So petite

This week has been Courtney's classes turn to present assembly at school. Today, she and another little friend co-shared the french presentation. It was fantastic to see her up there...and speaking french too! When it's all said and done, she'll have stood in front of her student body 4 times. For a quote, for the weather, as the announcer and for a girls dance. Pretty good in all.
But, notice...how petite she is. When she is at home, she seems just the right size, but I can see now that she is still just a tiny little thing.

The girls dance was to the Miley Cyrus song, Party in the USA. Oh Oh, likely a sneak peak of what's to come.

18 months

Look who is 18 months old now! How time flies...

Toot Toot!

Jeremy has been watching a bit more TV. He's quite proud of himself when he turns on the TV in the family room all by himself. Courtney takes full advantage and quickly plops herself in front no longer complaining that it is a baby show. She now even watches Thomas the Train!

He still only watches for less than 5 minutes...but I'm sure that will change with time.

Toot Toot! Here they are making the train sign and moving to their own train toots!

running out of time

It's almost 2010. Remember when it was 1999, and people really thought that the world was going to end. Digitally, catastophically, spiritually. It's seems like such a long time ago. I feel a bit old just thinking of 1999 and 2010.

I'm running out of time and there were things to share since my last post. But, it's going to have to be pictures though. Suffice it to say, that the holidays were nice. It was nice to have company, and see friends and family. We were all blessed with good food, spoiled with gifts and lucky in health and happiness.

Here's are quick pics of pre-xmas.





There - in a moment of time. Winter Olympics are coming.





Christmas Day lovelies.



Happy new year's eve. We'll be staying in, vegging out, trying to stay awake until midnight. Too late to rent movies now, they are probably all gone...might have to do on demand.

on borrowed tech

So, my computer has a virus. If yours does too...sorry about that. For now, it's with the nice folks at Geek Squad getting a cleanup. We'd been cheaping out and had not installed the Norton Antivirus. Lesson there...don't cheap out if you don't know what you are doing and I suppose if you are browsing the net and shopping online too. I hope to get it back on Thursday, but for now, any posts will be without pictures. Oh, and I had such cute ones too.

Christmas is inching closer and I'm slowly getting things crossed off my list. The shopping is almost done. Almost. I envy those folks who are done early and then just stop. I've realized that I can't just stop. I love to shop too much. Still, almost all the gifts that are out of town have been mailed out. Yeah! Cards are made and pictures are printed. They just have to get to the envelope party now and be on there way. There is hope yet for them to come before x-mas!

Otherwise, the weekend was mellow. Stayed up too late at our first x-mas party. It was nice to see friends that we only see a couple of times a year. We are getting the house ready for my parent's visit next week. School lets out this week for Courtney. I had this huge headache/mgrained last night and had to go to bed at a ridiculously early time. Oh, and Jeremy is a bit sick. Poor little fellow. It is Courtney's x-mas concert tonight so it's not the best time to be sick...but such is the life of the second born. Last week, we did also go see Santa, well just Jeremy. It went OK. One thing that you never read about in books is this little fact, that little kids and babies just don't like Santa Claus. I guess there is little conforting being placed in the arms or lap of a stranger in bright red clothes and whose face you can barely see out of all the whiskers and facial hair. I was quick with the camera so got a picture before any potential bellowing and crying occured. That morning was almost a disaster. I drove around in circles for almost 2 hours trying to get to the mall but somehow kept chosing the routs with traffic or construction. Very frustrating. We'll have to brave the malls this weekend to take Courtney to see Santa....hmmm maybe we'll get lucky?

More another time

OK. I just wrote the longest post ever on all kinds of stuff, the accident, slowing down, www.tripleflip.ca the kids...and it's gone. So, I'm not doing it again. Sorry guys. Maybe another time.

Here are the pics though. I've never had this happen to me before on blogger before. Man.

How cute is this?

Courtney used to raise both her arms up and say "uh uh uh" to indicate that she wished to go up. Jeremy on the other hand simply lifts up his leg. How cute is that!

Covetting a bit of Love

Yes, it's true. I have been secretly buying the new Love collection by Amy Butler. I have great plans to make something fabulous for me, but right now, it's just too lovely to cut up. And though I got a stack of fat quarters, probably itching to turn into a quilt. They look so lovely stacked up don't they?

I also finally got around to completing a baby present. Long overdue. Just a bit of a blanket and a bit of a quilt at the same time. The easiest for me to do quickly. I also made a kimono set out of soft cozy flannel. I'm happy with how it turned out...and you can see Jemmy loves to blankie too. I think he's my child...a thing for cloth.

And yes, we still have a cat

It's funny. I can remember when we first got our first pet. It was our baby. It felt like we had a child. But now that we have children, Beautie is back to being just a pet and not a baby. Most days, I'm sad to report that she is a third class citizen here. She is not the first to get food, water, cuddles or attention. But, she is a good cat and patient with us and the kids. She also has her oddities curiosities. And, one can never say that she is not good at adapting to change. She's been known to go for a bit of broken cracker or piece of shrimp that has fallen somewhere. She is not entirely invisible either as she adept at placing heself exactly where she might get stepped on, tripped over or petted> ie. she sits right on your hands. She still has a licking fetish, although her latest infactuation is this bookcase that sits in the kitchen. And did I say patient. She hardly ever so rude as to yell out for her food.

I guess we are prety lucky to have her.

Oh, and on the bookcase, she's determined to lick every inch off. She now hops up to the third row of books, balances and licks to her heart content.

A little bit of sewing

Who knew that an entire dress can be made in an afternoon. I've been taking a break from sewing and now it's mid-November and I have to get a mosy on things. My holiday shopping has already started and is almost done. Shhhh. Lots of wrapping and card making still to do.

It's a school break here for us. Courtney is off tomorrow and Monday and it's supposed to be a nice day. Jeremy is out cold after spending the morning with Nana, that's what we call Ja's mom and Grandpa Julian. It's a lot of fun to go there...especially now that he's spotted Simba the cat.

My diet of not eating an wheat or corn this week hasn't been going well. Oh well. I've been feeling tired so I'm not going to get banged up about it.

Turns out this gracie dress pattern by Portobello Pixie is very twirly. Courtney just loves it. It'll make for a great summer time running around dress. I already have ideas on how to make it a bit more dressier with different fabrics. Guess I'll start off my making a few more though. I'm trying to convice myself to stop bying gorgeous fabrics until I use some up. It's hard. It's such pretty stuff that I can't bear to cut into it. Still, I'm running out of room - so I'll have to start to cut soon. I know - perhaps not the most exciting thing to read about. So, here are some pics.



Oh, and in case you are wondering...Jemmy is not wearing a necklace. It's a walkie talkie necklace. He's all about being just like his big sis now. The little copycat is just getting warmed up.