Alouettes

Tonight, Jamie and I took Sean to his first Alouette’s game. They played the Calgary Stampeders. We were losing most of the game, but came back in the last quarter and won the game, 33-32. It was CLOSE! While it was Sean’s first game, and Jamie’s….. (he lost count) and my 2nd Als game, but my first actual game at Molson Stadium, (the only other CFL game I’ve been to, was the 08 grey cup, which was held at the Olympic Stadium).

The cheerleaders put on a good show too!

Sean asked a lot of questions, he liked learning new things. Jamie was very patient with him, explaining things.

We had a great time at the game. One of Jamie’s friends has season tickets, in a set of 3, so it was nice that we got to take Sean to the game. Note to self: Next time bring some sort of padding to sit on, that bench is darn uncomfortable! I didn’t realize that there are only about 10 home games an entire Als season, so it was pretty cool to get to go to a game this season.

It’s late, the kids will be up early as usual, so I’m off to go crash!

ps – I have been knitting & I do have some progress on my Cardi to show you shortly!

Family Feud

One of my fave apps on my iphone is Family Feud. You have have a Facebook account to play the game (why, I'm not entirely sure), and I've been addicted. It's so much fun to play. Sometimes there are questions that are absolutely hysterical. And others, that are very very interesting.

This one (above) in particular, was a board that I had. Some of the answers on this board, made me laugh out loud very loudly. If you're married, with kids, a job, etc... you might find some of the items on this list amusing too. Yes, we share the parenting, and the driving in our house. However, he does the garbage, and I do most of the cooking, all of the dishes, and all the housework (that our cleaning lady doesn't do). Take turns doing....? Ha... in what world would that actually happen?

Then there was this board. "Name something many parents want children to learn at a young age". While my kids are not in school yet (to study), I guess I'm right on track with everything else. Phew!

2.4.11

Today Quentin and I had our first class together. We signed up for a music class in an acquaintances home. I've known the girl for years, but am not close with her. She actually bought the house across the street from my parents house (a house my parents tried to convince me to buy when it was on the market - but I am not moving until the kids move out - and it's a little too "Everybody Loves Raymond" for me to live across the street from where I grew up).

Quentin stayed wide awake the entire time at music.

After music I ran into the city hunting down a package that one of Jamie's cousins mailed to our old address (that we hadn't lived at in over 3 years now). Luckily it was hunted down at the post office near my old place, and the girls there saw our name and hung on to it, as they remembered me from all the mailings I used to do from that location when I lived around the corner. (They saw me almost on a daily basis when I had my online yarn shop running). We're super happy they kept it and didn't send it back to the USA after what Jamie's cousin spent on shipping for it. It is this really cute stationery set. I love it. The large white pad has our names all around it - and the other 4 blue pads say stuff like "From the Parents of: Sean, Mackenzie & Quentin"... in 4 different styles. Its from this online shop. I have been browsing online, they have some awesome gift items.

This evening after dinner (which my in-laws were over for), we played a family game of Bingo. Jamie used to work for an educational toy company and this game was one of the samples he had. It was a great game for ages 2-4 (Mack & Sean's ages) to play. We actually had a lot of fun.

Too bad daddy (Jamie) kept getting the good bingo cards and won every game.

And Quentin slept through the fun with this little dog. I got him this one, like Sean has his Nunu and Mack has his bunny. And just like there are 3 bunny's and 3 nunu's (two for rotation at home and one that stays at daycare all week for nap time I have extra dog ones for Quentin. Not sure what to name it though. Sean named his Nunu and Mack's is just "Bunny"... Quentin's is an actual dalmatian from the 101 Dalmatians movie. Anyone have a good name for it? Looking for something catchy!

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december twenty-three :: 79 weeks old

Mack is 79 weeks old today.

