Photo Recap

Momstown craft playgroup - making snowflakes.  Drew was obsessed with making them for days after.

My mom's friend got the boys this firetruck.  Drew decided to put the fire out in the fire place with it (it shoots water)...don't worry, I didn't let him get very close to the fire, and it wasn't a big fire (I had only just lit it).

Every toy was dumped out, in a matter of less than 5 minutes!

Cookies keep the monsters at bay in the grocery store....sometimes.

Drew and Hunter spent a couple of days checking all of the smoke detectors in in everyone's house.

Drew's seed list for the spring....now to get the raised beds built....pinterest has given me some ideas!

Drew had a buddy over for a playdate.  For the most part, they included Hunter, which made me very happy.

Play doh with their buddy.

Looking at Monster trucks with Nana (our newest obsession).

Santa had bought them straws that turn white milk into chocolate milk...we've still got some.

Finger painting led to the need for a bath....both boys were turned into smurfs.

Hunter's new bike.

Drew sometimes crawls into H's crib to keep him company in the morning.  It's super cute.

Chalk board fun.

Drew ready for PJ day at school.

Hunter and his puzzles.

Haircuts!

I only worked 2 days this week!  We couldn't figure out care for the boys for either Thursday or Friday (Monday was a holiday), so I stayed home with them.  Can't say that I wasn't a little bit bummed that I missed out on some money, but I did have a great time hanging out with the boys while I was off.  It's so hard to know what is best....work = money or time with boys = happy mommy/boys but no money.....if only we could win the damn lottery!

Anyways...Tuesday was a blur.  I worked all day, helped out with the school's book fair after school and then went to a work-shop on how boys and girls learn differently.  The work-shop was a bust, didn't feel like I learned anything.  On the plus side, we got free pizza!  The boys spent the day/evening in Brampton at Grandma and Grandpa's.  I had to drive to Brampton to pick them up after the workshop (at 7:30)...once the boys crashed, I did too!!

Wednesday is my "half-day".  I left work, and met James and Hunter at Subway.  He had his first fruit roll-up there (a momentous occasion).

Hunter loving his fruit roll-up.

 After lunch, we went next door and got H's hair cut.  His hair was getting a tad bit ridiculous.  He was a little distracted by the fire-truck he got to sit in, but sad pouty lip came out several times.  The boy does not like to get his hair cut.

Thursday was crazy craft, water play, let's get every toy we have in the house out day.  It was fabulous.

if you'll notice, Drew is dumping the bottle of water onto the floor, not into the water table.  He is saying, "oops" in the photo.

The boys tasting a "hostess cupcake" for the first time.  For some reason I feel compelled to take photos of them eating the crap foods from my childhood.  For the record, these were bought by my dad for him to take to work for HIS lunch.  It's nice to know that I come by my love of junk-food honestly.

Friday we had a snow storm.  It didn't seem that bad first thing in the morning.  The buses in Halton were still running (they had been cancelled in Peel and several other school boards).  Drew went off to school and H and I hunkered down for a day at home.  I had to head out though, as we were out of diapers (brilliant on my part) so off we went, into the snow storm (which had started full-force).  The good thing was, that no one else was on the road and Wal-mart was essentially empty.

Once Drew came home, the storm had passed and we had a phone call from Nana/Papa asking us why we weren't at their house yet!  We got in the van and headed to the Glen to hang out with them.

And that's that....I'll do another post on our weekend.

Niagara/Buffalo mini-vacation (Feb 18-20)

For whatever reason, the photos at the beginning of this post got all screwed up.

Our mini-vacay was awesome.  We started off at skating lessons, as we do every saturday morning.  This saturday though, Drew got his mid-term report card.  I was so excited by the table of report cards/ribbons, I didn't see the big board, which listed which class the children had moved to!  We were supposed to pick up a new colour thingy for his skate, so that they would take him right from the get-go to his new class.  Poor little bean went to his old class.  There was a bit of shuffling during class.

We're very proud of the little man, who is doing so well with his skating!

Once skating was over, we had a bit of a snack with Nana and Papa (who came to watch) and then headed to Burlington.  Here we stopped for Subway, had some ice cream and then went to the grocery store for some snacks (because what's a Bonney family road trip without crap to eat?!?!?)

Aunt Laurie and Uncle Andre's was next on the list.  We had told Drew and Hunter that Andre was installing a bathroom in their basement.  Drew was CONVINCED that he was just digging a giant hole in the basement, and was trying to convince us that we should do that too, cause you know, "digging holes isn't hard, I do it everyday!".  Gotta love that logic.

We had a great visit, the boys loved seeing little H (I think she had fun with them too!!)......I wish we lived closer!!!

Once we arrived at the double tree, James went to check in and left the boys and I in the car.  Hunter was sleeping, so Drew and I just hung out.  It took James FOREVER to come out, he was in our room giving Lisa directions to our house, because we had forgotten our passports at home.

We are so smart!

The lovely hotel I worked at during university.

The double tree gives you a fresh baked cookie upon check-in!

Once L, N and the girls arrived, we ate dinner (pizza and wings) and then James took the kids swimming. That was pretty much that for our night.  Drew requested the hockey game be put on, so we watched a bit of that and then the boys went to sleep and James and I watched an episode of survivor on the laptop, using earphones so as not to wake the boys!

skyping with Grandma and Grandpa.

Watching the hockey game.

It's so tough to be 5!

Pretty sunrise.

The next morning, we went swimming (I spent way too much time in the hot-tub and spent the rest of the day with a giant headache).

We went to the bird aviary, which honestly, I wasn't very excited about.  Headache + birds crapping on my head wasn't exactly my idea of fun.  It turned out to be fantastic though.  I highly recommend going!!!

We decided to test their luck and sent the kids over the falls in a barrel.  They came out A-ok!!

I wonder if the birds were afraid of the "bear".  Drew refused to take his hat off because he didn't want to be pooped on.

"Somebody help, my dad is being attacked by birds!!!"

J being freaked out by her crazy uncle.

Snack time!

"Mommy, I'm stuck".  This happened far too many times.

Another out of order photo...we took this just as we were leaving the aviary.

Crossing over to Buffalo.

Hunter's self-portrait

Sunday night we headed over to Buffalo where we went to Target, the kids went swimming, I tried to go to Old Navy (which closed at 7 - annoying given that I was there at 7:15) and James and I watched an episode of Modern Family after the kids had gone to bed (again with ear phones!).

Monday found Lisa, J and I headed over to the Walden galleria for a bit while Norm and James took the other 3 stooges swimming.  After checking out of the hotel, we headed to the Olive Garden for a delicious lunch and then it was home for a relaxing, do-nothing evening.

Happy family day!  Sorry the pics were so screwed up in this post!!

The Millenium hotel we stayed at in Buffalo.