Life can be crazy at times...

...especially with three children.
Some days I have a hard time keeping my thoughts straight. LOL.
We have definitely been enjoying this wonderful weather we've been getting.
Last weekend we spent some time at the farmer's market in St-Malo run by my sister-in-law and we definitely scored some great deals and yummy treats! I can't wait until we go back. We also spent some time at my brother's farm visiting his newly remodeled house. They really did a good job.
We went to my dad's place for supper. Other than my siblings and their families being there, my aunty Michelle was there with her son Michael, his wife Louise and their daughter Eden who were visiting from Kitimat, BC. Michael really is funny, it was an excellent time.
Danika came back home with us for a sleepover for a couple of nights. The girls (and Xavier) seemed to have a really good time together. I love the relationship between cousins. It's so sweet.
On the bad side of things, some vandals came into our yard and stabbed (yes actually stabbed) our pool more than six times! Why would somebody do that!? Richard has put some patches to fix to puncture holes, fingers crossed that works.
Lucas had his first set of shots this week. Poor little guy was quite grumpy afterwards. At 11 weeks old he weighs in at a hefty 15 lbs 14 oz and is now 25 inches long. That's my big boy!
Oh, Richard and I went on date (with Lucas as our little sidekick) to go see Inception. What a great movie, it definitely keeps you thinking. I highly recommend it!

Busy weekend!

We had a very busy weekend and it was worth every single moment.
On Friday, after bringing Richard to work, the kids and I decided to visit Memere, Nicole and Tony's new apartment. The kids really like the new apartment, because it has one more bedroom the hallway is longer which the kids enjoy. The apartment is two floors up and Emma really enjoys the new high views. After a nice supper and some Bugs Bunny, we made it back home.

Saturday morning we had a visit from our old friend Carlos, in the afternoon my cousin Elizabeth came over with her two kiddies Amy and Alex. We spent a really nice afternoon in the backyard where the kids played in the pool and so forth. The kids had a great time playing with their cousins, it was fun.

That evening my wonderful sister-in-law Patsy Karina invited me to go see the movie Eclipse. I hand expressed a little bit of breast milk and once all three kids were all in bed, we headed off to the movie. It was great, not only because the movie was absolutely phenomenal, also because I had an invitation to go out, just me! I can't remember the last time someone invited just me out with them. Feels good :)
On Sunday, we went to church for Samantha's baptism, daughter of my friend Julie and her husband Marty. She's such a little cutie, she's only 6 days younger than Lucas. I hope they can become friends.
In the afternoon we headed out to celebrate Darrion's 5th birthday, he's Emma's closest friend right now. The party started at a nearby wading pool. One of the dads brought a bag full of water guns and the kids really had a great time soaking each other and the dads, hehehe, that was super fun. Lucas slept almost the whole time.
We went back to Darrion's house where we were treated to a nice bbq and a really yummy rocket shaped cake.


What a great weekend!

Oh Canada!

I hope everyone had a great Canada day yesterday! It definitely was an interesting one here in good old 'Peg city.
Minutes after arriving at the Assiniboine Park Zoo, it started to rain. Sometimes the rain was light, other times a little heavier. We ducked into places like the Tropical House and Discovery Centre in an effort to stay dry while still visiting some animals. After a little while the rain subsided, but Xavier had had enough by this time. He wanted food.

We knew that the Lyric stage behind the pavillion was going to have shows on all afternoon and evening, where there is entertainment, there's food.
We made the short walk from the Zoo and quickly found the food vendors. Richard had some smokies and I bought a large cheese pizza which we all shared. It was yummy.
We watched a historical play about Manitoba and the Chinese Lion dance.

We really were having a great time, but it was HOT outside by this time, not to mention a little muggy because of the aforementioned rain. We came back to our nice air-conditioned home :)

We had Nicole and Tony over for dinner to wrap up a nice first Canada day for Lucas.

Recycling made fun

It's been raining so much lately I've been saving up some recycling to make a craft with. Yesterday we made juice box trains. The kids had a great time making their trains, although Xavier's is already a little bit taken apart. LOL.
Basically, we cut the bottom of the boxes, leaving it as a flap so we can wash out the juice. Left them to dry. After they dried out, we taped the flaps shut and let the kids decorate the boxes as they wished. I cut a toilet paper roll in half and used those as smoke stacks for each train. It was fun and Emma really loves her homemade train.

Having fun in the park!

Yesterday was "La Saint Jean-Baptiste" day. It's a provincial holiday in Quebec, here the Francophone community celebrated with a party in the park.
It was a very warm and muggy day,thankfully the city had sprayed for mosquitoes the night before, so we weren't bugged :)
First thing in the morning, the kids helped me bake cookies and pack a picnic.
The kids had a lot of fun playing in the park, doing the different activities set up and listen to the free concert.
Lucas did not enjoy staying in his car seat. I had to hold him the whole time, so I had to improvise to keep the sun off of him. He was wearing my hat.
We met up with a lot of people we knew, including my cousin Joel and his beautiful family.
We spent most of the time hanging out with Gen, who on top of her own two, was babysitting two more. Once the party was over, Gen and her gang came over to our place to continue the fun. I think the kids had a blast.
Emma had so much fun yesterday that she actually slept in past 9 a.m.!
What a great day.




In soccer news, Italy was eliminated from the World Cup. With France being eliminated earlier in the week, Italy and France become the first teams in the history of the World Cup, where the finalists from the previous World Cup do not advance to the final 16! Amazing!

Lucas's Baptism

Our sweet little boy received his baptism this past Sunday. As with our older two children, he was baptised by my father "Pepere". It was a really nice ceremony. There were 3 other babies getting baptised at the same time. Two of the babies looked about the same age as Lucas, whereas the third looked to be around 9 months old. Lucas did really well, he was sleeping when the time came to pour water on his head and I was positive this would wake him and he would scream. My boy proved me wrong, he frowned a little but just kept on sleeping. The anointing of the oil bothered him a little and it woke him up, but he didn't cry or scream. Such a good boy.
He is soooo big, it's incredible how much he has grown since birth, I can't wait until his next doctor's appointment to see where he stands.

In other news, Emma "graduated" from her first year of preschool. She really does enjoy going to school. I think she will miss it during the summer, I know I will LOL! Next year both Emma and Xavier will be in preschool, different times and days of course, because of their ages. At least I hope Xavier will be in preschool, we're having some trouble with Xavier consistently using the potty. I have three months to get him completely out of pull-ups (at least during the day). I'm hopeful, he understands and recognizes when he needs to pee or poo, he just chooses the easy way. Thankfully it's summer and I can just let him run around in underwear, eventually he'll get the point (I hope) and stop doing in his pants. I keep you posted on the potty training wars.

My little ballerina

Yesterday was Emma's big recital at the Centennial Concert Hall.
She did such a good job. Dance to the steps as best as a 4 year old can do and kept a big smile on her face the whole time.
My beautiful girl.