My friend Nathan came to visit today with his wife. Our plans changed though, they were supposed to come for supper, but since Nate's mom freaked out yesterday when she drove into Montreal to get them (since she thought that their plane was landing yesterday), she decided that Nate was at fault and wasn't spending enough time with them, so she wasn't letting her almost 30 year old son stay for dinner at my house, and was picking him up to bring him home around 2:30pm today. Honestly, this is why he lives across the globe from his mom. He's spending until January 4th with his mother at his parents house, and they're even taking a 5 day trip to New York City together. This isn't enough time that he can't spend an afternoon and an evening with me? He was even going to take the bus into Ottawa with his wife, after leaving my house so that his mom or both his parents didn't have to come back into Montreal to get him. Apparently that wasn't good enough.

Nate, Marcella & I.

Nate playing with Sean's marbles.

We couldn't think of any games to play with marbles? Do you have any suggestions? How do you play with them? Any games to recommend?

Merlyn decided to wear the socks that I knit for him today. It's great to see that he likes them.

My in-laws came for dinner tonight, as well as my entire family (parents, brother & sister). Today is my step-mother-in-law's birthday. Happy Birthday Norma! (In the picture above is my father-in-law, step-mother-in-law, my nephew with Sean & Mack).

Sean is my little rockstar! He is going to break women's hearts one day.

My father-in-law got some hockey cards for the kids. Jamie also gave them a box tonight to open together. Sean only collects Goalie player cards. All the others (all the other players on the hockey teams, right wings, left wings, centers, defencemen, he traded those off to both his brother & my nephew (his cousin)). He has quite the collection of just goalie cards. Above, you see, he's very excited to have found a goalie card in his pack.

Here is my started Mara Shawl.

It's currently 6” down the center, 15” across.

I am in LOVE with the color.
It's all mine.

november eight

This morning we took care of business, and packed up the car and headed on the road for my nephew's 6th birthday party. His real birthday is next Saturday, but he's with his father next weekend, so he'll be celebrating with him then.

There was some knitting all the way down there. I cast on for Sean's teacher Tirhu's Xmas present. I'm knitting the Herringbone Neck Warmer. It seemed to be a quick knit, but the Herringbone pattern is a biatch to knit. It's killing my fingers & my wrist with the big needles/thick yarn - which is calls for. I'm using my sparkly clear circulars that I love.

Sean loves the doctor set that my sister-in-law had. I actually have one at home for him, but didn't think he was ready for it. Apparently he is. So I'll pull it out when I get back from Beauce. He even knew how to use all the tools in the set. (I'm assuming he learned from daycare...) Also, the girl who he is playing doctor with - is my sister-in-law's boyfriend's daughter. A blonde. Sean's fave. He was glued to her all weekend while we were there. Funny kid loves his blonde older girls!

My nephew loved his new skull hat that I made for him along with all the other presents that we got him. Apparently he is not allowed to wear anything Skulls or Bones to school, so his new hat will be for weekends only. I'm so glad it fits him!

And this afternoon I learned how to play Chicken Foot. I love the game so much that I will be going out to get a set of Dominoes when I get home! Jamie's mom and her wife brought the set and taught us all how to play - what a fun game! I ended up winning the game - beginner's luck? Across the table from me (left) is my Step-Mother-in-Law and (right) my Mother-in-Law. Also playing were my sister-in-law's friend and my father-in-law and my mother-in-law's wife.

This evening we headed back to a Bed & Breakfast where we are sleeping. I unfortunately didn't want to stay at my sister-in-law's place due to a few reasons. 1) There was no room for us to sleep there as my mother-in-law and her wife were staying there, 2) my SIL's bed is a hard board, it's too uncomfortable and 3) there is an open concept to the entire house, and there are no doors on any rooms, not even the bathroom (WTF?). So yeah, we're here at the B&B, and I love it here. It's a family friend of my sister-in-law's who owns the place and I've met the lady before, she's super sweet.

I'm going to go crash in bed with Mack and read. Once Mack falls asleep he'll be in the Pack-N-Play. Jamie's sharing a bed with Sean tonight (so he doesn't fall out of the bed!) We're in this room.