Mia-moo...she turned 2!

Yesterday our little baby-boo turned 2 and it makes me realize how short life is as our babies get older and older everyday! As I sit here typing this, she sits on my knee and I love it when she's on my knee, looking at a book, singing, talking.... she's such a joy and so happy... I love her. Here are a few shots, both old and new, of our little darlin'.

The Adventures of Princesses

All Princesses know that it's important to wash your hands...

....and to brush your teeth. Especially if your going to consume large amounts of candy at your church Halloween party.

Be sure to relax with a little nick jr... every princess needs her free time!

And don't forget to sit & wait a little for that handsome knight in shining armour...but remember it could be a while.

And I don't know why Cinderella never thought to attach velcro to her shoes... when they fall off they'll simply attach themselves to your dress and your home free!!

Clearly this princess is a little more crazy:

She is not afraid to let her true colors show, even if she is royalty!

Little Women!

I love to watch Ada and Mia get all interested in my make-up bag. Ada looks for every possible thing that I might let her use and I explain to her that there are many things in there that she is not allowed to use until she is older. She loves my Burt's Bees Lemon Butter Cuticle Cream and Mia loved a little make-up brush. I took a few photos of them to capture the moment:

Pushing Oats Around on the Floor

I treasure the moments of motherhood when I can laugh at situations! They make the day easier and it's easier to laugh next time too.
Mia found two 2L ice cream containers full of oats and acted like she was going to get into them and make a big mess. Clever me thought, "Oh, she can't open those!" and continued on the computer. Well a few seconds later (seconds!) I glance down and she has at least 2-3 cups on the floor already and is going for more. I tell her no and she instantly knows it's time to sweep (one of her favorite past times). I get the broom and allow her to sweep a little while I frantically look for her toy broom. I come out to find her pushing the oats all over the place. I run back to the bedroom to look for her toy broom in hopes that I can get back before too many more of the oats have been scattered all through the house. I can't help but laugh about it all and wonder what she thinks I am doing when I sweep. I wonder too what she thinks about the many things I do around the house and if it's really all a game to her, which would explain why she loves to help so much.
Wouldn't life be great if we could all look at life and the seemingly everyday things we do as a child does - for fun and entertainment. Certainly sweeping would be a great deal more fun if I did it because I enjoyed pushing stuff around on the floor with a long stick and straw on the end of it. Or washing the dishes was done simply to get my hands wet and play in the bubbles and use a cloth to wipe things. Or doing the laundry was done because it's fun to put the money into the little slots and push the button to make it go and to get to pour the soap into the big washer. I appreciate so much the little things that my children enjoy. They are simple and good, just like I would like my life to be.

molasses and me

Well... it's just one of those lets-stay-in-all-day-cause-it's-raining-and-Mia-has-a-runny-nose-and-I-don't-feel-like-going-out-anyways days! And frankly I don't mind those days. Sometimes I get going doing too much and don't take time just to be home and do "stuff".

In my life, molasses and butter on homemade bread could be closely comparable to chocolate. I LOVE it! We had some today on the loaf of bread I made last night and I had left the molasses unattended on the table... top off. Well, while I was working on a little project on the computer, the girls were making themselves at home to the loaf of bread I made. Mia tried to enter the Guiness Book of Records for the most plastic baby spoons put through the hole of a carton of molasses. Thats right... I came out to the kitchen to find her stuffing spoons into the hole. I just had to laugh....laugh and laugh!So funny. And as I attempted to get all 7-10 spoons out of the sticky molasses I had to laugh some more. I guess what made it funnier was that it wasn't her first stunt of the day. Earlier she awoke from her nap and decided to pick at the poop in her diaper. Fortunately I got to her before it got too bad.

As I finished with the molasses stunt I turned around to find Ada with my sunglasses on and using a glasses case as a microphone... again I had to laugh!
It's just one of those days where you feel pretty content staying in and the wackiest things seem to happen and children begin crawling the walls and you. Ever been there??

Some recent events:

Here's the gang taking a little test in the truck before we leave our home of four years and the only home our kidlets have ever known.

Jason is officially a graduate of the NS Agricultural College with his degree in Environmental Horticulture.

The happy graduate - such a relief!!

This is the cake I made for him for graduating.... I had him go out and clip the little "trees", but didn't tell him why. I thought it turned out pretty good!

Little Mia-moo at Sullivan's Pond in Dartmouth on our last visit to Dartmouth before we moved.