Marriage

Like many loving kids, Burl and Ivo have both toyed with the idea of marrying me. I've declined citing my current marital status as well as our close blood ties. Ivo is over it. Burl, however - and sweetly - insists that "you're supposed to marry someone who is beautiful who you love. You're beautiful and I love you, so I'm gonna marry you."

Fine Fine Fine. Burl took his show on the road - explaining his plans to Ryan, who after the obvious objections asked, "What about me?"

Burl told him that "you can be your own grandpa."

It's called Hip Hop

Ivo heard this the other day and said "THIS is the kind of music I LIKE!!!"

nature nurture not-it

A couple days ago Burl was running around, doing cool moves, baiting anyone and everyone for wrestling and somewhere along the line, he repeatedly proclaimed, "I'll do it when I'm dead!!!"

I thought it was hilarious and amazing that he'd have this idea - cribbed or original - and think it bore repeating. A clear and strong memory I have of my father is his very similar refrain, "I’ll sleep when I'm dead." Obviously a weird little echo there. I told this to Burl. Dinner table discussion ensued, ending with Ivo asking, "Does your dad have an accent?"

Where to begin? "And how!" I told him. And then I corrected the verb tense.

Am I old-fashioned because, even in the digital age, I like 2 spaces after a period?

Pictures from 4 Feb 2012. We walked through the golf course to a nighttime sliding party. VERY FUN!!! The weekend weather was so nice, we went again on Sunday.

Boba Fett-ish

Here is a link to a cool picture of Boba Fett - and there are a few links below the picture that look interesting.

Here's directions on how to draw Boba Fett.

But I can't find a good mask - I'll try later:)

Groundhog Day

February 2nd is Groundhog Day. Here's a story about the lore of the groundhog and his shadow.

Ground hogs are also called woodchucks. You can see some pictures here and here.

How much woods would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?

He'd chuck as much as a woodchuck could chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Treehouses

Man builds Ewok village in Oregon!!! There are many pictures of tree houses and suspended rope bridges. There is also a video.

Here are some pictures from the fall of 2011. It was a nice warm fall.

We did a lot of gardening this past fall. We planted 5 little giant globe cedars. We had to water them every day.



We went to Hunter Brothers' corn maze.

January is almost over...

But not without a little dental surgery - or, more precisely, dental work done while under anesthesia - since 4 year olds, like Burl, don't sit thru 1.5 hours of work...

Here are Burl's new front teeth - He has a metal crown back there which he says feels weird. Ryan and I drove Burly to the Oromocto Public Hospital on Friday just ahead of a province-wide school closing storm. We drove home into it. 10-15 cm of snow followed by 5cm of ice pellets.

We played in the snow Saturday.

Went to a Slammer's game - at least the opening of it - for Burl to join his pre-school mates singing the national anthem.

Here's a video of Burly singing:

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Here's a video of Ivo from 2009:

Ivo OCanada Hockey
Ivo made up the word "ninjotic" back in December:

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