter. The boys will both also have swimming lessons at the university starting a bit later.

Later in the afternoon, Bobs had a birthday party to attend with Daddy, and Mommy and Mads stayed home for naptime.

Mads' First Haircut

Mads had his haircut on December 30th. You made have noticed. Here is his before...

We went to Beaners and he was allowed to sit on my lap.

They had to go as quickly as they could. He was ok with it most of the time. He has seen his brother get his hair cut many times, and Bobs was sitting behind us getting his hair cut, and watching Monsters Inc.

Afterwards, they get to play in the ball pit.

We went to a New Year's Day party yesterday with some of Daddy's friends. A good start to a new year. Tomorrow everyone is back at daycare and work. Then on saturday, Bobs starts ice skating lessons!

More NYE fun

We celebrated Bobs' BFF's 4th birthday on New Year's Eve. The theme for the adults was to wear ski sweaters and for us to eat cheese fondue.

The boys always know that birthdays bring cupcakes.

It was tough telling Mads that there was a limit to how many cupcakes he could have.

JJ and KC and his mom slept over. We didn't have the preschoolers share a room though. Maybe next year.

Sarah and Kris and their little one, Elliott, headed off to another party after supper.

We celebrated New Years at the Central time zone ( 11:00pm) by calling our friends in Regina.

The next morning we made a nice brunch. Later today we are headed to a New Year's Day/Christmas party in Okotoks.