Jul 10, 2015
As we live our lives, every action we take has some sort of result…good and bad. For example, if I stay up too late every night and then wake up early each morning, the result is a grumpy mom and wife- which in turns affects everyone else!
Someone gave us the parenting advice once that it is important to teach your kids there are consequences for actions before the age of 14, when their choices can really have long-term consequences for their future. Well, this last week we had the opportunity to teach consequences for actions!
One day we were standing by our car and looked down at the hood. It had letters and faces scratched right into the paint! We thought it had been vandalized when we had been grocery shopping that day. Our kids would never do that! Well, after chatting with Jay we discovered he had thrown a rock and it had flown through the air, turned around and ‘somehow’ scratched the car. 🙂
After thinking for awhile we came up with a plan where he would have to ‘work off’ the money he owed to fix the car. Each day he had a pretty difficult chore to do. At the end he had to write a sorry card to mom and dad. Hopefully he learned through the whole experience, and now we have a nicely decorated car!
May 1, 2015
April and May become birthday season around here, are three kids celebrating within 35 days. That means cakes and presents and parties, all things we love – and our kids too!
This years birthdays included a day at the park with close friends, a superman party and a day at the zoo, also with friends.
Mar 29, 2015
Often this website is a way for us to communicate all of the things that we are doing, to share the excitement with family and friends far away. BUT sometimes it is good to share what is happening with our kids since many of our readers love them too
Jay and Cassie are really growing up, and like most kids, they love to be creative. Lego is one way they express their creativity! Jay loves to invent new vehicles and Cassie likes to build anything, from scenes to animal shows.
Kai’s creativity comes out when he plays pretend by himself with little animals or figurines. He also has a favourite spot next to the bookshelf where he will sit for a whole hour just looking at books.
Cassie is still loving school, she is on Spring break now, and just last weekend had a big sleepover with 6 girls.
Jay’s buddy Egan is back from America and the three boys have all sorts of fun together during the day.
So the kids are growing up healthy and have lots of fun with their friends- but often talk of their family and friends in Canada. Soon we will be printing out pictures to put up in their room so they don’t forget 🙂
Thanks for all of you who love and pray for our kids!
Jan 3, 2015
Wooden train tracks with bridges and switches, lego blocks forming garages and cars and transporters, and many little hot wheels racing down those orange roads.
Jay is becoming an expert builder since this summer when his boy cousins really expanded his ability to create new things. We’ve even figured out a way to use the orange hot wheels roads to be the downhill start for the little wooden trains that can then go through all sorts of crazy courses.
May 29, 2014
This last weekend friends of ours gave us a swing set for our backyard. This morning I was so blessed listening to our kids laughing and playing together outside. Our time at home in Canada truly has been awesome for our whole family. So here are some quick updates on the kids:
Cassie- lost her two front teeth this weekend, 2 days after she turned 6! She had a party with a bunch of her friends all around the theme ‘Frozen- the movie.’ My two cousins Teresa and Soumela were there and helped me lots, along with my nieces Suzanna and Elly.
Jay- Loves playing soccer on a team here in Winnipeg. He wants to wear his jersey to bed every night and of course leave it on all day! He still loves zooming cars down slides and race tracks. He does great on his reading lessons and remembers sounds really easily!
Kai- His vocabulary has really been expanding since he has turned two. ‘Lello’ is his favorite colour and he has to point out every yellow thing he sees. He sweetly says ‘soyee’ when he does something wrong, and ‘tank-oo’ when someone gives him something or helps him. But one difference with our other two children, he does NOT like bed time.
Apr 1, 2014
Jay’s birthday is coming up in a few weeks. After asking him what he would like for his birthday he replied, “I only want remote control cars!” So I replied, “Really Jay? Only that? You can only play with one remote control car at a time, are you sure?” His response? “Well, I can tie them all together in a big line and drive them all together!” Well, at least he is creative, but I think we may ignore his request and perhaps get a few things that are not remote controlled 🙂
