The Best $25 Ever Spent

I think this is what the babies would tell us if they could say more than one word at a time. I found this climber and slide on Kijiji for $25 and they have had a blast playing on it so far. There has been a little bit of pushing and budging in line, but for the most part they take turns going down. Maggie likes going down on her tummy, Mitchell goes down and then giggles at the bottom, and Casey goes down and sometimes purposely tries to fall. Here are a few videos of them having fun.


Watch Casey's reaction when Maggie sneaks in front of him while he's day dreaming. And then Mitchell tries to sneak in too.



Casey's look of shier terror. He really does enjoy going down the slide, although you wouldn't guess it by this look on his face.


Maggie loves to take her time when she knows that the boys are waiting for their turn. What a funny girl!

The great thing about getting kids toys on Kijiji is that when you are done with them you can usually get what you paid back out of it.

Our New Nephew Calder

My brother and sister-in-law had a baby boy on May 8th. Calder Reiter was 8 lbs 4 oz, completely healthy and handsome. I took the babies on an overnighter a few days ago so we could go see him and visit Jody and Missy. He weighs more than Casey and Maggie did combined when they were first born and he was 4 inches longer. Yet when I was holding him, he still seemed so small! It was so nice to cuddle a newborm baby again. He is such a sweethart and a really good baby. Big sister Ava is adjusting really well to having a little brother around.


My parents and I took the babies out for a walk while we were at the lake.

Casey stayed pretty close to Grandpa either holding his hand or wanting to be carried. Maggie divided her time between Grandma's side and exploring on her own. Mitchell was the leader of the pack, he was always running off in one direction or another.

Maggie and Mitchell almost look like they're holding hands.

What does this look like to you?

A rock stuck in the road? To all of us, yes. But to Mitchell it was a challenge. A challenge to get the rock out of the ground without using his hands. While we were walking we turned around to see our beaver boy down on his hands and knees trying to lift the rock up with his bottom teeth. Oh man did we laugh! He didn't get the rock but he did get a mouth full of dirt. I think Mitchell thinks that his teeth are like another set of hands. He can get almost anything open or off with his teeth. He has removed many of the little rubber or felt pieces that are on the inside of the cupboard doors so they don't slam shut at both our house and Grandma and Grandpa's.

Park and Play

Last weekend we took the babies to the park that's about a 5 minute walk from our house. They had a lot of fun! Maggie and Casey took to the slide right away, they took turns having daddy hang on to them as they went down. Mitchell walked around casing the place out at first, tried the slide but then settled into the swings. The way that the playground is set up, I would not be able to have them there without someone else with me. Besides the fact that it's not fenced in (although I don't think at this point any of them would run away on me), there are some pretty big drop offs from platforms that they can climb up on. For example, right behind where they would go down the slide is a fireman pole down to the ground that would be about a 4 or 5 foot drop.

We were a kept pretty busy with the 3:2 ratio, but I did manage to get a few pictures.




Maggie had her heart set on going on the big kids swing.


Earlier this week I went to a drop in program at one of the soccer centres in the city with some friends and their kids. You paid $5 for up to 3 children (which was perfect for us). It was basically a big indoor soccer field with ride on toys, balls, a climber/slide, a ball pit, oh and about 40 kids. Then there was a row of chairs off to the side for the moms to sit and visit. The sitting and visiting part didn't really happen for us because we were out in the middle of all of the kids but the kids had a good time and we did get a bit of a visit in.

Lauren's little girl Addy was posing while I took a picture of the field.

Jen's little boy Luke, who also happens to be Maggie's boyfriend although not according to her daddy, was cruising around on a car.

Jordyn was helping Maggie up the slide.

Thanks for the suggestion Lauren, we'll definately go back again! She also told me about a similar program there that's free for employees of the health region so I'll definately have to look into that.

Mother's Day

We went to Daniel's sister's place on Mother's Day for our nephew Charlie's 3rd birthday party. It was also our other nephew Emmett's 2nd birthday the weekend before so there was a lot to celebrate. Mitchell really took a liking to Charlie's dinosaurs. After him and Uncle Brady started playing, he would not let go of them. Here he is with Grandpa and daddy and his dino buddies.


The drills were the thing to have before the dinosaurs were discovered.

Maggie hanging out with Grandma and Great Grandma Rauckman.


Casey has a thing for Uncle Brady's hat. We have pictures on a few occasions of him wearing this hat. What a cutie!


The guests of honor, Emmett and Charlie at gift opening time.

Daniel got a few pictures of my babies and me earlier that day. The only way to get them to sit still for a group picture anymore is to bribe them with something, so please excuse the window handles that theyre chewing on.


The babies had a good time playing with their cousins and rest of the family. We did pay for getting them to bed late though...they were grouchy the next day!

Our Little Convicts

The boys got new pyjamas that make them look like little prisoners. Here are the convicts with their daddy before they were arrested.

Here are some mug shots of prisoner #101. Charges against him are theft, mischief, assault, and disturbing the peace.



Mug shots of prisoner #102. Charges against him are anything and everything you can think of!

He thought that puckering up and blowing kisses could get him out early.


And here is the eye candy of the prison. She just walks around making the place look good. Although she does commit her fare share of crimes too.

The Shrinking Chair

This chair must have gotten smaller because all 3 of our babies used to fit in it just fine. No one had to pull hair because someone was in their space or try and push them off the chair. It must have shrunk, it can't be the fact that our babies are 20 months old (almost 2!) and are growing up so fast. Cookie monster and elmo started out okay beside each other in the chair, but then the pushing started.


Once miss strawberry shortcake got up on the chair things got even uglier.


A few pictures from about a year ago when they didn't mind sharing.


Daniel was giving horsie rides yesterday. Maggie had a ride first and it was pretty tame. Then Mitchell got on and after accidentally falling off that became the new game...get on, bounce around a bit, then try and fall off.



We made tunnels out of a few of our moving boxes and the babies have been having fun crawling through them. They would chase each other through the tunnel, then peak through the openings and say hi to each other. It was so cute to watch them.


The boxes held up until yesterday when Casey started flopping on them and trying to crush them. Mitchell and Maggie were doing the crawling and Casey was doing the crushing.


After that one of the boxes became the dance floor. Maggie was having a blast dancing, jumping and twirling on the flattened box.