Adventures of Ethan and Corryn

 Corryn is turning into such a little me. She loves to help me with every project, even removing rust from furniture. She's so fearless- the other week at church the nursery kids were invited into primary to start getting them used to the transition. During opening exercises the conductor asked if there was a volunteer for opening prayer. Corryn piped up and said "I'll say it!" I went up there with her to help her say it and she turned to me and said "I want to say it all by myself." Her prayer was as follows: "Dear Heavenly Father, thank you help us find my kitty. Name. Jesus. Christ. Amen." No fear in that girl! :)

 They've been building "guns" which they use to hunt monsters in their room.

Ethan's Birthday Interview

1. What is your favorite color? blue
2. What is your favorite toy? garbage truck and excavator 
3. What is your favorite fruit? a apple
4. What is your favorite tv show or movie? Dora and Puss in Boots 
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? chicken
6. What is your favorite game? the new game (Red Faction on PS3)
7. What is your favorite snack? apple and orange
8. What is your favorite animal? a horse
9. What is your favorite song? gangnam style and call your girlfriend
10. What is your favorite book? games
11. Who is your best friend? Cole and Sam and Luke
12. What is your favorite cereal? chocolate cheerios
13. What is your favorite thing to do outside? go hide and seek
14. What is your favorite drink? water and apple juice and orange juice
15. What is your favorite holiday? blue
16. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Nana
17. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? cereal
18. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? chicken and fries and ketchup
19. What do you want to be when you grow up? Ethan
20. What are you scared of? spiders
21. What makes you feel happy? friends
22. What is your favorite thing to do with Mom? digging excavators
23. What is you favorite thing to do with Dad? new game
24. What is your favorite place to go to? our new house

Corryn's Birthday Interview

1. What is your favorite color? red, yellow, white
2. What is your favorite toy? a kitty
3. What is your favorite fruit? a orange
4. What is your favorite tv show or movie? about Dora 
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? a orange and a chicken
6. What is your favorite game? about race cars
7. What is your favorite snack? Eli snack
8. What is your favorite animal? a big moose
9. What is your favorite song? chip and dales
10. What is your favorite book? about cats
11. Who is your best friend? Daddy
12. What is your favorite cereal? chocolate cheerios
13. What is your favorite thing to do outside? play in the grass
14. What is your favorite drink? water
15. What is your favorite holiday? Mommy
16. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? my kitty
17. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? chocolate
18. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? pancakes
19. What do you want to be when you grow up? make food for Mommy
20. What are you scared of? my bad dream
21. What makes you feel happy? a happy dream
22. What is your favorite thing to do with Mom? make lunch
23. What is you favorite thing to do with Dad? play game
24. Where is your favorite place to go? see Nana

I can't believe I live here!

Some of these pictures are from when the whole clan was here for the reunion, others are just around Jon's parent's house where we are staying. :)

 Picking snails off of the headstone in a historical graveyard. Did you know that the Halifax harbour was the first to respond to the Titanic's SOS call? In fact, the bodies of those whose families weren't wealthy enough to have them shipped home are buried in Halifax cemeteries.

 Ethan and his cousin Quin became instant buds.

 A rocking boat, so much cooler than a rocking horse. :)

 Jon's parent's house.

 Our beautiful Millet Lake.

 Our dog Brigham.

We almost stepped on this guy. :)

Living here is like a dream. I feel like a character in a book. The kids explore all day and sleep under the star filled skies at night (their beds are right under skylights). I'm anxious to get into our own place but enjoying the lazy days in the mean time. :)

Spring has sprung and cute stories

I've been explaining to Ethan that when he wakes up from a bad dream he can say a prayer to help him feel safe. Last night he was telling me about a bad dream he had had where he was being chased by a big scary helicopter. He had to run into a tunnel and close the door to get safe. He said that Jesus Christ saved him from the helicopter and helped him find his mom and dad because he missed them. So cute.

Ethan's favorite toys are his three garbage trucks and occasionally (when I'm feeling very patient) I will let him play with some shredded paper as trash for his trucks. I say patient because this makes a HUGE mess that could only be cleaned up with the vacuum. Luckily, he enjoys vacuuming them up as well. Anyway, today he came up to me and asked if he could have some "garbage fingers"... shredded paper. Cute.

Ethan is deathly afraid of the car wash. Jon is determined to toughen him up and asks him every time we're out if he wants to go to the car wash. Ethan responds with a stern "NO!" and then goes on for about 20 minutes about how scary the car wash is and how we shouldn't go there. So cute.

Corryn couldn't find her beloved kitty kitty one night as the kids were going to bed. After searching every room in the house we gave up and said that we would look for it in the morning. In the morning Jon had Corryn say a prayer for help. Shortly after that I looked out the window and saw that kitty kitty was left outside by our garden. Now whenever she says prayer, even on the food, she includes "thank you help find my kitty." Yesterday's lunch prayer was "Thank you help find my kitty, thank you Swiper no swiping, name Jesus Christ, Amen."

Pics from my Mom's Phablet (phone + tablet)

I love my kids!