Tuesday, 29 December 2015

Isla bird is TWO

Our sweet, SPUNKY, confident, energetic, strong willed, happy girl is two. I think I could write about her personality for days... she's so FULL of life! She keeps me on my toes, finds so much to get into, loves gymnastics drop in ( I JUMP WAY HIGH!) she's a little chatter box, keeps up with her big brother with ease and has a smile that can light up a room. She also doesn't stop until she drops! She is SO busy!

Her massive vocabulary amazes me every day. I can't even begin to write down her words... there are so many. I feel terrible that I don't even know when she really started talking, it seems like she has been talking forever already... Her first word was DADA, and then ball and then from there it exploded. My favourite was when she called me BABA because she couldn't say her M's. That changed quickly. I'm now mama or mommy. She can say up to four words in a sentence... "see funny hair guy!" (there's a balloony thing with "funny" hair that blows on top of a restaurant in abby, she's just obsessed with the funny hair guy and talks about him on a regular basis!)  She pronounces her name "eye-a", she calls Pax "pah" and just loves him. She always wants to go to "nastics" and has recently been upset when we drove by the road it's on and didn't turn to go there. She calls every doll she owns "baby eye-a" and loves to pretend to be a baby herself. Her favourite toys are anything that she can ride or push. She mastered her balance bike by the time she was 19 mos old... she can rip down our street and balance the entire way down... that wasn't good enough so she needed to master a pedal bike with training wheels. I would not be shocked at all if she was able to take the training wheels off next summer. She's incredibly strong and has amazing balance. All our neighbors were shocked when they saw a not-even-two-year-old ripping on her bikes.

For the last two months she has been pooping on the potty almost daily... It's the best.

We had a puppy party for her second birthday! Pax suggested it and I thought it was so sweet of him, she sure loves puppies! She just loves being around lots of people and has no issue with shyness. She just eats it up!


When we sang Isla happy birthday, she joined in as loudly as she could! And kept singing even once we were done. She loves music! to dance, sing, drum and to be as loud as she can! She makes us laugh every day and brightens life up with her free spirit. 





Paxton the pirate is FOUR!

Mister Paxton bear, peanut, peanut butter cup, handsome little monkey (just a few of our nicknames for the poor kid) is FOUR YEARS OLD. my oh my how time flys. Pax has started preschool this year and much to mama's surprise had NO issues leaving me and just loves it! There were tears only one day and not even on the first one. He just loves his "teacher Barb", she is the kindest most gentle soul and I think they have a special little friendship. He's made new friends and is coming home knowing so much about the alphabet. I'm so proud of him and how brave he has been!

We had a special pirate birthday party and Grandpa was able to make it out for the first time for a party! Pax felt very special as three out of the four grandparents were there! That's pretty amazing when they all don't live in abby. He had all his special little friends over, had a few moments of being overwhelmed (he struggles with a big group of people) but recovered quickly and was able to enjoy himself.






Pax has such a gentle spirit about him,  he loves to play hard and loves every. single. sport. just like his daddy, but he has a very soft side. He loves to know that everyone around him is happy and he seems to be a bit of a peace maker... living up to his name. I'm so proud to be his mama and love every day that I get to spend with him. Happy fourth birthday to the boy who made me a mama. xo

spring & summer days



a little highlight reel from our beautiful and very eventful spring/summer...



Isla bird is 18 months old!


Rob's cousins Del and Scott came over from England for a week! Steve, Rob and the two of them had a blast and caught a monster while fishing on the fraser river.


The Atchison's and us bought out my brother's third of the family boat this summer! Grandpa made a road trip and pulled it out for us... we had so much fun taking it out to cultus... it got more use this summer than the past decade combined.


Grandma came and spent a week visiting this summer. We did our annual canning of peaches and pickles... and she stayed with us for 3 days while Daddy was gone back to sask for a fishing trip. It was such a special time with her and we had so much fun.


as soon as Daddy got back we made a bee line for White Rock and enjoyed the day at the beach


a morning exploring the river bank


and my most favourite photo of all. our little nudies running around the back yard during a heat spell :)