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Best Saturday this week!

by on Jan.22, 2009, under family

As you french Canadians know, Saturday mornings are meant to be sloooooow.

Step 1. Lounge.

Step 2. Coffee.

Step 3. Lounge.

Step 4. Read the paper (well, the Canadian Tire, Best Buy and Future Shop flyers).

Step 5. more lounging.

Saturday mornings are also meant for BIG BREAKFASTs. This one was no different. Except for my co-cook. Here’s how it went down… I’ve started to use Twitter as of late and one of my fav Tweets is an excellent cook called PinchMySalt (I’m sure that’s not her name but you get my drift). Here’s her site: http://pinchmysalt.com/

Anyways, she twitted about making a sour dough, ham and egg stratta and it sounded awesome so I decided to make my own. Mine was to be made with day-old buns, ham, egg and a mix of mozza and 6 year old white cheddar. I began gathering my stuff when I heard that lovely little voice…. “Help daddy?”

So for the first time, Ella helped make breakfast… (only took her ~2 years to start pitchin in… slacker).

and help she did...

 

...future Nigela?

 

a little cheese for the dish... a little cheese for Ella

 

After 30 mins of baking:

the masterpiece!

 

And just before we eat, a little time for silly…

food is good, silly is better!

Who invited this guy!?

eeeeek!

eeeeek!

 

and here’s what Reese was doing this whole time…. seeing him enjoy his weekend morning cartoons is SO nostalgic.

anything better than Saturday morning Transformers? Didn't think so.

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Winter Wonderland

by on Jan.18, 2009, under family

Hurray… more snow!

Time to bundle up the kiddies and take to the wild outdoors.

First, we have a job to do. Grab your shovels and your brushes and let’s clean off the driveway:

Use the brush side on the paint please...

 

Little pink shovel

 

Now it’s time to play!

Vroom,vroom, vroom

 

Hmm, the park looks different this time of year...

 

Fields of snow

Fields of snow

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Peek-a-boo!

by on Jan.17, 2009, under family

So this is the incident that gave me the inspiration for the blog.

 

Dani was off taking photos of some celebrity somewhere and I was busy putting clothes away and doing regular end-of-day cleanup. Quick peek at the clock tells me it’s about time to start herding the cats kids.
Wait a sec… Reese is watching TV but Ella is being quiet… too quiet. So, off I go to find her.

 

I search and search but to no avail. She wasn’t in her room playing. She was not in my room watching TV with her brother. Was she at her colouring table? Nope. Colouring ON the couch? Nope. In the kitchen looking for scraps? Nope. In the bathroom putting lipstick on the cat? Nope. My calls of “Ellllla, Eeeeelllllaaa! ELLA!” became more and more frantic and I could feel that father-of-the-year award slip right out of my fingers.

 

At long last, I heard a giggle. Ella? Giggle. Elllllla? Giggle giggle. Turns out she had plans to play a little game of Marco Polo. I finally tracked down our little explorer in her room:
Boo daddy!

Boo daddy!

 

and so a new game began… close closet door. BYE! Open closet door. BOO! Close closet door. BYE! Open closet door. BOO! Giggle and laugh until your stomach hurts. Repeat as often as possible

Best game ever.

Best game ever.

 

20 minutes of BYE!BOO! and we were all tuckered out. Wave buh-buy Ella!

Everybody wins at this game!

Everybody wins at this game!

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